New Sony PS-F5 website July 5, 2009
Today I launched a website dedicated to my favourite gadget, the Sony PS-F5 portable record player.
The 7 inch is 60. January 5, 2009
“Have a feel of that,” says a passing engineer, handing over a white vinyl off-cut that has just been trimmed from the edge of a newly-manufactured disc.
It is warm to the touch – literally hot off the presses.
“That’ll warm you up on a cold day,” he says. “And we can recycle that and use it again.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7750581.stm
TeeScott – DJ and Remixer Extraordinaire April 1, 2008
Tee Scott commented on his first nights at “Better Days”: “I went into the deejay booth, and it was real, real, crude. I had to climb up onto this thing; it was unbelievable. There was no such thing as a pre-cue. What they had was a Sony amplifier with a Phono 1 and Phono 2 button, and that’s how you switched fram turntable to turntable. No fading, nothing. It was a large dancefloor; the lights were very basic at the time. They had this automatic light panel, and lights over the whole ceiling. You could change it to, like, 6 or 8 different patterns: a red ring, a blue ring, and a green ring, like a bullseye. And there was a big board on the wall inside the deejay booth, but it wasn’t working when I first started working there.
While adding a new entry for the Whodini Magic’s Wand 12″ that I found in the States into Discogs, I looked up more info on the remixer of side B’s extended mix. Turns out Tee Scott was a pretty amazing guy who was a pioneer in the dance music scene. Read to the end to find out how he gave Frankie Knuckles his first job.
Extraordinaire
Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph March 27, 2008
Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph – International Herald Tribune
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.
Think Betty January 12, 2008
The video cuts up an old Betty Boop cartoon “Rhythm On The Reservation”- a dubious story of how she teaches the savage “Indians” how to get groovy. There’s a whole list of Betty Boop cartoons that are now out of copyright and in the public domain so you can download them for free) here.
Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings April 13, 2007
Owing to the lack of recordings of Western music available in the USSR, people had to rely on records coming through Eastern Europe, where controls on records were less strict, or on the tiny influx of records from beyond the iron curtain. Such restrictions meant the number of recordings would remain small and precious. But enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would “press” a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates.
Street Use: Jazz on Bones: X-Ray Sound Recordings
Highway hi-fi – A turntable in your car
Undaunted by the failure of its original Highway Hi-Fi, its promoter cooperated with one of America’s leading electronics firms in a project involving the application of a more conventional phonograph to automobiles. The new phonograph is a 45-rpm automatic record changer of special design (Fig. 911) to enable it to be used in the family car.
Read more on ook – highway hi-fi