handbook-for-cyberdissidents

for those who don’t know them yet…it’s a good introduction to the dubsahara journey.

http://www.mixcloud.com/dubsahara/

greg uploaded a nice set of 13 oriental beats for free download
get them here :

http://dubsahara.com/archives/10366

One thing I’ve often said, when confronted with the type of person that gets in to the minutia of the recording process, perhaps at the expense of the big picture, is that a good song will survive any production process, while a bad song can’t be saved by the most sophisticated gear and recording techniques available.

This sort of idea is anathema to the Gear Queer, who is always certain that there is that one more piece of kit sitting out there, just beyond grasp, that will push things over the edge and make all the difference. We’re each of us guilty of this behavior, of course. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc. But the simple fact of the matter is that the work of art exists already, as a wave function, and whatever you need to collapse that bitch and bring shit out in to the cold light of day is what you need. There are records that wouldn’t exist without a massive, and relatively expensive, modular synth and a fairly detail-oriented production approach (see: A Funneled Stone), and others that would sound fucking retarded if they were anything but a guitar and a vocal. (See: Robert Johnson’s entire ouvre. Happy 100th b’day to Mr. Johnson, btw.)

Now, this entire approach could be perceived as my own way of justifying my several rather ridiculous recording habits, the which you’re all perfectly aware of. I approach photography and music-making in the same way, trying to squeeze something interesting out of a device not really meant to do what I’m asking of it, largely via a trial-and-error approach rather than any cohesive planning on my part. My general philosophy with respect to photography is the Shakespeare/Monkey method: if you take enough pictures, some of them are bound to be interesting, and quantity has a quality all its own. No particular reason this can’t be applied to music. (See: Wesley Willis.)

I guess what I’m trying to say, when it comes down to it, is this: I am of the firm opinion that there is interesting shit hiding in my brain. All I have to do is figure out how to get it out. While a new piece of The Shiny might make certain aspects of that chore easier, at the end of the day, the song lives in my brain, not in the gear. The medium is the messenger, not the message itself.

…since I kind of become addicted to it…
i started a fractal site where i will upload the fractals (and possibly the code) as soon as i do them…
it’s not a gallery…more of a feed/stream…and a notebook for me.
it’s hosted on tumblr

http://athanor.tumblr.com/

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this is a short intro tutorial to fractal lab

Click here to view the embedded video.

an amazing animation done by subblue : Surface detail

Click here to view the embedded video.

monkey marc – as the market crashed

this is not new…but I reckon not many ppl discovered it yet
a very good album, a base of hip hop topped with blues, etnic spices, dub and onu-sound influences (yeah!).
not just intelligent and clever…but also soulful and highly enjoyable…TOP MARKS.
I played 2 times on the same stage with him…and I can say he is a lovely guy…and his liveset is very good…all done with 2 MPC…proper.

released by Omelette Records (australia)

Duskky : Illeism – free download from Acroplane

“I approach the tracks like they’re each little creatures, with their own ways of moving and interacting with the environment around them. Each one is supposed to have a certain personality or feel which is in some way distinct from the others. However, by virtue of them all being grown from the same broad gene pool they feel related to each other, sharing in the environmental pressures from the world around them.

All the tracks on this album were made over the last year and a half or so. They wouldn’t sound anything like they do without constant support on every level from the Mothers Against Noise Collective. We’ve been calling this stuff Dubfunk, but you can call it whatever you like.” – Duskky

Duskky on Soundcloud

aka E.Olenikov aka Alltag, Tehran, Iran

http://soundcloud.com/sohrab

this was a great surprise…a “producer” from Iran…good tekno…and even better ambient !

sorry but I cannot embed the soundcloud players of his music since he doesn’t allow it…go and check it out directly on soundcloud…really…go.

very very fresh and alive techno.

i’m against the every-day-a-new-plug-in-mentality of todays music makers.
turning knobs, twisting sounds, jamming and getting deep into single sounds –
this is what i’m all about.

stay techno!

http://soundcloud.com/the-marx-trukker

i wish to work on a similar project in the future

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

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