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last night I was playing with feedbacks…4 send channels with different fx strips assigned to some knobs and feeding eachother….I ended up with this stuff, recorded live directly into audio…I might use it for a more evolved tune at one point.

Greg sent me an edit of AngkorWat…from his album Future Dust…
without his permission I started to play with it…slowed it down to 101…

this take is recorded live while playing with dummy clips…the launchpad and more knobs assigned to different fx…
the only sound not coming from the original edit is the new (wicked) Tattoo drum machine by AudioDamage

a great post on I Downloader about the Death of Music :

Music is not dying. Music is thriving.

- There are more people playing more kinds of music now than there have ever been in the history of the planet.

- More new musical instruments have been created in the last 50 years than in the last 5 centuries.

-  More money is being spent on music – on concert tickets, ring tones, music lessons, instruments, performing rights, MP3 players, soundtracks, recordings, band merchandise, etc – than ever before.

- More people are listening to more music more often than ever before- in their cars, on their MP3 players, on their computers, in the supermarket, restaurants, gyms, on elevators and in hotel lobbies as well as live
performances, CDs and yes, even vinyl.

- There are more ways to make money from music now than ever before, and more possibilities for unprecedented access to existing and potential audiences.

read the full post here : http://i-downloader.blogspot.com/2009/10/death-of-death-of-music.html

Robert Henke is the man…I have been following his music from the beginning…
I am still in love with Cinemascope and Interstate…and his liveset is probably the ultimate electronic liveset…period.

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.

I just finished to master Ambient Manifold, the new album by Moreno (Master Margherita)…and I am very happy with the results.
there is going to be also a weird track we wrote online (not this one)….
it will be released by our brave Bak$hish Music at the end of the next week.
this is how it sounds like

Master Margherita : Prova Sonido

sometime all is crumbling…and the only thing left to do is to cry for help.
my life in the bush of ghosts has been the seminal album that probably  inspired me the most.
I did this remix a couple of years ago…using the stems on their website (thanks Brian, thanks David)….but I never uploaded it to them since is too long…(one day I will do a shorter edit)
Brian Eno and David Byrne : Help me somebody (mauxuam remix)

this was a nice surprise….
I just found this podcast with one of my tracks in it on Sacred Dub…
a website very close to mr Bill Laswell…

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

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