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Curtis Electromusic Specialities (CEM) is a company based by Doug Curtis in 1979 specifically to design and manufacture integrated circuits for music synthesizers. Patrick Cowley’s hello-vitality Sylvester productions of the early 80s present the roots of black music’s fascination with continental electronics. The direct descendents of that sound are the deep home records made in Chicago -a crossbred of gospel influenced vocals and hard synthesiser trax. Detroit goes on step further.

The House Music Undertaking explores technological shifts that pushed black music into the electronic age. Chronologically, home music is the idiom that follows disco. Disco, the black music of financial uplift, racial assimilation, and “good instances,” gave way to two major strands of digital music – home and hip hop. Hip hop voiced the trials of living young and oppressed via breakdancing, graffiti, emceeing and djing. Home music centered on the aesthetics of sonic pleasure by way of the … Read More

Warehouses across Melbourne between the late 80s and early 00s were home to pop-up raves, techno music and other people dancing the “Melbourne Shuffle”. As DJs, our units are only pretty much as good as the music we choose. Whereas we’re slowly getting in on the streaming bandwagon thanks to apps like djay and Pacemaker, giving us access to tens of millions of songs to DJ with without having to personal” them still appears far off in the mean time. As Beatport continues to be the digital music mega mall that it’s, the writing on the wall seems to point to a future the place the concept of a free legal music download” will be relegated to the annals of web history, particularly with the convenience of monetising your individual music on iTunes and Spotify through a 3rd party service like Tunecore.

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Artists House Music is a non-revenue web site which exists to educate the musician and entreprenuer in the music trade. Joey Negro was one of the first house producers who aimed to go beyond sampling to supply music that came as close as possible to disco’s authentic values. His remix of this monitor by Kevin Saunderson is an effective instance. There is numerous cautious attention to element in the way in which it achieves its anthemic euphoria—just hearken to these Syndrum pew-pew-pews”. He’s since proved himself to be a reliable ambassador for disco, which he’s remained ever since.

I’ve absolutely no real interest in reaching out only to the insiders and the individuals who already know digital music — on the contrary,” Mr. Winter said in an interview in his storefront workplace in the 18th Arrondissement, a type of considered catastrophe of Pop Art reproductions, action figures, workplace supplies, vinyls … Read More

Our Mission is to additional early childhood improvement and autism intervention by means of unbelievable, affordable and fun sensory-friendly exhibits and concerts. This yr’s festival happened at White Horse Black Mountain , a popular music venue in the Asheville suburb of Black Mountain, on the afternoons and evenings of May 6 and 7. Friday afternoon began with a historical past lesson from the Bob Moog Foundation’s Marc Doty, who spoke about underrated instrument designer Harald Bode. Because the day stretched on, every of a dozen acts had half an hour to make their finest impressions on the audience. Highlights of the evening included Paul Harriman, who makes the trek annually from the U.K. to carry out his environmental soundscapes on the Eiganharp Alpha, and Syracuse-based synthesist Robert Dorschel, whose laid-back grooves mix impressive ability, humor, and showmanship.

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