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Thomas Dolby runs an awesome blog that is WordPress powered.

He also cooks his tapes.

… Don’t worry this is what you do with old master tapes. The oxide likes to detach itself from the backing, and if you don’t bake it back on, big clumps fall off on the tape heads the moment you try to play it. This restoration process was only discovered a few years ago. Up until then I had pay a large annual rental fee to store my tapes in the basement at Abbey Rd, at what was thought to be the ideal temperature and moisture.

That basement has served over the years as a bomb shelter, butchers’ repository, and storage place for the Sgt Pepper’s 4-tracks and mellotron. Once EMI discovered that tapes stored down there were actually falling apart, and needed to be baked to be playable, they offered a ‘restoration service’ to artists and producers, charged at a high hourly rate. So they got a bit more cash out of me for that. But when I found out that the recipe was quite simple and could be easily done in a domestic oven, I switched to doing it myself. …

via Thomas Dolby’s Blog » Blog Archive » Urban Tribal found

Visiting Shindo Labs — Matt Mullenweg.

TouchOSC is an iPhone / iPod Touch application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol.

via hexler.net – TouchOSC. via jstn.cc

Artists and producers work hard in the studio perfecting their sound, but people can’t really hear it with normal headphones. Most headphones can’t handle the bass, the detail, the dynamics. Bottom line: the music doesn’t move you. With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear and listen to the music the way they should– the way I do.

Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones

The Garrard 401 + Lignolab Plinth + SME 3012 + Denon 301R combo was 1 year in the making. It sounds so beautiful, you’d be amazed. Yes, it’s a record player. Call me antiquated.