Interview: Kenny Dope

Interviews
Kenny Dope Gonzalez. An absolute house music legend, four times Grammy nominee, also called a living encyclopedia of beats, collector of over 50,000 records and one of the most prolific music artists of the las...

Musician Goes Door To Door To Sell His New Record

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Now here's a way for artists to be truly indie. Not signed to a record label nor to a distributor and let alone to a press agency, starting Irish artist Daniel Anderson decided to take matters into his own hand...

How Many BPM’s Can You Cycle?

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Spin the wheels & spin the record now is not only just a linguistic game. A designer trio (Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong) from the Netherlands (no surprise), married their love for bikes and vinyls and created a prototype of a bike t...

Company Presses Records Holding Ashes Of Your Loved Ones

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No this not a weird joke. But 'And Vinyly', a UK-based company, does have pretty morbid business model: pressing actual vinyl records that holds the ashes of your loved on. "Live on from beyond the groove" And Vinyly's home page says the company offers "the ...

Video: Man Turns Tortilla Into Record

Gear
There seems to be an endless stream of imaginative, sometimes ingenious music carrier applications. Just recently we saw this incredible looking record player, a paper midi controller, and a solar-powered speak...

What Vinyl Looks Like In Extreme Closeup

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The surface of a vinyl record is much more intricate than one may think. By coating an LP with silver and hitting it with electrons, along with a motion-controlled electron microscope taking stop-motion photos of the needle’s drag at 50 microns a second, Ap...