The World’s First Album Cover – Alex Steinweiss’ Greatest Hit

From Undependent.com While there is no shortage of interest in the album cover medium, there’s no obvious web page out dedicated to the world’s first record cover. I’m apparently I’m not the only one looking for it (See: “Anyone have a scan?“) I’ve seen scattered images from articles about Steinweiss but I’ve not found anything resembling [...] Read more »

The Monthlies new music video- Hip Girl

The Monthlies “Hip Girl” – from MONTHLIES, ASSEMBLE! from Chris Hall on Vimeo. Read more »

Disk cutting tutorial

This is a very cool video from Mix magazine showing an engineer cutting an actual disk. The studio is Infrasonic Sound which offers this quick tutorial on the analog disk cutting process. Check it out here. Read more »

Koop – Koop Island

If you like your electronic music with and equal blend of jazz then you will love Koop’s 2006 release, Koop Island. It’s a fantastic combination of the two genres layered with amazing airy vocals by several different artists. To get the scoop on Koop check out their Myspace page as well as Wikipedia.   Koop Island Blues blue Read more »