Strangely enough, I can count among my earliest memories the buzzsaw-and-angry-hornets sound of computer games loading into our Atari 800 home computer from cassette tape. What I never knew, until today, was that real live vinyl records have been released containing program data. kempa.com provides an entertaining and exhaustive overview of this weirdness, […]
A band called Bront (or BRONT, I never really decided if it was all caps or not) almost existed once, back in 2003 or so, when Donny Pecano and I lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. We called the recently-constructed Slab Studios home, which was convenient for me since I lived 30 […]
From the recently re-launched plexifilm.com (an Ulf Magnetics, Inc. project), here is a fairly amazing example of one of the early uses of the Moog synthesizer: as a means of shilling Schaefer beer (among countless other products.) Jingle king Edd Kalehoff does some mean analog knob-twiddling, ivory-tickling, and boozing herein:
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Via Idolator, Scott Walker’s contribution to an upcoming 4AD compilation of songs thematically linked by the ten plagues. For those of you keeping track, said plagues would be: the Nile turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, disease of livestock, boils, hailstorms, locusts, darkness, and finally, the death of the firstborn. Looks like Scott […]