David Hilowitz found a vintage Panasonic Do-Re-Mi on eBay and restored it. He sampled it and offers up the sample for free.
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35 PostsFrom 1980-2005, Larry Katz, a reporter for the Boston Herald, interviewed music's biggest stars and recorded their conversations onto cassette tapes.
His collection has been sitting untouched and unheard for decades...until now.
Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Bowie, Miles Davis... Here's a 20 min video "trailer":
Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.
From WBEZ: Chicago's Hidden Indie Rock Archive by Monica Eng.
The companion CD / playlist to my previous Here post. Also from 2003, you can read the original post — A Way of Doing — for details on how it came to be and get its name.
Here's the artwork (rotated 90 degrees to be legible) and playlist so you can recreate it yourself. Youtube playlist is beneath the jump for members.
A member asked me what Alien Tomato is. I used to be a web designer (1994 - 2006) and that was the name of my company.
In 2003, I had a miserable job at a miserable company called Butterfield & Robinson. There were some wonderful people there but the bosses' bosses were useless and I hated it. I lasted 13 months and — after doing a bunch of copy editing that I wasn't paid for — I quit and went back to being a freelance web designer.
Part of the culture at B&R was to have a "Daily Huddle" where the entire company would gather and discuss the previous day's business, as well as what was in the pike. The huddle was run by a different person every day and the company made a big deal out an employee's first huddle, which would come six months into your employment. You had to make it special. Most people did this with catering or special guests. I did it with music.
For my first huddle, I made two mixed CDs, which I called A Way of Doing and A Way of Being Done. I had a friend do the artwork and I made about 75 copies of each and gave them away at the huddle. The friend recently sent me the artwork and I've recreated the playlist for the first disc on Youtube. I'll post disc two in the future. If you're a member of A Tiny Bell, you can listen by playing the video below.
I'll also explain the CD titles and write a bit about my first day at the company, which was awesome and involved lunch with Sidney Pollack and stories about Stanley Kubrick.
I Have That On Vinyl is "a place for people to share their passion for vinyl records, music, and have discussions about both." Pretty self explanatory.
Caught my eye because of Poetry, Lyricism, and David Berman: a Mourner's Chronicle.
Rewind is an Android and iOS app that allows you to explore music by year. You pick a year and it takes you to the year's highlights where you can sample tracks. At the bottom of each track are buttons to jump to music services where the track is available (Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube Music). I don't subscribe to any of those services, but when I clicked the Youtube Music icon, it just took me to the track on Youtube, which I could then play in full without payment.
For instance, I chose 1968, and was presented with these tracks, among many, many others:
It'll also show you the top 100 songs of the year and you can click on them to preview and then jump to it in the apps.
Pretty neat.
If you're a musician, you should probably watch this video from Benn Jordan. It's only 3 minutes long.
If you want to get into the weeds on this, here's Jordan talking with Top Music Attorney about what's legally going on here. It's an hour forty and I've time-jumped it to skip their opening intros.
I've never been a Radiohead fan, but I do quite like Marissa Nadler. Her cover of No Surprises is lovely (as are all of her covers) and this fan-made video by Kai-Duc Luong for the track perfectly captures the mood of the song:
If that mood agrees with you, you'll also dig Yelena Yemchuk's video for The Dove and the Wolf's Springtime.
And as to Radiohead covers, here's a stunning one of Creep by an Indian man and his mother:
If you enjoyed the Nadler and want more, my favorites are Ghosts & Lovers and Thinking of You.
ROVR describes itself as Radio Reinvented:
It's live right now, or you can comb through the Archive.
There's also an app for iPhone or Android.
What I've heard so far has been top-notch.
