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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Aphex Twin
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Richard David James, known by his stage name Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born English electronic musician and composer. He is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in music styles such as IDM and acid techno in the 1990s. He is also the co-founder of Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge and he rose to mainstream popularity with his 1997 EP Come to Daddy and his 1999 single Windowlicker. James was born in Limerick, Ireland, and grew up in Lanner, Cornwall, UK and he enjoyed living there, feeling apart from nearby cities and the rest of the world. You couldnt make sound on a ZX81, but I played around with machine code, according to musician Benjamin Middleton, James began producing music the following year. As a teenager he was a jockey at the Shire Horse Inn in St Ives, with Tom Middleton at the Bowgie Inn in Crantock. James studied at Cornwall College from 1988 to 1990 for a National Diploma in engineering, about his studies, he said music and electronics went hand in hand. James graduated from college, according to a lecturer he often wore headphones during practical lessons. In 1989, James befriended Grant Wilson-Claridge when they were working alternate weeks as a DJ at the Bowgie pub near Newquay, Wilson-Claridge was intrigued by his sets, and when he discovered that James was playing tapes of his own music he suggested that they make records. James first release as Aphex Twin, later changed to AFX, was the 1991 12-inch EP Analogue Bubblebath on Mighty Force Records, the track En Trance to Exit was recorded with Tom Middleton, also known as Schizophrenia. The EP made the playlist of Kiss FM, an influential London radio station, from 1991 to 1993 James released two Analogue Bubblebath EPs and an EP, Bradleys Beat, as Bradley Strider. Although he allegedly lived on the roundabout in Elephant and Castle, South London, during his years in the city. The first full-length Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works 85–92, was released in 1992 on R&S Records to critical acclaim, John Bush of Allmusic described it as a watershed of ambient music. In 2002 Rolling Stone said about the album, Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian Eno by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats, Pitchfork Media called it among the most interesting music ever created with a keyboard and a computer. However, critics noted that the songs were recorded on cassette, in 1992 James also released the Xylem Tube EP and Digeridoo as Aphex Twin, the Pac-Man EP as Power-Pill, and two of his four Joyrex EPs as Caustic Window. Digeridoo reached #55 on the UK Singles Chart, and was described by Rolling Stone as foreshadowing drum. He wrote Digeridoo to clear up his audience after a rave and these early releases were on Rephlex Records, Mighty Force of Exeter and R&S Records of Belgium. Warp Records released Selected Ambient Works Volume II in 1994, with a less beat-, the track names were described with pie chart symbols, each of which was meant to be paired with a corresponding image in the album jacket
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Intelligent dance music
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Intelligent dance music is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s. Its creation was influenced by developments in dance music such as Detroit techno. Stylistically, IDM tended to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than adhering to musical characteristics associated with specific genres of dance music, the range of post-techno styles that emerged in the early 1990s were described variously as art techno, ambient techno, intelligent techno, and electronica. In the United States, the latter is used as a catchall term to describe not only downtempo or downbeat/non-dance electronic music. In 2014, music critic Sasha Frere-Jones observed that the term is widely reviled and he regards UK acts Aphex Twin and Autechre as central to the evolution of the genre. In 1992, Warp released Artificial Intelligence, the first album in the Artificial Intelligence series. Subtitled electronic listening music from Warp, the record was a collection of tracks from such as Autechre, B12, The Black Dog, Aphex Twin and The Orb. Steve Beckett, co-owner of Warp, has said the music that the label was releasing then was targeting a post-club. At the same time, the UK market was saturated with increasingly frenetic breakbeat, in 1993, a number of new intelligent techno/electronica record labels emerged, including New Electronica, Mille Plateaux, 100% Pure, and Ferox Records. In November 1991, the phrase intelligent techno appeared on Usenet in reference to Coils The Snow EP. Off the Internet, the phrase appeared in both the U. S. & UK music press in late 1992, in reference to Jam & Spoons Tales from a Danceographic Ocean. Another instance of the phrase appeared on Usenet in April 1993 in reference to The Black Dogs album Bytes, the first message, sent on 1 August 1993, was entitled Can Dumb People Enjoy IDM, Too. Kirk and The Future Sound of London, and even artists like System 7, William Orbit, Sabres of Paradise, Orbital, Plastikman and Björk. By the end of 1996, Boards of Canada and the Schematic Records label were among the topics of discussion, alongside perennial favorites like Aphex Twin. As of 2015, the mailing list is still active, warps second Artificial Intelligence compilation was released in 1994. The album featured fragments of posts from the IDM mailing list incorporated into typographic artwork by The Designers Republic, sleeve notes by David Toop acknowledged the genres multitude of musical and cultural influences and suggested none should be considered more important than any other. Lesser-known artists on the Likemind label and Kirk Degiorgios A. R. T, in the mid-1990s, North American audiences welcomed IDM, and many IDM record labels were founded, including Drop Beat, Isophlux, Suction, Schematic and Cytrax. In Miami, Florida, labels like Schematic, Merck Records, Nophi Recordings and The Beta Bodega Coalition released material by such as Phoenecia, Dino Felipe, Machinedrum
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Techno
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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Tofflers phrase techno rebels as inspiring him to use the word techno to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation, in this manner, techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness. Stylistically, techno is generally repetitive instrumental music, oftentimes produced for use in a continuous DJ set, the tempo tends to vary between approximately 120 to 150 beats per minute, depending on the style of techno. The creative use of production technology, such as drum machines, synthesizers. Many producers use retro electronic musical devices to create what they consider to be an authentic techno sound, drum machines from the 1980s such as Rolands TR-808 and TR-909 are highly prized, and software emulations of such retro technology are popular among techno producers. The Electrifying Mojo was the first radio DJ to play music by the Detroit techno producers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Mojo refused to follow pre-established radio formats or playlists, and he promoted social and cultural awareness of the African American community. In exploring technos origins writer Kodwo Eshun maintains that Kraftwerk are to Techno what Muddy Waters is to the Rolling Stones, the authentic, the origin, the real. Juan Atkins has acknowledged that he had an enthusiasm for Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, particularly Moroders work with Donna Summer. Atkins also mentions that around 1980 I had a tape of nothing but Kraftwerk, Telex, Devo, Giorgio Moroder and Gary Numan, and Id ride around in my car playing it. Regarding his initial impression of Kraftwerk, Atkins notes that they were clean, Derrick May identified the influence of Kraftwerk and other European synthesizer music in commenting that it was just classy and clean, and to us it was beautiful, like outer space. Living around Detroit, there was so little beauty, everything is an ugly mess in Detroit, and so we were attracted to this music. May has commented that he considered his music a direct continuation of the European synthesizer tradition and he also identified Japanese synthpop act Yellow Magic Orchestra, particularly member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and British band Ultravox, as influences, along with Kraftwerk. In 1980 or 1981 they met with Mojo and proposed that they provide mixes for his show, which they did end up doing the following year. These young promoters developed and nurtured the local music scene by both catering to the tastes of the local audience of young people and by marketing parties with new DJs
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Warp (record label)
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Warp is an English independent record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store workers Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon. It is currently based in London, current artists on the label roster include Flying Lotus, Rustie, Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Brown, Grizzly Bear, Brian Eno, TNGHT, and Kelela. Warp was founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell, the name was chosen because the original name, Warped Records, was difficult to distinguish over the telephone. The first release was by Forgemasters, whose 500 copy pressing of Track with no Name was financed by an Enterprise Allowance grant and it set a trend for the early releases both in terms of sound, and the use of purple sleeves. The follow-up was Nightmares on Waxs Dextrous, which sold around 30,000 copies, the first album released was Sweet Exorcists C. C. E. P. in 1991. In the same year Robert Gordon left Warp acrimoniously, initially all the album releases used gatefold sleeves and coloured vinyl, often designed by The Designers Republic or Phil Wolstenholme. A VHS compilation of digitally animated music videos called Motion was released in conjunction with the second Artificial Intelligence compilation, in 1996 Warp started the Blech club night in Sheffield, also in London between 1997 and 1999, and released an accompanying compilation CD under the same name. The artwork, created by the Designers Republic, had a distinctive Japanese manga influence, the collection celebrated the labels tenth anniversary. In 2000, the label moved its operations to London along with its physical music, co-founder Rob Mitchell was diagnosed with cancer in early 2001. Warpmart has now been absorbed into Bleep. com, today Bleep sells a carefully curated selection of music from a diverse range of labels. The site has released its own limited edition LPs The Green Series. On 27 September 2004, Warp released its music video compilation, named WarpVision. 2005 saw the release of Warp, the first book in the Labels Unlimited series, written by Rob Young, the book gave an illustrated history of the label, as well as offering a complete discography. The Warp website said the book was “A very beautiful thing and like our very own This Is Your Life, the label continued to expand its roster, signing acts including. Battles, Born Ruffians, Maxïmo Park, Gravenhurst and Grizzly Bear, for the labels 20th anniversary in 2009, several Warp20 concerts took place in Paris, New York City, Sheffield, Tokyo, Berlin and London. Warp also celebrated by releasing the Warp20 box set, composed of six parts, Warp20 The Complete Catalogue, Warp20, a CD album featuring an hour-long piece by Osymyso, made from sections, samples and fragments of Warp music from the previous twenty years. Warp20, a double 10” vinyl of loops from Warp tracks, Warp continues to release albums, from artists such as Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Mark Pritchard, Bibio, Jamie Lidell, Lonelady, Leila, and Gonjasufi. Recent signings include Brian Eno, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mount Kimbie, darkstar, Death Grips, patten and Jeremiah Jae
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Ventolin (EP)
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Ventolin is a piece of electronic music composed by the Cornish musician Richard D James. It is noted for its harsh, abrasive sound, James recorded numerous versions of the piece under his Aphex Twin alias. The piece is named after a name for the drug Salbutamol. A reported side effect of drug is tinnitus, a high pitched ringing in the ears. James utilized this effect in Ventolin, incorporating a piercing high-pitched ringing sound throughout the track, the music also incorporates heavily distorted techno beats. The resulting effect has been cited as one of the harshest singles ever recorded, the song is sampled by the Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly in the song Retribution on their 1999 album Implode. The first recording of Ventolin appeared on a video produced to accompany the track. The video consists of a woman being trapped in an elevator with other industrial images interspersed, the video version of the track was released a month later on the 1995 Aphex Twin album. I Care Because You Do. The Salbutamol Mix on this EP is a version of the video version. In 1995, Warp Records released Ventolin as a single in the United Kingdom, on 12 vinyl, between them, these EPs have a further 12 versions of Ventolin. The singles artwork, by Dan Parkes, has Renaissance-style anatomical drawings of a head and upper torso, together with an asthma inhaler. The Wheeze mix is the remix that utilizes the high-pitched ringing. In typical James fashion, several of the mixes are labelled with obscure or bizarre titles, several of the apparently bizarre remix names are actually Cornish place names, Praze-An-Beeble, Marazanvose, Carharrack and Probus are all Cornish villages. There is a Coppice Inn in the village of Lanner, near Redruth, Plain-An-Gwarry is an area within Redruth and also the generic name for a Cornish medieval amphitheatre used for the performance of mystery plays and sports. Other mix names refer to the medicinal Ventolin, asthma beats, wheeze, the Praze-An-Beeble mix ends with manipulated samples of James mother Lorna laughing, whilst the Marazanvose mix ends with a child counting in Afrikaans mixed with manipulated animal sounds. The ending of Marazanvose mix is similar to the end of The Beauty of Being Numb. They were recorded at around the same time, crowsmengegus mix closes with a speech synthesizer intoning an MCs toast to a list of names, almost all of whom were collaborators with James. This was later issued as a track on 51/13 Aphex Singles Collection
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Donkey Rhubarb (EP)
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Donkey Rhubarb is a 1995 EP by electronic music artist Richard D. James under the alias of Aphex Twin. The EP was released on 14 August 1995 by Warp, the EP contains a version of the song Icct Hedral from Jamess album. I Care Because You Do by Philip Glass. Donkey Rhubarb was released on 14 August 1995 by Warp on 12 vinyl, Donkey Rhubarb charted for one week in the United Kingdom at number 78 on the UK Singles Chart. A music video for Donkey Rhubarb directed by David Slade was made in 1995, the video was released on DVD by Warp in September 2009. Spin referred to the track Donkey Rhubarb as a silly steeldrum reverie, ned Raggett of AllMusic gave the EP a four star rating, praising Donkey Rhubarb for its lovely main melody dressed up with quick beats, bleeps, and the like. All tracks written by Richard D. James except where otherwise noted, credits adapted from Donkey Rhubarb disc
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UK Albums Chart
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The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company on Fridays and it is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and published in Music Week magazine, and on the OCC website. To qualify for the Official Albums Chart the album must be the correct length and it must be more than three tracks or 20 minutes long and not be classed as a budget album. A budget album costs between £0.50 and £3.75, additionally, various artist compilations – which until January 1989 were included in the main album listing – are now listed separately in a compilations chart. Full details of the rules can be found on the OCC website. In the 1970s the new chart was revealed at 12,45 pm on Thursdays on BBC Radio 1. Since October 1993 it has included in The Official Chart show from 4,00 –5,45 pm on Fridays. A weekly Album Chart show was licensed out to BBC Radio 2 and presented by Simon Mayo,2005 saw a record number of artist album sales with 126.2 million sold in the UK. In February 2015, it was announced that, due to the sales of albums and rise in popularity of audio streaming. Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, the total of these streams is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album. This calculation was designed to ensure that the chart continues to reflect the popularity of the albums themselves. The final number one album on the UK Albums Chart to be based purely on sales alone was Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons, on 1 March 2015, In the Lonely Hour by Sam Smith became the first album to top the new streaming-incorporated Official Albums Chart. The most successful artists in the charts depends on the criteria used, as of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on the British album charts than any other musical act, followed by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, U2 and ABBA. By most weeks at one, however, The Beatles lead with a total of 174 weeks. The male solo artist with the most weeks at one is Presley with a total of 66 weeks. Presley also holds the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist and most top ten albums by any artist. Madonna has the most number one albums by a female artist in the UK, though this includes the Evita film soundtrack which was a cast recording, Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Queens Greatest Hits is the album in UK chart history with 6 million copies sold as of February 2014
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Spin (magazine)
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Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine, in its early years, the magazine was known for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard and it pointedly provided a national alternative to Rolling Stones more establishment-oriented style. Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R. E. M, Spins extensive coverage of hip-hop music and culture, especially that of contributing editor John Leland, was notable at the time. Editorial contributions by musical and cultural figures included Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, David Lee Roth, the magazine also reported on cities such as Austin, Texas, or Glasgow, Scotland, as cultural incubators in the independent music scene. A1990 article on the country blues scene brought R. L. Burnside to national attention for the first time. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Associates, in 1997, Guccione sold Spin to Miller Publishing. In February 2006, Miller Publishing sold the magazine to a San Francisco-based company called the McEvoy Group LLC and that company formed Spin Media LLC as a holding company. The new owners replaced editor-in-chief Sia Michel with Andy Pemberton, an editor at Blender. The first issue to be published under his command was the July 2006 issue—sent to the printer in May 2006—which featured Beyoncé on the cover. Pemberton and Spin parted ways the next month, in June 2006, the following editor, Doug Brod, was executive editor during Michels tenure. For Spins 20th anniversary, it published a book chronicling the prior two decades in music. The book has essays on grunge, Britpop, and emo, among other genres of music, as well as pieces on musical acts including Marilyn Manson, Tupac Shakur, nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, and the Smashing Pumpkins. In July 2012, Spin was sold to Buzzmedia, which renamed itself SpinMedia. The September/October 2012 issue of Spin was the magazines last print edition, in December 2016, Eldridge Industries acquired SpinMedia via the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group for an undisclosed amount. In 1995, Spin produced its first book, entitled Spin Alternative Record Guide, although the book was not a sales success, it inspired a disproportionate number of young readers to pursue music criticism. Notable contributors to Spin have included, SPIN began compiling year-end lists in 1990, note, The 2000 album of the year was awarded to your hard drive, acknowledging the impact that filesharing had on the music listening experience in 2000. Kid A was listed as number 2, the highest ranking given to an actual album,1994 roadside attack on Spin magazine journalists Anon
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II is the second studio album by English electronic musician Richard D. James under the alias Aphex Twin. The album was released by Warp on 7 March 1994, James has claimed that the album was inspired by lucid dreams he had, upon waking, he would attempt to re-create the sounds heard in his dreams. Described as a follow-up to Selected Ambient Works 85–92, the album differs in sound by being largely beatless ambient music, upon its release, Selected Ambient Works Volume II was well received by critics. It was placed on various best of the lists by publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin. James stated that the sounds on Selected Ambient Works Volume II were inspired by dreams. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, which contributed to this album, isolationism is ice-olationist, offering cold comfort. Instead of pseudopastoral peace, it evokes an uneasy silence, the calm before catastrophe. James described the album as being like standing in a station on acid Select Ambient Works Volume II was released in the United Kingdom by Warp on 7 March 1994. Warp has released Select Ambient Works Volume II compact disc and triple vinyl, the album charted in the United Kingdom on 19 March 1994 where it debuted and peaked at the 11th position on the charts. The album sold 9,336 copies in its first week of release and it stayed on the charts for three weeks. Sire released the album on disc on 12 April 1994. The album was re-issued on vinyl by 1972 records on 6 March 2012 without the extra track, but that the album will leave you not so much blissed as spooked out. The review concluded that the album provides a perspective on ambient electronic music. Commenting on the reaction of the album in 1999, Simon Reynolds stated that on that Many in the Aphex cult were thrown for a loop. Select stated that Anyone who thinks they know what to expect on the basis of Volume I might care to sit down, have a cup of tea. Entertainment Weekly wrote that At its best is a score in search of a postapocalyptic theater piece. The first dance album to celebrate the rhythms in your head, Pitchfork later ranked the album second on their 2016 list of the best ambient music albums of all time. List member Greg Eden, who kept a detailed discography, gave the tracks based on a word or two that related to the corresponding images
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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John Cage
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John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham. The content of the composition is not four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, as is often assumed, the works challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance. Cage was also a pioneer of the piano, for which he wrote numerous dance-related works. The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes and his teachers included Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cages major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, the I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on changing events, became Cages standard composition tool for the rest of his life. Cage was born September 5,1912, at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles and his father, John Milton Cage, Sr. was an inventor, and his mother, Lucretia Harvey, worked intermittently as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. The familys roots were deeply American, in a 1976 interview, John Milton Sr. taught his son that if someone says cant that shows you what to do. In 1944–45 Cage wrote two small character pieces dedicated to his parents, Crete and Dad, the latter is a short lively piece that ends abruptly, while Crete is a slightly longer, mostly melodic contrapuntal work. During high school, one of his teachers was Fannie Charles Dillon. By 1928, though, Cage was convinced that he wanted to be a writer and he graduated that year from Los Angeles High School as a valedictorian, having also in the spring given a prize-winning speech at the Hollywood Bowl proposing a day of quiet for all Americans. By being hushed and silent, he said, we should have the opportunity to hear other people think. Cage enrolled at Pomona College in Claremont as a major in 1928. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks, I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly, Cage persuaded his parents that a trip to Europe would be more beneficial to a future writer than college studies. He subsequently hitchhiked to Galveston and sailed to Le Havre, where he took a train to Paris, Cage stayed in Europe for some 18 months, trying his hand at various forms of art. First he studied Gothic and Greek architecture, but decided he was not interested enough in architecture to dedicate his life to it and he then took up painting, poetry and music
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Philip Glass
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Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is considered one of the most influential makers of the late 20th century. Glasss compositions have been described as music, similar to other minimalist composers including La Monte Young, Steve Reich. However, Glass has described himself instead as a composer of music with repetitive structures, Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical works, eleven symphonies, eleven concertos, seven string quartets and various other chamber music. Three of his scores have been nominated for Academy Awards. Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ida and his family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His father owned a store and his mother was a librarian. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work and his sister, Sheppie, would later do similar work as an active member of the International Rescue Committee. Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his fathers side of the family had many musicians and his cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville. He learned his family was related to Al Jolson. Glasss father often received promotional copies of new recordings at his music store and he spent many hours listening to them, developing his knowledge and taste in music. This openness to modern sounds affected Glass at an age, My father was self-taught, but he ended up having a very refined and rich knowledge of classical, chamber. Typically he would come home and have dinner, and then sit in his armchair, I caught on to this very early, and I would go and listen with him. The elder Glass promoted both new recordings and a selection of composers to his customers, sometimes convincing them to try something new by allowing them to return records they didnt like. His store soon developed a reputation as Baltimores leading source of modern music, Glass cites Schuberts work as a big influence growing up. He studied the flute as a child at the school of the Peabody Institute. At the age of 15, he entered a college program at the University of Chicago where he studied mathematics
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Moby
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Richard Melville Hall, better known by his stage name Moby, is an American DJ, singer, songwriter, musician, photographer and animal rights activist. He is well known for his music, veganism. Moby has sold over 20 million records worldwide, allMusic considers him one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America. Moby gained attention in the early 1990s with his dance music work. With his fifth album, the electronica and house music-influenced Play. His next major release, 2005s mostly upbeat Hotel was a departure, incorporating more alternative rock elements than previous albums. It sold around 2 million copies worldwide, Moby released Innocents on October 1,2013 to positive reviews. Following the release of Innocents, Moby released the ambient album, Long Ambients 1, the album was given away for free on his website. Mobys most recent album These Systems Are Failing was released on October 14,2016, the album has received mostly positive reviews. He was raised by his mother in Darien, Connecticut and he has also released music under the names Voodoo Child and Schaumgummi. During the 1980s, Hall played guitar for the punk band Vatican Commandos. Later in the decade, he was a guitarist for the rock group Ultra Vivid Scene. It left me very intrigued and impressed in a strange way, Moby released his first singles for Instinct under several different names, such as Barracuda, Brainstorm, and UHF. His first single was a commercial failure—a rap record with vocalist Jimmy Mack, titled Times Up, featuring several remixes, very few copies were ever sold. His first single under the pseudonym Moby was Mobility, but it was his remix of Mobilitys b-side, Go and he released his eponymous debut in 1992. Some of his singles in 1992 and 1993 were Next Is the E, Thousand. In 1991 and 1992 he remixed The B-52s, The Prodigy, Orbital, Bob Taggett - Mind Metal, Erasure, Michael Jackson and he also provided a rap for a Recoil track called Curse. In 1993, Moby signed with Mute Records and released an EP titled Move and this became his second appearance on Top of the Pops
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The Orb
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The Orb is an English electronic music group known for being the pioneers of ambient house. Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and The KLF member Jimmy Cauty and their early performances were inspired by ambient and electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. Because of their sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers coming down from drug-induced highs. Paterson has been the permanent member, continuing to work as the Orb with the Swiss-German producer Thomas Fehlmann and, later, with Martin Youth Glover. Beyond recognition on their albums and concerts, his use of other artists works has led to disputes with musicians. During their live shows of the 1990s, the Orb performed using digital tape machines optimised for live mixing and sampling before switching to laptops. Despite changes in method, the Orb maintained their colourful light shows. These visually intense performances prompted critics to compare the group to Pink Floyd, Alex Paterson began his music career in the early 1980s as a roadie for the post-punk rock band Killing Joke, for whom his childhood friend Martin Youth Glover plays bass. The following year, the Orb released the Kiss EP, a four-track EP based on samples from New York Citys KISS FM and it was released on Paterson and Glovers new record label WAU. Mr. Modo Records, which created out of a desire to maintain financial independence from larger record labels. Paterson and Cauty began DJ-ing in London and landed a deal for the Orb to play the chill out room at London nightclub Heaven, resident DJ Paul Oakenfold brought in the duo as ambient DJs for his The Land of Oz event at Heaven. The Orbs performances became most popular among weary DJs and clubbers seeking solace from the loud, the Orb built up melodies using multitrack recordings linked to multiple record decks and a mixer. The group incorporated many CDs, cassettes, and BBC sound effects into the act, though the group used a variety of samples, they avoided heavy rhythm and drums so that the intended ambient atmosphere was not disrupted. Most often, the group played dub and other chill-out music, throughout 1989 the Orb, along with Martin Glover, developed a music production style that incorporated ambient music with a diverse array of samples and recordings. The British music press later labelled the music ambient house, the culmination of the groups musical work came toward the end of the same year when they recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1. The track, then known as Loving You, was largely improvisational and featured a wealth of effects and samples from science fiction radio plays, nature sounds. For its release as a single on the record label Big Life, despite its running time of 22 minutes, the sample-laden single reached #78 on the British singles charts. Soon thereafter, the Orb were commissioned by Dave Stewart to remix his top-20 single Lily Was Here, the group obliged and were soon offered several more remix jobs from artists including Erasure and System 7
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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop
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Drum and bass
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Drum and bass is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and oldschool jungle scenes in England during the early 1990s. The style is characterised by fast breakbeats with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, sampled sources. The popularity of drum and bass at its peak ran parallel to several other homegrown dance styles in the UK including big beat. Drum and bass incorporates a number of scenes and styles, a major influence on jungle and drum and bass was the original Jamaican dub and reggae sound. Another feature of the style is the syncopation of the drum tracks breakbeat. Drum and bass subgenres include breakcore, ragga jungle, hardstep, darkstep, techstep, neurofunk, ambient drum and bass, liquid funk, deep, drumfunk, funkstep, sambass, dnbnoise, from its roots in the UK, the style has established itself around the world. Drum and bass has influenced other genres like hip hop, big beat, dubstep, house, trip hop, ambient music, techno, rock. Drum and bass is dominated by a small group of record labels. The major international labels have shown very little interest in the drum. But rave music tended to feature stronger bass sounds and a faster tempo beats per minute than that of early house music and it is important to note when discussing the history of drum and bass that prior to jungle, rave music was getting faster and more experimental. Professional DJ and producer C. K. states, There was a progression as far as the speed of music is concerned, anyone buying vinyl every week from 1989 to 1992 noticed this. By 1994, jungle had begun to gain popularity and fans of the music became a more recognisable part of youth subculture. However, this developed in tandem with the positive reputation of the music as part of the wider rave scene. As the genre became more polished and sophisticated technically, it began to expand its reach from pirate radio to commercial stations. It also began to split into subgenres such as jump-up. The popularity of drum and bass at its peak ran parallel to several other homegrown dance styles in the UK including big beat. But towards the turn of the millennium its popularity was deemed to have dwindled as the UK garage style known as speed garage yielded several hit singles. London DJ/producer C. K. says, It is often forgotten by my students that a type of music called garage house existed in the late 1980s alongside hip house, acid house and other forms of house music
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine. Its first edition was published in 1979 and its last in 2004, the guide can be seen at Rate Your Music, while a list of albums given a five star rating by the guide can be seen at Rocklist. net. The Rolling Stone Record Guide was the first edition of what would later become The Rolling Stone Album Guide and it was edited by Dave Marsh and John Swenson, and included contributions from 34 other music critics. It is divided into sections by musical genre and then lists artists alphabetically within their respective genres, Albums are also listed alphabetically by artist although some of the artists have their careers divided into chronological periods. Dave Marsh, in his Introduction, cites as precedents Leonard Maltins book TV Movies and he gives Phonolog and Schwanns Records & Tape Guide as raw sources of information. The first edition included black and white photographs of many of the covers of albums which received five star reviews and these titles are listed together in the Five-Star Records section, which is coincidentally five pages in length. The edition also included reviews for many artists including Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Bill Cosby, The Firesign Theatre, Spike Jones. Comedy artists were listed in the catch-all section Rock, Soul, Country and Pop, which included the genres of folk, bluegrass, funk, traditional pop performers were not included, with the notable exceptions of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Included too were some artists who might now be considered as world music. Big band jazz was handled selectively, with certain band leaders omitted, many other styles of jazz did appear in the Jazz section. The book was notable for the time in the provocative, in your style of many of its reviews. For example, writing about Neil Youngs song, Down by the River and his colleague, Dave Marsh, in reviewing the three albums of the jazz fusion group Chase, gave a one-word review, Flee. Good, a record of average worth, but one that might possess considerable appeal for fans of a particular style, mediocre, a record that is artistically insubstantial, though not truly wretched. Poor, a record where even technical competence is at question or it was remarkably ill-conceived, worthless, a record that need never have been created. Reserved for the most bathetic bathwater, Dave Marsh John Swenson Billy Altman Bob Blumenthal Georgia Christgau Jean-Charles Costa Chet Flippo Russell Gersten Mikal Gilmore Alan E. Like the first edition, it was edited by Dave Marsh and it included contributions from 52 music critics and featured chronological album listings under the name of each artist. In many cases, updates from the first edition consist of short, the only difference is that in addition to a rating, the second edition employs the pilcrow mark to indicate a title that was out of print at the time the guide was published. Many records had their ratings lowered as the book now offered a revisionist slant to rocks history and it included contributions from 16 music critics and featured alphabetical album listings under the name of each artist
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia, the newspaper is published six days a week. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra, the Sydney Morning Herald includes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend, and Sunday Life. By February 2016, average circulation had fallen to 104,000, similarWeb rates the site as the fifth most visited news website in Australia and as the 42nd newspapers website globally, attracting more than 15 million visitors per month. In 1931 a Centenary Supplement was published, the original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. In 1840, the newspaper began to publish daily, in 1841, an Englishman named John Fairfax purchased the operation, renaming it The Sydney Morning Herald the following year. Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies upon principles of candour, honesty and we have no wish to mislead, no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation. During the decade 1890, Donald Murray worked there, the SMH was late to the trend of printing news rather than just advertising on the front page, doing so from 15 April 1944. Of the countrys metropolitan dailies, only The West Australian was later in making the switch, in 1949, the newspaper launched a Sunday edition, The Sunday Herald. Four years later, this was merged with the newly acquired Sun newspaper to create The Sun-Herald, in 1995, the company launched the newspapers web edition smh. com. au. The site has grown to include interactive and multimedia features beyond the content in the print edition. Around the same time, the organisation moved from Jones Street to new offices at Darling Park and built a new printing press at Chullora, the SMH has since moved with other Sydney Fairfax divisions to a building at Darling Island. In May 2007, Fairfax Media announced it would be moving from a format to the smaller compact or tabloid-size, in the footsteps of The Times. Fairfax Media dumped these plans later in the year, however, in June 2012, Fairfax Media again announced it planned to shift both broadsheet newspapers to tabloid size, in March 2013. Fairfax also announced it would cut staff across the group by 1,900 over three years and erect paywalls around the papers websites. The subscription type is to be a model, limiting readers to a number of free stories per month, with a payment required for further access. In July 2013 it was announced that the SMHs news director, Darren Goodsir, would become Editor-in-Chief, on 22 February 2014, the final Saturday edition was produced in broadsheet format with this too converted to compact format on 1 March 2014. Ahead of the decommissioning of the plant at Chullora in June 2014
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Surfing on Sine Waves
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Records and TVT Records in the United States, SME Records in Japan and by Zomba Records in Germany. It is the release in Warps Artificial Intelligence series. Warp released Quoth as a single in March 1993, after hearing James early material as Aphex Twin on Belgiums R&S Records, Warp contacted James and offered him a recording contract. Richard D. James is listed as the creator of the music, however, his name is printed over the cliff on the back of the album. The full text reads, Writing, programming, arranging, engineering, producing + location recording by Richard D. James at Llannerlog Studios, an image of him running down a flight of stairs can also be found inside the liner notes. This image was used on the Quoth single. The album is a collection of instrumental electronic music. Digital piano sample sounds are also used, most of the tracks feature insistent drum machine patterns and James characteristic angular and modal melodies. James makes liberal use of lengthy digital reverberation, giving a feel to the tracks. The album was re-released in North America in 2001 by Warp to celebrate the opening of its American division, the re-release features two previously unreleased tracks that were recorded during the same time this album was created. An edited version of the track Polygon Window, credited to James as the Dice Man, was featured on the first album in the Artificial Intelligence series, the compilation Artificial Intelligence
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Sasha Frere-Jones
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Sasha Frere-Jones is an American writer, music critic, and musician. He has written for Pretty Decorating, ego trip, Hit It And Quit It, Mean, Slant, The New York Post, The Wire, The Village Voice, Slate, Spin and he was on the staff of The New Yorker from 2004-2015. In January 2015, he left The New Yorker to work for the website Genius. com as an executive editor, Frere-Jones left Genius after several months to become critic-at-large at The Los Angeles Times. Frere-Jones left the Times in May 2016 and he was born Alexander Roger Wallace Jones on January 31,1967, in Manhattan, the elder child of Elizabeth Frere and Robin C. Jones. His younger brother, Tobias Frere-Jones, is founder of the design company Frere-Jones Typography. Tobias and Alexander both legally changed their surnames from Jones to Frere-Jones in 1981, in 1983, Frere-Jones played Capulet in a St. Anns production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Nancy Fales Garrett. In 1984, Frere-Joness We Three Kings was one of ten plays chosen for the Young Playwrights Festival, the original reading starred John Pankow and Željko Ivanek. The final production at the Public Theater starred Adam Klugman, Jack Klugmans son and his follow-up play, Jump Down Turn Around, was performed at St. Anns and starred Frere-Jones and actor Josh Hamilton. Frere-Jones attended the Saint Anns School in Brooklyn from 1972 to 1984 and he won an award from the Young Playwrights Festival in 1983 for his play “We Three Kings. ”After graduating from St. Ann’s in 1984, Frere-Jones attended Brown University for three years but did not graduate. He subsequently attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, concentrating on Dramatic Writing and he graduated from the Columbia School of General Studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1993. In 1994, he married lawyer Deborah Holmes, with whom he has two sons, Frere-Jones plays bass, guitar, and various electronics. He founded the band Dolores during his time at Brown, the band made two full-length tapes, one in 1987 and one in 1990. After moving to New York in 1988, the played for two years before breaking up. In 1990, Frere-Jones co-founded the instrumental, two-bass rhythm band Ui with Clem Waldmann and they played their first live show in 1991, and spent the following eight years touring across the United States and Europe, opening for bands like Stereolab and Tortoise. Frere-Jones debuted as The New Yorker’s pop critic on March 8,2004 with “Let’s Go Swimming and he followed in the footsteps of the magazines past critics Ellen Willis, Mark Moses, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Nick Hornby. Three essays originally published in the magazine have appeared in Da Capo Presss Best Music Writing anthologies, the piece proved to be controversial, eliciting responses from Playboy, The Village Voice, Slate, and Simon Reynolds, among dozens of other news outlets and blogs. The New Yorker received more mail about “A Paler Shade of White” than it did for any other essay since “Escaping Picasso, in 2008, Frere-Jones was named one of the top 30 critics in the world by Intelligent Life, the lifestyle publication from The Economist. On March 9,2009, The New Yorker published his first profile, of British pop singer Lily Allen
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The Glitch Mob
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The Glitch Mob is an American electronic music group from Los Angeles, California. It consists of edIT, Boreta and Ooah, chris Martins of LA Weekly noted that they have undoubtedly found the largest audience of any L. A. beat scene artist yet. The Glitch Mob, originally a five-piece including Kraddy and Kitty-D, was formed in 2006 within the burgeoning Los Angeles bass-driven beat scene, the group made a name for themselves playing live, choosing to perform with laptops and MIDI controllers like the Lemur. After citing creative differences, founding member Kraddy left the group in 2009, the Glitch Mobs first album Drink the Sea peaked at number 57 on the CMJ Top 200 Chart for College Radio. The albums debut led Electronic Musician to run a story on the trio. Their single Drive It Like You Stole It was number 2 on XLR8Rs Top Downloads of 2010 list and their single Warrior Concerto was used in the official trailer for The Crew. The sophomore Glitch Mob album Love Death Immortality debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart and their remix for Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes was featured in the trailer for the World War I first-person shooter, Battlefield 1. Their song Skullclub was featured in an advert for Amazon Echo, during their 2014 tour The Glitch Mob performed with a new musical element they called The Blade. Built by movie set designers, it is a customized, painted set piece that houses both lights and instruments
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1995 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995. January 1 - Mo Ostin steps down as chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, January 8 - Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder hosts Self-Pollution Radio, a four-and-a-half hour radio broadcast with live performances by Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and others. Any station with a receiver could pick up and carry the program. January 14 - Perry Farrell is arrested for possession, being under the influence. January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a rail near Mill Valley, California, USA. January 27 - Live from the House of Blues premieres on TBS, february 1 – Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers band member Richey James Edwards goes missing after leaving the London Embassy Hotel, UK at 7 am. February 7 – Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison on a sexual abuse charge and he was later released on appeal. February 12 – Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer disappeared from Highway 101 and he tried calling his family and 911 for help, but received none. February 14 – Richey Edwards Vauxhall Cavalier is found abandoned in a station on the Bristol side of the Severn Bridge in the UK. Although he was near a notorious suicide spot, there is no evidence to suggest he committed suicide. February 19 – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancún, february 25 – Lyle Lovett suffers a broken collarbone in an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico. The accident prevented Lovett from attending the Grammy Awards, drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a concert in Switzerland after suffering a brain aneurysm. He undergoes successful brain surgery two days later in Switzerland, march 8 – Former Helloween drummer, Ingo Schwichtenberg, commits suicide by jumping under a subway train. March 13 - Radiohead album The Bends is released, march 14 – With the release of Me Against the World, Tupac Shakur became the first male solo artist to have a number one album on the American Billboard 200 chart while in prison. The album remained at the top of the charts for four weeks, march 26 – Rapper Eric Lynn Wright, better known as Eazy-E, dies of complications from AIDS. March 28 – Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announce their separation after 21 months of marriage. March 31 Tejano singer Selena is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, her personal assistant and former fan club president. The event was called Black Friday by Hispanics worldwide, during a performance in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, Jimmy Page narrowly escapes being stabbed by a man who rushes the stage with a knife
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Music of the United Kingdom (1990s)
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Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. Electronic rock bands like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers began to achieve a high profile, local bands catching the tail-end of Madchester, such as The Mock Turtles, became part of a wider baggy scene. The music press in the UK began to more focus on shoegazing bands from the south of England. A louder, more aggressive strain of dream pop came to be known as shoegazing, key bands of this style were Lush, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Alisons Halo, Chapterhouse, Curve and Levitation. These bands kept the qualities of dream pop, but added the intensity of post-punk-influenced bands such as The Chameleons. It was inspired by the DIY scene of punk, with a fanzine, label and club and gig circuit. Early bands included The Pastels, Talulah Gosh and Primal Scream, the term was first used to describe the band Bark Psychosis and their album Hex, but was soon employed for bands such as Stereolab, Laika, Disco Inferno and Pram and other acts in America and Canada. Scottish group Mogwai were among some of the influential groups to arise at the turn of the 21st century. Britpop emerged from the British indie scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s and these bands were soon joined by others including Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass and Elastica. Britpop groups brought British indie rock into the mainstream and formed the backbone of a larger British cultural movement called Cool Britannia. Although its more popular bands were able to spread their commercial success overseas, especially to the United States, many of these bands tended to mix elements of British traditional rock, particularly the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Small Faces, with American influences, including post-grunge. Soon after, girl groups began to reappear, like the R&B act Eternal, the most successful and influential act of the genre were the Spice Girls, who added well-aimed publicity and the ideology of girl power to their pop careers. They had nine number 1 singles in the UK and US, including Wannabe,2 Become 1 and they were followed by British groups like All Saints, who had five number 1 hits in the UK and two multi-platinum albums. Drum and bass emerged from the London breakbeat hardcore and rave scene of the late 1980s, subsequent artists included Shy FX, Ed Rush,4 Hero and DJ Rap, some fusing drum and bass with influences from jazz, film music, ambient and trip-hop. In the early 1990s, dance music saw more exposure at music festivals like Glastonbury. Other clubs emerged to play the ever-splintering genres associated with the music and rave scene, including hardcore techno, downtempo and trance, drum and bass. The Bristol scene saw the development of hop, which mixed house and hip hop producing successful bands such as Massive Attack
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Exclaim!
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Exclaim. is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists. Content is based on the print publication, publishes 11 issues per year. Exclaim. began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryersons CKLN-FM in 1991 and it was started by Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded, the group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start, similarly to an alternative weekly newspaper, the magazine is distributed as a free publication at campus and community radio stations, bars, record stores, libraries, and coffee shops. The magazines website features reviews, interviews and profiles not found in the print publication and it includes a news page that is updated with the latest in music and music-related culture. The site reaches 211,000 unique users every month, TV, which includes weekly instalments of video interviews with musicians, as well as a section titled Click Hear where readers are guided to the latest music released on the Internet. As well as music, exclaim. ca reviews films, DVDs, music DVDs, concerts, exclaim. ca is also increasing its coverage of film festivals, such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. The magazine also covers smaller Toronto festivals such as the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, the magazines website also has contests where readers can enter for a chance to win various music-related prizes. These artists are featured on the cover of Exclaims monthly issue, x3 artists of the month have included Knaan, Malajube, Thunderheist, Japandroids, Apostle of Hustle, You Say Party. We Say Die. and The Rural Alberta Advantage
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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial
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Consequence of Sound
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Consequence of Sound is a Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music and movies. In addition, the website features the Festival Outlook micro-site. The website takes its name from the Regina Spektor song, Consequence of Sounds. The site was founded in September 2007 by Alex Young—who now has the role of the sites CEO and publisher—and it has a staff of over 50 writers, editors, graphic designers. In February 2012, the website launched a long form writing section, in March 2012, the website launched its first-ever mobile app at South by Southwest. Consequence of Sound is listed as one of the most influential music websites by Technorati, in 2010, About. com ranked Consequence of Sound the years best music blog, based on Technorati rankings and the online buzz throughout the year. In the Spring of 2014, Style of Sound calculated that Consequence of Sound charted as the No.2 Most Influential Music Blog, a popular feature of Consequence of Sound is the Festival Outlook, posting rumors regarding bands playing music festivals. However, it has caused some controversy, in 2009, CoS reported that Paul McCartney and The Killers would headline the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival prior to its lineup announcement. In 2010, CoS reported that Muse, Jay-Z, and Gorillaz would headline the 2010 Coachella Valley Music, official website Consequence of Sound on Facebook Consequence of Sound on Twitter
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Simon & Schuster
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Simon & Schuster, Inc. a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster publishes 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints, in 1924, Richard Simons aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of New York World crossword puzzles, which were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity, at the time, Simon was a piano salesman and Schuster was editor of an automotive trade magazine. They pooled US$8,000 to start a company to publish crossword puzzles, fad publishing became the business model for the new publishing house, which set out to exploit current fads and trends and publish books with commercial appeal. Instead of signing authors with a manuscript, they came up with their own ideas. In the 1930, the moved to what was known as Publishers Row on Park Avenue in Manhattan. In 1939, with Robert Fair de Graff, Simon & Schuster founded Pocket Books, in 1942, Simon & Schuster, or Essandess as it is called in the initial announcement, launched the Little Golden Books series in cooperation with the Artists and Writers Guild. Simon & Schusters partner in the venture was the Western Printing and Lithographing Company, Western Printing bought out Simon & Schusters interest in 1958. In 1944, Marshall Field III, owner of the Chicago Sun, purchased Simon & Schuster, following Fields death in 1957, his heirs sold the company back to Richard Simon and Max Schuster, while Leon Shimkin and James Jacobson acquired Pocket Books. In the 1950s and 1960s, many publishers including Simon & Schuster turned toward educational publishing due to the boom market. Pocket Books focused on paperbacks for the market instead of textbooks. By 1964 it had published over 200 titles and was expected to put out another 400 by the end of that year, Books published under the imprint included classic reprints such as Lorna Doone, Ivanhoe, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Robinson Crusoe. In 1966, Max Schuster retired and sold his half of Simon & Schuster to Leon Shimkin, Shimkin then merged Simon & Schuster with Pocket Books under the name of Simon & Schuster. Among his many bestsellers was Joseph Hellers Catch-22, in 1976, Gulf+Western headed by Charles Bluhdorn acquired S&S, which was grossing about US$50 million a year for $11 million, most of it in Gulf+Western stock. After the death of Bluhdorn in 1983, Simon & Schuster made the decision to diversify, bluhdorns successor Martin Davis told The New York Times, Society was undergoing dramatic changes, so that there was a greater need for textbooks, maps and educational information. We saw the opportunity to diversify into areas, which are more stable. In 1984, CEO Richard E. Snyder acquired Esquire Corporation, buying everything, Prentice Hall was brought into the company fold in 1985 for over $700 million and Martin Davis said that Prentice Hall became the road map for remodeling the company and a catalyst for change. This acquisition was followed by Silver Burdett in 1986, mapmaker Gousha in 1987, part of the acquisition included educational publisher Allyn & Bacon which according to Michael Korda became the nucleus of S&Ss educational and informational business
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Richard D. James Album
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Richard D. James Album is the fourth studio album by English electronic musician Richard D. James under the alias Aphex Twin, released on Warp Records in 1996. The albums music was produced and recorded by James and was an away from the ambient music on his previous releases. The album charted in the United Kingdom peaking at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart, the American release of the album included the Girl/Boy EP as bonus tracks. The album received reviews from sources ranging from Spin, Robert Christgau, The Independent. James has stated that most of Richard D. James Album was composed on his Macintosh computer and that the album took longer to create than any of his previous albums. Some tracks on the album include vocals from James including To Cure a Weakling Child, for which James manipulated his voice to sound like a child giving a lecture about arms and legs. Tracks from the American edition of the such as Milkman. For the orchestral arrangements on the album, James bought a violin at a car boot sale, James taught himself to play a note from the instrument by placing it on a table, playing a note and sampling it for the album. The drum programming on the album was inspired by James friend Luke Vibert, James described that he used to have it a much slower pace but that Vibert really got me into doing it a faster pace. The cover art for both. I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album is credited to both James and Johnny Clayton. Clayton did not accept credit for either of the covers, stating that he taught James how to use Photoshop. Thats what led to that cover, and also, when he was selling gear online, stuff that he was handwriting on was propelling the value of the equipment, so we thought to just use his own handwriting on the cover. Commented that tracks such as Girl/Boy Song, Yellow Calx, and Peek 824545201 were loosely based on jungle, Richard D. James Album was released by Warp Records on 4 November 1996. The album charted in the UK Albums Chart in the week ending 16 November 1996 for one week where it peaked at number 62, the American version included the Girl/Boy EP as bonus tracks. It was released on 28 January 1997 by Sire Records, the album was released on compact disc, cassette and gramophone record. Along with. I Care Because You Do, Richard D. James Album was re-issued on vinyl on 18 September 2012 by record label 1972, Warp announced their own re-issue of the album on 180-gram vinyl for 8 October 2012. The NME placed the album at number 20 on their list of the best albums of 1996, the Wire also listed the album among their top 50 albums of the year for 1996. Just when your brain starts to comprehend a rhythmic pattern, the shifts, turns left
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Drukqs
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Drukqs is the fifth studio album by Aphex Twin, a pseudonym used by English electronic musician Richard D. James. The album is a album and peaked at number 22 on the UK Albums Chart. James has stated that the title is not related to drugs, initial critical response to drukQs was positive, though not as much as his previous albums under the Aphex Twin name. Later, though, the New Rolling Stone Album Guide in 2004 declaimed that weirdly dismissed by many, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 66, based on 21 reviews. All songs composed by Richard D. James, Avril 14th has been used many times in other contexts. In 2006, it appeared on the soundtrack for Sofia Coppolas Marie Antoinette, in 2007, it was sampled in the digital short Iran So Far on a Saturday Night Live episode that aired on 29 September. There were complications of this—NBC did not get the rights to use the song. In 2010, Avril 14th was used as the music for Chris Morriss film Four Lions. In 2013, the song was featured in a trailer for Spike Jonzes film Her, nanou 2 features in Shane Meadows gritty cult thriller Dead Mans Shoes. A drukQs poster can be seen in Edgar Wrights comedy horror film Shaun of the Dead. Aphex Twin – piano, synthesizers, harmonium, keyboards, various objects, treatments, sampler, bass guitar Drukqs. net – The official Drukqs Web site, free MP3s. Drukqs at Metacritic Drukqs at the Warp Records discography Drukqs on Discogs
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Syro
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Syro is the sixth studio album by the electronic musician Richard D James, released under the pseudonym Aphex Twin on 19 September 2014 on Warp. It is his first studio release under the name Aphex Twin in 13 years since Drukqs. The album is also his first official release as Aphex Twin since Chosen Lords, the album also features edited vocal tracks provided by James and his family. Syros cryptic promotional campaign included an announcement made available only on the Deep Web, as well as press releases in broken English. It was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize, a selection of tracks from Analord were later released on the compilation album Chosen Lords. A long absence followed, during which time James ceased releasing Aphex Twin material and only performed occasional disc jockey sets in the United Kingdom and he also relocated to rural Scotland, where he constructed a recording studio. Warp founder Steve Beckett mentioned on BBC Radio 6 Music in 2009 that a new Aphex Twin studio album would hopefully be available by the end of the year, though no album was released. Later in 2010, James revealed in an interview with culture, in April 2014 Fact reported that an anonymous record collector had listed a test pressing of Caustic Window—an unreleased album James recorded under the Caustic Window alias—on Discogs. The album was on sale for US$13,500, the campaign eventually raised over $67,000 from 4,124 contributions. A digital transfer of the album was available to the campaigns contributors and the LP was auctioned on eBay. The proceeds from Caustic Windows sale were split between James, Rephlex and Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders. James said in retrospect that the campaign was really touching, and really sweet and, upon realising the continued interest in his music, Syro is an electronic music album. All 12 songs on the album were written by James in-studio, according to James, the songs were written over an extended period, Syro features both archived and more recent compositions, with the albums oldest track around six or seven years old. The album was recorded in six different studios, including James own studio in Scotland, one audio engineer spent three months with James, helping him wire together patch panels and then realized he was doing it all wrong and had to start again. Describing the overall process as brutal, James referred to the technical issues as the catalyst for writing new music that would be featured on Syro. James used various audio setups when composing Syros material, a total of 138 pieces of equipment were used on Syro, including synthesisers, samplers, sequencers, processing units, MIDI interfaces, drum machines, vocoders, graphic equalisers and mixing desks. Among the brands James used were Yamaha, SSL, Sennheiser, Boss, Roland, Korg, several pieces of equipment were further modified by James himself. In addition to instrumentation, Syro features several vocal tracks, among them are edited unintelligible tracks of James, his wife Anastasia Rybina and his two sons, as well as both his mother and father, who appear on XMAS_EVET10
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Digeridoo (EP)
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Digeridoo is an EP by the musician Richard D. James under the alias Aphex Twin. All tracks were re-released on the Classics compilation, isopropophlex and Analogue Bubblebath are reprints of tracks from Analogue Bubblebath Vol I. Digeridoo was previously released as Aboriginal Mix on the Analogue Bubblebath 2 EP, Flaphead and Phloam are the only new tracks on the EP. Digeridoo does not contain an actual didgeridoo sample, however, according to Simon Reynolds of Energy Flash, eschewing samples, James labored for three days to concoct an electronic simulacrum of the primordial drone. The track Flaphead on the CD version of the EP is extended by about 20 seconds compared to the vinyl version, all tracks by Richard D. James. Digeridoo –7,11 Analogue Bubblebath 1 –4,44 Flaphead –7,00 Phloam –5,33 A1
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On (EP)
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On Remixes, featuring remixes by James, Reload and µ-Ziq, was released on the same day. Released after his debut album Selected Ambient Works 85–92, On is often described as an ambient techno record despite the presence of harsh, the title On is only mentioned once in the track list of the On EP. The D-Scape Mix, in actuality a remix of D-Scape from On and it is available on the Come to Viddy and WarpVision, The Videos 1989–2004 compilations. The text Madreporic Plate appears on the cover of the album just below the Aphex Twin logo. Although it is not the name of the album, mp3s circulated on the internet that simply had the name Aphex Twin - Madreporic Plate, which turned out to be the Reload Mix of On. According to a definition at biology-online. org, a Madreporic Plate is a plate in echinoderms. This may have been the inspiration for the design of the cover where there are triangles pointing outwards from the logo, on at the Warp Records website
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Girl/Boy EP
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Girl/Boy is a 1996 EP by the electronic music artist Richard D. James commonly known as Aphex Twin. It features songs where, for the first time, Richard D. James has sung his own lyrics, Milk Man through Girl/Boy were also featured as bonus tracks on the US release of Richard D. James Album. The sleeve cover features a picture of James older brother, also called Richard. It was designed by John Clayton and Richard D. James, all tracks written, produced and engineered by Richard D. James. Girl/Boy –4,52 Milk Man –4,08 INKEY$ –1,24 Girl/Boy –1,57 Beetles –1,31 Girl/Boy –1,40 Girl/Boy is the version as Girl/Boy Song from the Richard D. James Album. Girl/Boy EP at the Warp Records discography
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Analord
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Analord is a 3½ hour, 42-track series of recordings on 12 vinyl by UK-based electronic music artist Richard D. James. On 24 December 2009, the Rephlex Records website began posting unreleased/bonus tracks for the Analord series in MP3, to date,20 bonus tracks have been added to the series, which now totals 62 tracks for a runtime of 4 hours and 36 minutes. The first installment, Analord 10, went on sale through the Rephlex Records website on 15 December 2004 and it was later re-released as a picture disc. Both pressings of Analord 10 were marketed under James primary alias Aphex Twin, a condensed, album-length version of the series, Chosen Lords was released in 2006. James has programmed a variety of equipment throughout his career. Since James has a penchant for anagrams, it is noteworthy that Analord is an anagram for A Roland, Analord is also the title of a Luke Vibert track from Lovers Acid on Planet Mu. Its also suspected that Analord is a portmanteau of the words anal, tracks on Analord 8, Analord 9, and Analord 11 are named after computer viruses and other malicious software, allegedly to prevent or discourage file sharing. The images on both sides of Analord 11 feature the Michael Faraday Memorial in Elephant and Castle, London, Released January 2005, Re-released as a picture disc on 11 July 2005. * Released on 24 December 2009, only available through download
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Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
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Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 is an extended play by the British electronic musician Richard D James. It was released under the pseudonym Aphex Twin on 23 January 2015 on Warp and it is meant as a companion piece to his fifth studio album, Drukqs. It received mixed reviews and placed in several record charts. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 was announced for release on 9 January 2015 on Warps official website, the track listing, worldwide release date and a list of available release formats were published on Bleep. com alongside pre-orders of the EP. An alternate mix of the EPs opening track—Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed —was made available for stream, in Japan, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 was released on Beat Records and sold 3,627 physical copies in its first week of release. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 placed in three separate Billboard charts in the US, writing for The Guardian, Ben Beaumont-Thomas was highly critical of the EP and awarded it a two-out-of-five star rating. He said the EP was even less vital than Syro and remarked that the breakbeat backings are now heftily blokeish where before they were disciplined and junglist. If Syro was an artificial intelligence … then is like the organic consciousness it was drawn from. On those terms, it succeeds admirably, pattison rated the EP six out of ten. Writer Daryl Keating offered a review, describing the EP as seem like it was birthed in the wee hours—the compositional scribblings of a sleepless man. While mere scribblings from a musical genius can often trump the best efforts of many. Keating added that parts are coherent enough to sneak into the corners of Ninja Tunes back catalogue. Felicity Martin of Clash called Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 a difficult, however, Kellman said that the earlier portions of the EP started in promising fashion, particularly noting the halting riffs, intricate layering, and vibrant, ricocheting percussion. Bland also regarded the EP as highly listenable, no less so than Syro in fact, pitchfork Media selected the alternate mix of Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2s opening track, diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13, as the weeks Best New Track. Writer Patric Fallon finished his review by stating, the need to know whats going on gives way to that feeling of awe so regularly produces. Its another reminder that sometimes the best music is the stuff that leaves you asking, in a later review of the entire EP Mark Richardson highly praised Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 and selected it as part of the weeks Best New Music. Rothelin was equally critical however, writing that theres a certain pleasure in listening to an artist figure things out. All tracks written by Richard D James, the track length above is valid for CD, digital download and vinyl played on 33 rpm
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