Sublimenal

Question everything, even this. Sublimenal | MKUltra Records. Boosting artists who write with intent. Shine On out 7.13

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'quantum' sits in the gap before you decide.

every version of you is still running until something makes you pick one. the track lives in that second.

headphones. go collapse the wave.

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the band did not find out until 1996. by then the statute of limitations had run out.

gregory coleman died homeless in 2006. he never saw a cent of it.

know what you own.

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in 1969 a soul group called the winstons put out a b-side called 'amen, brother.' partway through, the drummer gregory coleman plays a break alone. about six seconds of it.

those six seconds became the backbone of jungle, drum and bass, and a mountain of hip hop. n.w.a. nine inch nails. the futurama theme. thousands of records.

photo: metromedia records, public domain

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in 1967 elton john and bernie taupin both answered the same ad in a music paper. neither of them got the job. someone handed elton an envelope of bernie's lyrics and told him to try something with them.

they've worked that way ever since. bernie sends words, elton sits at a piano and finds the song, often in under an hour.

fifty years of partnership out of two rejections and an envelope.

photo: uni records press photo, public domain

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country radio blacklisted the dixie chicks in 2003 over one sentence said on a london stage. stations organized record burnings. death threats followed.

three years later rick rubin produced the album where they refused to apologize. they wrote about the blacklist instead of around it.

five grammys. album of the year.

they never got country radio back. they got everything else.

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every key on a mellotron plays a strip of tape with a real instrument recorded on it. press a key, a tape rolls. the beatles used one for the flute at the start of 'strawberry fields.'

it was a sampler before samplers existed, mechanical and always slightly out of tune. that wobble is why old records sound haunted.

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the mkultra playlist is not a favor we do for people.

dark electronic, psych, mantra loops, game music. things we'd put on anyway.

if you make something that belongs in it, reply with one track. one. we listen to all of them.

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in 1967 the doors were booked on ed sullivan and told to change one line in 'light my fire.' they said fine.

then morrison sang it exactly as written, live, to the whole country.

they were told they'd never do the show again. morrison's answer was that they'd just done the sullivan show.

you only need the one broadcast.

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it was the first electronic theme tune on television.

grainer tried to get her a co-writing credit. workshop rules said no.

she made one of the most recognizable sounds in british television and her name is not on it.

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ron grainer wrote the doctor who theme on one sheet of paper and mailed it in from portugal. the orchestration notes were things like 'wind bubble' and 'cloud.'

delia derbyshire built it at the bbc radiophonic workshop in 1963 by cutting tape. every note spliced by hand, sped up, slowed down, one at a time.

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by 1985 queen were being written off. the last record had flopped in america and the press had moved on.

they got twenty-one minutes at live aid. they rehearsed for three days, cut every song down to the part people knew, and played to the back of a stadium and a billion people watching.

it's still voted the greatest live performance anyone has given. one slot, taken seriously.

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universal settled with udio. warner settled with udio and suno. the lawsuits became licensing partnerships.

sony is still in court with both. that trial is expected late this year.

independent artists were not covered by any of the settlements. they filed their own class actions, arguing the major label deals protect major label catalogs and nothing else.

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in 1938 he was taken back to the soviet union. while there he designed 'the thing,' a bug with no battery and no wires that hung inside the us ambassador's moscow residence for seven years before anyone found it.

the man who made music from thin air also built the perfect listening device.

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the theremin is the only instrument you play without touching it. léon theremin invented it around 1920. you move your hands through two fields and the sound bends in the air.

that's not even the strange part.

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the signal was never hidden.

you were just trained to call it noise.

shine on.

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biggie never wrote his lyrics down. he'd sit with a beat, build the entire verse in his head, then step to the mic and deliver it. engineers said they watched him do it and still didn't believe it.

he was on a brooklyn corner when a demo tape got him into the source's unsigned hype column.

the tape was the whole plan. make the thing, get it into one right pair of hands.

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'art of war' is patience with teeth.

the loudest move is almost never the winning one. this track is about winning before the first shot gets fired.

headphones. sit still.

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for mtv unplugged nirvana refused to play the hits. they filled the set with covers, brought the meat puppets out to play their own obscure songs, and asked for lilies and black candles on the stage.

someone asked if he meant like a funeral. cobain said exactly.

biggest audience of their lives, and they used it to point at other people's music.

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in 1986 aerosmith were finished. drugs, debt, half-empty rooms, a decade past anyone caring.

rick rubin had run-dmc cover 'walk this way' and put steven tyler and joe perry on the track. run-dmc thought it was a terrible idea and didn't want to do it.

it went top five and restarted aerosmith's entire career.

the collaboration nobody in the room wants is sometimes the one that works.

photo: ian dryden, los angeles times, cc by 4.0