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Download: Go Go Go Go! – Drugs and Boys
Given that you can set your own levels with recorded music, the idea of a loud recording is a pretty difficult thing to produce. There are a few things you can do to create the sense that a recording is louder than ‘the competition’, but they usually involve destroying what you have created. I think ...
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Australian Legends Stamps Albums Countdown
As promised, a countdown of classic Australian albums as important as any other that has been or will be written: Top 5 Australian Albums to be put onto a stamp this year. Number 5: Men at Work Business as Usual It was a tough call to chose last place in the list, but ultimately it’s ...
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Get in the Ring (Tone)
Reading through a breakdown of where money is being made across the record industry by Ben Shepherd for Business Spectator earlier in the week and, while it may be interesting to see that earnings are up for recorded music, the most interesting fun fact could be this: Labels are making more money from those that ...
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Stamp of approval
Forget the (yawn) AMP list. The real test of big deal-ness is out! Which Australian music legends have qualified for the Australian Music Legends stamp set? No matter which albums are being sent about to the various big wigs and no wigs for judging, the true test will be what albums will be stuck in ...
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Robert Forster’s Music Jamboree Playlist: 29/11/12
Although it’s not available via wireless (AM radio) in Victoria, I have managed to keep up with Richard Fidler’s Conversations program via wireless (internet router) over the past couple of years. Quality is highly dependent on guests but there are some golden yarns. For those with a musical bent I can recommend chats with Mark Evans (Original bass player ...
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All new ‘scientific’ study: Metal = Dope Music
Both of these maps scrolled past my eyes at various times this week before the big time light bulb moment. But, if 2 maps from various unknown sources are anything to go by, I think I may have finally proven that 1 plus 1 may actually equal what everyone had thought all along: Is there a PhD ...
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Download: A Fallen Year – Take to the Skies
Instrumental music is clearly underrepresented in popular music. Mostly, you would assume, because the idea of the golden, vocal hook has become such a selling point and one of the keys to mainstream success. So it’s surprising that those artists that would never claim to be about mainstream commercial radio airplay (even if it was open to them) ...
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A night at the opera
It has been incredibly difficult (impossible) for the bloke on the street to find out about the Ring Cycle that is to be performed in Melbourne next year. You would, in fact, have to assume that the man on the street is not supposed to go. I mean, I read the news and am interested ...
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Review – Raceless – The Internal Meddler
Curse Ov Dialect is one of the great Australian artistic ideas to come along in my lifetime. Such a perfect match to take hip hop’s cultural collage and apply it to multicultural Australia. Not only is it the perfect forum for expressing the issues of modern Australia through rhyme and sample, but it also offers up the world’s ancient ...
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Download: Bou Saada – Itchy Trigger Finger
The traditional meaning of bedroom recording is now pretty much lost, given what this can actually mean for people willing to spend the cash. You could just term it lo-fi, I suppose, but there is something in the approach of bedroom engineered albums that is also linked to the mindset of pushing beyond technological barriers. ...