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The Loudness Wars

Release Out - Universal...

New FOEM CD out!

High Quality MP3s - How...

Looking for some feedba...

FOEM Artist of the Week

Bjork and the retracTab...

Amie St - Free songs th...

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Logic ProTools Killer

MP3 format doesn't pla...

Netlabel Release - The ...

Bjork and Coachella

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EM411 vs Other Social M...

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My name's Dustin Frelich. You can read more about the project and download tracks at The Stringed Theory Website

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The Loudness Wars

Tags: dynamic range, loundness

A little mini-rant/blog/article prompted by this: link
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Release Out - Universal Relativity

Tags: download, netlabel, release, ambient

Hot on the heels of the feedback I sought out here last week comes a release months in the making. Universal Relativity, weighing in at 56 mb for 40 m (Click here to read the rest)

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New FOEM CD out!

Tags: foem, ey, ey15, cd

Ok, so it's not really a physical CD, but the latest FOEM/Electronic Youth Vol. 15 release is out.

Best of all, it's a 4-CD, 53-track free downlo (Click here to read the rest)

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High Quality MP3s - How To

Tags: mp3, how to, high quality, encoding

In anticipation of mixing down my wavs to mp3 for an upcoming release distribution, I've been doing some research. While there's a lot of good infor (Click here to read the rest)

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Looking for some feedback

Tags: release, netlabel, feedback

Ok, so I have a mini-lp coming out on the Stadtgruen netlabel in a week or so (ambient, textured electronic music a la Hecker, Fennesz, et al). I've (Click here to read the rest)

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FOEM Artist of the Week

Tags: foem, artist of the w, netlabel

A couple of my favorite online places for electronic music include EM411 and FOEM. That's why I was honored when a couple weeks ago FOEM asked if I w (Click here to read the rest)

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Bjork and the retracTable

Tags: coachella, retractable, bjork

A couple weeks ago I saw Bjork at Coachella. I didn't know at the time but Bjork was actually "using" the retracTable. If you're familia (Click here to read the rest)

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Amie St - Free songs that rise in price

Tags: amie st, drm, free

Amie St... Anyone heard of this site before?

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It looks like it's a DRM-free zone where song price (Click here to read the rest)

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Post-it

Tags: post it, video

Clever bastards - one of those ideas you wish you thought of first

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Edit: How do I embed this thing? (Click here to read the rest)

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Logic ProTools Killer

Tags: logic, protools, apple

From ArsTechnica link

[quote=ars]It might not seem like it, but it's been almost five years s (Click here to read the rest)

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MP3 format doesn't play well with others

Tags: ogg, wired, patent, encoding, mp3, acc

From Wired: MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

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[quote=wired]Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only (Click here to read the rest)

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Netlabel Release - The Stringed Theory - Supersymmetry

Tags: netlabel, bumpfoot, release, ambient

My first netlabel release on Bumpfoot: link

The release is called Supersymmetry and is four tracks of laidback and (Click here to read the rest)

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Bjork and Coachella

Tags: festival, show, bjork, coachella

Just got my tickets to see Bjork on Friday (April 27). Yea, I'm missing Hot Chip, !!!, Air and others, but it's Bjork.

Friday's lineup:

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Studio Pics + Commentary

Tags: studio, pics, commentary, more signal

More signal and less noise, right guys?

Hardware:
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19-inch LCD
A big LCD is a must when you're staring at a screen for hours. LCDs a (Click here to read the rest)

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EM411 vs Other Social Music Sites

Tags: em411, myspace, social, rant

Rant forthcoming...

I've seen and participated in a few of the community music sites out there (albeit on a limited basis), yet they all left some (Click here to read the rest)

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