Blake Garris from Marvel gives us his top 10 headphone tracks
Blake Garris, Associate Producer of Editorial Content and Programming at Marvel Entertainment, has chosen his top 10 headphone tracks. Fleetwood Mac – Mirage – ‘Love In Store’ The layperson knows Fleetwood Mac… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013
Categories: Music, Top 10 playlists
Tags: Def Leppard, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, George Harrison, Magnetic Fields, Mineral, Patty Griffin, Paul Simon, Ryan Adams, Sixpence None The Richer, top 10 headphone tracks
Recording The Creole Choir of Cuba
The Creole Choir of Cuba recorded their new album, Santiman, at Real World Studios. Production engineer Patrick Philips explains why they decided to have the choir individually miked and set… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Music, New music
Tags: Creole Choir of Cuba, John Metcalfe, Real World Studios, recording techniques
Ed Harcourt’s top 10 headphone tracks.
I’ve been indulging in the use of headphones from a very early age, in the early ’80′s, to being in my studio lair in the present day. I have to… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 8 Feb 2013
Categories: Music, Top 10 playlists
Tags: Camille, Dennis Wilson, Ed Harcourt, Gavin Bryars, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Young, Queens of the Stone Age, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Simeon Ten Holt, talk talk, The Beatles, Tom Waits, top 10 headphone tracks, Top 10 playlists
Listen and you’ll see: Alexis Petridis on My Bloody Valentine
I can remember everything about the first time I heard My Bloody Valentine’s third album. Not just where I was and who I was with, but what time of day… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 24 Jan 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: Alexis Petridis, Isn't Anything?, John Peel, Kevin Shields, Loveless, My Bloody Valentine, You made me realise
Recording Ed Harcourt by Abbey Road engineer Pete Hutchings
Recorded in six hours straight, these production notes by Abbey Road engineer Pete Hutchings explain how he set about recording Ed Harcourt’s pared-back and beautiful new album, Back Into The… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 21 Jan 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Music, New music
Tags: Abbey Road studios, Back into the Woods, Ed Harcourt, high-quality music downloads, Pete Hutchings
Listen and you’ll see: Richard King on M/A/R/R/S
In many ways ‘Pump Up The Volume’ is an archetypal one hit wonder. The creators of the track M/A/R/R/S were a one-off project that was convened in the studio as… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 10 Jan 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: 4AD, AR Kane, Colourbox, How Soon Is Now, Ivo Watts-Russell, M/A/R/R/S, Pump Up The Volume, Richard King, Rough Trade, sampling
How Ed Harcourt recorded his album in one night at Abbey Road
Ed Harcourt recorded his sixth album, Back into the Woods, at Abbey Road Studios. It was inspired by the studio itself and the desire to make a stripped-back honest album.… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 9 Jan 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Live music, Music, New music
Tags: Abbey Road studios, Back into the Woods, Ed Harcourt, high-quality music downloads, live recording
A minute of listening
A wonderful initiative to introduce children to the concept of truly listening as well as the wonderfully diverse world of sound. A Minute of Listening was piloted in UK primary… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 7 Jan 2013
Categories: Music
Tags: A Minute of Listening, Beethoven, field recordings, Lound Sound Survey, Matthew Herbert, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sound and Music
Listen and you’ll see: Geeta Dayal on Neu!
Neu! were one of the great bands of the 20th century, a sonic break with what came before. The German group was best known as a duo; drummer Klaus Dinger,… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 13 Dec 2012
Categories: Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: Brian Eno, Geeta Dayal, Hallo Gallo, Kraftwerk, krautrock, Negativland, Neu! Conny Plank
Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to The Great Curve
Bowers & Wilkins says: Great idea – it’s... 21 hours 35 minutes ago View commentPeter Gabriel’s Live in Athens audio finally available
Thorsten says: The Album is really good, some tracks are... 1 day 12 hours ago View comment