Category Archives: MusicMedia
60 of the Best Dance Tracks, Served in 6 Easy Shadowbox Portions
About 10 days ago, De Morgen, a Belgian (Dutch) newspaper, published the 60 best dance tracks of the last 10 years. 6 DJs and radio celebrities take their pick of what was good in the last 10 years. Unlike what you might expect, the lists where not littered with fluffy pop stuff. Most of it [...]
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Alcatraz’ the Bastardo EP, a Short Essay on Following Impulses
A lot of the stuff I buy is just an impulse decision. One afternoon, I decide I’d like a new music cd for the car. I go out and return with 5 cd’s, a few games and maybe a book. These days, I don’t do it all that often anymore, mostly because I simply don’t [...]
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Records for Sale, the Vinyl Keeps Bugging Me
A long time ago, I decided it was about time I got rid of all my vinyl records. I have a very modest collection containing mostly very high quality 12″ LPs. But my collection is just too small and my turntable too old that in practice, I hardly ever listen to them. It’s too bad, [...]
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5 Podcasts For Easier Commutes
These days, I find myself stuck in traffic a whole lot more than I used to. I have found that an easy way to relieve the stress this induces, is to listen to podcasts. There are many out there, but here’s a short list of my favorites:
This Week in Tech is the granddaddy of tech [...]
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Mixxx – Free Digital DJ Software
Once upon a time, I was really into beatmixing. I never felt like investing in turntables and huge unwieldy record collections, so I was an MP3 DJ. I used the very affordable and incredibly good AtomixMP3 program.
However, now that I wanted to pick up the MP3 DJing once again, I noticed that the program hasn’t [...]
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Audio Analysis and BPM Calculation in a Spreadsheet
Last week I showed the beginnings of my audio analysis program. This week it’s time to talk about the goals. My final goal is to do BPM calculation on various music sources. It should be fairly fast, but there’s no need for a realtime readout. I did some Google-ing, but couldn’t find any freely available [...]
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5 Free Audio Analysis Tools
Now that my previous project is finished, it’s time to start the next. In an entirely different direction, I will now tackle the field of audio analysis. My first step was to take a look at what’s already out there and I must admit, it was overwhelming. There are a lot of very specialized tools [...]
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Hacking Music APIs
Via the excellent ProgrammableWeb blog, I discovered Music Hack Day. Two days filled with information, workshops and hacking of music APIs. It must have been some interesting days, because the resulting hacks are all great.
Hacking and programming all night long. It reminds me of the demoparties I used to attend. Maybe we should hold another [...]
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Grammy Awards for the Long Tail
Last Sunday’s Grammy’s certainly have awarded some of the most popular artists. Coldplay, Daft Punk, Madonna and many others are certainly not bad artists, but don’t they get enough exposure anyway? What about all the little artists out there?
The long tail
There’s this theory out there, that the Internet will enable even the most unknown musician [...]
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The 2010 Streaming Radio Guide for Progressive Lovers