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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Featured artist/label at Relaxed Machinery Community
« on: February 09, 2011, 02:25:04 pm »
Ultimae Records is this weeks feature...
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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: What is the oldest piece of software-hardware you use?
« on: January 31, 2011, 04:31:43 pm »
I was using a 1999 era pc (all scsi - with one of the first 24bit 8 in / 8 out cards Aardvark Aark24 - still have the Aark24 in storage - it doesn't play well with any o/s above win98...) - until around 2006 when it died it's last death. Was using Sonic Foundry Vegas 2.0 and Fruity Loops 3.0 and good old Rebirth pretty much the whole time. I'm a once it works - no need to change much person...
but it all died. :-(
Now - I have an iMac running Logic. And some NI stuff. I'm really more of a 'hardware' person.
I have my Korg DSS-1 which I bought in 1988 and probably built in 1987 - I just put that in storage. I have a Sequential Prophet 600 and a Roland Juno 106 - both early/mid 1980's.
My primary bass is a G&L L1000 - probably early 80's era. My second bass is a Gibson Grabber - from the 1970's. Also have a Fender fretless jazz... but it's early 2000's era and a pretty much brand new Jaguar guitar.
I have a Gretsch solid body electric that I think is 1959... but it's beat up banged up used and abused pawn shop fodder. It's likely to get sold at some point. Something I almost never do.
My synthesizers.com analog modular is newly built (around 2005) - but is based on much older synth designs...
Effects - I have a Korg SDD-1200 dual digital dleay from around '97/'88 ish - I've owned it that long also.
but it all died. :-(
Now - I have an iMac running Logic. And some NI stuff. I'm really more of a 'hardware' person.
I have my Korg DSS-1 which I bought in 1988 and probably built in 1987 - I just put that in storage. I have a Sequential Prophet 600 and a Roland Juno 106 - both early/mid 1980's.
My primary bass is a G&L L1000 - probably early 80's era. My second bass is a Gibson Grabber - from the 1970's. Also have a Fender fretless jazz... but it's early 2000's era and a pretty much brand new Jaguar guitar.
I have a Gretsch solid body electric that I think is 1959... but it's beat up banged up used and abused pawn shop fodder. It's likely to get sold at some point. Something I almost never do.
My synthesizers.com analog modular is newly built (around 2005) - but is based on much older synth designs...
Effects - I have a Korg SDD-1200 dual digital dleay from around '97/'88 ish - I've owned it that long also.
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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Featured artist/label at Relaxed Machinery Community
« on: January 31, 2011, 03:32:25 pm »
The featured label of the week is Dark Winter and Endless Ascent - both owned by Nathan Larson (who used to be co-owner of Green House Music).
Check out these ambient labels (Dark Winter being a tad on the umm... dark side...) at http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com
Thanks!
John
Check out these ambient labels (Dark Winter being a tad on the umm... dark side...) at http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com
Thanks!
John
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SELF PROMOTION / Featured artist/label at Relaxed Machinery Community
« on: January 24, 2011, 11:33:30 am »This isn't really "self promotion"... I run a (mostly) ambient community over at http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com - I generally do a "member of the day" (MOTD) (or every other day) and a featured site or label every week.
Today the MOTD is Stephen Philips - who owns Dark Duck Music - the Drone Download Project - and hosts Kite Radio on StillStream.com. He's released about 15 billion albums under a number of aliases.
The featured site / label this week is Rain Netlabel - excellent ambient. Last week was ad21music.com - the home of Max Corbacho, Bruno Sanfilippo and Ran Kirlian.
http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com
John
p.s. I also am owner / artist of the Relaxed Machinery label ( http://relaxedmachinery.com ) - the community above is multiple labels and sites - not just Relaxed Machinery.
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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?
« on: January 24, 2011, 10:50:26 am »
I saw "Shutter Island" yesterday so I'm back on a Max Richter kick... "blue notebooks" and "songs from before" spinning this morning. He puts so much emotion into his music.
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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Re: strymon timeline
« on: January 19, 2011, 04:42:13 pm »
I'm not sure I'm happy I read this thread... I'm already in guitar pedal gear lust mode as it is.
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12K + LINE / Re: Shuttle358 - Optimal.LP
« on: January 19, 2011, 04:34:19 pm »
optimal.lp is one of my all time favorites - one of those albums that I just connected with and never unconnected.
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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: if 12k weren't to exist as a label...
« on: January 19, 2011, 03:19:44 pm »
Certainly don't close down shop due to file trading / pirating. There's virtually no way to stop it - the people that want the music for free are going to find it. I would suspect most artists realize this and don't fault 12k in any way.
Staying afloat due to financial reasons, dwindling sales to support the label, etc... that's a related issue, but slightly different - or rather a larger issue.
Sales of music seems to be declining simply due to the myriad of options out there for entertainment. I don't know how many "new" fans are flowing in vs. older fans slowing down on purchasing. Of my eight nieces and nephews... I don't know where they'll end up as music fans... but none of them have physical collections of music of any size like I did and my friends back in the 80's.
Personally - I used to only buy cd and vinyl... and then (only) 2 years ago I got an ipod classic - and now it's been probably a year and a half since I bought a cd or cdr. I buy music on files now... and I was generally a "hold out" among friends that already had switched to mp3 or flac.
It's an ever changing world.
Staying afloat due to financial reasons, dwindling sales to support the label, etc... that's a related issue, but slightly different - or rather a larger issue.
Sales of music seems to be declining simply due to the myriad of options out there for entertainment. I don't know how many "new" fans are flowing in vs. older fans slowing down on purchasing. Of my eight nieces and nephews... I don't know where they'll end up as music fans... but none of them have physical collections of music of any size like I did and my friends back in the 80's.
Personally - I used to only buy cd and vinyl... and then (only) 2 years ago I got an ipod classic - and now it's been probably a year and a half since I bought a cd or cdr. I buy music on files now... and I was generally a "hold out" among friends that already had switched to mp3 or flac.
It's an ever changing world.
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