As we sit on trains, wait for a bus, or walk down the street we encounter strangers who will always and forever remain a mystery. From time to time there’s a connection, a glimpse into someone’s world and on very rare occasions something more occurs. Yet still, the idea that a face in the crowd […]
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We do not encounter nature more often than in our own neighborhood: large-scale parks, re-naturalised industrial plants, mighty street trees, species-rich backyards, community gardens and the sound of singing birds meet us almost every day in the city. Although it’s constantly present, nature in a city often goes unnoticed. But when we do recognize it,
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RE:VIVE works in a pretty simple way. We take a theme, curate a bunch of archival material around that theme, give that material to artists and encourage them to gain inspiration from the corresponding curatorial theme. In effect coercing them to generate conceptual works. Some take this to heart and really try to see the
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The kick is always the hardest part. It drives, it directs, it moves, it calls out not be heard by ears but by the gut and the heart. Paradoxically, the kick is also easily neglected. The ear will gravitate to the hook and melody and as a track swings, the kick enters the background. Clichés
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The British Library is renowned for their extensive collection of field recordings. We’re happy to share with you 3GB of archival feild recordings from the UK and around the world freely provided by the British Library and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Grab these incredible sounds here.
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Serving as the basis for our V/A – 010 release with Fog Mountain Records, you can now have access to over 5GB of free archival films and sounds of Rotterdam provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. All sounds and films licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. Grab the sample pack here.
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Do you even archive? is a regular column where we’ll talk to labels and artists about their archiving, cataloguing and preservation practices. We all know the images of someone’s Brooklyn loft stacked floor to ceiling with records in Ikea shelves. Multiply that by a couple thousand and you’ll end up with something like the British
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The sounds of a city can say a lot. From clattering Busy markets, to silent sleepy villages, bells of a Catholic church, calls to prayer from a mosque, birds or no birds, cars or no cars, public transport or bikes; all provide a sonic landscape that an image could never convey. And while capable of
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The concept of music designed specifically as a background feature in the environment was pioneered by Muzak Inc. in the fifties, and has since come to be known generically by the term Muzak. The connotations that this term carries are those particularly associated with the kind of material that Muzak Inc. produces – familiar tunes
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Let’s take a step back to your friend’s parents’ basement to a day when your Commodore 64 was the life blood flowing through your adolescent veins. Those 8 and 16 bit sounds pushing the speakers to their limit while the blue-green hue of the screen illuminated a darkened room. Remember those days? Well then come
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