The Roots: ’nuff said
June 25th, 2009 by Nuprin Boy
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the great debate
January 18th, 2008 by Nuprin Boy
in school I had a great teacher who posed an interesting query of me and my work: Do you want to be the guy who makes great paint, or the guy who makes great paintings? I took it to mean, that obsessing over tools and techniques can take away a bit from obessesing over process and results.
Artists, Musicians, Coders, anyone in a specialized field probably has had some sort of experience with this… “I need the latest and gretest, that will make my work AWESOME!” Probably not, but you will certainly amass lots of equipment that will gather much dust.
With music (listening for me) I’ve amassed cables, stands, power conditioners, headphones, sources, speakers, etc. My collection of gear thankfully is spread throughout the country and in the hands of people who can actually use the stuff. In all this time, my favorite speakers are still my old Spica TC-50s (in a box), my favorite CD player is still my old Marantz 63se (in jackson), and my fave turntable is my Rega P2 (in my house). Learning to make the best with what you got is hard, but can be so rewarding. Because you can enjoy the music and relax.
I’m thinking about all of this because I saw this article today: REZNOR TWO
And this one last week: REZNOR ONE.
In the end, there seems to be a place for everyone, so whether you make music, sell music, produce music, whatever; just enjoy the music.
Sharon Jones
January 17th, 2008 by Nuprin Boy
Well, I am going to try and write more this year (even if it’s just infosnacking) hopefully it’ll be more. first real post is about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Thanks myspace music. They’ve been around a few years and are a joy to hear check out the tracks below.
and see more info about her here
eventually CBuck and I will recommend something besides R&B, Soul or Blues (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
wow.
January 17th, 2008 by admin
I just actually read the new itunes agreement.. it’s very long. I never had to read this stuff when buying vinyl at a store.A few things of note:
3. Objectionable Material. You understand that by using the Service, you may encounter content that may be deemed offensive, indecent, or objectionable, which content may or may not be identified as having explicit language. Nevertheless, you agree to use the Service at your sole risk and that Apple shall have no liability to you for content that may be found to be offensive, indecent, or objectionable. Content types (including genres, sub-genres and Podcast categories and sub-categories and the like) and descriptions are provided for convenience, and you acknowledge and agree that Apple does not guarantee their accuracy.
ohhhhh, dirty.
(iv) You shall be able to store Products from up to five different Accounts on certain devices, such as an iPod or iPhone, and Apple TV at a time; provided that each iPhone may sync ring tone Products with only a single Apple-authorized device at a time, and that syncing an iPhone with another Apple-authorized device will cause any ring tone Products stored on such iPhone to be erased and, if you so choose, to be replaced with any ring tone Products stored on such other Apple-authorized device. Additional restrictions apply to Movies Rentals, as described below.(v) You shall be authorized to burn an audio playlist up to seven times.(vi) You shall not be entitled to burn video Products or ring tone Products.
Damn, I wanted to plop everything on my Zune.
(xv) HDMI. An HDCP connection is required in order to view movies (purchased or rented) and TV shows transmitted over HDMI.
The movies are copy protected, well, I couldn’t rent HD via iTunes anyway.Here’s the entire agreement
Tags: aggreements, itunes, wha?
buy, buy miss american pie
September 26th, 2007 by Nuprin Boy
amazon.com has launched a MUSIC STORE. All files are 256KB MP3s with NO DRM. Only EMI and Universal right now (2 million songs give or take). But the songs are $.99 and albums are a bit cheaper than iTunes. Did I mention no DRM? AMAZON MP3
September playlist ONE
August 28th, 2007 by Nuprin Boy
The first weekly playlist for our two readers.
Vinyl pains
August 15th, 2007 by Nuprin Boy
Several weeks ago fideliscopev put forth the question: “What about your thoughts concerning the sound of your LPs versus the CDs? What are the strengths, and weaknesses of each in your experience?”
I’ve been wanting to put my two cents in about that for a while now (and will soon) but tonight I wanted to share my frustration with buying new vinyl.
I mentioned earlier that I finally have a “system” capable of of vinyl playback. So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been cleaning records and listening to a bit of my old collection. My musical tastes are varied and my collection of records shows that in terms of genre, artists and the records themselves. The records have come from may places: thrift stores, the interweb, friends, record stores and things I’ve held onto since junior high school. Of course the packaging and sleeves are in various stages of disrepair (I’m more of a record listener than a record collector) but the vinyl inside is usually in good to excellent shape (even some of my discs from the 80s). generally speaking, the vinyl I have is clean, heavy and quiet. While I do have some discs from the 50s and 60s that have a bit of wear, they still are completely listenable.
So when I ventured looking for new vinyl I was pleasantly surprised to see 180, 200 gm vinyl from so many different labels. I’m glad that the vinyl “rebirth” that’s been going on for the past few years has finally hit the mainstream. Unfortunately hitting the mainstream seems to mean lack of quality control from some vendors. Continue reading ‘Vinyl pains’
little wonder
August 2nd, 2007 by Nuprin Boy
I’ve been living in NYC for a year now, with no “real” stereo to speak of. I still have equipment, but most of it is boxed up and still in New Orleans. Some of it has found a new home at CBuck’s place; other pieces are scattered throughout the country. Frankly, my space is too small for a “proper” set up. So I have been listening to music via my ipod and computer on my trusty Grado SR 80s and shure E3. While it was alright for a while, having to be plugged up and linked to my’pod got old pretty fast. So, last fall I went on the prowl for some music friendly powered speakers.
I needed small, versatile and self powered because I don’t have room for a traditional setup. I wanted to be able o hook up an ipod, my computer and somewhere down the line my turntable. A tall order, I know, but since the ipod created a market for self powered speakers (that weren’t of the studio monitor variety), I thought: “how hard could it be, I live in New York City after all.” Well, extremely hard actually. I went listening knowing full well that is IMPOSSIBLE to find a powered speaker that would be as good as my old spica-tc 50s, but I wasn’t looking for perfection; I just wanted musicality and listen-ability (some imaging and soudstaging would be nice too). They didn’t have to play loud, but some mass to the sound would be welcome. Most of all, they had to simply not wear me out- not too much coloring of the sound. Continue reading ‘little wonder’
