Roger Linn is a musician and industrial designer that has helped shaped the evolution of electronic music for the last 35 years. He created the modern drum machine in the 70’s with the LM-1 Drum Computer. In the 80’s, he created the Akai MPC, which helped define hip hop and other genres. More recently, he’s… Read More What Would You Ask Roger Linn?
CBS’s ‘In The News’ had a memorable electronic ‘signature theme’, built around a (then) futuristic sequence. … Read More CBS’s In the News Theme
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Musikmesse 2014 kicks off today, March 12 and runs through March 15. Musikmesse, in Frankfurt am Main, is a European trade fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and marketing. It’s the European counterpart to the Winter NAMM Show – and organizers call it “the foremost meeting place for the musical-instrument industry”.
At Musikmesse 2014, Line 6 today introduced AMPLIFi FX100, an iOS enabled, ‘cloud-enhanced’ multi-effects pedal. It lets users wirelessly control every detail of the effect. The AMPLIFi Remote iOS app lets users control the pedal from an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch*. With the Remote app, there’s no need to navigate through tiny screens and complex… Read More Line 6 Intros Amplifi FX100 iOS-enabled WiFi Effects Pedal
Organizers of the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit – a three-day festival held in Asheville, NC – have announced that plans for a 2014 festival have been cancelled and that the festival has been put on hold. Organizers of the 2013 event note that ‘the success necessary to sustain the venture has eluded us.” This… Read More Mountain Oasis Festival Cancelled
Reader Alex Oxley lets us know about a Kraftwerk ‘pre-party’, celebrating the band’s upcoming residency in LA. Oxley notes that “Next Friday (March 14th) I am hosting an unofficial pre-party ahead of Kraftwerk’s LA residency.” Here are the details:
A new report from media consultant MIDiA offers some ‘tough love’ for musicians hoping to make money. In the The Death of the Long Tail: The Superstar Music Economy, they’ve found that the 1% of musicians make 77% of the money:
Oblique is a Max For Live device that puts a little Eno into Ableton Live. Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is originally a deck of printed cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative… Read More Max For Live Oblique Strategies Puts A Little Eno Into Ableton Live
The Wall Street Journal reports that Guitar Center may soon have new owners: Ares Management LLC, which owns the majority of the music retailer’s debt, is in advanced discussions with Guitar Center owner Bain Capital to take over the company. Guitar Center has about $1.6 billion in debt, much of it stemming from Bain’s $2.1… Read More Guitar Center, Under Crushing Debt, May Get New Owners
