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A few people have asked how this mixer operates and sounds so here’s a wee video:
As you can see there’s a scratchy pot or two to clean and I still need to make some knobs, but so far so good.
Since I posted here about my fancy new plate reverb I’ve made a few adjustments and [...]
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Today it stopped raining for long enough for me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while - build a stereo plate reverb unit. It took a couple of hours, was made mostly from stuff I found at the tip, cost about $10 and it sounds awesome. If you want to [...]
This Friday Auckland sees a rare appearance of the Robot Monkey Orchestra, which is the latest vehicle of head headless chicken Chris Matthews at Cassette Number Nine in Vulcan Lane, 9pm, $10.
Also playing: Charlie Ash, Bang! Bang! Eche!, DJ A.D.A.M.
Ok so I’m a bit late to this but every Saturday over at bFM, Dubhead has been running a very interesting documentary series on the history of the station.
Called The bFM Historical Society it’s a series of interviews with people who’ve worked in and around the b over the years, starting in the mid [...]
First, sneak off and find a computer. Which we’ve just done, yeah? I have.
Now just drink until it passes. Here’s a couple of ideas to keep you occupied:
1. Play Auditorium. Speakers on.
2. Watch some hilarious clips of “live” electronic performers faking their shows at deadact.com. Do they think we’re stupid? (Hope that doesn’t ruin [...]
First, sorry if you got an old email re-delivered today. I don’t know why that happens but sometimes it does.
Anyway, I want to let you know about a couple of tools for finding music online.
mtvmusic.com
MTV have opened up their huge catalogue of music videos and put them online here - it’s a bit like [...]
This is a rhythm track I’ve been working on with a lot of nice live percussion.
It does have some mean vocals but before I finish putting it together I thought I might release the instrumental to you all in case anyone else wants to use it. (creative commons license)
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Instruments used so far include:
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I used to listen to mp3s while working at the computer (because that’s where they live), but I’ve recently discovered something healthy about listening to vinyl:
You get the micro-breaks for free!
Because every 20 minutes you have to get up and flip the record.
Just one more reason why records are still the coolest format ever and [...]
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