Just stopping by…

…to indicate a couple of sites, one for fans of old-time/country blues/folky stuff, and another for fans of the punk/new wave/no wave/post punk interphase.

Again with the other blogs

Specifically this Inconstant Sol post, atwhere you may download a live set from 1982 of an Arthur Blythe band with Bob Stewart on Tuba and Kelvyn Bell on guitar.

The first Orthotonics record…

…is over here.  The second one is still here.

Another blog for your ample free time.

La Folie du Jour blogs really good music.

Thank you, Inconstant Sol

I’ve been trying to reunite myself with this record, Bush Baby by Arthur Blythe, for a long time.

Blogbert Blogowicz

Here’s a blog that posts film soundtracks.  (via)

Here’s a blog that specializes in library music. Via the first one.

Bloggity bloggity

Mutant Sounds, which I found out about because it won an award, which I found out about because it was geblogkt by Avant Music News.  I live in constant fear of the day that you guys (both of you) start reading Avant Music News for yourselves.  Until then, he’s got a few best-of-aught-seven lists here and here.  But seriously, it’s like Eurypterids never even existed over there.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) memorial linkfest

Official site

Unofficial site

Wikipedia

Obits: NYT, BBC, WaPo, Bloomberg

YouTube

Informative bloggery: Marginal Revolution, Damin Lanigan (the Telegraph), The Rest Is Noise,

Blogs against cultural oblivion, in a loungy-islandy-brasilly kinda way.

Loronix.

It’s coming out of your speaker.   Lots of Lee “Scratch” Perry on top at press time.

Linkfest re: the volume wars

Avant Music News has blogged a post from Bob Drake to a prog listserv with a bunch of links to articles and videos about the disappearance of dynamic range from commercial recordings. You can read that post, but my quote of his quote of Drake’s email has hyperlinks:

The Loudness War. Very good YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

IEEE article on the loudness war:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5429

Over The Limit: excellent, classic article about the volume war:
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/files/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C

Short Term Gain/Long Term Pain:
http://gboers.xs4all.nl/daisy/home/g3/139/loudnesswar.html

Death of Dynamic Range:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm

I Want to Break Free of the Volume War. Another good Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkqsN69Jac

Here is my own little example:
http://www.bdrak.com/other/mastering/examples.htm