Tom Whitwell has announced that he’s pulling the plug on the Music Thing blog: Four years ago, I had a job editing laddish lifestyle magazines funded by the National Health Service. It was a great job, great people, and not very time-consuming. So, at work and at home I started writing Music Thing. To my… Read More Music Thing Calls it Quits
World Famous Audio Hacker will be releasing a different cut-up segment every other Monday throughout 2009. At the end of the year, each segment placed together with the others will form a full length listening experience combining the styles of cut-ups, remixes, mashups and remakes. You can preview the first mashup below: [display_podcast] via APC
Synthtopia’s traffic has grown tremendously in 2008, and one of the reasons is all the links and referrals from other great sites. If you’ve linked to us in the past, thanks! Here’s a special thanks, too, for the top 10 sites that sent traffic our way in 2008: theninhotline.net podcastingnews.com nav.440network.com metasonix.com blog.makezine.com createdigitalmusic.com twitter.com… Read More Thanks For The Links In 2008
Minimum Noise is a startup site that promises to bring the idea of “crowdsourcing” to music. The idea of crowdsourcing is that the more people you have access to, the better the results can be. Whether this is a valid concept or will work for music remains to be seen. In this day and age,… Read More Minimum Noise Brings “Crowdsourcing” To Music Production
Electronic music blog Califaudio is celebrating its 1 year birthday – so here’s our birthday present: If you haven’t checked Califaudio out yet, you’re missing out on a lot of interesting posts about things like musical instruments, recording equipment, sound gear, software + plug-ins, synths, sound effects, concert reviews, the music industry, circuit bending, diy and music visualizers. And you’re also missing out… Read More Happy Birthday, Califaudio
The creators of Mixxx – the free, open source DJ software – are looking for a community coordinator: Would you like volunteer with the project, but don’t know how to code? If so, we might have found the role for you – We are officially looking for a Mixxx Community Coordinator. As the Mixxx community… Read More Mixxx Looking For Community Coordinator
Sonoma Wire Works has released a free update for RiffWorks Standard recording software (Windows & Mac). With RiffWorks Standard you can record ideas, create complete songs with drums and effects, collaborate online with musicians around the world, post tunes to the RiffWorld.com online community and now export to any DAW for editing and mastering. Here’s… Read More RiffWorks Updated to Version 2.5
There’s a comprehensive list of 200 digital music startups from 2008 at Music:)ally. I was amazed at the fact that there were that many digital music startups, and almost as amazed that so many of them were so forgettable. The most forgettable may be Total Pop Star – an online talent contest where users uploaded their performance videos… Read More 200 Digital Music Startups of 2008
EMS Synthi fans may want to check out the new EMS Synthi forum.
A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I’m checking out SoundCloud – a new music sharing site specifically for musicians. It’s a site that lets you upload your tracks and then share them via websites, blogs, email, Digg, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. I wanted to learn a bit more about how it works and… Read More Music From Synthtopia Readers
