Month: June 2013
This is 15 minutes of the Buddy Kaye Orchestra with Morton Abramson on drums, recorded at McGill around 1963. The recording was made at a live performance via single mic, in front of the band, to a portable reel to reel tape recorder. It was then copied to single pressing vinyl.
The transfer was made using a Stanton T.62, with analogue to digital on a Denon DN-X1600. Minor editing to remove some skipping and gaps, and add fades, was done in Ableton Live.
A two pass cleanup through iZotope RX2 Declicker and then RX2 Decrackler was used, although the last 50 years haven’t been kind to the vinyl.
Happy 45th anniversary, Mom and Dad!
famous insider traders!
There’s all kinds of things that bother me about the recent coverage of the NSA surveillance issues. For example, us Canadians have known about it forever — that’s why our Universities have had policies against allowing student data to be transmitted to servers in the States since the Patriot Act was first passed.
Now, as my man PK reminded us recently, knowing something that will be public a tiny bit before other people find out can be extremely valuable.
So why hasn’t anyone pointed out that those in the know could be making money hand over fist, with almost no chance of getting caught, in a socially destructive way? Isn’t this at least as worrisome as the potential blackmail/panopticon effect on democracy/selective harassment issues?