A few years ago Penguin Publishing in England held a contest to remix some of the spoken word recordings they owned. I had picked Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ and Ian Flemming’s ‘Casino Royale.’ The response from one of the judges was great. However I was not a citizen of the UK and therefore disqualified.
These are a few recordings my brother Bob converted from cassette tapes mad in the early ’80′s. He was living in New York City at the time and when he’d come home to visit we’d screw around in my DIY ‘recording studio’.
The ‘studio’ itself were things that I either found at flea markets, bought at [...]
‘Paul Rand’ (born ‘Peretz Rosenbaum’, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate Logotype designs, including the logos for IBM, United Parcel Service, Enron, Westinghouse Electric (1886), American Broadcasting Company, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He was one of the originators of the International Typographic Style of graphic design.
A bizarre clip featuring Jerry Lewis demonstrating an obscure keyboard from the ’60′s. Because the Chamberlin was known for it’s ‘universe’ of sounds, it seems fitting that the Nutty professor himself explores it’s possibilites.
“H to the Wizzo”
I really do love Wire. And I think Mr. Jay Z is talented. The similarities are far too numerous to list here. Making this mash-up was a sort of ‘response’ to Elastica stealing a riff from a Wire song.
Go-Go’s guitarist Jane Wiedlin wrote this with British musician Terry Hall, who was lead singer of The Specials. Says Wiedlin: “In 1980 we were playing at The Whiskey on Sunset Strip, and The Specials were in town from England, and they came to see us, and they really liked us and asked us if we would be their opening act on their tour. I met Terry Hall, the singer of The Specials, and ended up having kind of a romance.
Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental “Rumble”, by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for having, “invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist,” “and in doing so fathering,” or making possible, “punk and heavy rock”.
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