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On the Eve of New 808 Film, Techno’s Roots Matter More Than Ever [Videos]
If rock music had the Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster, hip hop and dance music have the TR-808. And if its sound seems sometimes overly familiar, even that is in some sense a hat-tip (pardon the pun) to its enduring ubiquity. Now, the Roland TR-808 gets its own full-length documentary, told primarily through the […]
Read moreSoundCloud More Affordable for Creators, As Service Attempts Balancing Acts [Analysis]
We hear some pretty clear messages from CDM readers about SoundCloud. One, almost all of you seem to have some criticisms of it. Two, almost all of you appear to use it, complaints or none. Even as other services remain valuable, SoundCloud is practically its own category. (In fact, the level of detail about those […]
A World of Sounds: Academik’s Francis Preve Shares Label’s Music, Studio Advice, Samples for Live
Francis Prève works the crowd. Photo courtesy the artist. The abundance of music, and the preceived ease of producing it, comes to some as bad news – or even harbinger of apocalypse. But load up a craft with quantity, and quality is what stands out. Francis Prève is a perfect Renaissance producer. With years of […]
Peter Kirn - March 15, 2012
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