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Nick Sylvestermusic producer nick sylvester's weekly inquiry into the things that make us say 'what?' then 'wow'. published weekly, sometimes more. sometimes less!
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How I learned to breathe the air of Pandora
(66)
Sometime in the last ten years, I noticed I had trouble remembering. I would watch a new movie, or listen to a new album, or read a book, or go to a buzzy restaurant, or visit a foreign city, and a week later somehow have zero recolle...
This is the song I shared most this year
(60)
My job has been ‘make new music’ for over a decade now – the longest I’ve held onto any job in my adult life. The irony – I’m not sure it’s real irony, perhaps it’s more the ‘life’s funny that way’ Alanis Morissette kind – is that I d...
The Funny Thing About Difficult Music
Tomorrow, I (Nick) am releasing ‘Stereo Music for Breakbeats and Samplers’, my debut album after a decade and change of helping others make theirs.
From the label copy: “Over 15 tracks, Sylvester takes the breakbeat to its breaking point,...
In Praise of Billy Jones
(56)
Like so many of us who expend all our cellular energy thinking and making and supporting independent music, I was saddened to see that Billy Jones, a New York institution, had passed over the weekend. We had talked a bit about his hea...
The 0dBFS Aesthetic
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Bless this feed for Stuart Berman alerting us that it’s been 20 years since Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods came out. I have a very clear memory of listening to the album on a rickety treadmill at that shad...
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