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Pretty interesting issue of Tape Op this month, including an interview with Scott Solter. I found it quite inspiring that he encourages weird and offbeat approaches to recording. From the interview:

Central to understanding Scott is understanding the difference between rules and parameters. Parameters form an artistic architecture that gives a project shape [...]

Phantom Channel is a new (and promising) ambient netlabel. I’ve been listening to their first compilation and it’s surprisingly great. Well sequenced and equal parts ambience and noise, it definitely takes you on a journey. Featuring Engine7, Parhelion, Adam Trainer, and Mosca.
In the words of the netlabel: “Part 1 features nine predominantly [...]

A video from My Bloody Valentine’s reunion tour. I really don’t have much to say about this, other than wow:

This is the song that blew my brain open when I first started listening to Loveless. One reviewer compared it to getting hugged by a friendly group of bees…a description I still find apt.
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I have had a few people lately ask me about wanting to start cello. I thought I’d post some faqs that people have been asking.
Why Cello?
I fell in love with the sound of the Cello in college after hearing a performance of the 2nd Bach Suite - the cello had a sound that was [...]

A buddy of mine (adcBicycle) asked me to do a remix for him a while ago. Basically, he’d finished an album and didn’t like the results, so he asked several of his friends to remix his work.
Now he’s put all the remixes back together as a compilation album and it’s great! [...]

Absolutely amazing performance of an Olivier Messiaen piece, arranged for Ondes Martenot and Strings from “Fête des Belles Eaux”. Haunting and lovely.

Yesterday I turned 32. It’s been two years since I’ve started to learn the Cello, following this insanely burning urge that I’ve had since I was in college. After years of telling myself it was too late to start such a hard instrument, I finally took the plunge. I think it’s worth taking [...]