Every once in a while when you’re lucky enough to have enough expendable income to throw around, the gear lust creeps up and before you know it you’re making a list of the newest analogue glowy button super-knobber noise makers available. If you want your money to be used effectively, there’s two categories of where […]
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2012 by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockstrom. From its book review in Nature. “…unlike previous pessimistic assessments of tipping points for humanity and Earth, this book combines a critique of political and economic systems with an assessment of global ecology.” “…rarely have [arguments] been gathered together in one place to clarify the links between politics, economics and […]
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This post defines techno relative to other electronic music, an overview of the most common techniques associated with producing songs in the genre, and places where you can find helpful community. What is Techno? Almost always 4/4 Between 120-140 bpm (beats per minute) Mostly kick drums on each crotchet (1/4 note) but often breakbeat An emphasis on repetition, minimalism, […]
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Without removing something completely, it’s hard to live with an addiction. But, I still need to use the internet constantly for work, creative projects, and random fanciful research binges. Often quitting an addiction means removing it’s temptation from your life forever, but unlike many other addictive substances, the internet has a great capacity for good, as […]
Read MoreLabel your tracks in a way you will remember their ‘tags’ and put those words in place where you can read them. This holds true from vinyl origins where you could write notes on the sleeve, but with metadata fields we now have access to much more space for descriptions and the ability to sort your crates programmatically. tldr; […]
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tl;dr version (snap summary) = the web offers cheap data and subjects, but anonymity can erode contexts. Annual Review Psychology 2006. 57:529–55 doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190048 Abstract: “This chapter reviews studies published in American Psychological Association (APA) journals from 2003–2004 and additional studies (received in response to listserv requests) that used the Internet to collect data (N […]
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The visual nature of writing music on a computer means that sometimes we can fool our ears because of what our eyes are telling us. By tweaking a parameter, we feel like we’re doing something useful. But does it actually sound better? Here’s how you can remove the subjectivity. A/B/X comparisons When running an effect […]
Read MoreDiscussion of this piece: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/what-makes-a-great-dj/ Summary of article: Varied opinions by some well-known DJ names. Their opinions are largely shaped by their history and status. Essentially, do what you want, as long as you’re doing it with passion. Mr.G – link – background deep house “believes in a track and wants to share it with you […]
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The game is here: http://hypernom.com/ I got 180secs first try, you? Could be simply described as a 4D VR Pacman. Created by Henry Segerman, ViHart and Andrea Hawksley “Hypernom is a game where you nom cells of four-dimensional objects by rotating, wiggling and twisting yourself around to move through a stereographic projection of a radial projection of a […]
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