Tag Archives: Music

Falty DL Mix & Interview @ Sonic Router

Posted on 2009/07/01 by chaircrusher

Falty DL’s “Love is a Liability” is the latest in a long line of Planet Mu releases that show there’s no record label currently doing a better job artistically. Sonic Router presents a mix and interview.

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Sergeant Ridiculous EP — Update… Fehler Nach Fehler.

Posted on 2009/06/16 by chaircrusher

Somewhere in all the re-mixing and remastering, something screwy crept into my original version of the Sergeant Ridiculous track. So if you downloaded either the Zip or the original track, you can get the new improved version without the drums … Continue reading →

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Epic Laundry sample set?

Posted on 2009/06/02 by chaircrusher

Guy taps and bangs on stuff in his laundry room, releases sample set. It’s worth listening to the audio examples. It sounds exactly like you’d imagine — washing machines getting tapped, thumped and slammed. I sampled the water sloshing in … Continue reading →

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Dave Smith Mopho goes Keerazy with Random Patch Generator

Posted on 2009/05/17 by chaircrusher

This is Dave Smith Instruments’ Mopho playing some patches generated randomly by the Mopho Pro Editor. The Mopho Pro Editor is like any other editor for external MIDI instruments: It’s kind of buggy and ill-documented, and half the time something … Continue reading →

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Paul Stretch (extreme audio time stretching) for OS X to download!

Posted on 2009/04/29 by chaircrusher

GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST It has links to a more recent build, the PPC build, etc. Yesterday I couldn’t spell OS X Developer and now, I are one! With some help from my friends on the CMake mailing … Continue reading →

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Repost: Free Program for Extreme Time Stretch

Posted on 2009/04/28 by chaircrusher

Sorry for repost, but apparently, this post got trashed in my Blog SQL database. Eff me silly, computers suck. Apparently the post showed up long enough for MKB to comment on it, but then went to the great bit bucket … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone Prejudice Against Anything Un-Rawkish Abides

Posted on 2009/04/26 by chaircrusher

Rolling Stone still thinks Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is Controversial? Really? Hasn’t it always been blindingly obvious that “Metal Machine Music” is not intended as listening music for general audiences? I thought this was all settled canon law a … Continue reading →

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Is Boomkat’s “Also bought” Algorithm a bit too on the nose?

Posted on 2009/04/21 by chaircrusher

I spend more time than is probably healthy (financially or otherwise) exploring new music on Boomkat. They seem to have fairly no-bullshit reviews for music, and they seem intent on hyping things they actually like, for actual musical reasons. As … Continue reading →

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Heads Up — Pierre Schaeffer T from Analog Industries…

Posted on 2009/04/16 by chaircrusher

If you slept on the Delia Darbyshire T Shirt, here’s your chance to be ahead of the curve. Analog Industries is going to do a Pierre Schaeffer shirt that’s every bit as swank. Just watch the Analog Industries blog; next … Continue reading →

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The Dubstep Yamo B There Connection

Posted on 2009/04/13 by chaircrusher

Pangaea is a producer in the Dubstep vein that I like quite a lot for being one of the guys who resists the siren call of the obnoxious wobble bass. He’s not about a bit of appropriation, specifically the chopped, … Continue reading →

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KRUI Noise Radio Chaircrusher DJ Mixes

Posted on 2009/04/12 by chaircrusher

Here they are, hot off the presses. Turn your speakers DOWN before you play them because I noticed in studio that the bass on these is huge. Something I’ll watch out for on future mixes. Doesn’t sound distorted or bad, … Continue reading →

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Me. On KRUI FM. 8PM to 10PM Tonight 4-11-09

Posted on 2009/04/11 by chaircrusher

You can listen here: http://krui.student-services.uiowa.edu:8200/listen.pls I have recorded 2 new mixes to present, because I’ve had bad experiences trying to mix live on radio, I’ll post them up with playlists later tonight….

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DJing in Ableton Live 8: First Impressions

Posted on 2009/04/10 by chaircrusher

I’m putting together a set for a radio show on Saturday night on KRUI FM, so it was my first time playing with Ableton Live 8 and DJing. What’s it like? Short answer — not different enough to have a … Continue reading →

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Pluggo gratification

Posted on 2009/02/25 by chaircrusher

Well it took 4 days, but my shiny new Pluggo is authorized. In honor of this I put together a sort of fake techno jam: Pluggo Test All sounds are from Pluggo Instruments — Analog Drums, Analog Percussion, Deep Bass, … Continue reading →

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SO FAR SO SO: Retrospective 1995-2005

Posted on 2009/01/31 by chaircrusher

I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, so here goes. This is a collection of unreleased songs from my back catalog. There’s all sorts of genres represented, but in choosing the tracks, I tried to pick songs that … Continue reading →

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