Friday, January 27, 2017
Music format: The Psycho-Physical relationship with the listener (Article by ray K)
I’ve been making
recordings since about the age of eight.
My first recorder was a rather large telephone answering machine capable
of mono only. The age of the boom box came and I was finally able to make
somewhat decent stereo recordings with a dual deck unit my mother gave to me
for my birthday. I was doing my first
edits on the boom box- looping beats - pause / rewind / record. Making good
tapes was tricky. It took some trial and error but I was relating to the music
in a way that I was soon to leave behind.
When I got my
first TEAC Audio CD Recorder in 2000 that was it…. the recording cassette died
for me… So who cares about tapes anymore and why would I start making them
again?
1. Certain members of the audiophile community never let go of
tape and prefer the medium – Just follow the links around here and all your
questions will be answered.
2. Recent iconic representations in pop-art seem to be
saying a chic, cheeky “farewell” to the physical representations of music. So
some collectors collect objectively only.
I grew up in an age when we associated music with a necessary physical
medium. (Record, Tape, CD) This has all changed.
3. Cassette tapes have grown so undesirable to the common
consumer that many thrift stores have stopped accepting them as donations. This has caused a “rapid rarity” for those of
us who still bought them; whether to digitize or traditionally play and enjoy.
4. Higher quality recording tapes, (notably Type II and IV) have
ceased production. There will be no more.
(Have you started to feel the panic attack yet??)
The Speed of Sound
If you are still thumbing your nose at that old tape deck in
your local Goodwill, Consider the fact that music now moves through our lives
as fast as mp3’s move through hard drive space. Our personal music has evolved
into something floating around and almost intangible- A file mysteriously
located in a device or in cyber space.
We don’t touch it anymore or put it in our hand. I argue here that this makes the
Psycho-Physical connection for us more abstract and not as memorable. Between
digitizing all of the analog recordings I now purchase so cheaply and listening
/categorizing all of the new electronic music I am so passionate about- I’m
overwhelmed. Of the new music I listen to, there will now be fewer recordings
remembered. I do not spend the time enjoying certain recordings over and over
anymore because I have too much to listen to….But, at least I still listen. My past has given me that gift.
‘It’s the new style’
The percentage of
youth that actually pay positive attention to the music they listen to has dramatically
declined. (I don’t think they even pay enough attention to it to ascertain the
negative affects of profanity or obscenities anymore.) The digital age is
probably the single most responsible party to blame for the rapid evolution of
ADD in our youth. Being firmly planted
in deep house music, I observe that the younger members of our community seem
to be a small minority taking refuge in the repetition of a deep groove because
they need to escape into an ‘even space’ of meditation away from all the chaos
in popular society.
25 years ago, it
was too much work for us to FF through a tape after just hearing seconds of a
song so we listened and learned to appreciate songs we would have otherwise
overlooked. Even in the CD age, there
were only so many songs to skip through before you went through the whole disc.
When did we stop
caring about Stereos?
There is a serious
lack of amplification quality in modern home stereo systems (If you even have
one) As a result the loudness wars have become a phenomenon of the digital
age. Overuse of compression in
recordings so that your band’s song is the loudest thing on the IPOD when bobby
teenager is flipping through, has caused a dramatic deterioration in true sound
quality and the likely hood that you will want to play a song over more than
once or twice. There is a serious lack in detail and definition in modern
recording because digital allows so much sound to be packed into a single file. My non music
snob friends (and even a few of the snobs!) believe that their Bose IPod
docking stations are a dandy substitute for an honest to god component system.
I love the digital
age in a very selfish way; that is, when it is a custom built perspective for
me. When I am able to harness its powers
and not think about what it has done to desensitize and de-educate the musical bourgeois. My argument for analog is one of my
compassion for music and the way in which it is recorded and played back. Tape has personality and those that say that
is a bad one never made a good tape. So this section of the site is dedicated
the magical magnetic wonderland of tape and things remembered forever. –ray
K
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Track List:
1 St. Germain - Deep In It
2 Nilton Fotore - Silent Groove At Morning (Premeire Mix)
3 Jeff Lorber - Full Moon (ray K Extended Mix)
4 Chaka Khan - So Not To Worry
5 Bob James - Eddie's Gone Hollywood
6 Thelma Houston - You Used To Hold Me So Tight
7 Norwood - Give It Up
8 Brandy Wells - Watch Out
9 Bonnie Pointer - Free Me From My Freedom
10 Ruby Turner - Rumors
11 Loose Ends - Cheap Talk
12 Passed - Vanessa Daou
13 Bayaka - Spanish Storm (Atjazz mix) 14 Herb Alpert - Besame Mucho
Episode 8 (Blood Sweat & Tears, Don Carlos, Womack & Womack, Roy Ayers, Kerri Chandler, Osio)
Track List:
1 Roller Coaster - Blood Sweat & Tears
2 If You Can Love Me - Terry Garthwaite
3 Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
4 Dj Aphreme - Livin In Chaos
5 John Crockett ft Natalie - Light of Love (Gene Kings Shine Mix) 6 Nicky P & Jeremias Santiago - Tampa Soul
7 Don Carlos - House Of Blues
8 Danny Clark & Jay Benham - Don't Feel Like Its Over (Downtown Soulful Instr. Mix)
9 Roy Ayers & Kerri Chandler - Good Vibrations (Kerris Mad Mix)
10 Boddy Dambrosio Feat. Lasala - Runaway Love (Osio Remix)
11 Maxine Innis - Standing Strong - Jazzy Instrumental Mix
12 Kevin Bryant - Who You Wanna Be (instrumental)
13 I Am Love - Womack & Womack
Episode 7 (Santanna, Curtis Mayfield, Moon Rovers, Champaigne, Spinners, Black Cinema vs. Art Lines)
Track List:
1 Spring Manifestations - Santana
2 Little Child Runnin Wild - Curtis Mayfield
3 Enigmatic - Blue Moon
4 Lucky - Lewis Taylor - (Kruder & Dorfmeister Suicide Mix) 5 Nappy - Alison Crockett (Waiwan Remix)
6 Lounge Clouds - Moon Rovers
7 Do You Tango - Beppe Gioia
8 Jack House - Black Cinema vs Art Lines
9 Split Decision - Spinners
10 Where Is The Love - Mica Paris
11 In Too Deep - Genesis
12 Lonely - Janet Jackson
13 Off And On Love - Champaigne
14 Mar y Sol - Dj Liberty
15 Driving In My Soul - Harley and Muscle (Feat. Jimi Polo)
Episode 6 (Swampburger, The Jazz Masters, Wilton Felder, Patrice Rushen, Change, Grooveprofessor Ray Paxton)
Track List:
1. Afternoons In Stereo - Tidal Passage
2. You Got Something - Jeff Lorber
3. Sun Vibes (Beef Wellington Remix Dub) - Swamburger
4. Hold Tight - Change
5. P60 - Water
6. San Francisco Lights - Bobbi Humphrey
7. Let Your Heart Be Free - Patrice Rushen
8. Child Of Love - James D Train Williams
9. Keep It Real - Paul Hardcastle & The Jazz Masters
10. I'm Diggin You (Like An Old Soul Record) - Geoffrey Williams
11. In Motion - Tortured Soul
12. Tickin Clock - Fug
13. It's Not Too Late (Chill Mix) - Grooveprofessor Ray Paxton - Feat Sybil
14. Beautiphul - Dj Aakmael
15. Munich - Scope
16. Someday We'll All Be Free - Wilton Felder
Episode 5 (Gino Soccio, Eumir Deodato, Chaka, Elements Of Life, T Connection, Windjammers)
Track List:
1 Summer Madness - Kool & The Gang
2 Three Days Of The Condor - Rhythm Heritage
3 Nicole - Ramsey Lewis
4 Southern Girl - Maze feat Frankie Beverly
5 Un Po Duva E Un Liquore - Pino Dangio
6 Closer - Gino Soccio
7 When Am I Gonna Make A Living - Sade
8 Definition Of A Star - Karu
9 Circles - TBF
10 Whistle Bump - Eumir Deodato
11 Groove To Get Down - T Connection
12 Do You Love What You Feel - Rufus & Chaka
13 Son Of A Gun - Joshua Heath
14 The Thousand Fingered Man (inst) - Elements Of Life
15 Slip & Slide - Mettle Music Collective 16 Tossing & Turning - Windjammers
Episode 4 (Bob James, Deep Melange, Monodeluxe, Two Armadillos, Yaz)
Track List:
1 Fireball - Bob James
2 Sa Trincha Feeling - Dj Boost
3 Mas Que Nada (Alsterlounge Extended Mix) - Deep Melange vs. Backens & Gruenwald
4 Tryin E - Wonder Music (feat. Tracy Everano)
5 Fangaabicahva - Hilary Sargeant (Soul Mix)
6 Come Around - William Besson (Terry Lee Brown Jr Remix)
7 Winter Kills - Yaz
8 Ghost - Black Box
9 Moving With The Shakers -The Sunburst Band ft. Leroy Burgess (Joey Negro Extended Mix)
10 Get Down With It - Monodeluxe
11 Nostalgia - Two Armadillos
12 Free Society - Markos
13 The Soul Sax Track - Silvia Zaragoza (Original Mix)
Episode 3 (S. Grooves, White Collar Criminals, Klique, Martha Wash, Starsky & Hutch)
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Track List:
1 S. Grooves - Flute Mode feat. Kieth Kamisky (Flute Solo)
2 Tomato Jaws - Be With Me (Tigerskin True Dance Remix)
3 Aurra - Make Up You Mind ( Instrumental)
4 White Collar Criminals - West Side Love
5 Above Smoke - Outbreak
6 Blaze - Whatcha Gonna Do
7 Kama - Incanto Damor (original)
8 Bet On - Oriole (Pure Trip Mix)
9 Klique - I Can't Shake This Feeling
10 Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
11 Stephanie Mills - You Can' Run From My Love 12 Brass Construction - Walkin' The Line
13 Cleavage - Barah
14 Martha Washington - So Whatcha Gonna Do
15 Rhythm Heritage - Theme From Starsky & Hutch
16 Quincy Jones - Summer In The City
Episode 2 (Steely Dan, Ronnie Laws, Freddie Hubbard, The Blackbyrds....)
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Tracklist:
1 Home At Last - Steely Dan
2 Night Breeze - Ronnie Laws
3 Midnight at The Oasis - Freddie Hubbard
4 Soft And Easy - The Blackbyrds
5 Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits
6 Baby Come To Me - Regina Belle
7 I'll Be Over You - Toto
8 Weekend Lover - Al Hudson & One Way
9 Because Of You - Eric Darius
10 Song In The 5th Grade - Larry Carlton
11 Out Of The Rain - Etta James
12 Listen - Tears For Fears
13 Candlelight & You - Keith Washinton/Chante' Moore
14 You Know How To Make Me Feel So Good - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
15 Pass The Peas - The JBs
16 Pieces Of Ice - Diana Ross
Episode 1 (Incognito, Tortured Soul, Mica Paris....)
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Tracklist:
1. Hey Mr Glider (featuring erik truffaz) - Gare Du Nord
2. Stay (Extended Remix) - The Controllers
3. Home To You - Tortured Soul
4. Get Into My Groove - Incognito
5. This Can't Be Real - Impressions - ray K Edit
6. Uptown - Grover Washington Jr.
7. Second To None - Atlantic Starr
8. Anytime, Anyplace - Tom Scott
9. Don't Give Me Up - Mica Paris
10. Just Dream - The Mac Pac
11. Enchanted - Caron Wheeler
12. You Are My Melody - Change
13. Let It Go (Original) - Afterlife Feat. Cathy Battistessa
14. Jazz in Central Park (Instrumental Version) - Marlon D Vs Mena Keyz
15. Why Don't You, Why Don't I - Eric Gadd
16. Suede - Marion Meadows
17. Give Her Your Love (Rainbow Reprise Interlude) - Surface
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