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San Diego, CA (April 29, 2020) — While best-known for its consumer earbuds and headphones, JLab Audio is expanding into the USB microphone market with the introduction of its Talk line of mics aimed at podcasters, streamers, home recordists and others. The line debuts with three models—the JLab Talk Go, Talk and Talk Pro.

All JLab Audio Talk microphones feature plug & play compatibility, 3.5 mm headphone jack for zero-latency, quick-mute button, 5/8″ mounting metal foldable stands and on-mic controls. In addition, each model comes with a USB / USB-C braided cable. The mics have a 20 Hz – 20 kHz frequency response and a 120 dB max SPL.

The Talk Go condenser mic is intended to be more portable, and is earmarked for calling, streaming and podcasting. It offers 96 k/24-bit recording and sports two 14 mm condensers, offering both cardioid and omni patterns.

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The Talk builds on that, including three condensers and four directional options—cardioid, omni, stereo and bi-directional—and the Talk Pro takes those specs and adds in a recording sample rate of 192 k.

“While we’re not abandoning our roots in audio, the Talk series shows that JLab’s ability to innovate can go well beyond what you hear, to what you say, and potentially, even further,” said JLab CEO Win Cramer.

The JLab Talk GO ($49), Talk ($99) and Talk Pro ($149 ) are all scheduled to ship in early May, 2020.

JLab Audio • www.jlabaudio.com

Crafted using a Fairlight CMI and Yamaha MSX.

Japanese ambient and environmental composer Takashi Kokubo’s 1985 album Digital Soundology #1 Volk Von Bauhaus is being reissued on vinyl, via Glossy Mistakes this June.

Read more: Composing for space: The meticulous design of Japanese environmental sounds

While Kokubo remains largely unknown, his work has almost become a soundtrack to life in Japan, having designed everything from credit card payment jingles to the country’s nationally-used mobile phone earthquake alert.

For Digital Soundology #1, Kokubo looked to the radical philosophy that emerged from the Bauhaus movement, similarly aiming to create “a revolutionary musical expression that shatters the old values.”

To do so, Kokubo shunned keyboard players, multitrack tape-recording techniques, and analogue sounds, instead using only the Fairlight CMI for 3-tracks, and primarily the Yamaha MSX for 6 tracks.

“I think this production process was quite similar to the way Picasso was creating art which I saw later and was inspired from: a kind of creative fragmentation,” explains Kokubo.

Originally released on King Records in 1985, Glossy Mistake’s reissue of Digital Soundology #1 Volk Von Bauhaus marks the album’s first vinyl reissue, and includes a previously unheard track by Kokubo.

It follows the re-release of Kokubo’s music for a 1987 luxury air conditioner,  A Dream Sails Out To Sea (Get At The Wave), on LAG Records – one of our favourite reissues of 2018.

Head here to pre-order a copy in advance of Digital Soundology #1 Volk Von Bauhaus’ 26th June release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Playing Among The Gods
2. Melancholy II
3. Before You Dream

Side B

1. Fluctuation #1
2. The insane time keeper
3. Fluctuation #2
4. Daze / Fluctuation Step 1
5. Chaos
6. 回廊の音楽

Deeper Sounds is set to embark on its first ever Fundraiser this May helping to raise money for The National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal.

The brand launched by Andy Eastough hosts regular shows on British Airways, Emirates, Mambo Ibiza Radio and Pure Ibiza Radio featuring the finest in Deep Electronica. All Day I Dream, Balance Music, Tale & Tone and Ibiza Sonica are amongst their regular guests.

Artists & Brands from around the globe have been invited to record exclusive mixes for this Fundraiser which will be posted via the Deeper Sounds Soundcloud channel from the 1st May.

The Soundgarden will kick off proceedings featuring mixes from Nick Warren, Nicolas Rada and Sarkis Mikael. Other Brands and Artists set to feature include Blond:ish, Do Not Sit On The Furniture, Wayu Records, Seven Villas Music, Soho Garden, Happy Camper Records, Big Imagination, Amaya NYC, Listed, Aracil, Valentin Huedo & More

To donate, head to https://justgiving.com/fundraiser/Deeper-Sounds

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In response to the coronavirus crisis, the DanceTelevision Network’s FREE online initiative, the #StayHomeFestival, aims to urgently support and share the World Health Organization’s call to the world for social distancing. After early events gained worldwide plaudits, a new series of streams including Analog Room, East London Movement, Athens Showcase, Francesca Lombardo presents Upper Hour, ReSolute Stays Home, The Zoo Project, Vatos locos featuring Hector, VQtv by Shaun Reeves and Armigé Agency are now revealed.

DanceTelevision dedicates its entire platform to #StayHomeFestival streaming FREE 24/7 content from renown artists, events, and labels in the scene. Despite being in lockdown, artists can continue to interact with their fans and reach out with positive messages to millions of new viewers around the world, and across a variety of the most popular shared networks online. The project invites artists, events, labels and fans to join in solidarity to raise public awareness and funds in support of the WHO and select NGOs that are critical in helping the music entertainment industry. The community is called together to celebrate a universal love for music and the culture of a beloved electronic scene.

Since soft launching the project on 15 March 2020, numbers continue to rise exponentially and for the latest event with the likes of Pacha Ibiza, Jack Back, Felix Da Housecat, Luciano and International Music Summit all came together in support of the Red Cross in Ibiza. Now, once again, some of the biggest names in dance music will be streamed live on DanceTelevision’s Stay Home Festival www.stayhomefestival.org as well as crossposted to many different Facebook pages. It all runs throughout April, May And June.

Up first Detroit techno tastemaker and Visionquest label boss Shaun Reeves will kick off the VQ TV show on Sunday May 3rd at 8pm to 11pm CET on Stay Home festival. The showcase will be revolving around Shaun featuring guests from the Visionquest label and from his close circle. Divided across 3 nights, May 14, 20 and 28 respectively, Armige Agency is showcasing their roster with contributions from Joeski, Alexi Delano, Animal Trainer, Demuir, Junior Sanchez, Joyce Muniz, Kevin Knapp, Pezzner, Sis and Supernova.

Friday the 15th we welcome the infamous Vatos locos with a surprise lineup with label boss Hector at the helm in a mission to maintain the traditions of a Marathon around the time where they usually get down at the infamous Sunwaves Festival.

On May 16th, Francesca Lombardo’s “Upper Hour” event series cherishes the daytime ‘after party’ vibe and is fundamentally about good music presented in a unique setting, with DJs completely free to explore the full range of their selector skills. Hito and Cesare vs Disorder join curator Lombardo for a three hour showcase.

Vital underground house promoters Analog room Dubai also bring their tasteful soundtracks on May 7th and 21st with residents such as Move D, Alex Kid, A Guy Called Gerald, Siamak Amidi and Karina, and on May 19th and 26th, East London Movement is uniting underground East London promoters famous for their events in secret locations such as Into the Woods, Vox Sound, Bien Aimer Music, Paravibe, Decay Records and Bread and Butter London.

Electronic Labor Day (ELD) Beirut is a three-day virtual electronic music festival from May 1st to 3rd led by Uberhaus in partnership with top electronic music institutions in Lebanon and alongside the Syndicate of Owners of Restaurants, Cafes, Nightclubs and Pastries in Lebanon. The three-day music marathon aims at raising funds for the non-managerial employees of the electronic music venues across Lebanon, who have been affected by COVID and the harsh economic circumstances associated with this pandemic. These livestreams will be immersive, entertaining and exciting, taking place across multiple online rooms. More than 150 DJS from 25 countries will be taking part in the cause, helping to spread awareness and unity through music.

ReSolute is without doubt one of the most exciting underground event brands in the Big Apple. Handpicked selection of residents and artists from the ReSolute agency will be presenting their Dj sets and live acts all with visuals from established artists like Cote, Danimation, Defne Onen, Dreamrec, polo_X_polo and Trig Fardust.

The Zoo Project is Ibiza’s infamous Sunday openair party and they will be showcasing quarantine videos of worldwide recognised artists as well as footage from unforgettable events at the old abandoned Zoo of last summer. Expect not only exceptional talent performances, but beautiful and colourful videos from Ibiza’s most spectacular event! This is a game changing series of streams that will offer music lovers plenty to get excited about in the coming months.

With an extensive social network reaching 6 million fans including media partners and 3.5 million fans of its own channels and content brands, Facebook users watched 30 million minutes of DanceTelevision video in the month before the global pandemic struck. Since soft launching the project just three weeks ago on 15 March, 2020, numbers continue to rise exponentially. Based on this analysis, and the fact that people are now turning to the internet as the best way to connect with each other from home, unprecedented worldwide engagement is anticipated in the coming weeks. Online streaming initiatives like this may well revolutionize the face of the industry as we know it. Meanwhile, DanceTelevision is already exploring expansion options within the telecom sector to bring the concept to mass media in parallel with its cable music tv channel.

As such, DanceTelevision dedicates its entire platform to #StayHomeFestival streaming 24/7 content from renown artists, events, and labels in the scene. Despite being in lockdown, artists can continue to interact with their fans and reach out with positive messages to millions of new viewers around the world, and across a variety of the most popular shared networks online. Besides offering a wide variety of electronic artists a stage to showcase their talent, artists share positive and personal messages to the world at the beginning or end of their sets, using their influence and talent to help share an important message, and keep everyone hopeful for a brighter day.

LISTINGS

Friday May 1st – May 3rd
Electronic Labor Day (ELD) Beirut

May 3rd/10th/17th/24th
Shaun Reeves VQ-TV
8pm to 11pm CET

Friday May 15th
Hector presents Vatos Locos

Saturday May 16th
Francesca Lombardo presents Upper Hour
Hito and Cesare vs Disorder

Thursday 7th & 21st of May.
Analog Room
Move D, Alex Kid, A Guy Called Gerald, Siamak Amidi and Karina

Tuesday May 19th and 26th
East London Movement

Various dates May
ReSolute Stays Home
Cote, Danimation, Defne Onen, Dreamrec, polo_X_polo and Trig Fardust

May 14th, 20th & 28th
Armige Agency Showcases
Joeski, Alexi Delano, Animal Trainer, Demuir, Junior Sanchez, Joyce Muniz, Kevin Knapp, Pezzner, Sis and Supernova.

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Experimental zen.

Incheon-born composer and musician Jin Hi Kim first began her studies of traditional Korean music in South Korea during 1973.

Read more: The pioneering women of electronic music – an interactive timeline

Focusing extensively on the komungo, also known as the goguryeo – a Korean fretted-board zither that originated in the fourth century – Kim helped to bring the instrument to global attention when she developed the world’s first electric version.

Kim later introduced its sounds to international audiences following her move to California, where she studied with artists including Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, and David Rosenboom.

Decades later, Kim’s work has seen her combine her sounds with multimedia installations that incorporate sociopolitical themes, meditation and psychoacoustic theory.

Pairing the electric komungo with visual art and digital animation on Digital Buddha (2007), Kim intended to transform and pacify the neuroticism she identifies as intrinsic to daily American life.

Watch the performance in full above.

Sind wir nicht alle ein bisschen Source?

Umfassendes Upgrade-Paket für ältere Lindemann Musicbooks

Wörthsee, 17.04.2020 – Diese Meldung dürfte Eigentümer älterer Musicbooks freuen. Lindemann macht alle Generationen seines herausragenden Alleskönners fit für die Zukunft. Falls Sie nicht im Bilde sind: Das Musikbook ist eine Vorstufe mit DAC und (teilweise) umfassenden Netzwerkfähigkeiten. Daher können die Geräte nach einigen Jahren schon mal hier und dort Inkompatibilitäten entwickeltn.

Die werden nun ausgemerzt. Wir sprechen dabei nicht (nur) von einem Software-Update. Tatsächlich können Besitzer der älteren Modelle nun ein umfassende Hardware-Upgrade erhalten. Inklusive neuster Firmware. Die Vorgänger kommen so auf das Niveau des neuen Musicbook SOURCE. Einschränkungen gibt es nicht, das Angebot gilt für alle Bücher der ersten und zweiten Generation. Namentlich sind das Musicbook 10, 15, 20, 25 mit oder ohne DSD.

Was wird gemacht?

Vom „Altgerät“ übernimmt der Hersteller nur Gehäuse, Display und Fernbedienung. Die Elektronik tauscht Lindemann komplett aus. Modelle mit CD-Laufwerk (Musicbook 15 und 25) erhalten ein neues CD-ROM-Laufwerk. Bei Geräten, die bisher kein Streaming unterstützt haben (Musicbook 10 und 15), kommt diese Funktion neu dazu. Damit entspricht jedes Upgrade-Gerät technisch und klanglich dem neuen Musicbook SOURCE.

Sie wollen mehr wissen über Lindemanns Musicbook-Baureihe? Hier geht’s zu den Tests von … Musicbook 15 DSD, Musikbook 15 und Musicbook 25

Das Upgrade 2020 im Detail

• Neue, wesentlich leistungsfähigere Streaming-Plattform mit allen audiophilen Streaming-Diensten (TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer, HIGHRESAUDIO) sowie Roon Ready Support
• HighRes-Streaming, auch in Studio Master Qualität, bis 384 kHz/24bit und DSD256
• Perfektes Wireless Streaming mit Dual-Antenne und AC-Standard – auch von hochauflösenden Titeln. Ein LAN-Kabel wird so nicht mehr benötigt.
• Neue komfortable Lindemann-App für Android und iOS mit Tablet-Unterstützung im Landscape-Mode. Einfach zu bedienen, im Betrieb sehr stabil.
• Neu entwickelter Digital/Analog-Wandler: neue Master-Clock mit ultra-niedrigen JitterWerten im gesamten Audio-Bereich, Wandler-Bausteine der nächsten Generation (2 x AK4493) im Mono-Mode.
• Unser bisher größter Schritt in Richtung perfekter Digital-Wiedergabe.
• Vollständig überarbeiteter analoger Vorverstärker, jetzt mit einem Phono-MM-Eingang der Spitzenklasse.
• Verbesserter Kopfhörer-Ausgang mit höherem Ausgangsstrom, der Impedanzen bis 16 Ohm treiben kann.
• Neues CD-ROM-Laufwerk mit schnellerer Zugriffszeit und geringerer Geräuschentwicklung.

Preise (inkl. 2 Jahren Neugarantie)

• Musicbook ohne CD-Laufwerk: € 1.490.- [Modelle: musicbook:10 (DSD), musicbook:20 (DSD)]
• Musicbook mit CD-Laufwerk: € 1.690.- [Modell: musicbook:15 (DSD), musicbook:25 (DSD)]

www.lindemann-audio.de

Der Beitrag Musicbook Upgrade „Source 2020“ erschien zuerst auf FIDELITY online.

Collecting tunes beloved by Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Francis Grasso and Nicky Sian.

Author Tim Lawrence is releasing a 2xLP soundtrack to accompany his book Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979, via his own Reappearing Records imprint this May.

Read more: Nicky Siano on disco, drugs and DJing at Studio 54

Originally released in 2003, Lawrence’s Love Saves the Day book focuses on New York’s disco scene, within the broader context of American dance music culture during the 1970s.

A year in the making, the accompanying compilation collects tracks played DJs including Larry Levan, David Mancuso, and Nicky Sian, with music by James Brown, Gladys Knight, and Wilson Pickett.

Love Saves The Day follows Lawrence’s 2019 soundtrack to his Life & Death On The New York Dance Floor book, which was also released via Reappearing Records.

Head here to pre-order a copy in advance of Love Saves the Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970​-​1979 Part 1’s 22nd May release, check out the artwork and tracklist.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
2. Chuck Mangione – Land Of Make Believe

Side B

1. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 1)
2. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 2)
3. James Brown – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

Side C

1. Jackson 5 – Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)

Side D

1. Brainstorm – Lovin Is Really My Game (12 Version)
2. Domenic Troiano – We All Need Love
3. Gladys Knight And The Pips – It’s Time To Go Now

“We miss you all and cannot wait until we can be together again.”

Amoeba has permanently shut its Sunset Boulevard location, due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

Read more: Amoeba Music launches crowdfunding campaign to survive Coronavirus pandemic

Amoeba’s time at its iconic Hollywood location was coming to an end, with a move planned later this year.

While all three of Amoeba’s physical outposts remain closed, the shop is still operating online, and plans to update its website with more second-hand and collectible offerings.

“The only thing we do know for certain is that we intend to survive. … The only way we can keep Amoeba Hollywood alive in the future is to make this difficult decision now,” shares Amoeba.

In the wake of its sudden closure, Amoeba is now focusing its efforts on the launch of the new 6200 Hollywood Blvd location, which it plans to open in the fall.

The news follows Amoeba’s launch of a crowdfunding campaign to support its three shops through the Coronavirus pandemic.

Head here for more info.

Groove around London in the disco-fuelled video for first single ‘Time (You And I)’.

Texan trio Khruangbin are releasing a new album called Mordechai, this June via Dead Oceans and Night Time Stories.

Drawing on “reference points from Pakistan, Korea, and West Africa, incorporating strains of Indian chanting boxes and Congolese syncopated guitar,” it also “features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band,” according to the labels.

Mordechai’s 10-tracks were recorded in the group’s farmhouse studio in Burton, Texas.

The album follows Khruangbin’s Hasta El Cielo LP, as well as their Con Todo El Mundo LP – the latter of which was one of our favourite albums of 2018.

Pre-order a copy here in advance of its 26th June release, check out the cover artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. First Class
2. Time (You and I) 05:42
3. Connaissais de Face
4. Father Bird, Mother Bird
5. If There Is No Question
6. Pelota
7. One To Remember
8. Dearest Alfred
9. So We Won’t Forget
10. Shida

Made with a Mother 32, Dfam and Moog Sirin synths.

Jessy Lanza is releasing a new album, called All The Time, via Hyperdub this July.

Read more: Jessy Lanza’s 6 essential Japanese electronic pop records

Working with creative partner Jeremy Greenspan to record the album, Lanza experimented with a Mother 32, Dfam and Moog Sirin synths to create its 10-tracks.

“We got all of the machines talking to one another and would run patterns through. A lot of the little burps and quacks and squiggles heard on the songs are from those experiments,” explains Lanza.

With more of a lyrical focus than previous releases, All The Time sees Lanza exploring her relationship with anger.

All The Time follows Lanza’s 2016 album Oh No, which was also released on Hypderdub.

Head here to pre-order a copy in advance of All The Time’s 24th July release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. Anyone Around
2. Lick In Heaven
3. Face
4. Badly
5. Alexander
6. Ice Creamy
7. Like Fire
8. Baby Love
9. Over and Over
10. All The Time

Photo by: Milos Jacimovic