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Monthly Archives: June 2005

Go To Bootie!

09-Jun-05

Bootie, San Francisco’s monthly mash-up bootleg party, is back this Saturday, June 11th! This month, local DJ superstar Mei-Lwun will be making a special guest appear on the decks. Recently featured in Time magazine’s “10 Songs Worth At Least 99 Cents” feature, Mui-Lwun will join Bootie regulars Party Ben, Adrian, Mysterious D, and Dada [...]

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Penguin Remixed

09-Jun-05

Penguin has gathered 30 of the best spoken word samples from major literary works and is making them available for your remixing pleasure.
(Thanks for the tip James!)

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D.I.Y. Mastering

09-Jun-05

Sound on Sound has a great article for D.I.Y. audioheads attempting to tackle the job of post-production mastering on their own. This is definitely the best article I have read on the subject.

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Music Business How-To

09-Jun-05

So you’ve finished up production on what’s going to be your big hit record, but haven’t a clue how to press or promote it? Check out the BBC’s guide to getting your music out there, which covers everything from pressing vinyl or CDs, using distributors, and promoting your releases.

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Compression 101

07-Jun-05

Learn the basics of compression from a real-life mastering engineer. Good stuff.

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FindSounds

06-Jun-05

Need to quickly track down a recording of a fart or burp?  It’s easy with FindSounds, a search engine designed with this sort of utility in mind.

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Blentwell

06-Jun-05

Blentwell is a cool site for social bookmarking of DJ mixes.  And yes, there’s a category for mash-up DJ mixes.

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Freelance Hellraiser, McCartney Go A-Mashing

03-Jun-05

Paul McCartney and Freelance Hellraiser are set to release a mash-up remix album.

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Sterile Burning

02-Jun-05

Sterile burning is Sony BMG’s latest crack at CD copy protection. In a nutshell, it’s an attempt to prevent anything beyond 2nd generation (or some other predetermined number) copies of CDs. The description in the article is pretty confusing:
Under the new solution, tracks ripped and burned from a copy-protected
disc are copied to a [...]

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Labels Open Their Vaults To Remixers

02-Jun-05

Music labels are starting to warm up to the remix treatment of their artist catalog — or so says this Reuters story. Now how do I get my hands on this stuff?

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