Re: (313) C2 at Carnegie Hall, well sort of
I liked this place better when Brogan and Uberbalisubramanian used to duke it out. On Jan 11, 2008 8:45 PM, JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's no sense arguing nonsensical points, we got suckered On Jan 11, 2008 8:34 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 6:58 PM, /0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good one Tom, I hope you win it would be one more win than you've had in your entire life. tommm
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
Really sad loss - RIP Ron. m Big 50 Entertainment wrote: It is with a heavy heart and great regret that I announce the passing of Ron Murphy. I was called with the news that he died of a heart attack sometime today. Most of you already know of Ron and how important he was to the creation of Detroit techno so there's not much else I can say. A fund will be setup hopefully tomorrow to help with funeral expenses. I'll pass on any additional details as I get them. Mike Grant
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
What a said loss... i can't imagine what the whole techno scene would have been or looked like without him. He is definitely one of those who you will never forget after you have met him. On 13 jan 2008, at 04:40, Big 50 Entertainment wrote: It is with a heavy heart and great regret that I announce the passing of Ron Murphy. I was called with the news that he died of a heart attack sometime today. Most of you already know of Ron and how important he was to the creation of Detroit techno so there's not much else I can say. A fund will be setup hopefully tomorrow to help with funeral expenses. I'll pass on any additional details as I get them. Mike Grant
(313) Mr Ron Murphy
Just wanted to add my condolences to his friends and family. Ron Murphy was another Detroit artisan who helped make a lot of lives different, and even a little more worth living, by their wonderful ear and special talents and skill. Hope the music's properly cut, balanced and mastered where he's gone to! But if it isn't, now they've got no excuse! RIP. (Sorry if there's a separate thread, I am on the digest on this, my home e-mail address.) Ken
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
I can too JT.. Godspeed to him, and my condolences to his family. A true Detroit legend that will never be forgotten. RIP. - Original Message From: JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Big 50 Entertainment [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: list 313 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:23:47 AM Subject: Re: (313) Ron Murphy I can hear him ranting in my head right now... Respect to a legend who did it his way and gave so much to the music world. I am too stunned to adequately eulogize his legacy or his unforgettable character. To all those who were close to him personally, I'm so sorry for your loss. Keep us posted Mike Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
Well said Rob - may I add that while we talk about and lament the passing of musicians because we hear and cherish their music, we've heard Ron's music on every record he touched. Ron Murphy is and was Detroit Techno NSC is, and forever will be, a mark of quality and innovation. If I ever came across a white label or some record with scant info on the label, but it had the NSC etch, it went into the shopping bag. Condolences to his family, friends, and the entire Detroit music community MEK rob theakston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/13/2008 12:07:49 AM: in the history of detroit techno, there are so many artists who made it all happen. but it wouldn't have been as remotely successful without the seemingly endless encouragement, generosity, blood and sweat of a handful of people behind the scenes. without question ron murphy was one of the top people on that particular list. motown murphy was the man, anyone who met him will inarguably tell you that. and while the daily humdrum press of the motor city will continue to report on the auto show, new casinos and plans to rebuild downtown..there'll be a couple hundred people and dozens more kindred spirits and expatriates who will be quietly reflecting over the next few days on the massive contributions he made to detroit's cultural legacy. thank you, sir. On Jan 13, 2008 12:29 AM, /0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thats no good. Sorry for your loss, everyone. :( - Original Message - From: Big 50 Entertainment [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'list 313' 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:40 PM Subject: (313) Ron Murphy It is with a heavy heart and great regret that I announce the passing of Ron Murphy. I was called with the news that he died of a heart attack sometime today. Most of you already know of Ron and how important he was to the creation of Detroit techno so there's not much else I can say. A fund will be setup hopefully tomorrow to help with funeral expenses. I'll pass on any additional details as I get them. Mike Grant
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
I hope at some point the Free Press or D.News does a feature on Ron. He touched so many lives, including mine. I paid Ron to cut a record, but getting your record cut was only part of the deal. You got techno anecdotes -- in my case, including Ron's impression of Jeff Mills sputtering in reaction to the lock groove on The Rings Of Saturn. You got business advice -- Be an artist, or be a businessman. Artists never make a business out of making records. Interesting, considering most of the Detroit record labels were started by the artists themselves. And then there was Ron's un-selfconscious goofiness -- he was eating potato salad out of a plastic tub through my whole cutting session, and when he heard a part of one of my tracks he liked he danced a little endomorphic jiggle for a few seconds. But it is really a loss that there will be no more records cut by him. Every one of them was stamped with Ron's personality. Given his health problems, we were lucky to have him for as long as we did.
(313) Chicago house and the democratization of music production
Great piece of work http://folk.uio.no/hanst/Manchester/ChicagoHouse.htm
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
This is my recollection of Ron's story: He had been fooling with the lathe and figured out how to stop the screw action that pushes the cutting head from the outside to the inside of the platter. Then cutting a locked groove is a matter of tuning the source matterial to exactly 133 1/3 bpm, dropping the cutting head in the groove and lifting it up again after exactly one rotation. Jeff came in to cut The Rings Of Saturn and as was Ron's method, he set up the cutter with a scratch lacquer, to cut part of a track in order to see how it sounds played back. Without telling Jeff, Ron cut a lock groove out of one of the tracks and put it on the turntable while Jeff wasn't paying close attention. The loop played for a minute or so before Jeff's eyes got big, and he said wh wh what the hell Ron? H H H How did you do that?! It's funnier if A) you've heard Jeff talk and B) you hear it from Ron, imitating Jeff. Now the fact is that locked grooves weren't a Ron Murphy invention -- every run-out groove is a lock groove, and the Beatle's Sargeant Pepper has a lock groove cut in the run-out groove of the first English pressing. But it may be true that Ron started it in the realm of dance records. Anyway, that's my recollection of Ron's story. He definitely had a million of them, especially about the competetiveness of the early Detroit artists. The fact is this, though: In the late 80s, getting your own lacquers cut and plated, and then pressed locally, was a completely new phenomenon. Ron Murphy was there in Detroit, and his help and encouragement with young artists making their first records was a big part of the development of the techno scene. His experience, going back to the Motown 60s was important as well. He was the uninterrupted institutional memory of Detroit as a center of unique musical creativity. There are plenty of people who can cut records, but absolutely no one that cut all the records that Ron cut. On Jan 13, 2008 3:24 PM, Frank Glazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron's impression of Jeff Mills sputtering in reaction to the lock groove on The Rings Of Saturn. i'm not familiar with this story... what happened?
