Four Henry Snowstorm beats have been used on the recently released DannyHouse EP by MC Jon Wayne.

MC Jon Wayne - DannyHouse EP

1. Read The Script

2. Sexual Harassment*

3. Not Bombs*

4. Lyrical Diabetes*

5. Interlude

6. Don't You Think?*

7. Garbage Rhymes

These beats were originally available on the Henry Snowstorm instrumental album Civil Unrest.

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Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa. (quoting wikipedia)

The Internet Archive hosts 15 Antibalas live recordings which are all available for free download. So, what are you waiting for? If you wonder which to try first, Live at Culture Room on 2003-04-28 is not a bad place to start.
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(If you wonder how to convert the different audio formats into something a bit more manageable, I recommend pacpl, the Perl Audio Convertor.)

Mute Groups is a new feature in the CVS version of Hydrogen, the drum machine for GNU/Linux. Hydrogen is a great program and a lot of fun to use too. Mute Groups allows you to add 2 or more instruments to the group, say an open hihat and a closed hihat, and a beat on one member of the group mutes all other members of the group, allowing a more realistic, human-sounding rhythm. Fantastic. Future plans for Hydrogen include a simple chord and bassline editor.

I heard about this event recently. Music production, sound recording, Trinity Road (ex-)Church, sounds good.

"FAVE is a community event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It's taking place on Saturday August 20th 2005 at the Trinity Community & Arts Centre in Bristol, UK." www.fave.org.uk

Although an instrument of war, the Sound Mirrors' harnessing of sound is an interesting phenomenon. …The mirror was shaped to form part of a sphere and a sound collector was mounted on a pivot at the focal point. The collector was usually a trumpet shaped cone connected to the ears of the listener with rubber tubes … He rotated the sound collector horizontally with a hand wheel and vertically by way of foot pedals…

Early warning sound mirrors
The Hythe sound mirror system

Related: Clock DVA Sound Mirror 12"

Lately I've been (re)discovering the appeal of 7" and 12" pieces of grooved, circular plastic - probably it is at least a little tinged with nostalgia. This (pictured) promo that I received recently, (Blueprint, Print Is Goin' Off/No Half Smokin', Rhymesayers BLPT-001), with its blue vinyl, brought back some memories of a handful of Dickies singles that I had as a kid, all of which were released on coloured vinyl, (as were several other A&M releases of the time). What a good feeling it seemed to give me watching it spinning on the turntable - kids can be so easily amused!

I sold my turntable a looooooooong time ago, but I'm considering getting another one soon - there are several good things coming out on vinyl-only releases, particularly instrumental versions of hiphop albums. Vinyl is Not Dead!

Currently listening to: Orchestre Régional de Kayes, "Sanjina" World Psychedelic Classics 3 (on CD!)

"The daWB must have slack" and a little boogie woogie with that is just the tonic: Freddie Slack, "House of Blue Lights" (streaming audio).

Also of note in the Mosaic Select series, Grachan Moncur III, "Hipnosis" (streaming audio).

If I had one of those amazonian want lists, these 2 would probably be on it.

The Stones Throw website has announced a Madlib and Melvin Van Peebles project, Brer Soul Meets Quasimoto, that should be hot!