Topic: MUSIK - on July 26, 2016 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
How Prince's iconic symbol was designed
Prince's iconic symbol was originally designed by Martha Kurtz and Dale Hughes (based on an initial concept by Lizz Frey) for use in a 1992 music video and Hughes shared a bunch of the original files and thinking that went into its design.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 19, 2016 at 5:09:00 PM CEST
Björk’s virtual reality exhibition is coming to London
The European premiere of Björk Digital runs in London throughout September, and will include a live performance from the Icelandic artist at the Royal Albert Hall. Björk has been touring around the world throughout the year with Björk Digital, an exhibition of digital, video, and virtual reality collaborations made to coincide with her latest album Vulnicura. Today, the Icelandic artist has announced that she will be bringing the exhibition to the UK for its European premiere.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists
For fans of what came to be called “alternative music,” the discovery of new artists and bands felt like a genuine adventure before the internet irrevocably changed music consumption. A few official venues acted as guides—magazines like Trouser Press and NME, shows like 120 Minutes, MTV’s late-night showcase of post-punk, new wave, industrial, etc. Word of mouth, local zines, college radio, mixtape gifts, and the purloined contents of older brothers and sisters’ record collections went a long way. Many of us had access to independent record stores that stocked all sorts of underground oddities, often run by obsessive know-it-alls like High Fidelity’s Rob Gordon.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 7, 2016 at 4:10:00 PM CEST
The New Prince Online Museum Archives 16 of Prince’s Official Web Sites, Spanning 20 Years
In March of 2015, The Guardian published a piece on Prince’s vault, begun by his former sound engineer Susan Rogers before his Purple Rain superstardom: “It’s an actual bank vault, with a thick door,” she said, “in the basement of Paisley Park. When I left in 87, it was nearly full.” That was 30 years ago. Composer and Prince orchestrator Brent Fischer speculated that “over 70% of the music we’ve worked on for Prince is yet to come out.” Already able to release “in a decade what most musicians couldn’t put out in a lifetime,” Prince stored in his vaults enough to reveal him as thrice the prolific genius we knew in life.
Prince’s fantastic, groovetastic ‘Sign o’ the Times’ tour rehearsals
The career of Prince, whose life was sadly cut short at the age of 57 earlier this year in April, increasingly appears to be simply a series of breathtaking highlights. His 1987 album Sign o’ the Times, however, deserves to be singled out as something special—it’s arguably the most ambitious, diverse, coherent, and funkalicous statement of his entire career. Sign o’ the Times won best album in the 1987 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics’ poll—the only time Prince ever won that particular honor—and the title track from the album also won best single in the same poll.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 30, 2016 at 11:06:00 AM CEST
Read the DEA's Guide to Raves
Agency claims “Ravers have an enhanced sense of sight” and enjoy head rubs as much as sex. Last week, we wrote about the DEA’s files on Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, the so-called “grandfather of ecstasy.” Included in the report is the agency’s guide to rave culture circa 2001, cobbled together from a one-day seminar on the subject taught by the “extremely knowledgeable” Sgt. ██████ …
muckrock.com The DEA raided “the grandfather of ecstasy” over a “High Times” article
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 25, 2016 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Member Bernie Worrell Has Died
Bernie Worrell, the man behind the keyboard and one of the founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Friday at the age of 72 after a battle with lung cancer.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 23, 2016 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Portishead Releases Video for Their Stunning Cover of ABBA’s ‘SOS’ in Memory of Slain MP Jo Cox
The British band Portishead released a new music video for their cover of the classic ABBA song “SOS“, which was featured on the soundtrack for the 2015 film High Rise, and dedicated it to the memory of slain Member of Parliament (MP) Jo Cox.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 18, 2016 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
The History of Electronic Music, 1800-2015: Free Web Project Catalogues the Theremin, Fairlight & Other Instruments That Revolutionized Music
Hang around this site long enough and you’ll learn a thing or two about electronic music, whether it’s a very brief history of the Moog synthesizer, or the Theremin, or an enormous, obscure ancient ancestor, the Telharmonium. These mini-lessons are dwarfed, however, by the amount of information you’ll find on the site 120 Years of Electronic Music, wherein you can read about such strange creatures as the Choralcelo, the Staccatone, the Pianorad, Celluphone, Electronde, and Vibroexponator. Such oddities abound in the very long history of electronic musical instruments, which the site defines as “instruments that generate sounds from a purely electronic source rather than electro-mechanically or electro-acoustically.”
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 13, 2016 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
EMS Synthi A
SYNTHI-JS is an emulator of the legendary EMS Synthi A modular synthesizer, built in JavaScript on top of the Flocking library.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 9, 2016 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Miles Davis Septet - Live @Stadthalle Vienna Austria (3/11/73)
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 31, 2016 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Deutsches Gericht urteilt über „Sampling“ im Hip-Hop
Vor dem Urteil des deutschen Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Urheberschutz in Hip-Hop und Rap warnt der deutsche Bundesverband Musikindustrie vor einer Aufweichung branchenüblicher Standards. "Sollte durch die Entscheidung der Eindruck entstehen, „Kunstfreiheit sticht immer", könnte das Folgen haben, die über den konkreten Streit weit hinausreichen“, sagte Geschäftsführer Florian Drücke gegenüber der dpa in Karlsruhe. „Das wäre Wasser auf die Mühlen derer, die sagen, im Internet soll alles erlaubt sein.“
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 14, 2016 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Hear the Greatest Hits of Isao Tomita (RIP), the Father of Japanese Electronic Music
During his childhood in the Japan of the 1930s, Isao Tomita would have barely had the chance to hear Western music. But when the Second World War came to an end, the introduction of local U.S. Army broadcasts must have felt like the opening of a sonic floodgate: “I thought I was listening to music from outer space,” remembered the man that child grew up to become a respected composer as well as a pioneer of electronic music known for his cutting-edge, intergalactically-minded interpretations of the work of such Western predecessors as Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Gustav Holst.
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