RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
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] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 216.266.2360 cel: 216.533.6303 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:50 PM To: James Bucknell Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things 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 To 313@hyperreal.org cc Subject Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things 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...
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
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...
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
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 To 313@hyperreal.org cc Subject Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things 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...
RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
***What people often forget about Thomas Dolby is that he produced and cowrote the first two albums for Whodoni, who have gone on to be sampled quite often in electronic music. Andrew Or that his dad is *that* Professor Dolby (noise redux). And that he used to play keys in Lene Lovich's band and (I think) ex-Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star) Bruce Wooley's Camera Club. jeff np- TD : Europa and the Pirate Twins 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 Lucrative, but sad. k
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...
RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
Or that his dad is *that* Professor Dolby (noise redux). And that he used to play keys in Lene Lovich's band and (I think) ex-Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star) Bruce Wooley's Camera Club. jeff np- TD : Europa and the Pirate Twins 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. My follow-up post clarified that I wasn't sure about his relationship to the name, but it was something Dolby himself stated or possibly it was an interviewer's statement. This would have been before the time his debut album was issued, so it's virtually impossible for me to recall exactly where I saw that - but I did see it. jeff
RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
well from that link his real name aint Dolby... It's one of his surnames. Something like Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson. I'm too lazy to look it up. j
RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
no one pays attention to me. On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, The REAL Mxyzptlk wrote: well from that link his real name aint Dolby... It's one of his surnames. Something like Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson. I'm too lazy to look it up. j
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
and Dolby's uncle (featured in a black and white photo on the CD cover) drowned in a British submarine on manoeuvres late in the Second World War - as noted at cdbaby.com. amazing this internet thing! ;) MEK The REAL Mxyzptlk [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] omcast.net cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie 06/25/03 12:55 PM things - Dolby was always looked over as a one hit wonder with She Blinded Me with Science... Back in the day most of the people really into collecting that ilk would probably have said that ...Science was a bit past his peak - which was (imo) The Golden Age of Wireless. ***What people often forget about Thomas Dolby is that he produced and cowrote the first two albums for Whodoni, who have gone on to be sampled quite often in electronic music. Andrew Or that his dad is *that* Professor Dolby (noise redux). And that he used to play keys in Lene Lovich's band and (I think) ex-Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star) Bruce Wooley's Camera Club. jeff np- TD : Europa and the Pirate Twins
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
At 12:00 PM 6/25/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Dolby's uncle (featured in a black and white photo on the CD cover) drowned in a British submarine on manoeuvres late in the Second World War - as noted at cdbaby.com. amazing this internet thing! ;) MEK AMG says his dad was an archaeologist (quite possible), but I *do* recall Dolby saying in an interview that his dad (or some relative) was indeed the creator of the Dolby redux system. I know he had one of the early wave machine synths and actually concentrated on production after his broke and he couldn't afford to get it fixed to do more tracks himself. jeff
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
go to his website - quite entertaining read this here: http://www.thomasdolby.com/index_frameset.html I sent out demos to anyone I knew that was remotely connected, and scoured the want-ads in the back of 'Melody Maker'. Eventually I hooked up with a guy called Bruce Woolley who impressed me a lot with his smooth vocals, hooky songs, and most of all, his record contract with CBS. I joined his band The Camera Club and we set about designing wild space cadet stage outfits and learning to do eye makeup. We made an album which included my first ever published co-written compositions. Sadly, we were a little overshadowed by Bruce's former bandmates The Buggles who had a worldwide smash hit single 'Video Killed the Radio Star' out, which Bruce co-wrote. Plus, our New Romantic image was about two years ahead of its time, because shortly after we broke up people like Duran Duran started to sell millions doing basically the same thing. The REAL Mxyzptlk [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] omcast.net cc: 313@hyperreal.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those 06/25/03 01:09 PM moxie things At 12:00 PM 6/25/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Dolby's uncle (featured in a black and white photo on the CD cover) drowned in a British submarine on manoeuvres late in the Second World War - as noted at cdbaby.com. amazing this internet thing! ;) MEK AMG says his dad was an archaeologist (quite possible), but I *do* recall Dolby saying in an interview that his dad (or some relative) was indeed the creator of the Dolby redux system. I know he had one of the early wave machine synths and actually concentrated on production after his broke and he couldn't afford to get it fixed to do more tracks himself. jeff
Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things
I wrote this several years ago, so please forgive any poor grammar or factual mistakes therein. http://www.umich.edu/~michind/82/side.html ben tausig On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, The REAL Mxyzptlk wrote: - Dolby was always looked over as a one hit wonder with She Blinded Me with Science... Back in the day most of the people really into collecting that ilk would probably have said that ...Science was a bit past his peak - which was (imo) The Golden Age of Wireless. ***What people often forget about Thomas Dolby is that he produced and cowrote the first two albums for Whodoni, who have gone on to be sampled quite often in electronic music. Andrew Or that his dad is *that* Professor Dolby (noise redux). And that he used to play keys in Lene Lovich's band and (I think) ex-Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star) Bruce Wooley's Camera Club. jeff np- TD : Europa and the Pirate Twins
