I feel asleep at the switch and never even noticed that this blog hit the five-year mark two weeks ago. Celebrate we must, even if belatedly. I point you to my first post, which references my only piece of legitimate cred: once getting linked by Romenesko. In five years, this blog has never gotten close [...]
Play it, kick it
As long as I’m mentioning John Oswald, this is a good excuse to link to an article I wrote on the old The Pop View site back in 1999 about the legendary “Lessons” records by Double Dee and Steinski. As a bonus, here is an archived version of an article Robert Christgau wrote on the [...]
Chuck me in the shallow water before I get too deep
Panopticist had a posting this week on Akufen, the Quebec producer known for his technique of microsampling (Take a look at the post here, which includes an MP3). I found it interesting and immediately thought of another Canadian cut-and-paste artiste, John Oswald. I don’t know if Oswald was the very first person to take music [...]