The Snark Of Others
- DJ Mix: Autechre Retrospective (1)
- chuck: This is super cool Kent. I’ve heard bits and pieces of Autchre in the past, and was sometimes intrigued...
- The Ballad of Winter Delacroix James (1)
- tom/pipecock: i’ve met a girl named Winter
- Durban To Detroit To Chicago To London DJ Mix (1)
- tom/pipecock: i too love black people
- Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Niños Del Parque (1)
- Joey: this is actually a really famous NDW song — not obscure in Europe. Liaisons Dangereuses were short-lived...
- South African Kwaito — Some Ridiculous Great Tunes… (2)
- worldcom: ‘barely scratched the surface’ of a genre can also mean ‘heard the really good top...
- DJ Mix: Autechre Retrospective (1)
Category Archives: Music
DJ Mix: Autechre Retrospective
25-Feb-10In the process of writing my review of Oversteps today, I listen to bits and pieces of the entire Autechre discography. Maybe it was because I was trying to listen critically to Oversteps, but something about Autechre clicked in my head in a way it maybe hadn’t before. There are times when they’re [...]
Review: Autechre “Oversteps”
24-Feb-10There are few musicians whose music is as polarizing as Autechre. It would be one thing if they were resolutely in the experimental music camp. The avant-garde have their audience, who embrace abstraction and difficulty, and revel in sound only marginally less random than brownian motion. But Autechre occupies a strange middle ground [...]
In keeping with my new-found enthusiasm for South African Dance Music, this mix is heavy on stuff from Durban, with some detours to at least 2 other continents and an island nation….
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
http://music.cornwarning.com/audio/Chaircrusher-DurbanDetroitChicagoLondon-DJ Mix.mp3
This is mostly live from my 1 hr radio substitute slot from last tuesday. Since it [...]
Blackdown’s Blog got me going on this kick, but what really got SA on my radar was DJ Mujava’s Township Funk which was an undeniable floor filler from 2008.
I can’t even keep up on Iowa City music, much less America or the world, but the Kwaito stuff is so fresh — it reminds [...]
I noticed DJ Pierre tweeting about “Los Niños Del Parque” by Liaisons Dangereuses, and checked out the Youtube video that was making the rounds. This is apparently a miniature Twitter phenomenon, so I’m jumping on a bandwagon yet again. Oh well…
Anyway, I went looking for some place to buy the music, and it turns out [...]
A used bin find: U.K. Subs “The Singles 1978-1982″
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She’s Not There by U.K. Subs
And the original.
Some Beats From the Vault…
03-Feb-10These came up on shuffle play today and I decided I still really liked them. I put them together well over 10 years ago, when I was hanging out with Hip Hop producers a lot.
“Heavy Spritzer Twist” is heavy on the Hoagy Carmichael samples, with some Ahmad Jamal on the chorus. “Nat” [...]
The Java House has been branching out into having more live performances of late, and a week after a wonderfully raucous show at the Mill, Kate (of Lipstick Homicide & Boo Hoos) and Sam (of Miracles of God & SLW & the Boo Hoos) did an acoustic show. Pictures by the lovely and talented [...]
Awesome Bunker Nights @ Unsound Festival
01-Feb-10The Unsound Festival in New York City is going to be a humdinger. But I want to hype especially the Bunker events put on by my old friends at Beyond. Each night has some great performers scheduled. Not only the US premier of the wonderful NewWorldAquarium, but a rare NYC DJ set [...]
Some of my friends played a hot show (including the inimitable Hott!) last saturday night:
http://music.cornwarning.com/live-the-mill-2010-01-23-old-pantherhottlipstick-homicideslw-the-boo-hoos/
Jan 2010 DJ Mix
24-Jan-10Been a while since I did a mix. The proximate cause for doing this one is my fascination with Cooly G’s tracks. I wanted to juxtapose her stuff with tracks that, to me, sound like percursors to her sound, in particular Dinosaur L’s “Go Bang” (for the trombones and ESG’s “Moody” (for the [...]
New Track: “Sine Study”
23-Jan-10[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-SineStudy.mp3
This is a version of something I’ve thought about doing as a short, improvised live performance. The setup is this:
Several tracks of sine wave synthesizers
For each sine, a sequence.
Each sequence has a unique length before it repeats.
The result is that for the whole sequence to loop to where [...]
I read the New York Times Arts section on the off chance they’ll write about music I might find interesting. When that happens it’s usually perceptive and well-written. This week, I note two reviews for events I can’t even begin to imagine attending: Martha Plimpton and Tyne Daly doing Caberet shows.
The structuralist critics liked [...]
Consider Boomkat. They’re very specific about what you can do with them: put them on up to three computers, three portable music players, and burn on up to five CDs. They say that you permanently own the tracks you purchase, but at the same time they’re owned by Boomkat and the other parties [...]
Produced by my man Kembrew Mcleod who is a fellow contributer to Little Village and University of Iowa Associate Professor, and Benjamin Franzen, U of I graduate.
Check the PBS for your local viewing time here.
And here’s the trailer:
Monday Video Fights – Trim vs Super Dude
18-Jan-10Trim is sick. Trim is fun. Trim is fierce. Get you some.
(from Sonic Router)
… on the other hand …
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(From IHAVESYNTH)
… or do I really need any more?
So my arsenal for music production comprises
NI Komplete 6 (Reaktor, Kontakt, FM8, Massive, Guitar Rig, Absynth, Battery)
Ableton Live Suite (Sampler, Tension, Operator, Electric, Collision, Analog)
Older NI synths (Pro-53, B4)
UAD-1 plugins
Xils (VCS3 emulation)
Xoxos drum synth suite
TRackS mastering plugs
Most of the AudioDamage plugins
AAS Ultra Analog
Image-Line Harmless
A few other free or [...]
New Year Day Miscellaneous
01-Jan-10ITEM 1
From the Youtube description: “Family Stand comprises of Peter Lord, Jefferey Smith, and the amazing Sandra St. Victor. The song Ghetto Heaven was huge hit on the R&B charts back in 1990 and the hook was later used by Common in 2001 for a song of the same title.”
Common was doing some second generation [...]
Antipenultimate New Years Day Track
30-Dec-09[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-2009-12-30.mp3
The drums are all free xoxos drum VSTs in an Ableton Live Drum rack. Bass sound is Absynth. Guitar through Guitar Rack, recorded in the looper and then spread out on several audio tracks.