Adam Wendt: Adam Wendt's Music Blog

RIAA DIE DIE DIE

Evil evil people (the RIAA) have reached an out of court settlement with Audiogalaxy. The gist of it is: AG is gonna pay the RIAA lots of money and people can now only share songs allowed by the RIAA.

Mix of the Week

Josh The Funky 1 - Digital Funk 2 This is just a really great mix, lots of funky house classics.

Whats on the Tube Tonight?

The two hour second season premier of Witchblade on TNT at 8pm (Thats right now!) One of the best things about the show is the music.

MP3 of the Day

The Herbaliser - Verbal Anime (feat. iriscience) "I've seen Ghosts in the Shell, Ninja Scrolls, and Akira
But the illest character I've seen was in the mirror."

Just Your Favorite DJ Savior

The DJ Shadow sample page is back online! I'd link to it, but as the current maintainer says:

Welcome to the return of the DJ Shadow Samples page. This page was originally created by Michael "DOP" Lane, whose time and efforts to keep up these pages were helpful in spreading the word about DJ Shadow and his music. Some of you might remember DOP from his great show on WREK in Atlanta, The Breaks. The DJ Shadow Samples page had moved a number of times over the years, and eventually with Mike devoting more time to his job (and having a life!), he took down the site. I felt it was essential not only for DJ Shadow fans, but for record collectors and producers who want to explore his music a bit further. I am sure the "sample police" have visited this site, and because of this fact, I want to respect DOP's wishes by asking you to NOT place an external link to this page. This sample page has never been a secret to Shadow fans, but due to the unpredictability of the recording industry, I want to keep this going without threat from the powers that be. To make it interesting, I will change the URL of these pages every week or so, for those of you who refuse to play by the rules. Eternal to gratitude to Michael Lane for creating these pages, I will maintain them in the same fashion that you did. Thank you for passing these pages to me.

If you are a DJ Shadow fan and want the url, email me or send me a message on AIM (acemcburney) and I'll give you the url.

Acoustics Crash Course 1 - Room Modes

"With the proliferation of home recording studios, many more people have questions about room acoustics than before. This article first in a series meant to be a starting point in your understanding of acoustics in rectangular rooms." [kuro5hin.org] There are a lot of other interesting music related articles on kuro5hin.

Trackers and Linux

"I am the author of a few apps intented for Linux music composing. My speciality is trackers since that is what i've been using for around a decade and my goal is to be able of writing music professionaly on this OS using such programs. Trackers are tools for writing computer music which have a different approach from sequencers (such as Twelve Tone's Cakewalk or Steinberg's Cubase). They are unknown to most people, or just known as an "old Amiga music File Format". In this article I'd like to introduce the history and concept of tracking, as well as giving an overview of all the tools of this kind available in the Open Source world." [kuro5hin.org]

Latest: Ninjatune bought by EMI

Mr Scruff has been dropped from the label, the spokesman commenting "He's a bit unkempt and smells of fish". Similarly Bonobo has been axed, as apparently "a monkey could write this stuff". The Cinematic Orchestra will be rushing out a new album, with "a lot more beats and... we just feel it needs some guitars". Rumours that Amon Tobin will be producing Britney's next album "Smack me up one more time, bitch" are as yet unfounded.

Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format: A Black, Plastic Disc With Grooves On It

As part of the invention's rigorous testing process, the designers gave some discs to a group of teenage computer experts who regularly use file swapping software such as Limewire and gnutella and who admit to pirating music CDs. Despite several days of trying, none of them were able to hack into the disc's code or access any of the music files contained within it. "It's like, really big and stuff," said Doug Flamboise, one of the testers. "I couldn't get it into any of my drives. I mean, what format is it? Is it, like, from France or something?" [Build And Destroy]

I made a music category for the Audiophile part of my weblog name. If you want to subscribe to just that, here's the rss feed.

"Audio CDs demystified. Excellent in-depth technical discussion of CD-audio, and how copy prevention systems (don't) work." [Boing Boing Blog]

Here Comes the Dancing Queen.....

"From Andrew Sullivan's blog: Click Here. Remember, she may be the Queen, but you are in control so work it baby." [Ernie the Attorney]

[The Shifted Librarian] HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH *falls over*

Lowercase Music

It's hard to tell wether this article was written to draw attention to a musical genre or just as advertising for Apple and DigiDesign. From /.:

Picture with a Mac
"magnification of minute sounds through a computer, typically a Macintosh."
"...and amplify them with software such as DigiDesign's Pro Tools."
"...attracted about 100 people to see three performers, all using Apple PowerBooks. "
"Macs are central to the creation of lowercase sound ... and they amplify and edit the soft sounds on Macs. "
"this work has blossomed tremendously with the relative availability of Pro Tools (especially the free download from DigiDesign)"
"the lower prices of Mac hardware over the last few years"
"The Mac is the favored platform ... Most people who work with computer music use a Macintosh. "
"This grew out of putting powerful computers into the hands of ordinary people..."