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Cookie Monster: Share it Maybe

uglymusic — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:56:29 -0400

Now you can have it embedded in your brain, too.

Interesting Covers

Jim — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:49:26 -0500

To kick off:

Rachelle Ferrell - You Send Me (First Instrument)
Bobby McFerrin - From Me To You (Spontaneous Inventions)
Patti Smith - Gimme Shelter (Twelve)
Pater Gabriel - Waterloo Sunset (Scratch My Back)
Paul Anka - Black Hole Sun (Rock Swings)

Major Minor

Alan — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:17:54 -0500

REM's losing my religion. Famously in a minor key.

Video: Mahavishnu Orchestra

uglymusic — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:02:02 -0500

I remember being completely blown away when I heard their early albums. The band had broken up by then, but I always wish I'd seen them.

How Music Makes Us Feel

Alan — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:51:22 -0500

Imagine - How Music Makes Us Feel, was on BBC tonight and can be found here, on iPlayer for another week. A wonderful programme, well worth viewing.

I'm not into country music but...

Docfoster — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:22:49 -0500

Firstly can I clarify that I am not into country music.

But...
...there are a couple of "country" musicians that I do enjoy. I figure (notice the country patois there) that as country music is so big in America that some great musicians must have been raised within the genre. (Post facto justification or what...?)
Johnny Cash obviously. Not all is stuff, OK, but the Folsom Prison era is quality.
But also there's one guy, Tom Russell that I like. His album 'Love and Fear' I find especially...haunting...? Bloody well recorded and produced as well (note hifi link there). There's some of country's corny honesty about life and love, but hey-ho. All in all a great album that continues to grow on me. There's a great song about a mexican being electrocuted on a pylon cable. Bizarre, but brilliant.

Cymande, the original line-up - new album, new gigs...?

Docfoster — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:46:16 -0400

Over the past couple of years I've managed to see live elements of my fav' band - Cymande.
Essentially the original drummer, Sam Kelly had managed to round up the original sax player, percussionist and one of the singers and, using musicians from Kelly's other bands had formed 'Cymande 2'. This semi-reunion band did a few gigs, playing old Cymande favourites Bra, The Message, Fug, etc.,... (if you don't know them, you may be familiar with parts of them as sampled by De La Soul, The Fugees, MC Solar, etc.,...).
At the Birmingham jazz festival a couple of years back, after listening to Cymande 2 I bumped into the charming Mr. Kelly at a burger van and got chatting to him. He spoke about his attempts to contact more of the original members and persuade them to come together for a full Cymande reunion. He hinted at some initial progress. (He really was incredibly friendly and humble. A genuinely nice guy.)
Well it seems as if Mr. Kelly has pulled it off...

http://cymande-online.com/2011/11/cymande-reunites-to-release-album-in-2012/

Apparently the live dates have been postponed to 2013, and I really hope they take place, and that Steve Scipio (one of my musical heroes) is there with his lyrical basslines. I suppose the band's average age was early 20s in their 1973 hey-day, so they're not getting any younger...
Anyway. I look forward to their new album with equal measures of excitement and terror (can it really meet my expectations...?).

I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass

uglymusic — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:55:23 -0400

http://thingjazz.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-you-baby-shakin-that-ass-ep">I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass (EP) by Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing with Joe McPhee

Magical Mystery Tour

Docfoster — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:22:54 -0400

Not sure how terrible this would be without the music.
With the music, it's bloody brilliant.
Well done to reith's boys for sticking it on.

Ryoichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, and maybe Keith Jarrett

Alan — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:39:23 -0400

I heard a very beautiful piece by Ryoichi Sakamoto today, the title track from his soundtrack to the film 'merry christmas, mr Lawrence', on an album called '1996'. It was quite lovely, with an oriental theme which put me in mind of Keith Jarretts performance in Koln.

I checked the radioparadise discussion boards, and it seems it is adapted from a piece by David Sylvian called 'forbidden colors', no mention of KJ.

I wondered if anyone has any recomendations to make in the same vein as these pieces? I am not familiar with David Sylvian, but I now feel I ought to be.

Cash in the attic

Docfoster — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:18:25 -0400

Now that I've ripped my CDs, and double backed up the rips (so that's 3 copies), is there a good reason not to sell them?

Recommendations...

Docfoster — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:51:48 -0400

Please can I have people's top 3 or so albums. I need to put together a birthday wish list quick smart for my bday in a week or so for my wife, mum and aunt.
No crazy jazz (dave), metal, punk or weird stuff. Otherwise, anything considered.
Thanks in advance for any musical gems...! :-)

Loudness wars coming to an end

uglymusic — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:17:03 -0400

We've talked about the sonic compromises inherent in making recordings 'for radio'.

Here's the case some things may be changing. Or do you have to buy vinyl to get a decent dynamic range from chart material?

New music bargains

uglymusic — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:40:14 -0400

There are some real box-set bargains around at the moment as record companies repackage their back catalogues.

I bought a 20-CD set of Miles Davis for about £10 or £12 a month or two back, and this evening I've been ripping a five-CD set of Ornette Coleman albums (The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This is Our Music, Free Jazz and Ornette!). That's most of Ornette's key early albums for a bit over a tenner.

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, or classic rock, soul or funk, have a rummage around on Amazon. There are some real bargains.

Why I've gone off Roy Orbison

uglymusic — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:40:50 -0400

http://www.dangerous-thinking.com/2012/07/14/why-ive-gone-off-roy-orbison/

Guilty pleasures

Docfoster — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:56:37 -0400

On my way home in the car today I was singing my heart out with the inspiral carpets 'weakness'. I also have a penchant for early 90s rave music (altern8 anyone...?).
Now these are neither audiophile tunes nor audiophile recordings. Very far from it- They have had every inch of hifi life compressed out of them. Yet still they are pieces of music that make me smile. Behind closed doors.
Anyone else have any similar guilty or shame laden musical pleasures...?

Pop loves

Docfoster — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:34:12 -0400

A bit of a twin thread to the 'Guilty Pleasures' thread this...

As grown up audiophiles, we've all developed our own musical interests, and have burrowed deep into the most extreme corners of those interests. In most cases this burrowing is for genuine personal musical pleasure, and many gems are uncovered. But also, it's almost a requirement of credibility amongst one's male peers to have, and to express having, a liking for something just a bit musically obscure.
To the question "So what do you listen to...?" you'd better be prepared with an answer better than just "Oh, pop music. You know, The Rolling Stones, Mariah Carey, Wham. Anything like that really". Better to have something up your (record) sleeve such as "Well, recently I've go into early Trinidadian roots / late Austrian Baroque choral music / East Estonian Bazooki / Blackpool organ recitals 1935-37".

But, I suspect deep down, many of us have a place for some good quality pop as well as that Eskimo seal bone percussion act live CD we picked up on ebay for a small fortune. I'm wondering which tracks are wheeled out by those posting here.
For me, my fav' pop acts are (no great surprises I'm afraid:
The Beatles
Abba
BeeGees

Line 'em up fellas...!

'Roses, 'Carpets, 'Mondays...

Docfoster — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:47:00 -0400

This discussion was created from comments split from: Boudica's boys v Caesar's signors ***spoiler***.

Second Hand Music Bargains

Alan — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:13:12 -0400

Share what you found here! Bargain = relative to how much you value it.

Songs I need in my collection

Alan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:02:34 -0500

Lets make this thread a communal one, it might be a good way to broaden some horizons!

What song/album dont you have but you know deep down you should have?

Or perhaps in spite of yourself and your audiophile sensibilities, an album you want but shouldn't?

Listening to the radio this morning, I am reminded again I do not possess Ian Dury & the Blockhead's 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'.

I have to fix this. What album is this on (and is this the best album)?

What about you? Doesn't have to be your usual stuff, might even be.....brace yourself.....a...pop album?!

Remember, there is no shame on AudioChews. Well, not once you're already here...

Friday's Later...

uglymusic — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:57:12 -0400

I've been getting less and less enamoured with Later over the past few series. The spark seemed to have gone.

I think some of the spark returned on Friday with a line-up of Jack White, Norah Jones, Alabama Shakes and the Chieftains who played with a couple of other acts, including an outfit called the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a black bluegrass outfit. Their singer and fiddle player... What a voice. I'm in love! :-)

Anyway if you've access to BBC iPlayer or you've Tivo'd it and haven't watched, give it a go and see if you think it's one of the best for a long while.

Interesting intro to John Zorn

uglymusic — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:57:52 -0400

The Guardian published this piece about John Zorn from a classical/composed perspective rather than the improv/jazz/downtown scene perspective I'm more familiar with.

Any money to be made owning a record store?

Monty — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:27:11 -0400

Does anyone know anyone who owns a small, local record store and doing well?

I think there's a real business opportunity for quality indie record stores if in the right location, with a good website and quality new & used stock. However, can one make a solid living out of it?

I have a real itch to invest some time and cash into a new venture, starting with a website. I can't afford to leave my current job but I can afford to spend some time building something. Starting small online to test the water and then employ someone to run a store if it feels right and could pay for itself.

I worked for a high street music retailer for 14 years so know the industry well. I understand the challenges, costs etc. When I walk into an indie, they seem to have massive stock problems which must be hurting cash-flow and they always seem pretty quiet.

Turnover of these smaller stores must be low. Do the owners make a comfortable living or are they just scraping by....

I'm really curious ;)

Video: Neneh Cherry & The Thing

uglymusic — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:21:44 -0400

Give it a listen. Unbe-blinkin'-lievable :-)

Do rock stars just dry up?

uglymusic — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:05:00 -0400

This discussion was created from comments split from: Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Hall & Oates and Stevie Ray Vaughan back catalogues.

Video: Van the Man

uglymusic — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:36:44 -0400

Listen to the Lion.

Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Hall & Oates and Stevie Ray Vaughan back catalogues

uglymusic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:46:44 -0400

There's a load of back catalogue stuff that's recently appeared on Spotti.

What you recommend we try from these artists?

Maybe this'll be my chance to get to terms with Dylan...

Joe Walsh

Jim — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:55:04 -0400

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/joe-walsh-analog-man-eagles-song_n_1370309.html

Worth a read.

Rare on air compilations

Docfoster — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:40:21 -0400

Anyone else familiar with these...?
I have the first 2.
Both are well recorded and wonderfully underproduced. Very musical performances from a good variety artists.
I recommend!

Video: Pete Seeger

Jim — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:52:31 -0400

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Dylan LP. To commemorate the event an Amnesty album has been released. This is the great Pete Seeger's contribution.

The children's' choir are marvelous IMV.

Video: Mahna mahna

uglymusic — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:44:34 -0500

Davy Jones RIP

Jim — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:51:42 -0500

I remember very well being a kid in Toronto and seeing the Monkees when it was first shown in 1966.

And now Davy has died!

A sad day indeed...

HD Tracks blocks sales outside USA by scanning IP adresses

Alan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:15:29 -0500

As above really. HDTracks have long had a policy of not selling outside the US of A due to royalty arrangements/licensing. It was easily circumvented by paying with Paypal, therefore avoiding the need to register a delivery address.

Now they scan your IP address as you browse the site, thus determining what country you're in. Try to add an album to your basket and a window politely turns you away.

If you're like me, you probably don't buy that much from them (and then only with a coupon!), so it's not too hard to live with this.

However, it has already been reported that there are ways to mask your IP address quite easily, a quick google reveals them. If your browser is Firefox there is a free add-on called anonymoX which allows you to configure a profile for individual sites which obscures your location by using a proxy. It is perfectly feasible to configure a profile with US IP address for use on a particular website that insists on a US IP address, for instance.

Just sayin'.
:-\"

Trying hard

Docfoster — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:39:31 -0500

Came across this today on my iPhone.
Recorded it with a friend a few months back (she just does the backing vox on this one). I was surprised how it sounded given I can't sing or play guitar...
I've forgotten how to embed the tune in the post, so the best I can do is this link...
http://www.4shared.com/embed/1139825132/6fba6e4f

It's a bit Sympathy for the Devil meets Bob-Dylan-lite. May be...
Alan, I'm interested in getting an integrity score from you on the lyrics!
Ben

Video: The Wind Speaker

uglymusic — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:33:44 -0500

Does the world need another musical instrument?

The Wind Speaker from Einar on Vimeo.

We don't like 'ambient'

uglymusic — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:24:40 -0500

This discussion was created from comments split from: Listening to ....

Video: Yellowman

uglymusic — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:56:34 -0500

This discussion was created from comments split from: Listening to ....

Video: The Girl from Ipanema

uglymusic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:04:06 -0500

Video: Fela Kuti and Africa 70

uglymusic — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:40:56 -0500

Hempsted Music Club

Docfoster — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:59:44 -0500

Had a really enjoyable Thursday last week hosting my local music club.
It's a monthly event to which members bring a selection of their favourite music and we all have a listen over drinks and nibbles.
It's very educational for me as all the other members are first and foremost 'classical' music fans, so I get to listen to things that I have never heard of before, let alone listened to.
Also, hardly anyone there has any interest in hifi at all (though they do notice that my system sounds 'a bit better' than the 1987 AIWA system last month), so it doen't get too anal. :-w
All very civilised. Very pleasant...!

Living Room Songs

uglymusic — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:37:23 -0500

An interesting concept from Icelandic musician Olafur Arnalds.

Something else mentioned on AudioStream.

Is this a surprise? Spotify and similar reduce music purchases

uglymusic — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:04:20 -0500

A recent report says that streaming services such as Spotify reduce music purchases. Not much of a surprise, in itself.

Is that such a bad thing? Is it such a problem?

Pete Townshend rooted in the past?

uglymusic — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:47:45 -0500

Did anyone else read Townshend's John Peel Lecture?

I'm not sure if he's proposing to tackle today's challenges with yesterday's thinking.

Video: Tom Waits - Satisfied

uglymusic — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:15:55 -0500

Video: Cassandra Wilson - Redemption Song

uglymusic — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:44:39 -0500

This performance almost had me in tears.

Jools

Alan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:59:04 -0400

Quite good tonight, didn't see anything really useless.

Kasabian aren't as dull as I remember, and Wilco Johnson stole the show with two blockheads. What a super three piece!

Wretch 32 (completely new to me) were quite interesting also.

A couple of 24-bit FLACs

uglymusic — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:23:37 -0500

Radiohead and Biffy Clyro on http://www.7digital.com/cms/flac/flac.aspx

New project (TRY AGAIN - TAKE 3!!!)

Docfoster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:25:21 -0400

[Last go this - have just worked out I can embed the mp3 in the post! :-) ]

Looking for some honest thoughts here.

After a few false starts, I've recently got going with a new musical endeavor...

Just me and a female singer/guitarist. We've worked together in

other bands before, but recently decided to go it alone as a duo, with

me usually doing bass or percussion.

We're trying out some new original stuff, and have only had 2

sessions, but (I think) things are going well. Check out the mp3 below

for one of our tunes (please excuse some of may failing to keep pace

with chord changes - as I say, it's only been a couple of weeks...).

Let me know what you think.

(It was recorded in mono using just an iphone, and I stuck a touch

of reverb on using Audacity, before converting it to mp3, so hifi it is

not.)

(Just press play...)

Let me know what you think.

At 4pm today...

Docfoster — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:02:07 -0400

...I will buy an album from Amazon.
Please tell me which it should be
(Please me, don't try to educate me, so nothing pants please! ;-) ).

Video: John Zorn and assorted weirdos - watch it and see!

uglymusic — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:09:55 -0400

Fantastic!

Beyond the groove

uglymusic — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:03:08 -0400

Deutsche Grammaphon (sic) and ECM have opened their catalogues to the techno DJ - to bewitchingly beautiful and psychedelically absurd effect.

http://www.signandsight.com/features/2155.html

I haven't heard re:ECM or any of the other recent remix albums mentioned in this article, but I'm struggling to see much fresh here. Bill Laswell's Panthalassa remixes of Miles Davis' electric material and the re:Brahim remixes of Abdullah Ibrahim, at least, come to mind as much older albums in the same kind of area.

Or am I missing something?

JuJu on video

uglymusic — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:16:17 -0400

Just found this on YouTube:

No Hip-Hop or Country posts?

uglymusic — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:59:23 -0500

I was just thinking... Aren't they the biggest selling styles of music in the world?

What was the last music you bought?

uglymusic — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:41:25 -0400

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Dawn

Abdullah Ibrahim - Capetown Flowers

Henri Texier - Respect

Very good

Docfoster — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:26:58 -0400

Managed to grab a few moments with the system. Ella and Louis Again.
Extremely extremely good. In every way.
Why don't they make musicians, songs, recordings or people like this anymore? Who's to blame? On whom can we march?
Celebrate the great.
More wine Jeeves...!

Record Collection For Sale - Jazz Funk! Nice.........

Alan — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:34:45 -0400

Another thread pinched from PFM today - a link to a funny ebay listing for an ex-brother in laws record collection....I think you can guess where this is going!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/290570522953?ru=http://shop.ebay.com.au:80/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=290570522953&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_fvi=1&_rdc=1#ht_2243wt_1179

I wouldn't usually link to this as it contains some swearing - view it at your own risk - but the description of Jazz-Funk fans is worth reading! Apparently it has been viewed 11 thousand times in the first 24 hours.

Eurovision

Docfoster — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:12:08 -0400

I thought a good show tonight.
In a pop context, most songs were good.
On HD it looked pleasing and sound did the job.
My personal favourite: Moldova.
Now the voting!

Kate Walsh - Peppermint Radio

Uzinusa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:26:53 -0500

Just wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying this album. In her spiel, she says how she's tried to avoid doing covers as a youngster, but as she's grown in confidence she realises that these great songs can be done without any loss of cred etc. I enjoy every track, but am a sucker for tracks like "A Little Respect", I liked the Wheatus version too. Hope someone finds pleasure in this.

Surprise and delight

Docfoster — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:14:02 -0400

Me and the family took a walk in the spring sunshine yesterday, and I was treated to a real sonic surprise...

Not too far from where we live is Gloucester docks. Moored just outside the main basin is the Light ship 'Sula'. It's recently opened as a centre for alternative medicine, remedies, treatments (e.g. aromatherapy), etc.,... Not at all my sort of thing, but it is my wife's, and we thought the kids would like the ship, so we went aboard.

The ship and its businesses are owned and run by a Dutch couple, who turned out to be extremenly friendly and took me and the family on a tour of the Sula. The ship has been wonderfully refurbished with a shop, several treatment rooms and a training room (for meditation classes, tai-chi, etc.,...) and had a lovely atmostphere throughout. The highlight for me was our introduction to some 'Tibetan singing bowls'. Traditionally these are metalic bowls of various sizes (up to that of salad bowl), played simply by gently striking the bowl with a padded beater and then running the beater around the outside of the bowl to sustain the resonance. Each somehow produces a wide range of warm frequecies, many of which seem to be impossibly low for the size of the bowl.

However the singing bowl show was stollen by the modern variety of larger singing bowls, made of some technological magic with silicon and lasers. The sounds that these produced were gobsmacking. Amazingly loud (in the photo my 4 year old son is raising his hands to cover his ears), but in a comforting, deep and throbby sort of a way. The Dutch guy got several different sizes going at once and the harmonies that they created was remarkably moving.
They're not cheap (£250 - £450) but I want one!

I must see if I can find any recordings of these things as they would provide a stiff test for any hifi!

Albums we shouldn't be without

uglymusic — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:41:51 -0500

What are your recommendations for must-have music of 2010, irrespective of genre?

B&W Society of Sound

uglymusic — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:29:40 -0500

Should I buy a subscription?

Sad Songs

Jim — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:38:50 -0500

Even a Fool Would Let Go. Written by Dolly Parton. I've got a version by Gregson & Collister

She's Your lover Now - Written by Dylan

Alexandra Leaving - Written by Leonard Cohen

Sara - Written by Dylan

Album titles and sleeve art

Jim — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:37:11 -0500

A thread for strange/weird/unusual/funny titles and artwork.

A few that make me laugh:

Pasture of Muppets by Your Mother

Aliens Ate My Buick by Thomas Dolby

The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire by Mclusky

Live music. Overrated.

Docfoster — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:19:18 -0500

Here I refer to non-orchestral music.
Oh, and I mean live perfromances of more than one or two instruments are overrated compared to well recorded and reproduced ones.
I will grant that the show/event/excitement aspect of seeing a live gig is absent on recordings, but in terms of sound quality give me good studio microphones, production and good domestic Hifi any day.
Ben

Comedy tracks

Jim — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:34:22 -0500

The Peter Sellers tracks mentioned in the covers thread made me realise how many funny songs I like. I've made a new Spottify playlist for comedy tracks. I've added what is probably my favourite.

Comedy

Have a listen and add some more.

Recommend some live recordings

Jim — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:02:10 -0500

To kick off

Cannonball Adderley - Live at the It Club
Bob Dylan - Budokan
Christy Moore - At The Point Live

Gary Moore R.I.P.

Jamiel — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:55:59 -0500

Gary Moore has died age 58, still trying to find more details.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862

Sad, he really didn't seem that old at all.

What is the Blues?

Jim — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:26:20 -0500

I'll start by saying I don't really know. I know what it isn't or rather I know who doesn't play the Blues.

Does it matter? Not sure about that either!

I know who I like, and I think they'd all be considered Blues by most people.

Big Bill Broonzy
Elmore James
Son House
John Lee Hooker
Freddie King
Buddie Guy

Loads more I like, that's just to get the discussion going. Who does the Blues and why is it the Blues, and not Rock or Jazz or Country or Folk?

John Zorn

uglymusic — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:21:52 -0500

He released 12 albums in 2010.

Are there any other John Zorn fans here? How do you work out which are the real nuggets, the ones that are worth your money?

Have you enjoyed music by Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, John Denver, Rickie Lee Jones, Johnny Winter?

uglymusic — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:14:13 -0500

Roger Nichols, engineer for all the above and more is very ill with cancer. Perhaps if you've enjoyed his work you'd like to make a donation to enable him to get the treatment he needs.

More information on Mix Online.

Last of the bass line hunters

Docfoster — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:31:16 -0500

As a follow up to a recent thread on bassists, I was wondering whether people had favourite bass lines or riffs.
I'm talking here about funky or catchy or articulate or deep or just plain pleasing riffs (ie 1 or 2 bars) of bassiness as opposed to consumate bass performances or solos.
I could list many, but will start with this one...

DJ Food – Dark Lady