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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 07, 2013, 02:35:50 pm »

Listening to
Steinbrüchel-Home (slaapwel)
so dreamy ... my favorite from this great label

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: Lap Harps

« on: April 07, 2013, 02:22:38 pm »

Cold Gold Audio has never let me down: http://www.contactmicrophones.com

Ha! I actually ordered from this site 2 days ago, good to know that they are recommended. Can't wait 'til it arrives!

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: Lap Harps

« on: April 06, 2013, 06:30:57 am »

Thanks!
This looks like a really fun weekend project. Unfortunately, my soldering iron is 1000+ km removed from me, right now.

Do you have any suggestions for a place to order a nice contact mic?

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: Lap Harps

« on: March 30, 2013, 06:51:48 pm »

Recently bought a nice 2nd hand 49-string zither in Vienna! So fun to play.

Can anyone give me advice on how I would best go about trying to amplify it electronically?

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: July 04, 2011, 08:21:25 am »

listening to the free stream of the new eno on warp. all tracks seem to feature spoken word, and I think it's pretty nice, with some great tracks. I like this a lot more than the first one with jon hopkins!

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: May 03, 2011, 03:08:16 pm »

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 11, 2011, 01:49:03 pm »

Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek-Mort aux vaches (listening to the stream at 3voor12 "luisterpaal" )

and I just heard that all my cd orders (some made months ago) were cancelled, because the record store is closing  

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: So, what do you think of "The Wire" ?

« on: March 06, 2011, 07:57:03 am »

I think it is "so so", but I am lucky living in The Netherlands where we have Gonzo Circus (Belgian/Dutch magazine) which covers the same area's, but imho is much better.

Right on! Gonzo, the Wire & Ruis are the 3 magazines about music I enjoy reading

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: February 03, 2011, 03:57:14 pm »

marcus fischer-arctic/antarctic

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: stores

« on: January 28, 2011, 03:08:57 pm »

1st. jj records. parijsstraat 32, leuven, belgium. as i worked there, it's pretty logical for me to order everything through them. i think i get about 90% of my records here. they do have a good selection of indie cd & vinyl, some electronics (always the basic good stuff). some secondhand.

2nd. directly with the artist/label. if i can't get it at JJ records, i order always directly with the artist or the label.

obviously there's the awesome experimedia / norman / boomkat / aquarius / forced exposure etc from this world, but i actually don't end up there that much.

anyone else wants to share?

Wow! that's pretty crazy because this exactly the way I buy music too. Perhaps to be expected because I'm also from leuven.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: 2010 top-ten lists

« on: December 19, 2010, 01:57:16 pm »

as posted in some other places too:


top25  albums

1.pjusk-sval                                           
2.brian mcbride-the effective disconnect
3.rafael anton irisarri-the north bend   
4.happy birthday-happy birthday                 
5.the boats-sleepy insect music                   
6.jefre cantu-ledesma-love is a stream             
7.machinefabriek-daas                               
8.bvdub-the art of dying alone                     
9.solo andata-ritual                               
10.oval-o                                       

11.fabio orsi-winterreise                         
12.taylor deupree-shoals                           
13.chihei hatakeyama-a long journey               
14.lil' B-rain in england                       
15.deepchord-liumin&liumin reduced         
16.mount kimbie-crooks & lovers                   
17.michael santos-memory maker                 
18.black swan-in 8 movements                 
19.yellow swans-going places                 
20.murralin lane-our house is on the wall   
21.grasslung-sincere void                         
22.ariel pink's haunted graffiti-before today       
23.vhs head-trademark ribbons of gold             
24.pleq-my life begins today                     
25.fenn o'berg-in stereo 


 

new artist
1.happy birthday
2.black swan
3.monolith

label

1.12k
2.home normal
3.type


concert

1  chihei hatakeyama @ ateliers claus, brussel
2  akio suzuki @ STUK, leuven
3  nurse with wound @ STUK,leuven
4  ryoji ikeda & carsten nicolai@ BEMF, bozar, brussel
5  oneohtrix point never @ AB, brussel
6  machinefabriek @ BEMF, bozar, brussel
7  black to comm @ kavka, antwerpen
8  ATOM TM @ BEMF, bozar, brussel
9  autechre @ AB, brussel
10 isan @ cactus, brugge

 top 5 EP/short stuff
1.grouper-vessel
2.monolith-vol.1
3.oval-oh
4.robin guthrie-sunflower stories
5.demdike stare-the forest of evil

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: December 18, 2010, 08:02:55 am »

captain beefheart&his magic band-safe as milk

rip... 

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: 2010 top-ten lists

« on: December 06, 2010, 11:13:06 am »

- isbells "isbells"

Wow! isbells are from my city, Leuven,Belgium.

- the boats "sleepy insect music"
- solo andata "ritual"

I love those 2

I will update in detail later on when I have relistened everything, but I can already say I have greatly enjoyed:
happy birthday-happy birthday
bvdub-the art of dying alone
pjusk-sval
jefre-cantu ledesma-love is a stream
oval-o
black swan-black swan
brian mcbride-the effective disconnect

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: November 29, 2010, 03:36:02 pm »

Lil B - Rain in England
Imagine Angelo Badalementi woith a rapper... very strange but intruiging.

loving this too! i finally did the effort of checking it out after all the hype in the wire. and I can understand why people are now saying this guy may be the future of hiphop

also enjoying
happy birthday-happy birthday
vhs head-trademark ribbons of gold

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: CDs are dead (almost)

« on: November 18, 2010, 08:54:40 am »

Just thinking:

a CD is a material object, vinyl also. A label gets money selling physical media filled with music or transmiting digitally the music.

Then:

What are the material objects that kids value the most?
What if the record look and feel like those sexy things that kids like?
Would I buy a black monolith that plays music?
I would not buy it if only plays BEP all day, but what if only plays InsertYourFavoriteMusicHere?
How could I tune that forbidden channel X that only broadcasts once every 5 years?

Having a million hours of audio in you HD is cool... but it's not sexy. LedZep didn't sold their albums in white labels after all. Make it massive, but sexy & cheap or expensive, exclusive & classy.

I think ipods can play wav files...