I wasn't knocked out at all -- it was a pretty lousy tape, recorded in a back room, very badly balanced, not very good songs and a rather raw group. |
| | | | | George Martin, 1926-2016. (Popperfoto) | | | | | |  | “I wasn't knocked out at all -- it was a pretty lousy tape, recorded in a back room, very badly balanced, not very good songs and a rather raw group.”
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| rantnrave:// "God," a certain musician-philosopher once sang, "is a concept by which we measure our pain." God is having a banner year in 2016. I guess they needed a producer up there. RIP SIR GEORGE MARTIN... He was far from the first producer to revel in the creative possibilities of the recording studio, but in applying the full Technicolor power of EMI's equipment to the music of THE BEATLES, MARTIN is essentially the godfather of all modern pop producers. "When I joined EMI," he once said, "the criterion by which recordings were judged was their faithfulness to the original. If you made a recording that was so good that you couldn't tell the difference between the recording and the actual performance, that was the acme. And I questioned that. I thought, OK, we're all taking photographs of an existing event. But we don't have to make a photograph; we can paint"... Also, everyone who knows him says he was unbelievably elegant, and nice... RIP also JOHN MORTHLAND and AARON HUFFMAN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| "Thank you for all your love and kindness," Ringo Starr tweeted in tribute to producer. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| The Beatles' producer goes track-by-track through some of the band's most memorable tunes. (Originally published in Rolling Stone, July 15, 1976.) | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| You will probably never again own a new album by Kanye West. But if it makes you feel better, you can rent his software. You probably won't be too upset, either, just like when people quickly forgave Bethesda Softworks last November when its blockbuster game, "Fallout 4," shipped with a few glitches. | | |
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 | Beatport |
| Even in 2016, from DJ booth to boardroom, it’s man’s world. | | |
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 | Thump |
| During his introductory speech at the Oscars last month, Chris Rock raised a few important issues that society at large finds difficult to deal with. As well as challenging the lack of black nominees up for awards, he also brought up gender division, or more accurately, gender inequality, arguing that, "there's no real reason for there to be a man and woman category in acting." | | |
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| On the main seaside drag of Havana outside the newly-established U.S. embassy, three DJs made history and put on a show. It seemed like every young person in Havana was there to witness it, reports "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose, who was there. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Diplo is wearing a Cuban baseball jersey and waving a Cuban flag. He is in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans (the government newspaper reported over 400,000), many of them teenagers wearing American baseball caps or American flag tank tops. | | |
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 | ADWEEK |
| What it means to 'visualize music.' | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A Baroness concert and a Last Shadow Puppets interview spur more discussion about sexism in music. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| While windowing releases may be an effective marketing ploy for high profile artists like Adele and Kanye, such tactics serve to drive listeners to piracy, in a time when the music industry should be embracing -- and improving on -- streaming instead. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| A day after Kendrick Lamar surprise-released "untitled unmastered," the co-producers behind one of the album's standout tracks still couldn't definitively identify all of the voices on their own song. Lamar himself, sure. The honeyed pipes of guest vocalist CeeLo Green? Unmistakably so. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Are the Atlanta trio already over the dance craze they helped popularize? | | |
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 | Billboard |
| AccuRadio had played around with themes for years. "The next generation of radio." "Internet radio you control." "Radio that accurately reflects your tastes." "Crafted by music lovers -- not by a computer." "Over a thousand channels of variety -- with unlimited skips!" | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| The way gay people party in the US is changing. Andrew Ryce investigates. | | |
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| Los Angeles Times |
| Disney's "Zootopia" has some very real and topical messages about race and prejudice delivered in the form of a cuddly cartoon caper. Integral to capturing the film's themes and keeping its more serious aspects bouncing under the surface rather than presenting the audience with a lecture is "Zootopia's" upbeat, character-focused score courtesy of Michael Giacchino. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| Bono’s most beautiful song sounded most urgent after Hurricane Katrina. | | |
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 | radio.com |
| Given the amount of different members who have passed through Deep Purple over the decades it's no surprise that there's a lot of drama around their upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| It's a very interesting time for gender equality in music. Women's voices have never been louder, but at the same time the forces working against them have never been stronger. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| A new study claims that tracks about old age can lead to physical decline in elderly listeners. But pop’s attitude to ageing is often in the ear of the beholder. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| In a cruel twist, rock's most famous producer has become a victim of the very music he helped elevate. | | |
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