♪ So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And Nazi Dick Spencer
Obviously can’t read ♫
Category: Musician
Shut up ‘n’ play yer guitar.
Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”
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Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.
Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.
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Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.
Not every nun needs a Synthi.
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Links: Buy from Bandcamp on Friday, why Hollywood is(n’t) doomed, US pirate warning scheme fails.
GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY
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Links: What.CD successors, the 1939 Voder, anaemic chart sales, the bagpipe AI.
Roko’s Basilisk, right, but on the bagpipes.
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Links: Slowdive return, GRIDI, Tetris on a Launchpad, BitTorrent Inc.
But Lauren won’t budge; she likes what she likes, and Spotify understands that.
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Links: Selling yourself as a streaming artist, vacuum tubes, indie conspiracy theories.
BOTTOM VIEW: Basing diagram, JEDEC 9A.
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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.
How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.
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Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.
Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.
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New instruments: The Mitt, PushPull and a 3D-printed wind instrument designer.
A new controller, a new squeezebox and something to design a wind instrument in any shape you can think of.
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Links: CBGB awning for sale; Ableton Live; the cucumber organ.
The not-quite original awning from CBGB for auction; the story of Ableton Live; really, a cucumber organ.
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Links: World industrial, the economics of EDM, the eyes have rhythm, fretless bass an octave up.
Have some more links, this time with a video.
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Instrument links: acid house for web, make your own, use light, shut up’n keep playing yer guitar.
A web-based acid house creator, some Web Audio sound fonts, a light-based Arduino project and a plea to keep up your guitar playing.
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Links: Indonesian and Mexican record markets, the Mekons, jazz saxophone relationship advice.
Music goes with chicken, retrospective on a scrappy punk band and how to be so foolish as to go out with a musician.
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Culture is not about aesthetics redux: scented candles in a human face, forever.
A retrospective on Rocknerd’s 2013 one-hit wonder “Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.” What musicians are now faced with.
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Links: bad lyrical subjects, worse record companies, Psychic TV and Polka Floyd.
Don’t whinge or povertysplain, worse music industry players, Psychic TV’s film Kickstarter and a reworking that works too well.
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Links: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.
It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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Links: September, Ziggy Stardust, Alan Turing, rap as social news system, even cheaper streaming.
Today at work I’ve been busy discussing the horror of Blockchain. So have some interesting webpages that are completely not about that in any manner.
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Apple’s shiny new headphone adapter turns out to suck. Gosh, etc.
The shiny new iPhone headphone adapter for Lightning isn’t actually powerful enough to drive headphones properly, and Bluetooth linking inexplicably doesn’t work so well for non-Apple headphones.
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Brian Eno knows the score.
It’s been a busy day, have an illustrious musician tweet.
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The Blackbird Violin: CARVED FROM HIS GRANDFATHER’S TOMBSTONE. AND MAMMOTH TUSKS.
Violinists and violists can stop complaining about the weight of their half-kilo instrument. Ladeez gemmun, we present: the Blackbird. Carved from the sculptor’s grandfather’s tombstone. A shade over two kilograms.
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Links: floor-sweepings editions, musician forums, Piracy: The Better Choice.
A site for multi-disc reissues, a new musicians’ forum, DRM still doesn’t work, exclusive deals don’t work.
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Links: how Deerful and J. G. Ballard work, how Warner Bros doesn’t, what to do in Norwich afterwards.
Secrets of the stars!
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Links: Records and machinery.
Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.
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Witch house: I’d make myself a majickal sandwich.
Witch House is a made-up genre that became real. It was invented as an in-joke and now goth DJs claim they play “witch house”. Perhaps the secret ingredient is the gr▲†u‡†Øu§ Un‡cØd3.
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DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED.
DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED -DRUM MACHINE IS KILLING BLACK METAL- DRUM MACHINE IS NEXT KEYBOARD/CRUTCH AND IS DAGGER IN THE BACK OF BLACK METAL-
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Watch Linsey Pollak making a carrot clarinet in five minutes.
You just need a thick carrot, a mouthpiece, an electric drill, a potato peeler and a funnel. Then, in five minutes, you can do this …
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Links: cultural markets in late capitalism, Patricia Morrison, the 1938 synthesizer.
Consumer markets, a nice Patricia Morrison interview and the 1938 Novachord.
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A random riff generator, on the Web.
Quite a lot of music software comes with a random riff generator. This stuff isn’t hard. But now it’s convenient as well.
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