Not Another GOP Primary Story
Guys, guys, I've got to know you pretty well by now and what I know is this: you really haven't got time at the moment for any story which doesn't have to do with the Republican primaries.
So I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. In his capable paws right now Blue Yeti is holding the master tape - well actually it's a digital file - of the next Radio Free Delingpole podcast. And let me tell you, it's a Radio Free Delingpole podcast like nothing you have ever heard on Ricochet before. It has drug references, it name-checks musical genres so obscure even your kids' really cool street friends haven't heard of them, and it makes almost no mention of US politics whatsoever except near the end where I have a snidey dig at Occupy.
Oh, and it has music, because that is the USP of this particular Radio Free Delingpole episode. I've recorded it with an old school friend of mine, Eddy Temple Morris, who did something much more interesting with his life than me and became a world-class DJ. We each brought in some favorite recent tracks to talk about. And I quickly realized how geriatric my tastes are compared to Eddy's. Which probably means you'll like my choices a lot more than you like his. Or maybe not: that's what I shall be fascinated to find out.
What I'm really hoping is that you'll listen to it in the spirit of adventure and open-mindedness - as, if say, on a whim you'd gone to hear an elderly prof give a lecture on Sanskrit; or if, maybe, you'd suddenly discovered your daughter was dating a young man called Skrillex and you were genuinely interested to learn what the fellow did for a living. (Skrillex is one of Eddy's sampled artistes, btw).
What I'm hoping you won't do is react like one of those stereotypical Dads who goes: "What is this racket?" and puts on his trusty Country & Western CD instead. Recording this program was an education for me (Eddy really knows his stuff and is inspirational in communicating it) and I'd really like to do some more. (As an adjunct to my more political podcasts - don't worry - not as a replacement).
Oh, memo to Peter Robinson: it's OK. You get an exemption.
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Aug '10
Re: Not Another GOP Primary Story
Mark Belling Fan
Misthiocracy
I knew there had to be a reason why I hate it so much. · 1 minute ago
Elitist!
No no no. I'm an ageist.
Aug '10
Re: Not Another GOP Primary Story
The King Prawn
Blue Yeti: This is the problem with working with someone 8 time zones ahead of you. You never know what you'll wake up to. We'll have this up in a couple of hours. · 13 minutes ago
Edited 12 minutes ago
It's 9 o'clock on the west coast and you're just waking up? Slacker!
He's an I.T. worker. They're on a whole different level from mere mortals.
Re: Not Another GOP Primary Story
Oh please. Skrillex is so last year.
Sep '11
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Aaron,
The best of the low-cost tools is Reaper, which I use a bunch for editing MIDI files. I can use Reaper for editing WAV files, but find that I've become so accustomed to Audacity's workflow that I keep using that instead.
I've recently purchased ProTools (bundled with an M-Audio interface), but haven't done much more than played around.
All of the DAW stuff that I do is editing and touch-up work--I'm really creating music with Sibelius 7 and a large collection of VSTs from Garritan, Native Instruments, and Hauptwerk.
(Totally off-topic, but there's a movement in the evangelical church to adapt traditional hymn lyrics to "modern" music [by which they mean modern country music--the movement is literally centered around Nashville]. I'm going the other route--using the instruments of 21st century music technology to reinvigorate the traditional music of the church.)
Mar '11
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Thanks for the post, James. I had almost forgotten that my wife asked me to pick up a bottle of Skrillex on the way home. You're a life saver!
Mar '11
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OK, so this isn't going to be anything really disturbing is it? Like Moby doing Cole Porter covers or bagpipe versions of Gilbert and Sullivan?
Because I think I've got all of those.
Apr '11
Re: Not Another GOP Primary Story
Rob Long
Oh please. Skrillex is so last year. · 2 hours ago
I wouldn't go that far, but he's not Supertramp.
Apr '11
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Percival: OK, so this isn't going to be anything really disturbing is it? Like Moby doing Cole Porter covers or bagpipe versions of Gilbert and Sullivan?
Because I think I've got all of those. · 51 minutes ago
Skrillex is sort of the opposite of disturbing. He's overwhelmingly prejudice confirming. Exactly the sort of noise that old people think young people listen to. Very little creativity or innovation that would be obvious to someone who was not involved in the scene (although he was a very big innovator in the genre of dubstep, the genre is so reductionist that it seems difficult to imagine someone doing something with it that would sound new to an outsider).
Apr '11
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Did I say the Smiths? I meant Atomic Kitten.
Re: Not Another GOP Primary Story
Rob Long
Oh please. Skrillex is so last year. · 16 hours ago
Yeah, right: says the president of the Backstreet Boys fan club.