Theo Parrish & Gilles Peterson in conversation, Roland reproduces SH-101 as software, Four Tet on Glastonbury’s Park stage…
Theo Parrish & Gilles Peterson in Conversation. Theo went to the Brownswood Recordings basement to have a short chat with Gilles in preparation for Worldwide Festival 2014, sharing some memories and selecting a few of his all-time favourite tracks. Listen above, full track listing available here.
...and Theo chats about his live show. “I guess in a sense live musicianship has always been around me, however I never guessed as a youth that I’d be touring a band.” Talking to Red Bull, Theo lays out the plan for his live performances this summer. Tickets for the shows in London and Manchester on the 14th and 15th of this month are available now through SeeTickets or TicketWeb.
Ex-Orb member Kris Weston’s rants about exploitation. “This page is basically a mile long rant which turned into a battle over royalties, lies and loads of crap about a band called The Orb.” Weston claims that Universal Records released his music without permission, and that his ex-bandmates contributed much less to the band’s records than they have led the public to believe. Click here for the full story.
Pioneer updates rekordbox. Pioneer releases the biggest update yet to its library management software, calling it “the next generation of set preparation software”. Incorporating five years of feedback from DJs, rekordbox 3.0 has a slick new GUI and has been built from the ground up to make it easy to manage and edit playlists, search for and select tracks, and sync track information across multiple devices and software. Check it out in the video above.
Unique studios still in the mix. With album sales down and recording budgets slashed, what does the future hold for studios? The Guardian photographs unique British studios who have kept faith in the music. Check out the photos here.
Plaid AMA. Andy & Ed answer questions from the public in a Reddit AMA following their album, Reachy Prints, which was released by Warp just over a month ago. Find it here.
Four Tet on the Park stage. Watch Four Tet‘s set from the Park stage of Glastonbury Festival 2014 in full here (UK only).
Source Distribution announces Trade-In promotion on Genelec 8000 Series monitors. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Genelec 8000 series range of active monitors, UK distributor Source Distribution has announced a time-limited promotion on all five models in the 8000 series, allowing UK customers to trade in their existing monitors and get a significant discount on a brand new pair of Genelec 8010A, 8020C, 8030B, 8040B or 8050B models. More here.
Roland reproduces SH-101 as software. The first ‘plug-out’ synth for the Aira SYSTEM-1 is a like-for-like clone of the iconic SH-101 Find out more here.
Sugar Bytes release Egoist “Groove in a Box”. Egoist is the latest creative plugin from Sugar Bytes, which promises to “squeeze the groove out of any audio file”. It features quick and easy track sketching based on sample slicing, a unique ‘beat box’ with more than 1,000 drums from vintage to electronic, an effect sequencer and randomisers in all areas. Watch the video above to find out more.