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'Watch POTUS Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Dance the Tango in Argentina
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'primephonic: Classical Music's Service for All Seasons
Until now, alas, classical musical had been more than a little late to the revolution. No, not a televised one; the online revolution--that digi-revolt against all the real, tactile records (and tapes) of some 1000 years of performance practice proper. Blame the medium, not the message, though. Lo, about an hour south of Amsterdam, one dutiful Dutch downloading distributor would soon oblige: primephonic. -
'RETRO: Germany's zeitkratzer Transcribe, Transform Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music'
It only makes sense that the land that brought us both Bach and Beethoven and Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt would be the first to even think about transcribing Lou Reed’s 1975 hocus pocus opus.