This tune was inspired by the voice of Neil deGrasse Tyson. After deciding on a sample of his voice, the track was built ground up. The snipped was chosen from reflective piece by Dr Tyson, where he passionately spoke about the greatest of people being themselves, and not versions of someone else. The deep passion and space theme that comes to mind as soon as picturing Dr Tyson naturally pushed for the track to fit in the electronica genre.
Back in the day, sharing music online was a bitch.
WAVE format music files ripped from CD’s were huge and on dial-up modem connections, downloading a WAV format song could take days. If and when you managed to download a WAV format track, you’d have to take care not to let your music eat up all the space on your hard drive. In the stone age of computing, it didn’t take many songs to fill your drive to the brim. Thankfully Mp3 compression came along, where file size was drastically reduced through lossy data compression.
Continue readingAbleton has some great skins available and the added features of shifting hue values is nice, however, if you want to make your own skin, you’ll have to get your hands dirty with some RGB value manipulation. Lets have a look at how..
When this documentary first surfaced, it became an instant go to tool for explaining the remix process to curious folk’. Kirby does great in going into detail about not only the process of a ‘remix’ but also addressing ethical and moral implementations that come with the domain. To celebrate the five year anniversary, Kirby Ferguson polished up the original four parts and merged them into a single video. For the first time now, the whole series is available as a single video with proper transitions all the way through, unified styling, and remixed and remastered audio. Part One has been entirely rebuilt in HD.
Continue readingHave you ever wondered how birds stay in the sky.. how sunlight makes your body warm.. how.. vinyl.. is made?
The LP, the ‘long play record’, was first introduced all the way back in 1948. That’s 73 years ago in 2021, and here we are in the age of digital streaming, where vinyl has had a renewed popularity. Maybe it’s the touch, maybe it’s the experience of walking into a record store.. or putting the needle on the record.. whatever it is, vinyl enjoys roughly 6% of overall music sales!
So, have you ever wondered how vinyl records are made? Gotta Groove Records in Clevland Ohio answer this 2am question, check out the video below!
