Alabama Shakes doing Zeppelin in London. Nice.… Read the rest
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Will Apple Go HD in Audio?
Rumors are swirling that Apple will soon announce a major upgrade to it’s iTunes Music Store, and one of the features will be 24-bit lossless files for sale!
They might even use Led Zeppelin to push the new higher quality, … Read the rest
Reverse Images Of Classic Album Covers
Ever wonder what an album cover might look like if seen from the back?
http://www.fuse.tv/2014/04/beatles-nirvana-reverse-album-covers
The Music Is Coming Through Me
Great classic DJ Shadow, kicking off the “DJ as artist” genre in the mid 90’s:
R.I.P. Knuckles
One of the finest DJ’s ever, a guy who opened his own club to DJ his mix of music, called the Warehouse, which in turn helped birth the genre “House”.
Genre games are stupid – this is top end dance … Read the rest
The Wood Is Good
Check out Warwick’s newly designed space bass, explained by Bootsy himself. That bass is amazing, totally out there. 4 outputs? Damn.
… Read the restThe Problem With A-B’ing And Why Neil Young Is Right About Sound Quality
Great Tape Op post that’s thinking big about audio, music, and hearing.
The main crutch of the good enough team is what is called the double-blind listening test (shortened to ABX). When doing studies based on perception, it is the … Read the rest
A New Audio Era
High Fidelity Audio Enters The Digital Age – SlashdotHi There I’m Walkman 2014
Neil Young’s preaching has been working — Sony recently announced their latest WalkMan, the 35th Anniversary model, and it’s pretty bad-ass. Save the Audio!
That little slab of gadget-lust has got hi-fi audio specs (DAC, amp, wiring, shielding), excellent … Read the rest
Resolution, Not Frequency Range
Anyone arguing about audio and getting stuck on the overall hearing range of humans is actually missing the point.
What digital audio has really been doing is giving us lower resolutions on the sounds we can hear.
… Read the restHave you ever
Howlin’ For My Baby
Righteous Audio – Finally!
I love knowing I’m not alone in my rants. I have been complaining about digital audio compromises since the 80’s, and now, finally, a product is coming for people like me. It’s called “Pono” (Hawaiian for ‘righteous’) and its basically … Read the rest
Filler Music
I made an album almost entirely on an iPad laying in bed. Just funkin’ around. I call it Musiak.
I consider it perfect on-hold music if you are calling the mothership.
The filler music on the mothership is Ezraz.… Read the rest
How Funny Can Sex Be?
The First LP… ever
The year was 1948. The funk was about to go mobile.
Colombia debuted the 33 1/3 RPM long playing vinyl disc.
Some serious fiddle by this guy playing this. The breakdown run at 0:34 is amazing.
The audio linked … Read the rest
The Other Side of Paradise
It’s blowing, white, zero degrees out right now. Old Man with snowblower is like a cat herder.
The shittier it gets the more I use music to keep warm. Thinking of summer days with some classic Neville Brothers:
BTW – … Read the rest
For It Is The Cry Of Women
… Sweet Love of Mine
now that’s a cover.