This is the week for the much-anticipated 2007 J.A.M. Awards and Concert, the special event set up by Jam Master Jay's wife, Terri Corley-Mizell, along with DMC and other friends, to show the world the most positive aspects of rap and to support music and arts education in rural and urban schools.
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IK Multimedia has announced that its ARC (Advanced Room Correction) system, said to be the first acoustical room-correction system in a plug-in format for Mac/PC DAW-based studios, is now shipping. IK Multimedia has teamed up with Audyssey to provide engineers and musicians with the system, whose aim is to correct the phase and frequency distortion problems caused by room acoustics in the studio mixing environment.
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This collection features the progressive house and electronica samples of Trafik (Andrew Archer and John Elliott), who have just finished their new album Club Trafikana....
White Williams has been making a name for himself over the past several months with the release of his debut album, Smoke—and now he's taking his art-pop out on the road for his first headlining tour.
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Underworld—otherwise known as Karl Hyde and Rick Smith—are still working overtime to promote their newest album, October's Oblivion With Bells, and they've booked a trio of dates in Japan.
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Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza has embarked on Dust Galaxy as his new solo project and effectively shifts his myriad talents from producer to songwriter/performer. With a passel of supporting musicians, including Cornershop's Adam Blake and Primal Scream's Martin Duffy, Garza merges '60s Brit-pop ("Overhead"), Paul Weller–reminis
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Violet Designs' latest gorgeous-looking microphone, the Flamingo Junior, flaunts a voice-optimized side-address cardioid design that separates the single diaphragm into a space-age headpiece. That reduces the internal noise and resonance while optimizing the polar pattern (cardioid) and minimizing the proximity effect for a clearer sound less affected by surroundings.
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M-Audio has announced shipment of the KeyStudio 49i music production system, a USB keyboard controller designed to integrate a 2-in/2-out audio interface and onboard piano sound. KeyStudio 49i combines a keyboard controller, onboard piano sound, a software General MIDI sound bank,
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The new update for Crow Gold Pack has been issued, and it includes two new Native Instruments Reaktor ensembles: Executer and Chaos. Crow Executer is an unconventional distortion effect that was designed to deliver unnatural edgy distortion sound, while Crow Chaos is a sound generator that produces synthesized chaotic textures such as chime bells, wind, streaming water, electronic drowns and other "evolving" sounds.
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Cakewalk is offering six Digital Sound Factory E-mu Proteus Sound Modules for Dimension Pro and Dimension LE. The E-mu Proteus Sound Modules were made from the actual sample sound sets found in E-mu hardware units and provide combined total of more than 3,500 immediately usable programs/sounds.
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f you live in the NYC area and would like to brush up on your recording and video editing skills, then register to participate in this upcoming workshop from PreSonus....
American expatriates, rejoice: Brooklyn's Mos Def is returning to the UK for the first time in two years to bring his unique sound to the Shepherds Bush Empire Stage. Mos' style—funky, jazzy vibes with smart lyrics and the man's actor-influenced stagecraft—will be showcased, with a set likely to include tunes from his 1999 solo debut disc, Black on Both Sides, as well as his second solo disc, The New Danger (which featured Mos' rap-rock supergroup Black Jack Johnson) and his latest effort, 2006's True Magic....
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