Re: (313) Rhythm and sound

[Andrew]

> Queen in my Empire is an excellent track.  I havn't heard the King of my
> Empire, but I love the Queen one.  The best part about those 10" on Burial
> is the B side has the instrumental version.  So if you don't like the
vocal,
> BAM, its cut right out!

For those that don't know, this is generally the way it's done in Reggae - a
vocal A side backed with a B side instrumental 'version', maybe with a
little bit more dubbing out. R&S are just following in the long Jamaican
tradition, even down to the 10" format and the nice new yellow/orange
sleeves.

There's certainly an interesting story waiting to be told about how this
whole Jamaican hook-up came about, and how it seems to be deepening as R&S
continue, with more singers added to the roll-call. I know that Jamaican
musicians aren't afraid of foreigners adapting and building on their music,
I suppose as long as it's done well, and with respect. R&S seem to have
carved a cool niche between the roots and digital camps in dub, perhaps
having their own brand of 'digital roots'. I wonder if any others are doing
this style, unfortunately my dub is a bit rusty.

I am hearing their sound in new music, there is that certain BC/R&S gritty
synth-like sound which gets ripped up in each of their songs, and people are
using that very same sound, perhaps with a little delay. I think this
mimicry sounds cheap, but not many people even know what you're talking
about, same old story for techno lovers!! Like you can imagine the next
generation of synth manufacturers building in such sounds into their
equipment - look, instant Basic Channel!!  ;-)

If anyone can flesh out the story a bit, it would be cool.

Thanks,

Andrew

RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things

[Jeff Davis]

yes, the beatnik plugin was ahead of it's time, essentially a banked
software synthesizer impemented via a browser plugin.  allowed high fidelity
10 min tracks in < 100kb.  a lot of foresight, but then bandwidth became
virtually infinite / free and.

he also has a fair amount of ties to electronic music, worked and continues
to work closely with gianluigi di costanzo (bochum welt), helped with
production on several of gian's albums.

recently released a limited live CD recorded at his birthday party.

if you listen to the production on the TD stuff, it's really amazing, deep
and very layered.

respect,

Jeff Davis fon: 216.266.6969
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  fax: 216.266.2360
   cel: 216.533.6303



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Yep, I think it was called Headspace. It was a very popular site back
then. They were actually ahead of their time trying to come up with a
streaming format for the internet and sound files in general. The site was
almost like Flash before the advent of Flash coding.

Peace,
Alex



James Bucknell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
06/27/2003 10:37 AM

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i interviewed thomas dolby a few years back for harper's bazaar. at that
point he had a software development company in san fransisco. they'd
developed some internet sound ap.
james

> From: robin pinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:10:04 +0100 (BST)
> To: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 313@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
>
>>
>> Strange, didn't realize that his dad was *that* Dolby. Not sure if
that's
>> the case.
>>
>> If so, why did Dolby Labs conduct a long-running litigation on him for
the
>> use of his real surname, 'Dolby'? Virtually finished his career.
>>
>> Know what he does now?
>>
>> Makes stings/jingles for consumer/business electronic appliances (like
>> mobile 'phones).
>>
>> www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Now/dolby.html
>
> well from that link his real name aint Dolby...
>
> also i see he nicked the name of his company from Tom Churchill's label
:)
>
> looks like he got his sound stuff accepted into Java so he isn't doing
too
> bad...
>
> robin...
>
>