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The forthcoming exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl at the Nasher Museum of Art explores the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art and the relationship of sound, artistry and vinyl through the works of 41 artists dating back to 1960.
The exhibition brings together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record’s transformative power, from the 1960s to the present.
This is the first video in the series Record Spins with Michael Cumella. Each month, Michael seeks out stories, exhibitions or speaks with collectors and shares these record-centric stories through these videos.
I need that Record! The Death (or possible survival) of the independent Record Store is a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade.
Greedy record labels, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, Ecommerce, shoddy stars pushed by big money, and the digital revolution all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores and the music industry at large. Will these stores die? Will they survive?
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The Vinyl Workout designed by Theo Watson is an interactive project that transforms your floor into a digital record player.
A giant record is projected on the floor and it can be played by running around its surface in the direction you want it to go. If you run slow the record plays slow, if you run fast the record goes fast and plays backwards or rewinds when you start moving on the opposite direction. Next version will have scratch mode.
The Vinyl Workout creates a playful environment, as you can create picture variations of a treadmill at your personal fitness center.
Watch the video.http://www.vimeo.com/3871236
I’m a bit late….. But yesterday april 9th 2010 it was exactly 150 years ago that the first sound was recorded. In this recording from you can clearly hear a man’s voice sing the French folk song Au Clair de la Lune.
This song was recorded by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. He was a French inventor who created the phonautograph, which made it possible to capture sound waves.
If you like Bollywood Soundtracks, Lollywood songs, primitive Turkish psych, Japanese choreography records, Welsh freak beats, drugsploitation operatics, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, and 60’s bubblegum folk visit the Finders Keeper site.
Finders Keepers, is new British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.
One of my favourite albums is Genclik ile elele by Mustafa Özkent. Listen to Lorke and Dolana, Dolana and play it loud! Continue reading ‘Turkish psychadelic funk’
For the past three years, Tommy T has been the bass player for gypsy punkband Gogol Bordello. Tommy T (Thomas T. Gobena) was born and raised in in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,. He has released his first solo album entitled The Prestor John Sessions on Easy Star Records. The music on this album range from Ethiopian music to funk, reggae and jazz.
The album is a collection of 11 songs including a remix featuring fellow Gogol Bordello band mates Eugene Hutz and Pedro Erazo and mixed by Michael Goldwasser of the Easy Star All-Stars. The record also features two collaborations with Gigi, one of the most popular modern Ethiopian singers.
Beyond Fasiladas
The Response – feat. Gigi
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