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Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970
How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here.
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Liz Pelly’s Spotify book reveals how company uses ghost content
Harper’s Magazine has an excerpt from Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, and already we get another bombshell. The company conspired to farm out ghost content, often substituting for known artists, to pay out less to artists. That much was suspected by anyone listening to the platform, but the details are even more damning and far-reaching than you might imagine.
SØS Gunver Ryberg’s Living Labyrinth 3D active listening experience
Living Labyrinth immerses you in the world of Danish composer SØS Gunver Ryberg’s music. It’s a spatial experience of a flowing organic dream world of deep listening and meditative interconnectedness. And it includes both unreleased bits and portions of SPINE, one of the more notable releases of this year.
Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, will be a must-read
Peter Kirn - December 2, 2024
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Tim Exile’s cancer recovery project is a generative, morphing groovebox
Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024
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Peter Kirn - November 21, 2024
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