February 2012
8 posts
electronic music
i created these 3 tracks at home and on tour with the parlor mob. i have a lot more. i don’t know much about styles when it comes to electronic music and what the genres are called and such, so i don’t know what you’d call these or where they fit in. i just like them. none are mixed (really mixed anyway) and none are mastered. they’re not really “finished”...
Mellotron
this is a video of paul and I working on a new parlor mob song. you might be confused to see me holding the camera, and paul pressing play on the computer, and keyboard sounds coming out of the amp with nobody playing them. this is a process called reamping which I find to be a brilliant innovation in recording technology. basically, I previously played the keyboard track, we recorded what I...
rambling
fuck the ratings; i read this morning that the grammy’s smashed the previous record for social media discussion on an entertainment event. and the previous record was set just recently; it was the super bowl. beating the super bowl is a pretty big deal. so what does this mean? people still give a shit about music? turns out everyone loves adele (myself included), lots of people give...
Louis CK makes good points a lot
The Hierarchy of Power by Bob Lefsetz
Hierarchy Of Power
1. The Act
We’re returning to the classic rock era. Wherein the acts dictated to the labels as opposed to vice versa. But the story here now is there are no labels. Sure, there are a bunch of Top Forty acts that are essentially employees of the major labels, in everything but benefits (they’re independent contractors!), but that world now has a small fraction of the action and...
