visual madness

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The first time my friend Adam Kerchman introduced me to E-603, I didn’t really understand what I was hearing – I assumed it was just a bunch of weird rap songs, and filed his stuff away into the ‘listen later’ folder, where it stayed for the next 5 months or so. It wasn’t until I came across Jockin’ On Ya during a random shuffle (redundant much?) one day that I truly understood what it was that Adam had unleashed on me – a myriad of meticulous mash-up madness of magnanimous magnitude, made manifest by a master of musical mini-mixing (and much more). » Read the rest of this entry «

I can’t say I’ve really been a big fan of Atlas Sound’s music… I deleted all but 3 songs from Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel and How I Escaped the Prison of Fractals, and pretty much booted everything else of his from my iTunes after trying it out.

Still, thanks to musical tastemaster Taylor Johnston’s recommendation of AS’s new track ‘Walkabout‘ on Twitter, I decided to give the dude another try… » Read the rest of this entry «

So I was just doing my usual business in iTunes and adding missing cover art to new albums, when a particular section in the Wikipedia entry for The Flashbulb’s album Soundtrack to a Vacant Life caught my eye.

Basically, it’s a message from the artist that was attached to several torrents of the album that were floating around on trackers out on the internet. Far from being a bitter tirade meant to guilt-trip music piraters, it’s actually an amazingly sincere and insightful perspective from the artist on the truth behind record labels and how musicians get paid for their music. » Read the rest of this entry «

“Quality… is concerned with ideas not techniques, with the enduring not the ephemeral, with precision not fussiness, with simplicity not vacuity, with subtlety not blatancy, with sensitivity not sentimentality.”

- Paul Rand