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Audio creations containing rhythm, meter and tones in varying quantities.

Lossless sale on Bleep

In Music on 23 March 2011 tagged audio, bleep, flac, lossless, Music with no comments

After posting my over-long screed on lossless audio yesterday, I was happy to see Bleep is running a sale on Lossless audio. Check it out! I finally replaced my copy of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and picked up a couple of albums by Four Tet and Seefeel to go along with it. All in glorious [...]

Lossless Libraries in iTunes

In Music on 22 March 2011 tagged aac, ale, audio, death of the music industry, flac, iTunes, mp3, Music, Technology with 3 comments

Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business. Jon Bon Jovi, via MSNBC reprinting the Sunday Times (paywalled) A popular recent quote from a man who’s seen a thousand cities and rocked them all. I’m not a fan of Bon Jovi’s music, but I can’t really argue with what he’s saying in the [...]

Best of the Oughts

In Music on 24 April 2010 tagged 2000s, best, lists, Music, playlist with 9 comments

I think I’ve edited this to hell and back again. I’m just gonna push “post”. These are some of my favorite albums of the last decade. The list is by no means comprehensive. I could include more. Scroll down to the bottom for a playlist if you want to assemble your own. (note, I’m hearing [...]

Best music of ’09

In Entertainment, Music on 21 February 2010 tagged best of, Entertainment, lists, Music, top ten with no comments

Yeah, I’m late, but I might as well type up this list before we’re much further into 2010. It seemed like kind of a dull year for music. I did a lot of back-filling which should make for an even more compelling Best of the Oughts if I can ever get around to writing that. [...]

Thursday: A musical odyssey

In Entertainment, Music on 6 December 2008 tagged Entertainment, last.fm, Music, playlist, recommendations, Web with 1 comment

I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder. The value becomes apparent when [...]

Junk Drawer

In Music on 23 March 2008 tagged drivers, gear, General, leopard, midi, Music, Photos, Software with no comments

I woke up feeling a little creative this morning and didn’t feel compelled to put together shelves or unpack boxes. So I dug out my Korg EA-1, plugged it into my midi box (which finally has Leopard-compatible drivers) and whipped-up this little bit of synth noise. Junk Drawer.mp3 (192kbps VBR MP3) or Junk Drawer.m4a (177kbps [...]