Tag: Sampling (music)
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Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis
Around 40 years ago, Forrest S. Mozer created the first Integrated Circuit speech synthesiser, modelled on his voice, and licensed it to a company creating instruments for blind people. But you’ll more likely recognise it as the voices in Berzerk and later sampled in the Stakker track ‘Humanoid’. Ploque are plugging a new plugin ‘chipspeech’…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…
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RIP Joe Cocker
One of Sheffield’s finest sons Joe Cocker has died at the age of 70, which seems far too early despite his heavy rock star lifestyle. Most will probably will be scrambling to find footage of Woodstock that hasn’t been DMCA’d online, but I prefer this funky track ‘Woman to Woman’ which most people already know…
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Mr B Needs Your Love
When you think of Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer you might not think of house, but Mr B The Gentleman Selector has recently released a collection of electroswing ‘chapstep’ tracks called Acid Ragtime, and included is this excellent mashup/cover of Frankie Knuckles ‘Your Love’ – Jive Bunny meets acid house with that clever In the…
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Santastic 9 & Bomarr Go Crackers
Finally got around to some Xmess music, doesn’t feel Xmassy til December (why I tend to never get around to doing mashups til late, I don’t get in the mood – if ever – until a week or two before. Although recently I’ve been a bit Grinch about the whole deal) and listening to another…
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60’s chillwave dubtronica
So for those who think their ambient nu-gaze chillwave electronica dubbed out hipster doodles are somehow new (as millennials invented *everything* first dontchano :-P), here’s electronic and lounge pioneer Dick Hyman to school you along with Mary Mayo on vocal theremin duties. Yes some of this album is dated in a samba/lounge fashion, but this…