The 'Gum Drop Volume XXXI: Hear New Cassettes Won't Listen, Win A Korg Mini-KP
Cassettes Won't Listen is New Yorker Jason Drake, a one-man electro pop outfit and, interestingly, the Director Of Marketing at Def Jux. Last week we showed you the day-job ditching, robot-loving video from his recently self-released Small-Time Machine. "Catch Up" isn't on that album, but you can hear the song, and read Jason's blow-by-blow thoughts on it, as part of this week's 'Gum Drop. As he notes, "It's amazing what you can learn about people by watching how they interact while getting completely shit faced." To hear the song and learn more, click here.
You can also win a Korg Mini-KP Kaoss Pad touch-pad effects processor! No idea what that means? Let us explain...
Get ready DJs and sundry sound manipulators: If you know what a Korg Mini-KP Kaoss Pad is, you should be very excited. If not, check out the details here. Or, at least figure out what it looks like:
A few key features:
- Intuitive touch-pad interface gives you fingertip effect control in real-time.
- The smallest body in the KAOSS PAD series.
- Battery operation makes it an ideal choice for any location.
- One hundred effects including filter, delay, and looper meet the needs of any musical style.
- Numerous BPM effects are provided. You can use the "TAP/BPM button" to synchronize the mini-KP to your song's tempo, and apply a wide range of effects to your music.
- "FX RELEASE" function provides a natural decay when changing effects or removing your finger from the pad.
- Hold function lets you memorize the position at which you touched the touch-pad when you release your finger.
- Use the two memory keys A and B to store your favorite effect program settings, including the effect depth and the Hold on/off status.
Now you have zero excuse for not manipulating sound. One Mini-KP goes to one winner. Sign up for Korg's e-newsletter here. Enter to win the contest here. Also, there's still time to win that iPod Nano, but you have to enter first.
CONTEST ENDS 04/16/08 AT 12PM EST.
Posted at 12:38 PM in Giveaway, MP3
Tags: Cassettes Won't Listen
nice!
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http://radiobutt.blogspot.com/2008/03/cassettes-wont-listen-small-time.html
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very dope!
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I'm seeing CWL on Friday! Can't wait!
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wow, Melissa. That is fucked up that you are posting the link to the CWL album download. support indie artists. You're the type of person that is ruining the music industry. Illegal downloads only lead to labels pumping out crap top 40 music because they know it'll sell. You suck
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This new album is pretty mediocre. Sounds like Her Space Holiday lite. I really like this guys remixes though.
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I think the new album is really good. i can see why this track didnt make it though. still, I'm like the song
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I think the new album is solid, I agree that the covers are good but I was pleasantly surprised with the originals
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I was surprised, dismayed and disappointed to read Jay’s comments. One day Jay might realize how unnecessary they were, and how bad they make him look. No, the “quiet” woman he courted aggressively and went out with for six months didn’t turn out to be the person he thought she was. It happens all the time. What he’s missing is that she is the same person now as she was before she met him—the fact that she didn’t conform to the idea he concocted in his mind is not a flaw on her part: it’s more about him and his needs in a relationship. But to put it all on her, and her friends, and to cast himself as the sober outsider, viewing with disdain the people getting drunk at a bar (imagine that) is the height of adolescent egocentrism. You hang out with a girl and her friends for a good period of time, and suddenly she’s not the “quiet” woman you thought (what does that really mean?) So dude, walk away. Break up. Why vilify her, from a safe distance, months later? Maybe she was not what he was looking for, but she was, and is, a kind, decent, caring person. I just hope that whoever Jay’s hanging out with these days—not drinking to excess, of course—reads this interview, and knows that in six months, he might be dissing them, just liked he put down, in a very public forum, a whole lot of people who he was slapping fives with and drinking beers with just a few months ago—and all for the sake of an interview. Maybe he should cover “Teenage Dirtbag” next.
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I was surprised, dismayed and disappointed to read Jay’s comments. One day Jay might realize how unnecessary they were, and how bad they make him look. No, the “quiet” woman he courted aggressively and went out with for six months didn’t turn out to be the person he thought she was. It happens all the time. What he’s missing is that she is the same person now as she was before she met him—the fact that she didn’t conform to the idea he concocted in his mind is not a flaw on her part: it’s more about him and his needs in a relationship. But to put it all on her, and her friends, and to cast himself as the sober outsider, viewing with disdain the people getting drunk at a bar (imagine that) is the height of adolescent egocentrism. You hang out with a girl and her friends for a good period of time, and suddenly she’s not the “quiet” woman you thought (what does that really mean?) So dude, walk away. Break up. Why vilify her, from a safe distance, months later? Maybe she was not what he was looking for, but she was, and is, a kind, decent, caring person. I just hope that whoever Jay’s hanging out with these days—not drinking to excess, of course—reads this interview, and knows that in six months, he might be dissing them, just liked he put down, in a very public forum, a whole lot of people who he was slapping fives with and drinking beers with just a few months ago—and all for the sake of an interview. Maybe he should cover “Teenage Dirtbag” next.
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