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Hectic Zeniths – 2011 Album Review

26/10/2011

Hectic Zeniths are playing a dangerous game. It’s hard to describe the sound that pervades these tracks without recalling two very famous albums, the very mention of which is likely to...

Fabrics Remix Competition

22/10/2011

The remix competition, it's been around as a concept for quite a while now. Occasionally resulting in some significant new directions for dance. The remix competition, it's been around...

Make Better Music 62: Working Out Your Musical Muscles

11/10/2011

Of course, if you are writing a song every day, it’s unlikely that you are going to be churning out a double album of SOLID GOLD CLASSICS each months, but on the flip side, it will do you a lot of...

Nils Frahm – Felt

10/10/2011

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

Removal of restrictions decreases music piracy

08/10/2011

New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels. Researchers are still mulling over what, at least to most people, is a dead...

Make Better Music 61: The Music Diet

05/10/2011

Every few months I feel like I need this kind of diet for my ears - I’ve either been over-indulging in one particular artist or genre, or I’ve been gluttonous and chowing down way too much of...

Make Better Music 60: Automation and the Human Form

27/09/2011

On the plus side, a new generation (one that has grown up with remarkably powerful music tech tools) will do things with music software that are incredible, ground breaking, ear-catching and mind...

Make Better Music 59: It’s not what you put in, it’s what you get out

20/09/2011

One of the joys of music is that it always has something to say that’s worth listening to, even in tracks that you have heard a hundred times. There’s a richness and enough ambiguity of...

Make Better Music 58: Go Where the Barriers Are

13/09/2011

The idea is simple - things that are easy to do can be done by more people than things that are hard. You want to make your music available as a “self release” via a service like bandcamp? Go for...

Make Better Music 57: Counterpoint

30/08/2011

I regard writing fine counterpoint as a bit of a lost art. In some ways it’s largely redundant in todays music, where single ideas right up front are generally king. This is not any kind of rant...

Make Better Music 56: Celebrating the Old

23/08/2011

I wonder how it feels to be making music after fifty or even sixty active years. Some people have gone on even longer - Elliot Carter is about to turn 103 and is still an active composer - what can...

David Lynch threatens to release whole album

19/08/2011

Visionary filmmaker David Lynch will make his solo debut as a musical artist this fall with Crazy Clown Time. With his previous efforts being rather shaky it's a wonder what this latest grouping...

Make Better Music 55: Back to Basics

16/08/2011

Imbue your music with your passion. If you don’t have a passion for making music, then leave it to those who do. Fill your music to the brim with all the emotion, drive, energy, love, enthusiasm...

Make Better Music 54: Exile On Mickey Street

09/08/2011

Another interesting realisation, specific to time spent in a Disneyland Resort, is that it is hard to feel anything but happy when the air is constantly filled with ragtime, pumped out into the...

Make Better Music 53: The Software Trap

26/07/2011

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter a slightly wild couple of days defending myself from various opinions on last weeks article, I’ve decided to go over what I...

Noel Gallagher’s new Video available here

25/07/2011

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Release First Single "The Death of You and Me" 21st August. “My manager asked me who the High Flying Birds are. They aren’t anyone...

Make Better Music 52: Practice vs. The Software Trap

19/07/2011

It occurred to me the other day, after I’d picked up my guitar for the first time in a while, and for the first time in my life my skills had noticeably diminished. I’ve not played much for a...

John Cale: UK Performance

15/07/2011

JOHN CALE Signs to Double Six Releases EP of new material on September 19th We are very proud to announce that John Cale has signed to Domino imprint, Double Six. Extra Playful, a five...

Make Better Music 51: Twenty Better Music Tips

13/07/2011

Your music is what it isn't. What it lacks will define it. Don't forget why you are writing it, don't get side-tracked by writing or recording it - you are making an experience for the listener....

Make Better Music 50: What Would Jesus Do?

05/07/2011

Make Better Music 50: What Would Jesus Do?. One of the beautiful things about music is that sounds don't lie - they are what they are. This means that when you hear a piece of music that you adore,...

Patrolling the Edges of Panic Town

01/07/2011

An academic navigates the great and small encounters of Ex-Pat life in Nigeria. Yesterday, I loaned my car to Joy and Julius. She said it was her birthday, and it seemed like a good idea at the...

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New

28/06/2011

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Morta Skuld – Through the Eyes of Death – The Early Demos

26/06/2011

Morta Skuld's demos are a time capsule to a musical history which never happened. Difficult though it is for filesharing apologists to countenance, the pre-Napster period of the 1990s was a...

The Loneliness of a Long Distance Academy

24/06/2011

The university is open, and the experience has been, somewhat predictably, a mixture of the shambolic, the absurd, the vaguely promising and the outright perplexing. We have a programme for the...

Anna Calvi releases ‘Desire’ Video

23/06/2011

Desire – new video for single released this week Performs 5 tracks ‘Live From Abbey Road’ on Channel 4 tonight Anna Calvi is excited to present...

Into the Unknown: Jamie XX – Far Nearer

23/06/2011

I tried to avoid it again this month, the semi big name, the rising star that everyone’s watching, but sometimes the masses are right. There’s been rumblings that he’s ripping off...

Make Better Music 48: Putting Out – Production

21/06/2011

Make Better Music 48: Putting Out - Production. Getting people together to work on something as a group is forever getting harder, whilst making music via the computer (where so many of us spend so...

Somewhere Somehow We Repair – Body Studio

10/06/2011

Mary George's group exhibition in a fully functioning gym juxtaposes the static with the kinetic, the delicate with the strong, the physically aspirational with the spiritually contemplative. At...

Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues

08/06/2011

Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

SubMachena – Sta Luego Dub

07/06/2011

Dub maybe a niche concern but SubMachena give us enough to warrant a fresh look at the genre. Robin Taylor-Firth and Rawle Bruce may be better known as Olive (See You’re Not Alone) when they...

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