Here at RE:VIVE we’re super lucky to have access to the incredible ethnographic music collections of the Tropenmuseum, held by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This collection, lovingly referred to in-house as the KIT collection spans decades of ethnomusicology from around the world with recordings made by some of the foremost ethnomusicologists. When […]
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RE:VIVE is an initiative by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision which for all intents and purposes is a media archive. This means Sound and Vision has more than just sounds, it’s home to hundreds of thousands of hours of TV broadcast and film materials. While RE:VIVE focuses on the re-use of audio material
The other half of AV, Open Media Art at the DRIVE Festival Read More »
Starting one of these sample packs can be a bit difficult simply because there’s no easy way to explore millions of archival items. It’s not like walking into a record store or even using YouTube where you can just dive in and start randomly browsing. You have to feed the platform some data. Browse features
Sample Pack : Madagascar, Switzerland, Tahiti, China and an Accordion Read More »
We’re back with another mix for everyone from our now regular stint at the wonderful Red Light Radio. With this mix we venture around the world once again playing archival rarities that haven’t been heard by human ears for several decades. All the recordings played are from the Tropenmuseum collection held by the Netherlands Institute
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Welcome to our first installment of “Do you even archive?” a regular column where we’ll talk to labels and artists about their archiving, cataloguing and preservation practices. We’ve all been there. Hard drive crashes and you can’t get anything back and that external hard drive you kept meaning to transfer stuff to…well you never got
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Alex Smoke is a producer who for 10 years has steered away from dance floor tracks and harnessed his penchant for dark, gloomy, moody and textured material. His music serves the listener best on gray walks around a concrete city or for melancholic bus rides on the way home from a disappointing night out. There’s
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“The poster for the show has a picture of Erasmus holding this futuristic light saber and then 50 feet away there’s a giant billboard that says ‘The Past is Now Useless” observes Drew Daniel, one-half of the experimental duo Matmos as I sit with him and his partner and Matmos other half, Martin (M.C.) Schmidt
When are you legendary? A conversation with Matmos Read More »
You know that roommate who is really loud in the mornings and you think, “How on earth can anyone make so much noise?” Ever record it and play it back to them so that they know exactly what kind of racket that 3-egg omelet and green smoothie breakfast makes? Of course not, that’s crazy. But
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Being located in the Netherlands RE:VIVE is spoiled to have access to Red Light Radio, one of the best web radio stations in the world. Orpheu and Hugo have been super chill welcoming RE:VIVE to their never ending roster of DJs and artists who consistently open the musical eyes of those tuning in. We feel
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Today, May 13th R&S Records have released Lakker’s new Maxi-EP, Struggle & Emerge. Struggle & Emerge was created as part of the very first RE:VIVE Session. Which seeks to bring together archives and electronic musicians to change the way people hear the past. The album spans 8 tracks and captures the tumultuous relationship that that
Lakker | Struggle & Emerge Documentary and Interactive Digital Long Read Read More »