Below The Surface
PescatoreMusic for discerning and adventurous listeners. More fun than song selections made by bots and algorithms.
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Why I Brought Four Copies of the Same Album to Listening Club
I pulled four copies of the same album out of my record bag at listening club last week and passed them around the room. Still in their protective plastic, don’t worry. One of them has hand-painted yellow brushstrokes on the sleeve from 197...
You Cannot Imprison a Sound
I was nineteen, backpacking through Russia and Ukraine in the late 1980s, when I got my first lesson in how scarcity works. On Moscow’s Arbat, within minutes of arriving, I had a small crowd around me. They weren’t interested in me. They we...
Reclaim the Skinhead
There’s a word that makes people flinch. Say “skinhead” at a dinner party and watch the room tighten. People picture the worst of it: the co-opted, corrupted National Front racists who hijacked the look and poisoned the name in the late ‘70...
The Rhythm Architect is Gone.
The heartbeat of modern music just skipped a beat. With the passing of Sly Dunbar, we lose more than just half of the legendary “Riddim Twins.” We lose one of the most significant architects of sound in the last century.
Sly didn’t just pl...
Fingerprints vs. Formulas: Bandcamp’s Bold Ban on AI
There is nothing like a passionate corner of the internet to spark a conversation. This time it was a Reddit thread on r/BandCamp that blew up over Bandcamp’s new policy banning AI-generated music from the site. As someone who cares deeply...
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