Great buzz altogether down in Fifties, Lijmbeekstraat, in Eindhoven, where meself and himself played last Friday. And huge HUGE thanks to Lena, Lisa, Paul, Jason, Nick, and the other Snor folks (whose names I do not know. Sorry!). It was the best night I've been out at in Eindhoven (granted, I haven't been out much here....). Special thanks to Lena and Lisa who were organising the music - Lisa, in particular, who saw me play in Eindhoven last November and asked me to play on foot of that.
But really, big ups to all!
May 27, 2012
May 22, 2012
Can I get an Amen!!
Break, that is. The beat that spawned a thousand (or a million) breaks was played first by Gregory Cylvester Coleman of The Winstons, a drum solo in a B side of theirs called "Amen Brother", which was itself a re-imagining of Jester Hairston's gospel classic "Amen". I was messing with the beat today, that most seminal of the most seminal; it's so ubiquitous that it felt kind of weird to be working with it.
I went for a nosey online about it; there's a rich seam to be mined on dinternetz, a testament to its cult status. Obviously a whole raft of "the definitive online amen break archive", but other stuff as well. Articles and blog posts and the like.
So, this (post) is just some links. No point in doing an Amen break on it.
This audio documentary from 2004 is by Nate Harrison. It's recorded on a dub-plate, in fact - some snippets of music (too bleedin short though!), interesting observations on the nature of copyright and the rest of...all that kinda stuff. Yaknow. Give er a listen, it's only twenty minutes long.
A piece on its relation to (as in, embodiment of) The Golden Ratio, an article from The Economist (more music focused, jungle in particular), and more musicks from Ethan Hain's blog.
This piece from The Huffington Post is more on the copyright tip. I do love me ruminations on copyright! Interesting though; it covers a lot of the points made in Harrison's documentary, as well as Thomas Edison's attempt to monopolise the fledgling motion picture industry by waging a war of petty lawsuits. Plus ça change, eh.
For more of a meditative buzz, try knitting an Amen break scarf. Takes all sorts.
I went for a nosey online about it; there's a rich seam to be mined on dinternetz, a testament to its cult status. Obviously a whole raft of "the definitive online amen break archive", but other stuff as well. Articles and blog posts and the like.
So, this (post) is just some links. No point in doing an Amen break on it.
This audio documentary from 2004 is by Nate Harrison. It's recorded on a dub-plate, in fact - some snippets of music (too bleedin short though!), interesting observations on the nature of copyright and the rest of...all that kinda stuff. Yaknow. Give er a listen, it's only twenty minutes long.
A piece on its relation to (as in, embodiment of) The Golden Ratio, an article from The Economist (more music focused, jungle in particular), and more musicks from Ethan Hain's blog.
This piece from The Huffington Post is more on the copyright tip. I do love me ruminations on copyright! Interesting though; it covers a lot of the points made in Harrison's documentary, as well as Thomas Edison's attempt to monopolise the fledgling motion picture industry by waging a war of petty lawsuits. Plus ça change, eh.
For more of a meditative buzz, try knitting an Amen break scarf. Takes all sorts.
May 18, 2012
Whatchoo readin' fawr?
For this reason! Learnin me some proper production and mastering ting. It's all a bit of grey fog, still. No more, I tells ya.
Mel did a fantastic FANTASTIC job with "Echo", and she's mastering "Below The Sea" as we speak. Her ear is impeccable, clear as day when you listen to her own music too.
She's based in Brighton now with her fella Herv. Keep an eye and an ear peeled for the two of them.
Mel did a fantastic FANTASTIC job with "Echo", and she's mastering "Below The Sea" as we speak. Her ear is impeccable, clear as day when you listen to her own music too.
She's based in Brighton now with her fella Herv. Keep an eye and an ear peeled for the two of them.
May 17, 2012
May 16, 2012
ACTA and other IP thangs
ACTA:_Procedure_in_the_European_Parliament and ACTA-is-not-dead
La Quadrature du Net is a fantastic site which "aims to alert on government projects that threaten civil liberties on the Internet and to make alternative proposals".
ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is one of the most pertinent issues currently, posing as it does such a massive threat to civil liberties. An older post on that here.
The political memory section has names, contact details and the voting records of every MEP, by country and by committee. I might even write to some of them, in my naivety. Like Paul Murphy, a Socialist from Dublin. He's on the International Trade Committee (INTA), the main one working on ACTA.
Closer to home (as in, at home), the Copyright Review Committee (set up by Minister Richard Bruton) published a consultation paper in March. "Innovation" is the buzz-word here, how can we nurture it, foster it, encourage it, attract it and its innovative practitioners to Ireland. I'm chomping through the 182-page report - the Department (of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) are accepting submissions from the public, so I might as well.
I'll do a proper post on it once I'm finished.
La Quadrature du Net is a fantastic site which "aims to alert on government projects that threaten civil liberties on the Internet and to make alternative proposals".
ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is one of the most pertinent issues currently, posing as it does such a massive threat to civil liberties. An older post on that here.
The political memory section has names, contact details and the voting records of every MEP, by country and by committee. I might even write to some of them, in my naivety. Like Paul Murphy, a Socialist from Dublin. He's on the International Trade Committee (INTA), the main one working on ACTA.
Closer to home (as in, at home), the Copyright Review Committee (set up by Minister Richard Bruton) published a consultation paper in March. "Innovation" is the buzz-word here, how can we nurture it, foster it, encourage it, attract it and its innovative practitioners to Ireland. I'm chomping through the 182-page report - the Department (of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) are accepting submissions from the public, so I might as well.
I'll do a proper post on it once I'm finished.
May 13, 2012
Ya big Pledge!
Sooo.... this funding project doodah is starting so. Apparently, I need more fans for this to succeed.
:(
To the left, there is a widget. A widget with which to lure in new fans and potential funders of said album. The song, "Sunday Sun", is one of the first I wrote. Ahhh.
Ooohhh the world of internet marketing and self-promotion is a strange one. More of this in a while.
:(
To the left, there is a widget. A widget with which to lure in new fans and potential funders of said album. The song, "Sunday Sun", is one of the first I wrote. Ahhh.
Ooohhh the world of internet marketing and self-promotion is a strange one. More of this in a while.
May 12, 2012
Attack of the killer summer!
The many-legged have been out in force the last week. An unseasonable warm patch in the middle of an unseasonable cold and windy spell saw the mozzies, flying ants, and loads of strange-looking pupa-esque creatures on the streets for three days, in the house, in my hair, you get the idea. Apparently the cold has damaged the asparagus crop in the Netherlands. NOO!
But really, mad times we do live in. The weather grows stranger and stranger.
UPDATE 16th of May, 2012:
Radioactive mutation in produce and wild plants in Michigan, US.
But really, mad times we do live in. The weather grows stranger and stranger.
UPDATE 16th of May, 2012:
Radioactive mutation in produce and wild plants in Michigan, US.
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