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By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearnTechnology Music

The Next Track episodes

August 28, 2019Episode #157 - Fake Fur-Covered Streams: Everything About CD Packaging
Andy Doe joins us to discuss CD packaging. The types of packages used, such as jewel cases and digipacks, and the marketing behind those Big Classical Box Sets.
Guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
Show notes:
Andy's video about how to unwrap a CD (YouTube)
O-cards and J-cards
Beethoven Symphonies, Roger Norrington, The London Classical Players
Beach Boys: US Singles Collection
Murray Perahia: The First 40 Years
Bach 333 – The New Complete Edition
Mozart 225 - Complete Edition
In Praise of the iTunes Column Browser
Julianna Hatfield, Only Everything:
Our next tracks:
Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert
The Kinks: The Anthology 1964-1971
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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37 min
August 14, 2019Episode #156 - 10 Ideas About the Future of the Music Business
We discuss the future of the music business, and come up with at last 10 ideas about how things will change in the next 10 years. Because 10 is a good number.
Show notes:
Robert Klein: "Now You Can Get Every Record Ever Recorded"
10 Ways The Music Industry Will Change In 10 Years
The future of music: 10 predictions from industry professionals
10 Trends That Will Reshape the Music Industry
David Cronenberg: eXistenZ
Watch Beatlemania Descend On Abbey Road To Mark 50th Anniversary Of Iconic Album Cover Shoot
Episode #35 – Musician and Developer Peter Chilvers on Brian Eno’s Album and App Reflection
Nocturnal after John Dowland
Our next tracks:
Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal, after John Downland; performed by Paul Galbraith (YouTube)
Gang of Four: Entertainment!
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36 min
July 31, 2019Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre
We welcome Simon Reynell, who runs Another Timbre, a one-man record label that releases experimental and contemporary music. Simon tells us how he started the label, and what it's like to run a record label in a niche of this kind.
Guest:
Simon Reynell
Another Timbre
Show notes:
Frank Denyer: music for shakuhachi
John Cage: Two2
John Cage's Number Pieces (Wikipedia)
Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business
Episode #80 – John Cage
Episode #123 - John Cage's Silent Piece 4'33"
Wandelweiser (Wikipedia)
Edition Wandelweiser Records
Wandelweiser und so weiter
Harold Budd on Morton Feldman
Brian Eno on the Andrew Marr Show
Our next tracks:
Brian Eno: Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks)
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
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Special Guest: Simon Reynell.
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37 min
July 18, 2019Episode #154 - Remembering the Walkman and Cassettes
The Sony Walkman was introduced 40 years ago. When it first came out, it was the biggest change in musical listening since the record player. It ushered in an era of personal listening, and, with the popularity of cassette tapes, changed the music industry.
Show notes:
As Sony's Walkman Turns 35, a Look Back at Its Inception (Shows a photo of the TCS-300)
TC-D5
TPS-L2 (the first Walkman)
3M Wollensak Magnetic Tape Recorder, Model 1500 SS, 1960-1965
Aiwa portable cassettes players
Home Taping Is Killing Music (Wikipedia)
Laurie Anderson: United States Live
Our next tracks:
The Cure: Faith)
Led Zeppelin: Physical Grafitti
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26 min
July 03, 2019Episode #153 - John Lysaker on Brian Eno's Music for Airports
Philosopher John Lysaker joins us to discuss his recent book about Brian Eno's Music for Airports. We talk about the idea of ambient music, and how Music for Airports defined a genre.
Guest:
John Lysaker
John Lysaker's book Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Show notes:
Episode #150 - Ambient Music
Brian Eno: Ambient 1, Music for Airports
Music for Airports liner notes
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
Brian Eno: Behind The Reflection - BBC Click (YouTube)
Scape
Brian Eno: Reflection
Our next tracks:
Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth)
Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse
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Special Guest: John Lysaker.
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34 min
June 19, 2019Episode #152 - Flogging a Dead App: Is it Really the Death of iTunes?
"iTunes is dead!!!" claim a number of websites and publications. Even on the TV news they were saying that "Apple has discontinued iTunes," that "it's the end of an era." Apple made big announcements at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in early June. Did they really kill off iTunes? We look at this subject, yet again, for what will be the last episode about the future of iTunes, at least until the next one.
Show notes:
Episode #136 - Breaking Up with iTunes?
Episode #145 - The Future of iTunes Redux
Episode #149 - In Which We Discuss the Potential Breakup of iTunes Yet Again Because We Really Didn't Have Anything Else to Talk About This Week
iTunes Doesn’t Look so Dead to Me
About the upcoming changes with iTunes on Mac
First Thoughts About Music.app
Our next tracks:
Rolling Thunder Revue (Netflix)
Toadies: Rubberneck
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24 min
June 05, 2019Episode #151 - The Latest Trends in Hi-Fi
We welcome back Chris Connaker, who tells us about the latest trends in hi-fi at the Munich High End audio show.
Guest:
Chris Connaker: Audiophile Style, Superphonica
Show notes:
High End Munich
Josh
Qobuz
Episode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos Amp
Focal Maestro Utopia Evo speakers
Warwick Acoustics
DCS Bartók DAC
Burmester Audiosysteme
Tech Das
Our next tracks:
Tangerine Dream: Official Bootleg Series Volume Three
BR5-49: The Best of BR5-49
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Special Guest: Chris Connaker.
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40 min
May 22, 2019Episode #150 - Ambient Music
The problem with the genre of ambient music is that most of it is not ambient music. No one really agrees on what exactly ambient music is. We discuss the genre, and the music, and how we feel about this type of music.
Show notes:
Brian Eno: Music for Airports, Bang on the Can: Music for Airports](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eno-wyatt-davies-bang-on-a-can-music-for-airports/389889337)
Ambient Essentials (Apple Music)
Morton Subotnick: SIlver Apples of the Moon
Brian Eno: Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno: Discreet Music
Brian Eno: Music for Installations
Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories
Terry Riley: In C (Wikipedia)
Lester Bangs interviews Eno
George Winston: December
Ludovico Einaudi: Seven Days Walking: Day 3
Harold Budd: Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
List of ambient music artists (Wikipedia)
Our next tracks:
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing The Piano 2013 In Yokohama
David Bowie: Stage
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29 min
May 17, 2019Episode #149 - In Which We Discuss the Potential Breakup of iTunes Yet Again Because We Really Didn't Have Anything Else to Talk About This Week
We discuss the potential breakup of iTunes yet again, because there is some new information about what the future of iTunes will be.
Show notes:
Steve Troughton-Smith
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
Episode #136 - Breaking Up with iTunes?
Episode #145 - The Future of iTunes Redux
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
Remove n Characters from Front or Back
Grateful Dead - Set 1 - 10/31/80 - Radio City Music Hall (YouTube)
Our next tracks:
Grateful Dead: The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/9/80 & 10/10/80
Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus
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23 min
May 10, 2019Episode #148 - Spoilers
We don't often talk about TV, but this week we discuss some TV series, how people watch TV, and in particular the disappearing experience of appointment TV. And we link this all with iTunes, at least a bit.
Show notes:
Line of Duty
Line of Duty season finale is UK's most watched TV show of 2019
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen (M*A*S*H)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Twilight Zone (complete series)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Our next tracks:
Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong
Easy Star All-Stars: Dub Side of the Moon
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24 min

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Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.