Gilberto Gil Signon Sandiego For decades a champion of technology, the singer has invited the public to record and broadcast his music over the Internet when he performs at the club. He also will have a camera crew film the concert and later post it online. During his North American tour he will be promoting [...]

The Cool Kids, Yuksek, Fluo Kids, Brodinski… 33Hz… Bass Ale Open Bar… Free with RSVP Thursday Sept 13 at Hiro Ballroom How ridiculously trendy and cutting edge can one night at Hiro Ballroom really be? We don’t know how this happened, but somehow the bookings for this night got a little out of control, and [...]

GBH – Friday July 27 at Lotus GBH: DJ Eleven of The Rub – Upstairs Loaded: Michael T. & Melody Nelson… Elhaam Guest DJs – Downstairs Come and hear some of the finest music in the city, drink, dance and soak up the opulence of your surroundings at the lovely Lotus this Friday night. In [...]

Well here I go, ripping something else off the pages of GBH.TV, but again, it was sent to me by my friend Ross Von Berg. Thank you Ross, now I only wish those folks over at GBH.TV would resolve some of their server bandwidth issues so I can watch the videos without the music being [...]

Remixes have become the norm in modern dance music, allowing one song the ability to appeal across many different musical genres or dancefloors. Such remixes often include “featured” artists, adding new vocalists or musicians to the original mix. The remix is also widely used in hip-hop and rap music. An R&B remix usually has the [...]

Remixing has become very prevalent in heavily synthesized electronic and experimental music circles. Many of the people who create cutting edge music in such genres as synthpop, futurepop, and aggrotech are solo artists or pairs. They will often use remixers to help them with skills or equipment that they do not have. Artists such as [...]

In the 1990s, with the rise of powerful home computers with audio capabilities came the mash-up, an unsolicited, unofficial (and often legally dubious) remix created by “underground remixers” who edit two or more recordings (often of wildly different songs) together. Underground mixing is more difficult than the typical official remix, because clean copies of separated [...]

Early pop remixes were fairly simple; in the 1980s, “extended mixes” of songs were released to clubs and commercial outlets on vinyl 12-inch singles. These typically had a duration of six to seven minutes, and often consisted of the original song with 8 or 16 bars of instruments inserted, often after the second chorus; some [...]