A great feature on Luke Collison, aka Dsico, appears in the Daily Trojan, the University of Southern California’s student newspaper. Dsico thinks trance and house music sucks, in particular anything released as a Ministry of Sound DJ mix CD:
Dsico’s inspiration for putting the Spasticated records release “Ministry of S—” (now the subject of some legal [...]
Ok, obviously this Grey Album thing has captured the attention of the media — big time. I love reading something like this in a major publication, though:
As news of EMI’s demand spilled online this week, music-industry and intellectual-property activists went ballistic. It’s a sign of everything that’s wrong in the American copyright system, they contend. [...]
Check out Cybersocket’s article on “the bastard pop revolution.” Not a bad overview of who’s who in the scene and how those mashers pull it all off.
IDC, an extremely talented producer with a number of notable bootlegs under his belt, was gracious enough to take time out of his busy schedule to participate in a Q&A session with beatmixed.com. Read on for the full interview with David, a.k.a. IDC.
CreativeSynth not only hosts a number of tutorials for Reaktor and Absynth, but also how-to’s and instructional texts on Ableton Live. For those getting started with remixing and/or mash-ups in Ableton, give the loops and the arranger view tutorial a read.
I recently started a mix CD project in Ableton, fumbled with it for about [...]
Mysterious D wrote in to remind beatmixed and its lovely readers that Dsico, that no-talent hack, will be performing at San Francisco’s Bootie tomorrow night — that’s Wednesday, February 11th, 2004, for those who were wondering what tomorrow I’m talking about. So watch American Idol and then head off to Bootie, folks.
The Boston Globe is running a piece on DJ Danger Mouse’s mash-up Grey Album.
In what has to be the most intriguing hip-hop album in recent memory, Danger Mouse, a DJ and producer, has married a cappella tracks from rapper Jay-Z’s 2003 CD, “The Black Album,” to musical beats and phrases found on the Beatles’ 1968 [...]
Wired is running a feature on Apple’s new music-recording software, GarageBand. Apparently the software is gaining quite a following, with user groups forming on social networking services like orkut and Tribe.net. There’s also a great link to the Creativity/Machine blog that examines some of the limitations of the software that the amateur production crowd is [...]
Beatmaka has a great three part tutorial on how to mix a pop song from scratch. Part one, two, and three are available in both HTML and PDF versions.
This month’s San Francisco Bay Guardian is dedicated to everyone’s favorite digital music device, the iPod. The cover story, What-why-where Pod, ponders what the “next big thing” will be after all the iPod induced dust settles. Another great iPod feature in this issue is Annalee Newitz’s Music Pirates’ Manifesto. BTW, Annalee is a great Bay [...]