By dan on 20 February 2009 under something for you, sound
Dewey Decimal is the collaborative performance duo between myself and friend Gordon Tebo. The sound is a mixture of dubbed out riffs and rhythms, dipped in crackling Foley. In 2005, we started playing some shows and developing a sound, using new performance tools created by Ableton. Live electronic music with computers was becoming a more and more heated topic.
New City referred to our name as the ‘nerdiest electronica’ name ever. Though now separated geographically, with that kind of press it’s hard to imagine the group ever really dying. I’d like to think that Dewey Decimal is cryogenically frozen in a bunker in Texas, waiting for the right time to thaw itself.
Through performances in clubs, corporate retail, internet radio, and one rumored headphone practice in a coffee shop, a few artifacts remain:
Foreign Exchange Student (2006) 3:12
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Live set with Noah Jurcin & Alex Inglizian (2006) 23:05
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By dan on 10 April 2008 under something for you, the internet
On the subject of internet radio. The traditional model is that a show is broadcasted at a certain time each week or day. This poses a problem for the potential listener who can’t make it to their computer at the designated time slot.
Having previous show archives available at all hours of the day help the situation. This way no one will leave unsatisfied who makes the effort to visit the website for the show. If, however, the show broadcasts commercial material then all of the restrictions that apply to the live broadcasts (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) apply also to the archives.
One way around all this is to create mixes that link to music that is already available for free. This could be tunes under a copyleft license, ‘legal music downloads’ like the ones discussed in the previous post, or anything in the public domain. Here I would like to present one of these playlists. Each track will need to be downloaded separately and will involve two clicks (sorry) — you are also welcome to stream these songs first.
“The Best of Will’s Meekly”
1. Radio Citizen – The Hop
2. Unagi – Sacred Music
3. Steve Spacek – Dollar
4. MF Doom – Live From Planet X!
5. Beat Chemist – I Wanna Tell The World
6. Foreign Exchange – All That You Are
