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Davos (album)
''Davos'' is the debut studio album of Danielle "Danz" Johnson and released under the moniker Computer Magic. It was released on October 16, 2015 on her label Channel 9 Records and on P-Vine and Tugboat in Japan. Background and recording Johnson wrote all songs on ''Davos'', except "All Day" which is credited to her, Brian Hancock III, Brian Robertson. The album has been recorded at Atomic Heart Studios (New York, NY), except "All Day" at 10K Islands Studios (Florida, MI), and "Hudson" at Channel 9 Studios (New York City, NY), Rubber Tracks Studios (New York, NY), Xander Singh's Studios (Los Angeles, CA). Most of the album's tracks were produced, mixed and engineered by Claudius Mittendorfer. Steve Fallone is credited with mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY), and Chad Kamenshine with the artwork. Chris Egan III, Ignacio Rivas Bixio, John Hancock III played percussion and Tim Wheeler of Ash, Brian Robertson, Andrew Wilder played guitar. On the album there were used instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Magic
Danielle "Danz" Johnson (born February 20, 1989), known professionally as Danz CM and formerly Computer Magic, is an American musician and producer based in New York City. She is a singer, songwriter, composer, music producer, DJ, and the founder of the music project Synth History and the indie record label Channel 9 Records. She also composes music for commercials, especially for Japanese brands. From 2010 until mid 2020, Johnson used the moniker Computer Magic, a name derived from a quote by Viv Savage in ''This Is Spinal Tap'': "quite exciting this computer magic!". In August 2020, she announced that she changed her moniker to Danz CM. According to Allmusic, her music is "spacy, sci-fi-influenced synth pop". Johnson released 3 studio albums (''Davos'' in 2015, '' Danz'' in 2018 and '' The Absurdity of Human Existence'' in 2021), 2 compilations (''Super Rare'' in 2017, ''COVERS 2010–20'' in 2020), a string of EPs and singles, plus Japan edition albums. Life and career Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P-Vine
P-Vine Records is an independent record label based in Tokyo, Japan. History It was started in 1976 by Blues Interactions, a firm founded in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi, as a record label focused on black music. The label name comes from the "Peavine Branch" of the Mississippi Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad sung in blues songs by Charley Patton and Big Joe Williams. In the early years, the label focused on blues and R&B but gradually expanded to wider genres such as jazz, Latin, funk, j-pop, house music, and garage punk. The label has released some newly recorded materials, including the album ''Original Chicago Blues'' with Kansas City Red, Eddie Taylor, and Big John Wrencher. But its focus has been on reissuing vintage recordings. P-Vine has released materials from labels such as Chess, Delmark, Modern/Kent, Black Top, and Alligator. It was also responsible for releasing previously unreleased live and studio recordings by Parliament-Funkadelic, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danz CM
Danielle "Danz" Johnson (born February 20, 1989), known professionally as Danz CM and formerly Computer Magic, is an American musician and producer based in New York City. She is a singer, songwriter, composer, music producer, DJ, and the founder of the music project Synth History and the indie record label Channel 9 Records. She also composes music for commercials, especially for Japanese brands. From 2010 until mid 2020, Johnson used the moniker Computer Magic, a name derived from a quote by Viv Savage in ''This Is Spinal Tap'': "quite exciting this computer magic!". In August 2020, she announced that she changed her moniker to Danz CM. According to Allmusic, her music is "spacy, sci-fi-influenced synth pop". Johnson released 3 studio albums (''Davos'' in 2015, '' Danz'' in 2018 and '' The Absurdity of Human Existence'' in 2021), 2 compilations (''Super Rare'' in 2017, ''COVERS 2010–20'' in 2020), a string of EPs and singles, plus Japan edition albums. Life and career Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danz (album)
''Danz'' is the second studio album of Danielle "Danz" Johnson and the last released under the moniker Computer Magic before changing it to Danz CM. It was released on February 23, 2018 on her label Channel 9 Records and on P-Vine and Tugboat in Japan. Background and recording Johnson wrote, produced, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered all songs on ''Danz'' at Spectro Studios in New York. According to her, this album is her most personal out of any other record she made. She drew inspiration from her life and characters from films or books. Some of the themes of the album include identity crisis ("about slowly losing your mind during your creative process"), death (e.g. "Drift Away" is about her stepbrother Eric, who died when she was younger), dreams (e.g. "Space and Time / Pale Blue Dot" is about a dream she experienced about drifting off into the atmosphere and floating into the cosmos), artificial intelligence (e.g. "Ordinary Life (Message from an A.I. Girlfriend)" is abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Wheeler
Timothy James Arthur Wheeler (born 4 January 1977) is a Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and musician for the alternative rock band Ash. He has written nearly all of Ash's notable works, such as " Oh Yeah", " Shining Light", " Girl from Mars", "Kung Fu", and " Goldfinger". In November 2014, he released his debut solo album '' Lost Domain''. Early life Timothy James Arthur Wheeler was born in Downpatrick on 4 January 1977, the son of Rosalind E. M. (née Dickson), the daughter of a Northern Bank manager, and George Bomfforde Wheeler (1932–2011), a solicitor and later judge. He is a great-great-grandson of Rev. George Bomfforde Wheeler, who was editor of ''The Irish Times'' from 1859 to 1877. He attended Down High School with his fellow band members Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray. Music career Ash Wheeler won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Pop Song in 2001 for " Shining Light". Other work In 1999, Wheeler contributed guitar and backing vocals on The Rentals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash (band)
Ash are a Northern Irish rock band formed in Downpatrick in 1992 by vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray. As a three-piece, they released mini-album '' Trailer'' in 1994 and full-length album '' 1977'' in 1996. This 1996 release was named by ''NME'' as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. After the success of their full debut the band recruited Charlotte Hatherley as a guitarist and vocalist, releasing their second record ''Nu-Clear Sounds'' in 1998. After narrowly avoiding bankruptcy, the band released ''Free All Angels'' in 2001 and a string of successful singles. The band became a three-piece again in 2006 when Hatherley left, and after five conventional albums the band released 26 singles in the ''A-Z Series'' in 2009, one every two weeks. The band have had one silver, two gold and two platinum-selling (and chart-topping) records in the United Kingdom, as well as 18 songs in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. They were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minimoog
The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981. Designed as a more affordable, portable version of the modular Moog synthesizer, it was the first synthesizer sold in retail stores. It was first popular with progressive rock and jazz musicians and found wide use in disco, pop, rock and electronic music. Production of the Minimoog stopped in the early 1980s after the sale of Moog Music. In 2002, founder Robert Moog regained the rights to the Moog brand, bought the company, and released an updated version of the Minimoog, the Minimoog Voyager. In 2016 and in 2022, Moog Music released another new version of the original Minimoog. Development In the 1960s, RA Moog Co manufactured Moog synthesizers, which helped bring electronic sounds to music but remained inaccessible to ordinary people. These modular synthesizers were difficult to use and required users to connect components manually with patch cables to create sounds. They were a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omnichord
The Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument introduced in 1981 by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate known as "Sonic Strings", preset rhythms, auto-bass line functionality, and buttons for major, minor, and 7th chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the Sonic Strings with a finger in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument. The Sonic Strings may also be touched in one place to create a single note. Originally designed as an electronic Autoharp, the Omnichord has become popular, due to its unique, chiming, harplike timbre and its value as a kitsch object. History Suzuki introduced the Omnichord along with the Tronichord, renamed the Portachord on some units, in 1981. The latter never reached full production, but both instrument share many technical and functional similarities. Omnichords feature preset rhythm patterns with tempo and volume control, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trona Pinnacles
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as , rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side. Geography The Trona Pinnacles, at an elevation of above sea level, are located approximately south of Trona, California. Access to the site is from a BLM dirt road (RM143) that leaves State Highway 178, about east of the intersection of State Highway 178 and the Trona-Red Mountain Road. The long dirt road from State Highway 178 to the Pinnacles is usually acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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