I just found the band The Flashbulb, which is the answer to my posted previous question, is there anything these days that can rival 90’s Squarepusher? This stuff is mindblowing. Really good IDM and well composed music, and best of all, he’s based in Chicago! I had no idea that scene even existed here.
Radiohead’s In [...]
So I won two tickets to the Tony T Memorial Concert at BB’s tonight from the radio station WSIE 88.7. They mention having a special guest there but I’m just psyched to hear the jazz.
Elizabeth says “look there’s the actor Tim Robbins, I think he’s supposed to play harmonica later,” and I say “that’s funny. [...]
Call me a Raul Pineda fan.
I’ve been obsessed with Chucho Valdes’s track Ponle La Clave from Live at the Village Vanguard ever since I first heard an MP3 of it in college (mislabeled as ‘ponte la clave’). I later bought the album Live at the Village Vanguard, which is great, and so is Valdes’s similar [...]
I’m on a new quest to improve my musicianship via the web and other forms of technology. I’m renting lots of musical instruction videos I found on Blockbuster Total Access. And I’m finding some great instructional stuff on the web. Check out this awesome ‘Learn Jazz Piano Podcast’. Open up Itunes, go to Advanced > [...]
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I called tech support and they helped me get it working again. The firmware is updated and the lag is gone. I’m still not sure if it’s better than my midi keyboard though for drumming. I will do a comparison soon.
I’m really disappointed with the mpd24 and I apologize for the raving review I gave [...]
Wow, this is really, really amazing. It’s a touch sensitive glowing video musical instrument / programming language. You use tangible objects to control synths, control values, pulses, and more. I don’t even know how the table recognizes which object is where, what rotation, and what orientation it’s in. You can rotate to control frequency or [...]
The people at Pandora.com are cool too, and responded right away to my suggestions. I was going to blog about how I thought they should tweak their interface and further thoughts on how cool it is, but instead I’ll just post the correspondence.
Hello Jordan
Great idea!  We actually are working on a user interface for advanced
users that [...]
How many hours have you spent going through your itunes library, looking up an artist in the mini store, and then clicking on related artists to discover new music?
If you’re like me, then it’s several.
Well, I found a better way to do this, for free, online. It’s called Pandora. Now, instead of digging through [...]
Anyone who knows me will know that squarepusher is one of my favorite electronic artists, and even, artists of all time. His groovy jazz, funky beats, backbreaking tempos and mind-bending editing make it sound like the most complicated, innovative music I’ve ever heard. Granted he has a lot to thank from Aphex Twin and the [...]