〰️getting ahead of the algorithm

The Smackos disco45 12" remix of this one particular track from the soundtrack of the 1985 "The Falcon & The Snowman" movie, first heard in the Legowelt Resident Advisor mix from a few years ago. Check those melancholical bassoon clarinet patches from the EMU EMAXII and little blobs of Other People Place influenced style modulated SH101 riffs. Get it at http://nightwindrecords.blogspot.nl/2016/08/this-is-not-america-smackos-emax.html

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The Hot New Hip-Hop Producer Who Does Everything on His iPhone

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a talk about "design thinking": practice and paradox. One of the moderators complained (and made assumptions) about younger artists not being versed in classical techniques (i.e for fillmmakers it would be splicing actual film together or using a bolex as a oppose to using premiere to edit or using a digital camera).

The moderator hated how "bad" design has become. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so hard.

I agree, there is too much noise - there's mediocrity in all disciplines. However, the democratization of technology has allowed those previously without access to traditional ways of producing art, a way of creating outside of their disciplines.

Process is important, but so is performance and intent.

Anyway, read the full article on Steve Lacy here

I KNOW WHAT TO THROW AWAY AND WHAT TO KEEP MY HANDS ON...

Charlotte Dos Santos 'Cleo' EP, coming later this Spring, on Fresh Selects. Follow: @charlottedossantos @freshselects "Red Clay" Written & Produced by Charlotte Dos Santos Mixed by Justin Mathews Mastered by Kelly Hibbert @ Almachrome Photo by Tiago Mena Abrantes Design & Layout by Tawfiq Mardini

We’ve been knocking on doors for the past seventeen years

Cindy van den Bremen created the first sports hijab seventeen years ago, so yesterday’s announcement that Nike will debut sports hijabs for Muslim women in 2018 has been a long time coming. “My initial reaction was, ‘Finally!’” she told Glossy. “We’ve been knocking on doors for the past seventeen years, but it was too early,” she said of her attempts to sell the idea to larger brands, including Nike. “There was no urgency yet from a big brand perspective."

read full article here.

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A new film from director Anna Rose Holmer, known for her 2016 drama The Fits, captures a unique collaboration between New York's Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Academy Award-nominated composer Nicholas Britell. Choreographed by the theater's artistic director Robert Battle, dancers Jamar Roberts, Christopher Taylor and Jeremy T.