at SFJazz Center
at SFJazz Center
pretty entertaining walk through music and tech… this past year has been a pretty great one for analog mono synths.
at de Young Museum
Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?'
“We were so into the net around the time of Kid A,” he says. “Really thought it might be an amazing way of connecting and communicating. And then very quickly we started having meetings where people started talking about what we did as ‘content’. They would show us letters from big media companies offering us millions in some mobile phone deal or whatever it was, and they would say all they need is some content. I was like, what is this ‘content’ which you describe? Just a filling of time and space with stuff, emotion, so you can sell it?”
(via radiothom)
beautiful.
Dear friends, the debut Mount Vermont album is here. This is a project that has been going on for quite some time, but I’ve finally released an LP worth of material. I didn’t go into it focusing on a genre or sound. I basically dove into a whole lot of sound tools and came out with something. I don’t want to use the dreaded EDM label but I would be sad if you didn’t dance a little to some of these.
Peace and Love.
Mount Vermont, “Future Perfect”
Recorded and Produced by Samuel Joseph Kim
laurencefishburn asked: Hey what's going on, I was looking through your blog and noticed you have a maschine. I've been looking into getting one, and I just wanted to see what you think of it. The thing is I'm not sure I want/need to spend the amount of a maschine/mpc or just go with the mikro (where I might experience some drawbacks). Anyway, peace.
thanks for the question. i’ve been a huge fan of ableton live and wanted something that could be used independently with live or in tandem with it and the maschine fits the bill very well. it helps me create beats, loops and ideas much more quickly than any DAW. it seems very immediate to me because you can do most of your work just on the actual maschine. to my surprise (with the mk2 model) it’s a decent ableton live controller too. the only thing you need to ask yourself if you get the mikro is if you are ok with not having the knobs and the two screens. you can still get around, but you will have to do a bit more of pressing shift + [whatever]. i actually really like the mikro and think about getting it often. it’s a great buy because the software is exactly the same for both.
I want to be Herb Deutsch’s best friend.
Standout albums of 2012
Happy New Year everyone.
Before you go forward in music, it’s nice to look back. Here’s my list of Ten Standout albums of 2012. Along with the list are ten honourable mentions:
Liars, “Wixiw”
Orcas, “Orcas”
Grizzly Bear, “Shields”
Tamaryn, “Tender New Signs”
DIIV, “Oshin”
Bear In Heaven, “I Love You, It’s Cool”
Patrick Watson, “Adventures in Your Own Backyard”
Yppah, “Eighty One”
Sufjan Stevens, “Songs for Christmas: Silver and Gold”
Holy Other, “Held”
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Lower Dens, “Nootropics”
Shigeto, “Lineage”
Frankie Rose, “Interstellar”
Mount Eerie, “Clear Moon”
Clark, “Iradelphic”
Bjork, “Biophilia Remix Series”
Wild Nothing, “Nocturne”
The xx, “Coexist”
s/s/s, “Beak and Claw”
Tame Impala, “Lonerism”
