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Dave Amels
Dave Amels (born 1960) co-founded music technology companies Voce musical instruments and Bomb Factory. Both companies are known for detailed and realistic mathematical models of complex physical systems. Amels also plays organ in The Reigning Sound, a garage rock band out of Asheville, North Carolina. Despite being an inventor of influential digital products, Dave, a garage rock fan and WFMU radio DJ, is famous for only using analog methods of recording. He designed recording studios and custom analog electronics for high end studios. As a musician and record producer, Amels has worked with Ben E. King, Lenny Kravitz, Mary Weiss of 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens. In 2002, Amels collaborated with Dennis Diken to form the band Husky Team. They released the album ''Christmas in Memphis'' on the Confidential Recording label. Dave Amels relaunched the Cryptovision Records record label in 2009. Amels worked in A&R for the label in the 198 ...
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Bomb Factory Studio
Bomb Factory is a recording studio and manufacturer of music plugins based in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Music studio Bomb Factory Studios features an extensive collection of vintage and historic equipment and musical instruments. Between 1996 and 1999, Bomb Factory was the host and benefactor involved in the restoration of dozens of instruments now part of the non-profit National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Music plugins Erik Gavriluk, the owner of Bomb Factory Studios, met Dave Amels while restoring the museum pieces. Together they decided to take their music production expertise and knowledge of vintage equipment and apply it to digital signal processing for Pro Tools by forming Bomb Factory Digital. Key innovations included: * Using mathematical models to emulate the original analog circuitry of real-world equipment * Using 3D computer graphics to provide the original ergonomic usability of classic devices * Working with original analog equipment ...
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Cryptovision Records
Cryptovision Records is a New York City based independent record label that was founded by musicians James Talley, Mike Linn, Brian Beggs, and Gene Wood in 1979 and dissolved in 1990. In 2009 Dave Amels, A&R man for the original Cryptovision Records, restarted the record label in New Jersey as Cryptovision Records LLC. Cryptovision Records helped start the career of Sam Coomes with his group The Donner Party. Coomes went on to form Quasi and play guitar for Elliott Smith. Cryptovision Records' debut release for their restart of the record label in 2009 is Dennis Diken Dennis Diken (born February 25, 1957) is an American drummer, DJ, author, music historian, and founding member of the band the Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Pat DiNizio, Jim Babjak, and Mike Mesaros in Carteret, New Jersey. Bes ... with Bell Sound - "Late Music". Discography Singles and EPs * ''Deprogrammers'' - Midas Touch/Grim Reaper - 1981 - 7" - C-1001 * ''Stepford Husbands'' - Wh ...
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Jon Graboff
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Jim Babjak
Jim Babjak (born November 17, 1957) is an American guitarist and ex-banker. He is the lead guitar player and co-founder of The Smithereens. Babjak has written and sung several songs for the band. He also is the leader of the band ''Buzzed Meg''. Origins Babjak, from Carteret, New Jersey, formed The Smithereens together with fellow Carteret High School alumni Dennis Diken and Mike Mesaros, along with Pat DiNizio of Scotch Plains, New Jersey.Cahillane, KevinFade Away: The Smithereens' Monument to Persistence" ''The New York Times'', October 10, 2004. Accessed August 18, 2021. "The band formed in 1980 when three Carteret High School graduates (class of 1975) and childhood friends (Mr. Babjak, Dennis Diken on drums and Mike Mesaros on bass) met Pat DiNizio, a Scotch Plains singer-songwriter-garbage man." Appearances Babjak's music can be heard in the films ''Bull Durham'', ''Backdraft'', ''Encino Man'', '' Time Cop'', '' Romy & Michele's High School Reunion'', '' Boys Don't Cry' ...
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Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song), I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel (Jill Sobule song), Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film ''Clueless (film), Clueless''. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia nervosa, anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. In 2009, she released ''California Years'', an album funded entirely by fan donations, making her an early pioneer of crowdfunding. Since 2020, she has acted as musician-in-residence at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, an LGBTQIA community center. History and studio recordings T ...
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Velvel
Velvel ( yi, װעלװעל) or Velvl ( yi, װעלװל) is a Yiddish language, Yiddish masculine given name meaning "wolf" in Yiddish. Velvel is often associated with the tribe of Benjamin, who is described in the Bible as a wolf, i.e. a mighty and fearless warrior (Genesis 49:27). Velvel is often used as a Yiddish form of William (name), William or Vladimir (name), Vladimir. Given name * Velvl Greene (1928–2011), Canadian–American–Israeli scientist and academic * Velvel Kahan (William Morton Kahan), mathematician and computer scientist * Velvel Pasternak, one of the world's foremost experts on Jewish music * Velvel Putzer, prominent Russian politician * Velvel Soloveitchik, son of Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brest, Belarus, Brisk * Velvel Zbarjer, a Brody singer (1824–1884) *Verne ("Velvel") Chelin (1927-2013), Canadian pharmacist and businessman who was a global private label innovator References The origin and meaning of common Jewish names at ''Aish. ...
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Norton Records
Norton Records, is an independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller in 1986. The label concentrates on rock, rockabilly, primitive music, punk, garage rock and early rhythm and blues.Norton Records
Most of its output, both new releases and reissues, is issued on vinyl.


Beginnings

Billy Miller first encountered Miriam Linna while she was drumming for in 1976. The two were properly introduced one day in 1977 while Miller was vending at a record show; the two chatted about music and he sold Linna a copy of "You Must Be a Witch", a single by The Lollipop Shoppe. Miller la ...
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Richard Manitoba
Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba (born Richard Blum; January 29, 1954) is an American punk rock singer and radio personality, best known as the original lead singer of New York City-based band The Dictators and the reunion singer of MC5. Background Manitoba is Jewish, and was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1954. He started out his singing career as a roadie for The Dictators. He made his official stage debut with The Dictators at Popeye's Spinach Factory in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 1975. The band's first major-label album, '' The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!'' (Epic Records, 1975), featured his picture on the cover and he was listed as the "Secret Weapon". While he sang some lead and some background, he was still considered a "mascot" of the band. He took on a larger singing role on The Dictators' second offering, ''Manifest Destiny'', a 1977 release on the Asylum label. On '' Bloodbrothers'', the third and final Dictators studio recording from the 1970s (also on Asylum, ...
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The Songs Of Phil Ochs
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ...
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Chris Von Sneidern
Chris Von Sneidern (born in Syracuse, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He earned a cult following with a string of indie releases during the 1990s and 2000s. Career Von Sneidern played in a local band called the U-Turns in the early 1980s before relocating to San Francisco in 1985. In the Bay Area he played with several locally based power pop bands, including the Lost Patrol and The Sneetches (the latter as bassist), before joining Flying Color as guitarist in 1987. After Flying Color broke up in 1990, Von Sneidern hit the road with former Beat leader Paul Collins and lived for a short time in New York before returning to San Francisco to pursue a solo career. In 2017, he toured with the Flamin' Groovies as their bassist in support of their reunion album, Fantastic Plastic. Von Sneidern issued his self-produced debut album, ''Sight & Sound'', on the Heyday label in 1993. In addition to winning rave reviews from power pop fans, it also featured a guest appear ...
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Chris Butler (musician)
Christopher Butler (born May 22, 1949) is an American musician, writer, and artist who is best known for leading the 1980s new wave band The Waitresses. His notable songs include " I Know What Boys Like", "No Guilt", "Christmas Wrapping" and the theme song for the TV sitcom ''Square Pegs''. Early life and career Butler, who is of Italian and Hungarian ancestry, grew up in Akron, Moreland Hills, and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and majored in sociology at Kent State University. He was among a crowd of students fired on by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, and was a friend of Jeffrey Miller, one of the four students killed by Guardsmen. Butler was active in Kent, Ohio's 1970s music and art scene that also spawned The James Gang, Devo, and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. He appeared in several films by KSU film professor Richard Myers and played guitar in the blues band City Lights with Jack Kidney. He followed Kidney into The Numbers Band, aka 15-60-75, founded by Jack's br ...
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