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 Johnny sang opera for the summer session for several months before I saw him again. It was unlike him not to call, but I assumed he must have been busy listening to Fink.
Fink had come into my possession a few weeks earlier during an expedition west to the Untamed Lands. A scrawled cover and Ntone label told me instantly-- give this one to Johnny, he'll come through...
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Pablo Moses - Pave the Way + Dubs |
 Pave the Way was the third of three albums that Pablo Moses recorded at Dynamic Studio with producer Geoffrey Chung. Originally released on LP in 1980, it soon fell off the marketplace radar and has remained out of print for 25 years. Enter Young Tree Records, which teamed up with the respected Washington, DC producer and engineer Jim Fox to bring the album back to light...
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Mindtrap - Northern Rooms |
 Mindtrap are a scandanavian collaborative who produce the kind of music that is normally associated with sunsets many miles further south than it's origin suggests...the album opens up with the promising "smooth". An appropriate title with its swooning baselines, beautiful acoustic guitar and rhodes. The formula continues throughout the album with standout tracks including the blissed out "Before Dawn" and the beautiful "So Simple"...
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Testing Vinyl CDs: Groovy Up Top, Optical Down Below |
 The idea for last week's Listening Post column, which examined the strange demand for vinyl records in the digital age, was inspired to a small extent by Optimal Media Production's vinyl/CD hybrid, which is just like a normal CD except that on the top, it has vinyl grooves etched in. Place a VinylDisc on your turntable, drop the needle at the start of the track, and you'll hear up to 3.5 minutes of music at 33 RPM. |
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Co-ed Magazine claims to have label sources stating that Facebook is set to announce phase 1 of a major expansion into music at next week's ad:tech conference in NYC. The move would confirm rumors we reported three weeks ago and coincide with public moves that Facebook has made recently. |
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 I'd been hearing about this hot new producer, Flying Lotus-- instrumental hip-hop guy, crafter of "Adult Swim" bumper music, John Coltrane's godson's internist's third cousin or something-- and it's true; he's good. Knows his way around a sequencer, cobbles crazy sounds into beats that only crazy people could possibly rap over (so, basically just MF Doom), has a moniker that looks ill stenciled on a crate...
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