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| Damian Lazarus: Devil Night Tour diary entry #3 Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:05 PM CST Crosstown Rebels boss Damian Lazarus continues his his hilarious Devil Night tour diary for us as he makes across Mexico, hitting the border town of Juarez and the lovely Monterrey. Along the way our protagonist meets up with fellow Brit jocks Mr. C and Jamie Jones, gets beer spilled on him at a Mexican football match and of course spins plentiful helping of twisted beats, all making for yet another gripping installment of his action-filled adventures. |
| Tech News Roundup: November 14, 2008 Posted: 14 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST Last week, November’s music tech news got off to a quiet start. This week, the pace picked up a bit. Create Digital Music posted a slew of interesting tidbits, as did Synthtopia.com. Throw in a handy new iPhone tool for producers and an incredible sale on AAS softsynths and you have the makings of a busy week for music tech. |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2008 11:32 AM CST If there's one thing those folks at legendary vinyl emporium Hardwax love, it's an anonymous release project. But beyond all the excitable forum chatter about who may be behind this latest enigmatic venture, fans of classically-tinged, elegantly produced, techno deepness will be pleased to know that the music more than lives up to hype. |
| Composer submits 70,200 forms to German RIAA Posted: 14 Nov 2008 07:14 AM CST Applying old copyright law in the digital world is like forcing people to put a stamp on every email they send. But whilst the rest of the world has slowly woken up to the fact that old business models don't apply in the digital age, copyright societies, particularly ones that represent the 'interests' of musicians and composers still linger in the stone age. And to prove just how out-of-touch copyright societies are in a world moving at light speed, a German composer has submitted 70,200 forms to GEMA - Germany's version of the RIAA - for a 33 second avant garde piece that contains 70,200 samples. The reason? GEMA requires you to fill in a form for every sample you use in a musical piece no matter how minute. Johannes Kreidler arrived at the headquarters of GEMA in a van full of paper. Awesome. |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:06 AM CST Can we take a minute and give it up for 1999? Records stores were bustling, clubs were packed, Subliminal Records was sending out stacks of promo vinyl every week, and yours truly was the age of innocence: 20. |
| What do Ibiza residents get up to out of season? Posted: 13 Nov 2008 09:01 PM CST We Love... presents the unsung heroes of Sundays at Space. In this episode of the series we catch up with the weekly residents of the club and island locals, catching a glimpse of the resident DJs Alex Wolfenden, Ian Blevins, David Phillips, Jem Haynes, Andy Carroll, Jon "Sa Trinxa" Gray and Jason Bye as they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of island life, musical directions explored this summer and how they take a certain cardboard cutout on a night out - the day after, the day after... We Love... island residents. |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2008 05:37 PM CST Jochen Arbeit usually plays guitar for one of Berlin's most remarkable and influential bands of all time, Einstürzende Neubauten, who, next to Kraftwerk and Can, have helped to shape the contemporary musical landscape of Germany. Arbeit's solo album, simply named 'Solo', contains 12 tracks of guitar treatments, electronic clonks and bleeps, filled with ambient soundscapes and field recordings. |
| New searches for New York’s clubs Posted: 13 Nov 2008 12:43 PM CST On Friday June 27th 2008, something changed in New York City. In the space of just 24 hours, 11 nightclubs and bars were raided by police and forced to close, seven in Manhattan and four in Brooklyn. The timing couldn't have been worse for Pacha, Marquee, Splash and the other shuttered venues - Gay Pride weekend was taking place, typically one of the busiest weekends of the year for New York's clubs. It was a night of nuisance abatements; the punishment New York's authorities dish out to establishments that supposedly “endanger public health and safety” by "allowing" illegal drug sales, prostitution or gambling. Since then, numbers in clubs in New York have begun to dwindle thanks to airport-like security checks being employed at almost every club front door across the city. |
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