Month: April 2014

Dancing About Architecture: Bok Bok talks club genomes and a new era of pop music

He may have been co-running one of club music’s most influential labels, Night Slugs, since 2010, but it’s taken until 2014 for Bok Bok to release his second solo EP for the label. That’s, obviously, misleading – he’s released a healthy dose of white labels, remixes and collaborative 12″s in that time – but as…


Girl Talk on His First Ever Music Video, Produced by Maker Studios

    Gregg Michael Gillis, known as Girl Talk, has come out with his first ever music video, a collaboration with rappers Freeway and Waka Flocka Flame. Produced by Maker Studios, “Tolerated” is a major departure from Gillis’ previous work. For one thing, it has just two samples, Esther Philips’ “Sweet Dreams” and Enon’s “Rubber…


Branford Marsalis: The Problem With Jazz

The following is edited from an interview with jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis, whose latest album, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, is a collaboration with pianist Joey Calderazzo. You put on old records and they always sound better. Why are they better? I started listening to a lot of classical music, and that really solidified the…


Constellation Matrix

A patch utilizing the WMD Sequential Switch Matrix as a routing switch for incoming gates. Gate sources are four channels of the 4ms SCM which are routed to the Cylonix Shapeshifter, TipTop BD808, Mutable Instruments Braids and Harvestman Hertz Donut MKII. Another output of the 4ms SCM is sequencing through the matrixes via the SSM…


Sonic TALK 353 – Fools

April fools, 303 clone test, new gear inspiration [Sonic State]


Eminem says he came close to writing a rap attacking Kanye West and Drake

Eminem has revealed he came close to writing a rap in which he attacked Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Drake, the Independent reports. The Detroit rapper opened up about how other musicians “killing it” between his ‘Encore’ and ‘Relapse’ albums made him feel insecure about himself and his own music while appearing on Los Angeles…


Producer/Engineer Tchad Blake – Pensado’s Place #157

Producer/Engineer Tchad Blake (Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel) joins Dave and Herb on the 157th episode of Pensado’s Place! [Pensados Place]


Renman U Lesson#10-Understanding Music Publishing

Many people don’t know exactly what a Music Publisher does, or why they need one on their team of experts, that’s why this week on Renman U I’ll be covering everything you need to know about Music Publishing. [RenMan Live]


Donwan Harrell Interview With The Breakfast Club Power 105.1

SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBreakf… Twitter: @cthagod Twitter: @angelayee Twitter: @djenvy Twitter: @Power1051 Twitter: @BreakfastClubAM Facebook: Power1051NY [Breakfast Club]


A Look Into The Music Industry’s Crystal Ball

“Crystal Ball BLL -0.2%, Crystal Ball, tell me things as you think they will be.” The great thing about the music business now is that, unlike previous eras, it’s rapidly shifting and morphing at a faster pace than ever. That makes it difficult for some to keep up, more difficult for others to adapt, and…