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Tuesday 30 April 2024

That's The Way It Is

Rest in peace 

Daniel Lanois · That's The Way It Is

Monday 29 April 2024

Ilyas Ahmed & Liz Harris

Grouper 

Is the solo project of musician, artist and producer Liz Harris (born July 15, 1980). She has released material on her own label and other independent labels since 2005. Grouper released the critically acclaimed Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill in 2008, followed by five more records, including a two-part album, A I A, and the piano-led album Ruins. Her twelfth album, Shade, was released in 2021.

Grouper has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Xiu Xiu, Tiny Vipers (as the duo Mirrorring), Roy Montgomery, The Bug, Lawrence English (as Slow Walkers), and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (as Raum). The critic Brett Abrahamsen referred to her as a "genius of modern music" in his 2022 profile of Roy Montgomery.

Sunday 28 April 2024

Maxwell's equations

"It could explain the maths into wave of frequencies in electronic music and its math example equation"

Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits. The equations provide a mathematical model for electric, optical, and radio technologies, such as power generation, electric motors, wireless communication, lenses, radar, etc. They describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by charges, currents, and changes of the fields. The equations are named after the physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who, in 1861 and 1862, published an early form of the equations that included the Lorentz force law. Maxwell first used the equations to propose that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon. The modern form of the equations in their most common formulation is credited to Oliver Heaviside.

Maxwell's equations may be combined to demonstrate how fluctuations in electromagnetic fields (waves) propagate at a constant speed in vacuum, c (299792458 m/s). Known as electromagnetic radiation, these waves occur at various wavelengths to produce a spectrum of radiation from radio waves to gamma rays.

In partial differential equation form and SI units, Maxwell's microscopic equations can be written as



Synthetization (article)

Audio synthesis may initially seem like an obscure arcane art with strange terms like VCOs, LFOs, CV, Subtractive, Additive and Frequency Modulation being bandied about by studio geeks who always seem to exhibit some serious studio tans. Now, of course, if you want to do audio synthesis properly you’ll want to learn as much as possible about how different synthesizers work and which synth sounds you can produce with them. There’s a lot to learn when it comes to synths so it could seem like a massive mountain to climb when you start out. That said, there are different ways to learn basic synth programming and in this post we take a look a 5 ways you can go about learning audio synthesis and keep it fun. But first, let’s cover a few of the main synth terms, just to refresh our memories on the basics of synths...

A  synthesizer,  in  the  most  basic  sense,  is  an  analog,  digital  or  software  instrument  that  produces  audio signals. This  is  achieved  in  different  ways  by  different  synths  but  in  simple  terms  it’s  all  about generating  and  manipulating  audio  signals  and  sounds.  Like most things in music production and audio engineering, a synth is a system with inputs, processing and outputsThe inputs of synths come in most cases from a controller of some sort. A MIDI keyboard or pad is a good example of the typical type of input devices used with synths.  The controller sends pitch, velocity and gate instructions to the synth. Inside the synth the pitch triggers the oscillator which generates the initial audio.  The velocity instructions control the amplifier and the gate signals do the same, usually via an envelope generator (ADSR). The audio waveform generated by the oscillator then passes through a filter which shapes the tone by removing frequencies from the signal.  After the filter the signal goes to an amplifier where the volume is controlled. The oscillator, filter and amp components can all be modulated by modulators such as LFOs and envelopes. So, let's take a look at the basic components of synths before we delve a bit more into audio synthesis techniques and different ways of learning audio synthesis further below.

Saturday 27 April 2024

Delia Derbyshire

 "Is the special honor to introduce the audience into this pioneer of electronic music, creating a plenty introduction from official reviews of the magnificent Delia Derbyshire"

Delia Derbyshire


Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music", having influenced musicians including Aphex Twinthe Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital.

Biography

Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma (née Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry. Her father was a sheet-metal worker. She had one sibling, a sister, who died young. Her father died in 1965 and her mother in 1994.

During the Second World War, immediately after the Coventry Blitz in 1940, she was moved to Preston, Lancashire for safety. Her parents were from the town and most of her surviving relatives still live in the area. She was very bright and, by the age of four, was teaching others in her class to read and write in primary school, but said "The radio was my education". Her parents bought her a piano when she was eight years old. Educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School from 1948 to 1956, she was accepted at both Oxford and Cambridge, "quite something for a working class girl in the 'fifties, where only one in 10 [students] were female", winning a scholarship to study mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge but, apart from some success in the mathematical theory of electricity, she claims she did badly. After one year at Cambridge she switched to music, graduating in 1959 with a BA in mathematics and music, having specialised in medieval and modern music history. Her other principal qualification was LRAM in pianoforte.

She approached the careers office at the university and told them she was interested in "sound, music and acoustics, to which they recommended a career in either deaf aids or depth sounding". Then she applied for a position at Decca Records, only to be told that the company did not employ women in their recording studios. Instead, she took positions at the United Nations in Geneva, from June to September, teaching piano to the children of the British Consul-General and mathematics to the children of Canadian and South American diplomats. Then from September to December, she worked as an assistant to Gerald G. Gross, Head of Plenipotentiary and General Administrative Radio Conferences at the International Telecommunication Union. She returned to Coventry and from January to April 1960 taught general subjects in a primary school there. Then she went to London, where from May to October she was an assistant in the promotion department of music publishers Boosey & Hawkes. 

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Squarepusher sixth studio album

Do You Know Squarepusher 

Is the sixth studio album by Squarepusher, released on Warp in 2002. It peaked at number 35 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. It includes a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". The CD version of the album includes an additional disc of live recordings, titled Alive in Japan.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tom Jenkinson, except where noted

Do You Know Squarepusher
No.TitleLength
1."Do You Know Squarepusher"5:05
2."F-Train"4:19
3."Kill Robok"3:34
4."Anstromm-Feck 4"3:29
5."Conc 2 Symmetriac"1:23
6."Mutilation Colony"10:48
7."Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner)3:32
Total length:32:13
Alive in Japan
No.TitleLength
1."Mutilation Colony (Excerpt)"2:43
2."The Exploding Psychology"7:39
3."My Red Hot Car"5:02
4."Do You Know Squarepusher"5:01
5."Direct to Mental"3:23
6."Boneville Occident"7:13
7."Go! Spastic"8:47
8."Greenways Trajectory"9:50
9."My Fucking Sound"8:56
10."Anstromm-Feck 4"4:18
Total length:62:55


Monday 22 April 2024

Tri Angle Records

Tri Angle 

Was an English record label based in London and New York established by Robin Carolan in 2010. The label released albums by serpentwithfeetThe Haxan CloakVesselForest SwordsHoly Other, and Clams Casino.

After its inception and first set of releases, Tri Angle initially gained a reputation, with Dazed & Confused magazine calling the label "one of today’s most singular musical tribes". In 2011, Tri Angle was named one of the top 50 labels in America by Billboard, and in 2013, label owner Robin Carolan was profiled in The New Yorker. The label's releases were featured on multiple "best of" lists by notable websites and publications such as PitchforkThe GuardianThe New York TimesRolling Stone, and Spin.

Tri Angle's sound was heavily debated in the music press, with The Wire noting it as being "one of the hardest labels to pin down in contemporary music". Starting in the middle of the 2010s, artists from the label began collaborating with, and creatively partnering with, mainstream artists including Kanye WestBjörkDisclosureA$AP RockyFKA TwigsDiploVince StaplesAtticus RossTinasheMassive Attack and The Weeknd. Björk in particular was a strong supporter of the label, crediting Robin Carolan with having helped her finish her eighth studio album Vulnicura, as well as collaborating with Tri Angle on a number of other occasions. In 2017, Carolan was credited on Utopia, Björk's ninth studio album, as 'the fifth ear'.


Saturday 20 April 2024

Christopher Stephen

Clark 

(born 29 August 1979) is a British electronic musician, performing under the mononym Clark. He has produced music for his own albums, as well as music for television, films and video games, having composed scores for award-winning contemporary dance and BAFTA nominated TV series. His records have been released by Warp RecordsDeutsche Grammophon and his own label Throttle Records.

Clark was born Christopher Stephen Clark in 1979 in St AlbansHertfordshire, England, where he grew up. He started making music as a teenager, and also began experimenting with building his own primitive equipment, including a "home-built stylus made out of a hook and some masking tape". He went on to attend Bristol University. As a student, his music teacher told him that if Clark were to buy a drum machine, he would give up all hope in Clark's musical ability. Whilst still a student, Clark first impressed staff at Warp Records playing under the moniker Chris From St Albans at their Nesh party in December 2000. He was subsequently signed to Warp, and released his debut album Clarence Park in April 2001 as Chris Clark. Clark then moved to Brighton, followed by Birmingham where he stayed for some time, during which he collaborated with Broadcast on a reinterpretation of his track "Herr Barr" and other unreleased material. He currently splits his time between Brighton and Melbourne. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his artist name to Clark. His music has been played on BBC Radio 6 Music by Shaun KeavenyLauren Laverne and Tom Ravenscroft. He also recorded a mix for Ravenscroft, described by the presenter as "just about the best ever done for the show".

Friday 19 April 2024

A Serbian DJ

Scalameriya

Is a Serbian DJ, producer and sound designer known for his flashy mixing skills, eccentric productions and menacing synth design. The combination of leaping into the world of techno at the age of 13 and having an obsessive personality lead to extensive practice-sessions and the development of impressive dexterity in djing. As difficult as growing up in Serbia has been, that experience gave him the necessary focus to dive deep into production and find refuge while creating his distinctive style of techno. Scalameriya, written “Skalamerija” in Serbian, is a word used to describe any unfamiliar-looking device of an unknown or even non-existing purpose, function or origin. This became a concept that is reflected in the structure of his productions and DJ-techniques. Often described as hard and aggressive, he claims that his sound is heavy and intimidating, insisting that those are similar, but divergent aesthetics. Scalameriya's individuality and militaristic work discipline have proven to be prolific as his records can be found in catalogues of some of the most important record labels such as Perc Trax, 47, THEM, Void+1 and Genesa. Both as a DJ and a producer, Nikola demonstrates that he is an unstoppable force, delivering performances and soundtracks that are leaving behind lasting impressions all around the world.


ECM Records

ECM 

(Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the most beautiful sound next to silence", taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.

ECM has been distributed in the U.S. by Warner Bros. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram, worldwide. Its album covers were profiled in two books: Sleeves of Desire and Windfall Light, both published by Lars Müller.

Thursday 18 April 2024

The Blog

Into a blog

This is how the Blog changed and got transformation in 12 months. CSS from the blank setup that services provide to turn your pages in a personal aspect and view. Is more than 3,000 or in this case 1,500 lines of codes. Javascript & CSS. The model nowadays is long far from the first version, personalized and optimized construction_


Wednesday 17 April 2024

The Quantum Violin

Mia Zabelka 

Is an austrian violinist (experimental) that emerges from Vienna. Exquisite talent that we likes. You can explore her at the site miazabelka.com

Introduction
Mia Zabelka (born 1963 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary violinist, improviser, and composer of Czech, Jewish and French familiar background. Comprehensively educated in classical music from early age on she opened up the traditional understanding of the violin as solo and ensemble instrument towards improvisation, experimental music, and sound art.

Lydia Lunch describes Mia Zabelka's work as "visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy."


Is about a model

"After a year of increased the project of Nühn labels I have to say that I do what I can, the energies are low but Nühn never going to stop, anyway I cannot afford and support all the artists knock on the door, I choose a sound, sorry for those do not understand that the sound has to fit from the start. It is not about discrimination. I love everything I listen but I have to think in the model, is what I feel"

Music united us

🤘🏻

Tuesday 16 April 2024

The Place

 "I don't actually play in concerts but when I do the beat is little blurred and people look at me rarely, this is why I don't play more gigs but there is a place deep on my heart that i wish to play at least once in my life"

Kode9

Steve Goodman 

Known as Kode9 (born 1973) is a Scottish electronic music artist, DJ, and founder of the Hyperdub record label. He was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene with his late collaborator The Spaceape. He has released four full-length albums: 2006's Memories of the Future and 2011's Black Sun (both with The Spaceape), Nothing (2015), Escapology and Astro-Darien (2022).

As owner of Hyperdub, Goodman has signed artists such as Burial, DJ Rashad, Zomby, and Fatima Al Qadiri. Goodman has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Warwick and has published a book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, in 2009.

Saturday 13 April 2024

Mark Bell & Gez Varley

LFO 

Was a British electronic music act formed in 1988 consisting of Mark Bell and Gez Varley. They released their acclaimed debut LP Frequencies in 1991 on Sheffield label Warp. After Varley left the group in 1996, Bell continued solo to release Advance (1996) and Sheath (2003).[1] Bell died in October 2014, effectively ending the project.

LFO are considered to be pioneers of the bass-heavy "bleep techno" style. AllMusic called them "one of British techno's most important, agenda-setting groups."

Friday 12 April 2024

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft 

OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio. He is widely acknowledged for promoting artists of many genres, including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important single person in popular music from approximately 1967 through 1978. He broke more important artists than any individual."

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular "Peel sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist in the BBC's studios, often providing the first major national coverage to bands that later achieved fame. The annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year was a notable part of his promotion of new music.

Peel appeared on television occasionally as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.


Autechre / Peel Session

Published by Warp Music / EMI Music. All rights reserved. No copying.
℗ 1999 Warp Records Ltd. © 1999 Warp Records Ltd.
Made In England.

Incidental info: This release consists of material recorded for John Peel's Radio 1 sessions 30 August 1995. The session was first broadcast on 13 October 1995.
Issued in a standard jewel case with four-page booklet.

  • Barcode (Text): 5021603-112025
  • Barcode (Scanned, EAN-13): 5021603112025
  • Label Code: LC02070
  • Matrix / Runout: [MPO logo] ■ WAP112CD ■
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI LR61
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI RZ01

Tuesday 9 April 2024

Criterion does not exists

Is what about consciousness claim across the memory. Not something in music less creative is best or worst, is all about the exercise of the memory, more creativity generates more memory and it is getting by the variation in the composition and structure, then, the most remembering works will get more sells and views, but is not best or worst a work with less creativity is just about the memory. Criterion does not exists, is by our memory everything_

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Is now a year recently that you passed away, I still learning in discipline across all your legacy_

Ryuichi Sakamoto 

(Japanese: 坂本 龍一, Hepburn: Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.

Beauty is slow

In music as well

Saturday 6 April 2024

Eleni Karaindrou

Karaindrou 

Moved with her family to Athens when she was eight years old, and she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odeion (Hellenic Conservatory). She also attended history and archaeology classes at the university. During the time of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 she lived in Paris, where she studied ethnomusicology and orchestration, and improvised with jazz musicians. Then she began to compose popular songs.

In 1974 she returned to Athens where she established a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast a series on ethnomusicology on Radio 3 of the Greek national broadcasting company. In 1976 she started collaborating with ECM Records. This was a period of high productivity for her, during which she worked extensively on music for the theater and the cinema. Karaindrou has stated that her own personal style emerged in working on soundtracks and that the relationship between images and movements created a new space for her to express emotions.

Her first soundtrack album was released in 1979 for the movie Periplanissi by Christoforos Christofis. In 1982 she won an award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and was noticed by Theo Angelopoulos, who was serving as president of the jury. Karaindrou collaborated with the Greek director on his last eight films, from 1984 to 2008.

Karaindrou is very prolific. By 2008 she had composed music for 18 full-length movies, 35 theatrical productions and 11 TV series and television movies. Among the screen directors she has worked with are Chris Marker, Jules Dassin, and Margarethe von Trotta. In 1992 she received the Premio Fellini award. Recently, her compositions "Elegy for Rosa" and "Refugee's Theme" were featured prominently in the 2015 blockbuster film Mad Max: Fury Road.

In November 9, 2012, her compositions were part of the concert “Music and songs for the films of Theo Angelopoulos”, co-organized by the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in the context of the tribute hosted by the Festival to the Greek filmmaker.

In 2021 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Ghent Festival's World Soundtrack Awards.


Autechre

Autechre (/ɔːˈtɛkər/) 

Is an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are among the best known acts signed to UK electronic label Warp Records, through which all of Autechre's full-length albums have been released beginning with their 1993 debut Incunabula. They gained initial recognition when they were featured on Warp's 1992 compilation Artificial Intelligence.

Influenced by styles such as 1980s electro and hip hop, the music of Autechre has evolved throughout their career from early, melodic techno recordings to later works often considered abstract and experimental, featuring complex composition and few stylistic conventions. Their work has been associated with the 1990s electronic genre known as intelligent dance music (IDM), though Booth has dismissed the label as "silly."

Friday 5 April 2024

The Underground Resistence

Not pioneers

The Detroit Techno never was pioneer of Techno music released or made before. Detroit Techno was an estatement about a revolutionary protest only by the racial problem. Problem that were only there and will be in united states of america, they just got up the bpms of a 4 per 4 beats was created before in many songs in 80s and 70s. In 90s the city of Detroit had around 1.500 or almost 2.000 Techno producers and not all were famous, were famous close to 20 producers ones more than others and everything started with the collaboration of Tresor label and club from Berlin. No Detroit techno producer that were famous then would be famous if Tresor would not give them the opportunity to expand that type of Techno in Europe. Never have been a german producer says that Berlin or another german city was pioneers of Techno music. Let's the case of a revolutionary statement about problems that are not from any other continent or country in this world rule the pioneering aspect of Techno music please. And for knowledge of everybody the slogan of Underground Resistence is a simple resistence of a racial problem in the United States of America.

Japanese version of Ultravisitor

Square Window 

Is a promotional 3" CD EP by Squarepusher, distributed only with pre-orders of Ultravisitor from Warp Records' online store. The five songs on this EP were also included on the second disc of the Japanese version of Ultravisitor.


Thursday 4 April 2024

Few hours for Darius

The Ze-2sO (Darius Ciuta)

The glorious laboratory element turned sounds, elementary as its form a body charged of terrible detonated particles of waves.

Not even a classic noise rhythm virtually connected from above all the 60s years of 20th century has been done the glorious future decade of magnificent experimental incursion in not an electronic generative style, so more than sounds from laboratories of diversificate ambience and sounds. Darius Ciuta comes to No Records to employ what is the majority ensemble between archaic elements for a complete study of these works. Here a magnificent five cuts expressing the exhausting life is being musician. No one could imagine why experimental music exists and it's that, it is the most exhausted ear from all music in this world manufacturing music without not improvisation, without no rules, exploring and navigating across the most pure free system in music technology or in aspects more originally.

Darius is here actually to show us this pure sound from a pure feeling for our sub label, starting a collection of 50 minutes continued demonstrating how he has done with music in earth.

credits

releases April 5, 2024

Written, produced, composed, performed & recorded by Darius Ciuta.
Mastered, mixed & processed at Darius laboratory (Kaunas), Lithuania.

©NoRecords REF// #007

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Squarepusher

Thomas Russell Jenkinson

Known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. His music spans several genres including drum and bassIDMacid technojazz fusion, and electroacoustic music. His recordings are often typified by a combination of complex drum programming, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing. Since 1995, he has recorded for Warp Records as well as smaller labels, including Rephlex Records. He is the older brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson).

Tuesday 2 April 2024

Excellence Techno from our point of view

Tommy Four Seven

Boundary-defying British artist Tommy Four Seven has been a respected visionary in the international techno scene for almost two decades. Since launching to global notoriety, he has continued to be an in-demand selector and producer known for his ability to capture the dance floor with a palette of dynamic sounds and rhythms.

As accomplished in the studio as he is behind the decks, Tommy has built an extensive discography that's grown in parallel with his touring career. His critically acclaimed debut LP, Primate, imaginatively fused off-kilter rhythms with four-to-the-floor minimalism, while his follow-up album, Veer, excavated even more daring and driving techno-adjacent territory. Tommy has also pushed his musical experiments beyond the dance floor with his group These Hidden Hands, a collaboration with mastering engineer Alain Paul. 47, Tommy’s own imprint, is responsible for some of the most innovative techno in the scene today. Its recent 2.0 relaunch has cemented his singular stylistic approach; in the last two years, it has showcased up-and-coming artists like Quelza, Flaminia and VSK, who stand for the sleek and sophisticated aesthetic that Tommy threads through his own mixes and productions. Not just a label, 47 is also a platform for live events that takes Tommy’s musical vision around the world with a series of finely tuned live events. An authentic and ever-evolving tastemaker, Tommy’s keen curation remains as sharp as ever. As he prepares to release his new solo EP in 2023, it’s certain that he will stay at the scene's forefront, powered by his relentless passion for dance music and his acutely discerning ear.

https://es.ra.co/dj/tommyfourseven