Another great article today from Word Magazine on the state of making records and all the issues involved, from sound quality to making hits. This article was written by Tom Whitwell who also maintains the awesome Music Thing blog.
Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine
“Why does most music sound the same these days? Because record companies are scared, they don’t want to take risks, and they’re doing the best they can to generate mainstream radio hits. That is their job, after all. And as the skies continue to darken over the poor benighted business of selling music, labels are going to cling to what they know more fiercely than ever.”
(Via Music Thing.)
Picture of Jack Joseph Puig in his studio.
So what happens when you send $6 million on a home cinema?
This happens….
Full article here.
(via Audio Video Interiors)
Things I would expect from this home cinema:
- for all men to instantly show me a deep and lasting respect
- at least a 3 to 5 inch extension in both length and girth
- to have my pick of the women and,
- get instantly rigid
- go the distance
- go repeatedly
- to make lightning bolts come out of my finger tips and have a god-like presence where ever I go
- to both be able to both see and hear individual sperm in porno cum-shots
- to know more about music & cinema than any other living human
- to know more about hi-fi, audio and electronics than anyone within 3.5 light-years of the solar system
- to hear some “killer, phat” bass
- for The Carpenters Greatest Hits to sound pretty good, particularly “Calling Occupants…”
- for a constant stream of male audiophiles to be paying me a visit
- for a constant stream of male audiophiles to be using my bathroom in an inappropriate manner
- for other men to speak of me in hushed tones when they see my stride purposefully round the floor at any hi-fi trade show
- to ensure that each individual viewing of “An Inconvenient Truth” burns more CO2 than it took to make the film itself.
- to put on a film like Transformers and initially be overwhelmed, then kinda bored and finally depressed at how most of the films I’m watching are really pretty shithouse.
- to budget into the room costing an allowance for therapy for reassurance that, what with the state of the world and all, it’s still okay to drop $6 million on a home cinema.
and the ones that are good really don’t need any of this gear.
- to find enlightenment watching the death/dream sequence at the end of Kubrick’s 2001
I’m sure there are more things within the reach of this home cinema but, you know, I have a life to get back to. If you want more however – check out the guy with the biggest home subs I’ve ever seen. Considering the subs plus the various shades of brown in this guys room, the word anal has new, um.. resonance? The design of the site itself is enough to tell you that this guys sense of taste up and left when he bought that 1st copy of Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl when he was 13.
Oakland DJ Amplive did a bunch of re-mixes in tribute to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” album.
He put them up on the net for free.
He received a cease and desist order from Warner Bros. lawyers.
He put a video on YouTube explaining himself and asking to meet the band and play them the re-mixes.
He did.
Amplive’s remix album of In Rainbows is once again available for free download, this time with the band’s blessing. Get the Rainydayz remix album here.
Great work Radiohead – keep it up.
