Posts Tagged ‘music’
October 7th, 2009
let’s talk about music for a change…good music…with lot of jazz influence…
nujazz…psychedelic jazz…not that kind of posh-slick-boneless jazz that usually get me bored as fuck.
this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…
Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.
I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:
the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:
Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002
absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.
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October 3rd, 2009
cloudcycle is “officially” released this week by bakshish music
for those who like shopping, you can now buy our music in exclusive from only 2 specialized shops :
Cloudcycle is a bizarre experiment conceived by Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Subsurfing, Alien Soap Opera, who also worked on some seminal albums of electronic music, amongst others with Orb, Killing Joke, Steve Levine, Matrix movie soundtrack) and mauxuam (unpredictable manouvrer who last year released his album Viceversa and has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for over twenty years on many diverse and obscure projects).
two experienced space navigators who lost their way home, met eachother along the digital pipeline and forgot where they were heading to…and why. Master Margherita met them along the way and while trying to help them find a direction, got himself lost too…
Cloudcycle started one mad night 3 years ago and it is still morphing into new shapes…greg and maux have been shifting and drifting…working online at huge distance of time and space (greg in uk and egypt, maux in oz)…connected by the magic of wand skype….with no timeline, no deadline and no end.
Without knowing what to do and simply bored with the old music biz paradigma, they started to release this music as an audioblog on the net uploading the tracks as soon they finished them….including alternative mixes and demos and the samples to do your own remix.
Deep and heavy beats and out of nowhere melodies, slow techno and endless ambient drones….familiar with every genre without belonging to any trend, cloudcycle is a bunch of trip-a-delic dub-minimal-glitch-world-oddness, a spicy and scented delight for the senses…disappearing before you get hold of it…dissolving without trace…fractalized in micromacro syncronicities.
Richness to resonance, truth to tonality, esoteric emotions and subtle harmonies… a spontaneous outpouring from our side to the world, a musical invitation to experience and join for the pure reason of sharing.
Cloudcycle doesn’t sound loud as fuck…it’s not in your face…we praise the dynamic range…music is the silence between the sounds….pleasure relished in the unsquashed transients…we don’t fight in the loudness war.
in the moment we become so involved in the experience, we lose track of ourself, lose track of time, lose track of our identity…we become clouds.
August 30th, 2009
I (finally) start to be tired of this music that sound loud…and louder.
I mean…enough is enough!…let’s stop the loudness war.
the heavy use of multiband compression and brickwall limiters is killing the dynamic range…and the music.
many ppl in the music industry regard the mastering as even more important than the mixing and the recording itself.
especially record labels…they know that spending a relative small amount of money in a “good” mastering studio can transform a dodgy sounding album is a blasting hit….that will sound loud even out of the computer speakers and those crap headphones…well…true..a good mastering can really do that…
but an exagerated mastering can also kill the music…and the listener…
it’s the same for the images…all is glossy nowadays…and saturated…
I am honestly very unhappy with the mastering that mr Dave Black did for my album “viceversa” for example…too compressed…too much bass…
and I had enough of all this wobbly trend…from Tipper (his Wobble Factor is TOO LOUD!!) to blasted dubstep.
INFACT…MUSIC THAT SOUNDS TOO LOUD IS LIKE WRITING ONLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS…
or like somebody screaming all the time….
I have mastered many of the tracks of the cloudcycle project…I am not a pro masterer and I don’t have pro gear and I am not sitting in an acustic treated room…but I reckon that I can do a decent job with my software (since we can’t afford to pay for a mastering session)…not as loud but loud enough…
but now I realized that I pushed the level of some tunes too much…trying to be loud as the trend…
so after a lot of reading (and listening)…I decided to remaster them…at a lower level…with little compression and very little limiting…so they don’t look like bricks anymore…infact…greg was right.
this are few links about the loudness war:
loudness wars (wikipedia)
The Loudness War Analyzed (on musicmachinery)
loudness wars (on stereosubversion)
dynamic range foundation – an organization defending the dynamic range, they release also a free plug in to check the dynamic range.
turn me up – another organization defending the dynamic range
justice for audio
August 24th, 2009
Hoehle is a new project from Master Margherita (Lausanne) and Dr.Justin aka dubfix (Berlin)
I am currently mastering their first ep that will soon be released by bakshish music.
this is a preview of one of their tunes (not mastered yet)…(I will do a remix too).
great stuff I reckon
Basstard by hoehle
August 24th, 2009
cloudcycle has been updated with 2 new alternative mixes:
hydra.peluda by greg
cloudcycle/hydra.peluda by cloudcycle
stratus.alto by myself
cloudcycle/stratus.alto by cloudcycle
June 3rd, 2009
June 1st, 2009
we couldn’t decide what is it…an album…or a band…
so..for now it’s a website…a simple audioblog….
the first 3 tracks are already available for free download
