Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Name of the Game Is Lightworks

A few quick bangers to illustrate evo-lution of sounds.  Dilla samples synth pioneer Raymond Scott’s Lightwork’s and is then remixed by FlyLo.  Ya’ll know.

Raymond Scott- Lightworks 1955:
In the original sample, the synthesizers, sequencers, and drum-machines used were designed and constructed by Raymond Scott.  Scott would often describe the project as “More than a think factory [...]

Snow Ghost Studios

Pitchfork.tv just dropped a nice studio visit to Whitefish, Montana’s Snow Ghost Studios, a jewel of inovative music production tucked away in the beautiful hills behind Whitefish Lake.  Here, engineer Brett Allen transformed a resort cabin into a self-contained analog and digital studio.  With the effect of a smart house, the house features include XLR [...]

Takeshi Murata’s Glitch Pixel Technique

Kanye’s new video gives me a headache… and I don’t really enjoy it.  But it got me thinking about whose technique he ripped off this time and what its trying to do.  This led me to video artist Takeshi Murata and the process he created (out of RISD) of devolving video compression to the point [...]

Low End Theory Podcast #1

Legendary LA beat haven the Low End Theory released their first installment of a monthly podcast featuring its most notorious producers and DJs.  This month features (you guessed it), Alpha Pup’s Daddy Kev and the dude of the last post SAMIYAM.  Stream it below or visit here to download.  Also check an old (and epic) [...]

Nike x Alife Airforce 1

This is a clean colab.  Not exactly Alife but rather the classy “Harvard Club of sneaker boutiques” called Alife Rivington Club.  In a self-proclaimed union of two New York classic, they team up with Nike to release a special version low-top version of the Uptown. The classic white leather upper features an embossed all-over pattern [...]