Went to a Q Department video screening for director Jaron Albertin(don’t ask, it was too hot of a night to really enjoy the work being projected) and spent some time talking with Arnaud from Alife, and José Parlá, who was in a great mood as usual, probably because he’s living that fly life and was about to head to London for the week.
José told me he’s going to be working on some more pottery over there, and we also talked about the pottery he’s worked on in the south of Japan - my man is doing his thing! Sorry about the poor-quality photo, but those dudes make such big moves, it’s hard to focus.
Spotted this on the internet and I gotta say it’s sorta progressive for Jay-Z… The cover for Blueprint III. Hot, although as you can see it sorta feels a little like something else. Yeah, it’s a little reminiscent of the Secret Machines cover, but that’s OK, Jay - the all-white instruments are always a good look. Still, I’m so old-school that I immediately think of this when I see that abstracted “3” in there. The mighty E-Mu Systems Emulator 3. Don’t tell my girl, but I have one sitting in our basement storage, taking up about a 5th of the space with it’s big-ass ATA flight case. It’s got a 4 megabyte hard-drive, no lie. Back in the day that was a lot! When you trimmed samples, you had to trim both the right and left sides separately, and you had to remember the sample number you were trimming at and match it, otherwise there would be a ‘pop’ at the end of the sample when you played it back. Why keep it, now that the iPhone can likely do more? Well, it’s got these wicked-smooth filters that are analog, when nearly everything else uses digital filters. And I also have the sound collection that was used by Harold Budd using an E-3 on the White Arcades album, which I like a lot. But whatever I’m saying here, know that the thing has been in my basement for years - so maybe I’m just being clingy.
Posted by Bill McMullen on August 18, 2009 at 04:26 AM
