binary punks

Exactly since 60mins.
If there’s an application the binary punks both love to death than it surely has to be this little beast.
Get it while it’s fresh…

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da wir hier die ganze zeit schon geschichtsunterricht geben, hier direkt eine weitere stunde: “Für manche Menschen ist Musik das, was aus dem Radio kommt. Okay, vielleicht hier und da noch ein Klingelton, oder eine Werbemelodie aus dem Fernsehen, aber das war es dann auch schon. Für mich sind solche Menschen komisch.” (aus Als ich dabei war wie Deutscher Punkrock entstand)

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need more education?

anyone?

anyone?

bueller?

ok, stumbled over two interesting papers written by Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen, PhD-student at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo:

the most significant beat is taking a deeper look into the history and the development of the bass drum sound in dance tracks during the last decades from 70s disco till now.

chicago House and the “democratization” of music production is about how house evolved from disco music when DJs started to produce dance tracks using the first available sequencer controlled and pattern based boxes as e.g. the Roland TR series.

it shows the role drum computers and sequenced synthesizers played those days and goes into detail about how they influenced the approach of creating dance music and grooves by programming and laying out patterns in order to create arrangements, instead of actually playing and recording acoustical instruments - in a pretty scientific manner!

i loved the read, thanks Hans!

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