Hard News: Friday Music: Buying Cool
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Maybe they'll create low-latency wireless DJ headphones. I don't think these exist, but I once looked at how you could (basically, use hardware for the whole data path).
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Tech stock purchases always send pundits into an entrail reading frenzy where so-and-so's paying moonbeams for such-and-such signals a move into whatever-the-fuck so they can corner the market in people annoying each other with stupid pictures or something. But Beats - crappy headphones or no - is a real business. With, like, turnover. Over a billion a year. They make stuff and it sells for money. How they can hold their heads up in Silicon Valley I have no idea.
(Speaking of headphones, I've just discovered Grado. They make you look like a radio ham and they leak like Edward Snowden so don't bother leaving the house, but they're amazing. Serious hi fi for $160. You will hear things you didn't hear before.)
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15 years for Arch Hill. Smart work, that man Ben. Inspirational.
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Doprah playing for the Herald’s Sundae Sessions at Roundhead Studios
Was a great little session. Hugh hopping around on crutches was a lot more comedic than it possibly should have been.
Dedicated to his craft, that man.
Have a number of other photos, which will post when work out where to put them.
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Ar Chills...
The Chills play a rare Auckland gig at Juice Bar in Parnell
not to mention Chchch at ch-ch-ch-Churchills
in Sydenham this Sunday, June 1st
and Dunedin Re Fuel Friday 6th -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...and they leak like Edward Snowden
<applause...>
Award that man the
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Award that man the
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Russell Brown, in reply to
15 years for Arch Hill. Smart work, that man Ben. Inspirational.
He's a good man.
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Let's have a moment of silence for The Corner, the rather good New Zealand music blog that's closing after a quality five years. The Corner did a lot of good things, including the annual Awesome Feeling series. It's sad The Corner is closing, but in a way it's better to go out on top than to suffer a decline like the beloved NZmusic.com did a decade prior. #boohoo
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I also see that the Jordan Luck Band play the Speights Ale House in Ferrymead on Saturday night
meanwhile through the hole in the hill
there’s Barry Saunders with Lindon Puffin and Matt Langley at The Wunderbar Lyttelton
could be a night in a million… -
And across town on the same night (I’m telling myself I can do both), The Chills play a rare Auckland gig at Juice Bar in Parnell (the old Windsor Castle).
As Ian pointed out, playing in Chch too. In one of my rare forays to the north in the 80s, I recall seeing the Chills at the 'old Windsor Castle' in May 1985. It must have been May 10 going by the amount of YouTube footage from that night. Here, they perform one of my all time live favs, Juicy Creaming Soda
Support was by the Alpaca Brothers, here with Hey Man
The YouTube credits show the recordings were by 'Bob Sutton on a Panasonic video camera'. I haven't heard of Bob but no doubt other readers have? It was a great night, all for the price of $6 or thereabouts.
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Went to Matthew Bannister's The Changing Same last night at Biddy Mulligan's. Pretty damn good. Less so was the brattish preceding act Pink Batts. Their songs were mercifully short--one voice from the crowd called out "can you play anything longer than 30 seconds?"
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Instead of music it will be a bunch of documentaries this weekend for me...
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Sacha, in reply to
seeing the Ebert doco?
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I was glad to see a few people out for Race Banyon this morning at Alleluya. It's been my near-daily morning port of call for about 3 months (after a job move to K Rd), so I've seen the last 3 or 4 bFM Breakfast Clubs. When you subtract the bFM staffers and the artists themselves, there's not many folk dragging their sorry asses out of bed to see some great live music. Eli Driftwood last month was fantastic.
(I was going to pop over and say hi Russell, but I was technically having a meeting. Next time!).
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
'fer sure ... and Take Me To the River. Music + film--the very best combination.
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... human-curated music discovery service
Hey they could have saved a couple of billion and bought this blog! I mean seriously, are Jimmy Iovine's ears worth that much?
Thanks though RB for coming out to see the other RB this morning - and we'll get that rider sorted ASAP...
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Hi Russell, thanks for mentioning my doco. That wasnt the first public screening tho - it was broadcast on Max TV and Triangle TV in 1996, and also screened at the Wellington Fringe Film Festival that year. So, lets say first public screening this century
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Buying cool…. cheep!
a sorbet for the twitter generation
solace to the senses,birds
by condensations*
pay as you like:single microphone environmental recordings, condensed.
Six pieces draw from three single microphone recordings:
* A bellbird at dusk in Gore Bay, 30” recording, 7pm 30-09-13
* Water birds on the Estuary at dawn, one hour recording, Kibblewhite Street, South Brighton, 5-6am, 22 -09-13.
* Backyard at dawn, one hour recording, Oram Ave, New Brighton, 5-6am, 31-12-13.
Each recording has been sliced, compiled and played concurrently into pieces of four minutes and thirty seconds duration with minimal editing, technical intervention or processing.I love these …
great in the car – soothing, calming…
while you are working, on repeat…forget Morning Report’s paltry Bird of the Day
have a whole Morning Chorus!.
condensed…if the birds are singing
things are going well
relax…no canopy panoply cacocophony these …
- condensations of avian communications
notes, a full bush orchestra…
That Bellbird is working it out…a slice of slices
space and allaural companions to the visual condensations
Looking South
(be sure to full screen these, dim the lights, turn up the sound, lose yourself, briefly...)
I reckon ya have to be careful not to wander off into those dunes, they’re very relaxing, white noise…and the darker Looking North
*Condensations is a division of Blair Parkes
other divisions include the forthcoming Range LP Henry Rivers and Saturationsdo check out some of the art while you are on site.
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Sacha, in reply to
dragging their sorry asses out of bed
not sad to be still snoozing and toasty, I'll wager
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Sacha, in reply to
low-latency wireless DJ headphones
got em. AptX bluetooth codec is the trick. Probably other options on the way. And Apple would be well-placed to use their short-range bluetooth expertise along those lines.
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Sacha, in reply to
I've just discovered Grado. They make you look like a radio ham
Verily, a mate swears by em. Well old-fashioned.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Sssshh!
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Sssshh!
Everyone will want one.Give 'em enough trope...
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No played at the NZ showcase at SXSW last year. Brad Carter's previous LA band, Pistol Youth, scored around $70k of NZOA funding.
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I love these …
great in the car – soothing, calming…
while you are working, on repeat…
forget Morning Report’s paltry Bird of the DayTalking books in the car, Bill Bryson, brief history of almost everything, rinse repeat until second nature.....
Then put on some music that sounds like.......my new Adobe Meta 4.0 predictive analogy generator
Then vote Internet Party...
I feel the '60s coming back....
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