January 2011
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cut {beach boys} copy[sic]. Akai + The Beatles *...
Cut Copy has only recently become one of those bands I have to hear all the time. Though I knew their tracks in a casual sense, I also had multiple remixes and easily had an opinion about them prior to owning any of their full releases. However, a lovely woman, Amy (thank you Amy!), kindly provided me with their last two records, which I have perused quite fervently. And the conclusion, though I...
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theory over practice, serendipity over...
To steal a quote: “This is a machine that is designed solely for the purpose of electronicly creating any imaginable sound that the operator knows how to specify. And he must specify it in a kind of detail that has never been posssible or necessary before. For example a sound such as this.”
This is a short one, just a small realization.
Brian Eno, god amongst men, inventor of all...
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recollections, i left them on the floor, and ran...
This was a year of high hopes, personally, professionally and in playback for the stereo. Professionally I at least got a holding station to keep me going for a bit. Personally, well that’s a structure in a constant state of “work in progress,” though sadly I only managed a house of cards this year. And I don’t mean to bring this up as a complaint, though, upon looking at...