Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 18 Maria Hinze is a German graphic artist who combines drawing / painting and large scale works. She’s did the cover artwork for Apparat’s Walls album. Her work is amazing. I am not sure if her work is done by hand or it is computer aided. Check it out at...

Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 16 Remember the days before the digital music revolution? Life was a lot easier back then for most aspiring musicians. The goal was very simple: create a great demo and send it out in the hopes that some record label would sign you. Most well known artists got signed one way or another via a direct or indirect demo submission. The demo method worked for artists ranging from historic...

Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 12 Hugo over at everydaylistening.com posted this interesting article praising music service website soundcloud.com. I also noticed more and more artists are using this service. Last night, while trying to play one of the artists sets featured in soundcloud i noticed my CPU cores were maxxing out at 99%. So, i closed everything, rebooted my computer and made sure i was only running...

Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 11 The creators of the documentary movie RiP: A Remix Manifesto are giving everyone a choice to paste themselves in a picture frame of Times Square that will be a part of the NYC movie screening on Jun 19th in Tribeca. I decided to do something a little more interesting than pasting my own mug in the frame, and put the album cover of our first release in the Times Square pic. I think...

Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 11 I’ve read a lot about Autechre using Swedish music hardware company Elektron‘s Machinedrum samplers when playing live.. but i never really had a chance to check out the units playing in real time.. Well, i found this awesome video that gives you a good idea of what you can do with the unit.. The learning curve looks steep, but it may be worth the effort! If you can see...