I was going to say that I haven’t always worshipped at the altar of technology, but that just wouldn’t be true. I was once a guitarist (not a good one, mind you,) and once I’d gotten the basics down, I moved onto the weird gear fetishism that seems to affect many musicians. Being a poor…
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Tags: effects processors, guitar pedals, stompboxes
One thing I love about music, especially electronic music, is the ease of collaboration. In the past it could be difficult; you’d have to get together a band, reserve time and space to practice and jam, and you generally had to stick with the same group. Side projects led to schisms and jealousy, and lots…
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Tags: collaboration, remix, remixes, remixing
…There was the MTV Music Generator. And it was… adequate. Known as Music 2000 everywhere aside from the United States (not to be confused with the BBC’s take on what music would sound like in the future,) it was what I suppose could have been considered a tracker. It included on its CD hundreds of…
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Tags: history, music, playstation, tracker