More with Mastering Engineers

Here's a mini-interview with Shane @ Finyl Tweek, one of the major mastering engineers in electronic music (and various other styles too). Thanks to BluMarTen for puttin the clip on youtube.

RBMA - Class with Mastering Engineer Stuart Hawkes

Stu is one of the 'legendary' mastering engineers of the DnB scene. Here's the blurb from the Red Bull Music Academy site.

"Stu might well have already made your eyes spin in your head – and we don't mean just by watching his name spin round in the run-out groove. For over two decades, Stuart has been at the forefront of vinyl mastering, coaxing the heaviest sounds out of the waxy format. The list of records that Stuart has mastered is like a who-is-who of pioneering electronic artists throughout the ‘90s, cropping up on labels like XL, Mute, Reinforced, Too Pure, Rough Trade, Mo’Wax, Alphabet Zoo, FFRR, Talkin' Loud, Hospital, and Metalheadz. Making breaks sound crunchy over massive bass tones is one of Stuart's stock in trades, but he can turn his hand to all types of music. Recently he has made sure such stellar and varied artists as Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy, Roni Size, Snow Patrol, and Super Furry Animals all sound as good on your iPod as they do down carnival or over your transistor radio. Ears like a hawk. "

Behind the scenes of the "Superbad" score

Lyle Workman discusses the process of scoring the film Superbad. Pretty fuckin dope how he got the original funksters in on the sessions and how the sessions were more like recording an album, or just jamming, than scoring a film. As the old adage goes, "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

Q-Bert w/ DJ Flare - History of the scratch lecture

Q-Bert with guest DJ, DJ Flare, giving a lecture of the history of scratch techniques and their progression through the growth of the artform. Starting way back at the beginning, and chronologically working his way up to today (well, when the lecture was given), Q can get a bit slow but it's worth the watch


Dj.QBert & Dj.Flare (Scratch Historical Tutorial)

Herbie Hancock & Quincey Jones

Playing around with some waaaaaaaaaaaaay high tech bidness for its time. Very early sequencer + synths combo WITH A MOTHERFUCKING TOUCH SCREEN... in 1983.

Leanin screwed in a chopped ride

Here's an interesting little docu. on DJ Screw, who gave us all the ability to sit back and take it slooooow.

Behind the scenes of Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" LP

behind the scenes of one of the best albums that will ever be made



here's the link if it doesn't show up - Electric Ladyland on Youku