Bandcamp Friday June 5th

This June 5th is Bandcamp waiver day.

Lisa and I will match our bandcamp  spend with a donaltion to the bailout funds.

The two purchases I'm most looking forward to are

Subscription to the Label: NonClassical

And

the Digital Discography to Russian Hip Hop Label : RMixed

 

The Bandcamp Bug!!!

Bandcamp is great. It's a lot like the Archive.org but with commercial angles as well as community and underground music. As a fresh alternative to Spotify- I love it. It's a great way of getting material for #theConceptMixtape.

Reaktor

In a Live studio I'm not going to be jumping through plugins so generally the plugins I use will be pre loaded and serve a particular function.

Each instance of ableton (there are three) has 8 channels maximum to avoid horizontal scrolling with an apc or push. The main Ableton instance (HAL) has 5 Live templates, all of them are preloaded with reaktor  and a generative patch on channel 4.

I started off by using one of each of the following patches

https://blog.native-instruments.com/5-free-reaktor-tools-for-generative-sequencing/

Vaporwave

A ten year old scene based aorund plunderphonics and 90s mall culture and it is punk as fuck. How did I not hear of this before. Well obviously I've been living under a rock past 10 years and that's ok.

Born of bandcamp (think Archive.org but cool and with payment systems) living on the fringes of legality it usually involves the slowing down of muzak, Jazz and 80s pop classics (often with no other treatment).

Ratskin Records - Record Label

Ratskin Records is a collective record label and archival imprint championing decolonial experimental music centered in the Bay Area. We focus on LGBTQ+, Black, Native, POC, and disabled artists who create work that is sonically and politically pushing boundaries toward liberation. We work together to create an alternative to an industry that has historically exploited and devalued artist labor and requires artists to exhaust themselves to fulfill their life’s passion. We see the work of decolonial artists as world-building activism that centers empathy and basic human needs.

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