On 22 Mar 2007, at 01:55, Mike Melody wrote:
I personally don't see anything wrong with being distributed by
itunes-even if it's by far one of the most commercial means of
digital media. It's long over due that UR become more of a
household name. I just thought that they were underground,
But, couldn't you also just keep taking that arguement back against
practically ANY new musical technology that was invented?
Do people REALLY need more than 2 tracks to make ANY music? Humans only
have 2 ears, and most consumer playback hardware only has 2 tracks, left
and right. Anything else
For what it's worth, Nitzer Ebb are worth putting up with the worst venue
in the world to see live, from my experience at least.
I was fortunate enough to catch them on their final tour here in the
states all those years ago, and it still ranks as one of my favorite shows
of all time. Great
Listening: Soulfly - III
Eating: Nothing. Had a yummy avocado wrap for lunch a bit ago though.
Drinking: Earl Gray
Thinking: If I were home right now I could had some honey to my tea, and
that would be yummy. and Why is IE's CSS support such a big pile of
ass?
The word for today is, apparantly,
In case no one hit you up with any links privately, click through the
various links in this article:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/30/2037203tid=98tid=187tid=3
The long and short of it is that the major labels want to start raising
prices on some tracks on the iTunes Music Store
I never thought I'd be quoting or paraphrasing Charlton Heston, but you
can pry my 303 from my cold, dead hands. :)
Though, after a bit of though, I realize I haven't even touched the thing
in probably over a year, if not longer. My poor, sad, lonely Devilfish
must hate me now. I need to give it
I've heard he's been hanging around with Ted Nugent, who's been teaching
him to hunt and arming him good and proper, so that's probably true.
When is intellectual property theif season anyway? :)
Yeah, prince is notoriously hard a$$ed about people sampling his stuff.
Like he'll hunt you...or
/05, John Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never thought I'd be quoting or paraphrasing Charlton Heston, but
you can pry my 303 from my cold, dead hands. :)
Though, after a bit of though, I realize I haven't even touched the
thing in probably over a year, if not longer. My poor, sad, lonely
Name: John Coleman
Age: 35
Currently Living In: Cleveland
Want Be Living In: Anywhere else
Web Page: www.chromaphobic.com
First 313 Purchase: I guess it was Musik by Plastikman (that counts
as 313, right?) after a friend played me Marbles and got me hooked.
That would have been 97-98, I think
John Tejada - Everything Will Be OK
sup.
thanks to robin for posting that larkin interview.
just listening to Take Me. Its a theo parrish jam off the parallel
dimensions tripple. I remember buying the whole album just for this one
joint. Perfect song for the day as the chorus goes take
Off-topic, but another good lesson for all the musicians out there:
BACK UP YOUR STUFF!
Not the first time I've heard of someone's stuff getting stolen and
with it went the only copy of their new record/song/etc. It baffles me
that musicians take their precious creations and treat them with
Equally important to store at least ONE backup copy off-site, if
possible. Doesn't matter how many backups you have if the building
burns down and destroys them all (for example.) Doh!
Not that I'm thorough about it, I have two copies of most stuff on two
different computers but very little
I have read a couple articles about the RIAA cracking down on unauthorised
mixes here in the states, but only when they were being sold in
brick-and-mortar record shops (and mainly targeting hip-hop.)
Never heard any mention of free mixes online, but I suppose it was
inevitable. :(
as far as
Someone over on the techhouse list got a response from Jetgroove.com's
attorney, for those interested or curious...
Original Message
Subject: [Techhouse] Jetgroove Attorney Responds
From: Lori Riegler-Namvar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, October 8, 2004 9:12 am
To: [EMAIL
Jeff Minter... there's a name I haven't heard in a few years. :)
Llamatron is still one of my favorite games of all time. I even built this
little box out of wood and two old Atari 2600 joysticks so I could play it
in proper dual-joystick style on my Atari ST. :)
Games - lets talk then...
Hrm... here in Cleveland I'd have to say Devo, they're the closest thing
to techno that's come from here and been influential (yeah, they're
actually from Akron, but it's close enough, mmm-kay?)
There were certainly other influential artists, such as Pere Ubu The
Dead Boys, but I don't think
I've just about worn out my copy of the Fixxmer/McCarthy record, and have
had a John Tejada mix on perpetual loop on the iPod for the last few days.
Other than that, I'm a few weeks behind on my shopping, so not much new.
Everything else I've been listening to isn't at all 313-related, some of
I didn't mind it, not their best (by far) but I still enjoyed it. The
Prodigy are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me though, I still have a soft
spot for them as it was the early Prodge stuff that helped bridge me from
industrial to techno.
I agree with the too noisy bit though, maybe shoulda
I just picked it up on Friday and I loved it, played it most of the
weekend too!
I think this sounded more like Nitzer Ebb than the last Nitzer Ebb album
did. :)
Hi, just got back from a three week holliday in southern spain and there
was one cd which was really rocking my portable cd player
either of Timewriter's Deep Train mixes usually does it for me.
Tell you what, I'm having a bad day - but D Wynn's - Souls In Motion
mix is powering me through, top summer funk. What mix always cheers you
up?
Martin
Best Kryten impression ever...
:)
smug mode on
Works fine on a Mac
smug mode off
On 8 Jul 2004, at 14:13, Robert Taylor wrote:
Not if you stick in the whole address, dummy ;)
I dunno what it is - as if I was ever going to ID a tune that Placid
didn't know!
-Original Message-
Heh, ask him when they're releasing the Sissy Deth Toy too, while you're
at it. ;)
Sounds interesting, I'll drop Ian @tDR a mail and see if he's done it -
may give us a clue to the release date...
30/6/04 1:05 PM De Block, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it sure will be repressed - mark said it to me
They're still listed as coming soon at The People's Bureau, but hopefully
they'll be out soon then! :)
Oh yeah, ask him if he's hiring any new designers too, while you're at it.
Ha ha! :)
I think they have those - I did the side drawings for him last year!
30/6/04 12:50 PM John [EMAIL
First on the list would probably be Mike Patton.
Secondarily, maybe Richie Hawtin or, well... Martin Gore. Not to copy off
your list or anything. :)
Really, the answer would be everyone as I'm always interested in seeing
how other people work, what their creative processes are, etc. I think
Just my personal preference here, but I don't really care what they're
doing on stage or what tools they're using. All that matters to me is the
music they create.
It's about the ears and not the eyes. If the music isn't good then no
amount of visual stimulation is going to change that. At that
Haven't been listening to very much new stuff lately. Matthew Dear's Leave
Luck To Heaven, enjoying the latest Run Stop Restore 12, the new Skinny
Puppy disc, and a lot of not even vaguely techno/313 related stuff. :)
I have a roughly two-month stack of 12's that I bought and haven't had a
chance
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Subject: Re: (313) Laptop performances
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Just my personal preference here, but I don't really care what they're
doing on stage or what tools they're using. All that matters to me
If all the artist is doing is a note-for-note, measure-for-measure,
tweak-for-tweak replication of their recorded material, then yeah, there's
really little point.
I personally hope for (expect?) the performer to transform things a bit
live and expand upon the recorded material. Therein lies the
Ditto for me. I was a close-minded metalhead as a teenager until someone
played me Skinny Puppy's Cleanse Fold Manipulate. Changed everything, I
loved dark, angry music at the time (teen angst and all) and industrial
showed me that a synth, a sampler and a drum machine could be every bit as
dark
wax is for anthrax. still it can rock bells.
no checking for anthrax
i swear- the postal service got slower after that stuff went down.
Skinny Puppy, Last Rights. Track 3, Knowhwere? placed on perpetual loop.
Clears things out usually before even one repeat. :)
Heh, the Danielle Dax tracks actually sounds intriguing. I may have to
track them down and give a listen.
john.
Most at LD Towers don't share my love of things like
Techno? You mean like that Moby guy? I like that song he did with Gwen
Stefani!
grr.
click... boom!
yes -- almost identical situation out here in Eden Prairie, a suburb of
Minneapolis. just this morning I was forced to give the Paul
Oakenfold and Fatboy Slim are NOT techno speech to a
Someday you will drive your Sony to the Sony to pick up some more Sony.
And marklar your marklar with a marklar.
While I'm at it I'm also selling a Silver 1988 Porsche 928 with 95,000
miles:
Is it MIDI compatible?
No, but it does have cv/gate, so you can just get a converter.
john.
Saying you're from Detroit just keeps conversations conceptually
simple, rather than having to get into some big spiel about where this
particular suburb lies
Makes sense to me, when people ask where I'm from I just say Cleveland
to keep it simple.
What really determines where someone is
[sarcasm]Well, I know *I* feel much safer now...[/sarcasm]
i just spoke with her agent.
ALL US dates are cancelled. Thank your friendly neighborhood customs
agent
Security at Federal buildings is equally inconsistent.
I'm a contractor with the DoD right now, and the other day I got stopped
and questioned on the way in from lunch because there was a fork in my
lunch bag. The same fork I strolled right through security with on the way
in that morning.
I
JBMH was actually on Psalm 69. Good track.
Even better was the sequel The Butthole Surfers did, Some Dispute Over
T-Shirt Sales :)
john.
i'm quite certain Jesus BMH was after Psalm 69.
Not that you shouldn't like it...
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Robert Taylor wrote:
Well said yussel - Psalm
part 1 Matt MacQueen
J.E.N. - Keep On Dreaming - Re-Edit MANIA ! (Freestyle)
Arthur Russell - You And Me Both - Calling Out of Context (Audika)
Ministry - Work For Love [Dub Version] (Arista) 1982
i had no idea that early ministry sounded like thisvery interesting
(it's the same
Every Day (Is Halloween) is still one of my favorties, faux accent and
all. :)
john.
Some of there early records are wicked, I personally like the 12 All
Day.
-Original Message-
From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 May 2004 15:16
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Ha ha! I don't think they laid it on quite thick enough. :)
It sucks. It hates you. It ruins your property values and causes your
condominium association's attorney to send you unfriendly letters. It keys
your nice new Lexus LS. It will cause your mama to slap you into next
week. Your friends
there's a pretty good interview with him on Ableton's website:
http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=artistssub=akufen
other than that i rarely see much about him.
john.
I think it's just techno reflecting the larger world of popular culture
right now. Retro is hip now, and the next big thing is whatever was the
big thing twenty years previous. Pop has eaten itself.
As for why, I think with techno-or, for that matter, any smaller
sub-culture-it's inevitable for
Criteria for newness are pretty dependent on what your know, right? In
every undergraduate composition class in the US, right now, there's a
kid writing a piece using harmony based on perfect 4ths. Not only does
that kid think it's the most beautiful thing he's ever heard, he also
thinks
I also find programming beats into the 909 to be very natural and easy. I
find there's just an intuitiveness and quickness to it, I just slap the
909 into step mode, hit play, and start entering in patterns. It just
*feels* right. :)
I can do the same thing with other drum machines (the
i wont lie, sitting down and playing a 909 is almost as fun as
playing a real drum set. but really what it came down to for me
was that i didnt want to sound just like other people, so i sold
it.
true, a 909 sounds like a 909. not a huge variety of sounds there, though
I love those sounds!
i
Or you can go here:
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm
and download Real Alternative 1.22 and cut Real out of the equation
altogether. :)
john
(oh, btw... hi, i'm new!)
ooh Jack-01
and bloody RealAudio files again. I'll quit my winging tho cos of the
bbc
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