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Falcon 9 liftoff #SpaceX (at Port Canaveral, Flordia)

Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:29:59 -0400

Falcon 9 liftoff #SpaceX (at Port Canaveral, Flordia)

A Brief History of the DJ Mixer

Thu, 07 May 2015 23:11:39 -0400

A Brief History of the DJ Mixer:

Nice writeup by one of the first guys to give me a break.

R Is For Roland

Thu, 07 May 2015 11:52:19 -0400

R Is For Roland:

This looks pretty cool. May 11th. More hardware about hardware. Thanks.

‘This Beat Is Mine’ by Vicky D is my new jam.

Tue, 05 May 2015 12:06:00 -0400

‘This Beat Is Mine’ by Vicky D is my new jam.

Roland TR64. What a move. Classic. Courtesy of Marc Houle....

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:30:35 -0400

Roland TR64. What a move. Classic. Courtesy of Marc Houle. Created by Dave Houle and Lyle@ Roland Canada

Quite a nice piece of work.

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:25:34 -0400

Quite a nice piece of work.

Your Version of 'Needing to Music Shop Every Week'

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:02:01 -0500

Your Version of 'Needing to Music Shop Every Week':

reillybrennan:

In this Resident Advisor interview, my old friend Ryan Elliott talks about how he went from working in finance in Ford Motor Company and not knowing how to DJ to eventually…becoming a resident at what is likely the best techno club in the world, the Berghain in Berlin. Quite a ramp up.

I…

Rashad Becker RBMA Tokyo 2014 Lecture

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:54:44 -0500

Rashad Becker RBMA Tokyo 2014 Lecture:

Quality time with a go-to mastering engineering for adventurous electronic music.

ghostlystore: You may not know his name, but chances are you’ve...

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:46:58 -0400

ghostlystore:

You may not know his name, but chances are you’ve seen his work. Robert Beatty is the artist behind those drippy, trippy, technicolour sleeves donning your favorite albums by Oneohtrix Point Never, Peaking Lights, Rainbow Arabia, Real Estate, and countless others. Multi-talented as he is, Beatty also makes music under the moniker Three Legged Race (among a number of collaborative projects), and works with various forms of sound and video art. Anyone with a taste for leftfield pop and fringe-friendly experimental music would be quick to identify his patently psychedelic aesthetic—a look that’s one part Salvador Dalí, one part Tom Wesselmann, one part Garbage Pail Kids, and one part vintage paperback covers, yet is entirely Beatty’s own.

Suffice it to say that Ghostly has admired what Beatty does for some time now, and we’ve been itching for a chance to work with the inimitable artist. That opportunity came recently, when we commissioned him to design the sleeve for Lord RAJA’s A Constant Moth LP (out December 2), which he crafted in fantastically retro-futuristic fashion. But we still wanted more from Beatty, so we took some time to ask the Lexington, Kentucky native a handful of questions. He shared a bit about his background in art and music, how everyday “trash” informs his work, and what he looks for in his personal favorite album covers.

How did you initially get started doing album artwork and design?

I’ve always had an interest in design from doing stuff for bands I was in in high school. Half the time I was making covers for records that didn’t even exist. I really got into it when my band Hair Police started putting out records in the early 2000s. We had no idea what we were doing, and had to figure everything out on our own. Even though the art was always a very collaborative process, I ended up by default being the one that put the album artwork together. Eventually, I was making album covers for my friends and then it just grew from there.

Most of what you do seems inspired by sci-fi/fantasy, 70s psychedelia, and altered states of consciousness. Is there anything that informs your work that people might not expect?

I see art as a way to process anything and everything that I experience, so there’s a lot of stuff that goes into it that no one would ever see. I really love mundane stuff like spam emails, product packaging, junk mail—things that seep in in a subconscious way. Just this trash you can’t avoid that constantly surrounds you in your daily life in the modern world. Every day, a bunch of garbage I don’t want gets shoved through a hole in my door, so I try to make the best of it. Nature is also a constant inspiration. I’m always taking pictures of weird mushrooms or broken branches or strange insects when I take my dogs on walks that make their way back into my art in some way.

What are a few of your personal favorite album covers, and why?

I always have a hard time answering this question, but I tend to gravitate towards things that are hand drawn and somewhat crude, or have a rough edge to them. The one I always go back to is Isadore Seltzer’s cover to Bruce Haack’s Electric Lucifer LP. I could stare at that for hours, and probably have. Other ones I love are the self-titled Almendra record, Gilberto Gil’s 1968 record, The Velvet Underground’s Loaded, The Pretty Things’ S.F. Sorrow, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s self-titled LP. So many others, but that’s what comes off the top of my head.

Do you see many connections between your artwork and your music?

I’d like to think they exist in the same world, but I do so much that it’d be insane to worry about it too much, especially when so much of what I do is commissioned to be representative of someone else’s music. It seems weird for me to say that a music video I made for my own music makes sense next to a record cover I made for an indie rock band I’ve never met, but I’m sure they’re not that far apart in the grand scheme of things. I’m definitely putting more thought into the art for my own music so it stands apart from all the work I do for other people. Or I just do the things I want to do that other people don’t want on their records.

Would you say you are more interested in evolving or refining your personal aesthetic, and how do you hope to accomplish that?

I’m always working to get better at what I do and to try new things as much as possible, but I’m very conscious of reigning things in so it doesn’t get to be too polished. It’s tough when people are referencing album covers I made like five or six years ago, and it’s the exact opposite of what I want to be doing. But it’s always nice to be able to figure out new ways to do things I’ve done before or push them into some new area. I’m definitely already a few steps ahead of myself as far as what I want to be doing, but hopefully, I’ll be able to accomplish the things I want to do. I’m working on a few very exciting projects at the moment that will see the light of day next year and are breaking some new territory for me, but that’s all I’ll really say right now.

Quite proud of my little sister. First fashion show. #putinwerk

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:28:21 -0400

Quite proud of my little sister. First fashion show. #putinwerk

Quite excited to be kicking off our new night, Put In Werk with...

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:52:47 -0500

Quite excited to be kicking off our new night, Put In Werk with Patricia tomorrow night in NYC.

No cover!

https://www.facebook.com/events/246176678893714/

This Wednesday I’ll be playing with my friend Heathered...

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:18:01 -0500

This Wednesday I’ll be playing with my friend Heathered Pearls and the excellent Patricia from Opal Tapes and new White Material artist Alvin Aronson. This will be the first installment of the Put In Werk series at Panther Room in Brooklyn.

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/246176678893714/
Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/499615

Ghostly staffer and drip.fm co-founder Miguel Senquiz drops a...

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:18:31 -0500

Ghostly staffer and drip.fm co-founder Miguel Senquiz drops a set of late night / early morning cuts for smoky, sweaty dance floors.

follow him @htmiguel
Artwork by Will Calcutt

TRACKLIST
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1. Kyle Hall // Untitled // Wild Oats
2. Theo Parrish // I Can Take It // Sound Signature
3. Point G // Underwater // Apallonia
4. Jorge Zamacona // Effort #3 // Mosaic
5. Galcher Lustwerk // Tape 22 // White Material
6. Kyle Hall // Crushed // Wild Oats
7. Young Male // Depraved Thought in a Depraved Time // White Material
8. Lapien // Indifference // Soul People Music
9. Marcellis // A1 // Workshop 16
10. Prince of Denmark // Cut 02 // Forum
11. Mr. Tophat & Art Alphie // Marlboro Light (GW Remix) // Karlovack
12. Smallpeople // And You And You // Smallville
13. Hector // Haunted // Tsuba
14. Deetroit // Feeels // Uknown Deetroit
15. [Ø] Phase // The Bwiti Initiate // Token
16. Truncate // Bipolar // 50 Weapons
17. Florian Kupfer // Feelin’ (Dubb Micx) // L.I.E.S.
18. Juxta-Position // Mercy // Mistress
19. Galcher Lustwerk // Capabilities Survey // White Material
20. Magic Mountain High // Riptide // Off Minor

How Splice Works

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:47:49 -0500

Very cool.

spliceblog:

Splice is currently in a private beta as we work out some kinks and collaborate with artists to make sure we’re building the best platform possible. While we work on getting Splice ready for prime time, we wanted to share some information about how exactly Splice works.

The Splice client automatically backs up your Ableton Live projects to the cloud every time you hit “save.”

Splice includes a downloadable client application, which integrates with your existing tools (currently Ableton Live 8 and 9) and workflow to seamlessly and automatically sync your work with the cloud, accessible from splice.com. Once you’ve installed the Splice client, we automatically create a “Splice” folder where you can save your Ableton Live projects. Once you’ve saved a project into that folder, keeping your work fully backed up is as easy as hitting “save.” Your entire project, including any audio samples, is securely copied to Splice’s servers.

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Benji B and Madlib talk indepth about Quasimoto, the latest...

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:22:19 -0500

Benji B and Madlib talk indepth about Quasimoto, the latest Madvillain happenings alongside Doom and some treasured memories of J Dilla.

Hear an exclusive mix from Madlib here: http://bbc.in/r1benjib

@TherealBenjiB
@Madlib
@BBCR1

Ghostly Remembers Benjamin Curtis

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:53:55 -0500

Ghostly Remembers Benjamin Curtis:

ghostlystore:

Words by Sam Valenti IV
Photo by Will Calcutt.

“They are split by electronics and such insane vocal harmonies. I’m telling you man, they are really amazing - even better live(!) and you can peep a few joints on their myspace.”

School of Seven Bells was introduced to us with this…

XLR8R's Best of 2013: Labels

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:13:18 -0500

XLR8R's Best of 2013: Labels

: Clone Records Joins Drip

Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:04:53 -0400

: Clone Records Joins Drip:

A proud day for us.

dripfm:

We’re proud to announce that Clone Records now has a drip! You can join one of the most significant labels in dance music, as releases old and new are carefully selected at least twice per month from within the company. This will also include Clone’s sublabels, which include Royal Oak, Jack…

Classic Chicago House. SO THIS IS A MIX THAT AIRED IN THE MID...

Sat, 02 Nov 2013 07:33:00 -0400

Classic Chicago House.

SO THIS IS A MIX THAT AIRED IN THE MID 1980′S ON CHICAGO’S WBMX. THE SHOW WAS THE ‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AIN’T NO JIVE DANCE PARTY.’ THE HOT MIX 5 WERE THE MAIN DJ’S BUT EVERY WEEK THEY PUT ON A GUEST DJ. ROBERT ROJO AND MYSELF WERE GUESTS OF RALPHI ROSARIO ON THIS NIGHT. THE FIRST HOUR OF THE MIX IS FROM ROBERT AND THE LAST HOUR IS MINE. IT’S SUCH A GREAT TREAT TO HAVE UNCOVERED THIS LONG LOST REEL-TO-REEL TAPE IN MY PARTNER MIGUEL GARCIA’S BASEMENT AND BE ABLE TO HEAR ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DANCE MUSIC WE WERE PLAYING ON THE RADIO BACK THEN. I MEAN, NO ONE ELSE WAS GIVING AIRTIME TO DANCE RECORDS, NOT TO MENTION IMPORT DANCE RECORDS FROM EUROPE. A LOT OF THE TRACKS YOU’LL HEAR WERE ‘ONLY’ PLAYED DURING THE MIX SHOWS OR IN THE NIGHTCLUBS OF THE TIME. ENJOY.”

(via Labels We Love: Ghostly International)

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:11:51 -0400

(via Labels We Love: Ghostly International)