How LA and NY kept jazz alive, inside the world of obsessive audiophilia, and DJ Fett Burger on Daft Punk’s Homework.
Morton Subotnick’s RA Exchange. The American avant garde composer who collaborated with Don Buchla to create the Buchla Series 100 synthesiser, Morton Subotnick is best known for the first electronic work commissioned by a record company – Silver Apples of the Moon. He joins RA in their latest Exchange podcast to discuss early music history. Stream and download the conversation above.
Resonance Sound Giveaway Roland System-1 and More. Resonance Sound are giving away prizes worth €1400 to one lucky winner who subscribes to their newsletter. The prizes include a Roland System-1, two Plug-Outs, two Zynaptiq plugins, and a €250 voucher that can be spent on Resonance’s catalogue of soundsets, samples and MIDI patterns. Find out more and enter here.
Obsessive Audiophilia. The Guardian meets the (almost entirely male) obsessives occupying the highest end of the hi-fi market, who sometimes spend thousands of pounds on a lead and insist they can hear the difference. Is it worth it? And does sound quality rise proportionately with price? Read the full piece here.
How LA and NY Kept Jazz Alive. “… jazz wasn’t only about the music, it was also about the personalities behind the music.” Berkley’s B-Side magazine asks how two clubs kept jazz alive and fresh, and what made them so uniquely successful at doing so: New York’s Giant Step and LA’s Low End Theory both pulled jazz back from concert halls onto the dance floor. Find out how here.
M-Audio Offer. Buy any of M-Audio‘s M-Track Series of audio interfaces, and get their Ultimate Songwriter Suite, as well as over $300 worth of award-winning AIR instruments, DAWs and Waves effects, included free. Learn more here.
DJ Fett Burger and Finn Johannsen on Daft Punk’s Homework. DJ Fett Burger talks to DJ and writer Finn Johannsen about Daft Punk‘s Homework, discussing the album’s significance, its remarkable artwork, Daft Punk’s influence on club culture generally, and much, much more here.
30 beats in 30 days from Primitive World. R&S Records’ Primitive World has completed his challenge of creating a beat a day throughout November. Check out the results with their accompanying videos on Instagram, or in full hi-res versions on his SoundCloud.
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And not 1 mention of the new site design 😉 Which is fantastic by the way!