What are you listening to now? Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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- KVRAF
- 9985 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
I didn't realise that. I thought "digital" albums first appeared around '82.PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmGreat Album.
The first fully digital recording, the engineers didn't want to use compressors or EQs in order to maintain the "purity of digital recording".
Watch out, King CrimsonPatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmI was surprised to find the guitar work was split between Ry Cooder and David Lindley with both intertwining rhythm parts together, great combo.
I always like Keltner's work with Cooder. His body of work is enormous. He recently worked on the soundtrack for "The Irishman". The "collaborations" list on the Wikipedia page is incomplete!PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmOther amazing musicians include:
Tim Drummond – bass guitar
Jim Keltner – drums
Chaka Khan – vocals
Rev. Patrick Henderson – organ, keyboards
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- KVRAF
- 5117 posts since 30 Apr, 2019
First time I noticed him was he played on Elvis Costello’s King of America album.
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 18 Feb, 2021
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- KVRAF
- 9985 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
The Crimson Jazz Trio - King Crimson Songbook Volume 1
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- D.H. MOD
- 13613 posts since 21 Jun, 2008
Kris Davis - Duopoly
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- KVRAF
- 5335 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
From Wikipedia:seismic1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:58 amI didn't realise that. I thought "digital" albums first appeared around '82.PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmGreat Album.
The first fully digital recording, the engineers didn't want to use compressors or EQs in order to maintain the "purity of digital recording".
Watch out, King CrimsonPatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmI was surprised to find the guitar work was split between Ry Cooder and David Lindley with both intertwining rhythm parts together, great combo.
I always like Keltner's work with Cooder. His body of work is enormous. He recently worked on the soundtrack for "The Irishman". The "collaborations" list on the Wikipedia page is incomplete!PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:31 pmOther amazing musicians include:
Tim Drummond – bass guitar
Jim Keltner – drums
Chaka Khan – vocals
Rev. Patrick Henderson – organ, keyboards
"Bop Till You Drop is Ry Cooder's eighth album, released in 1979. The album was the first digitally recorded major-label album in popular music. Bop Till You Drop was recorded on a digital 32-track machine built by 3M."
So yea, its "the first digitally recorded major-label album in popular music...."
Mmm, makes me wonder what the first fully digital album was in any genre.
Jim Keltner is an amazing drummer, he has been on a ton of great recordings including George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
On the back cover of that same record underneath the second hand-print design, text provides details of the fictitious Jim Keltner Fan Club where information which was available by sending a "stamped undressed elephant" to Jim Keltners address...
Keltner talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WiLW41qufw
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- KVRAF
- 5117 posts since 30 Apr, 2019
I would guess it’d be some sort of experimental thing from Sony as they came out with the first PCM recorders which were I think a bit like VCRs that would record/play digital data. That was only a year or two before that Ry Cooder album.PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:55 pmMmm, makes me wonder what the first fully digital album was in any genre.
I seem to recall everyone making a fuss about Blue Nile for being DDD, but I’m not sure why they’d stand out a number of years later.
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- KVRAF
- 5335 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
After some research here is the first one:WatchTheGuitar wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:08 pmI would guess it’d be some sort of experimental thing from Sony as they came out with the first PCM recorders which were I think a bit like VCRs that would record/play digital data. That was only a year or two before that Ry Cooder album.PatchAdamz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:55 pmMmm, makes me wonder what the first fully digital album was in any genre.
I seem to recall everyone making a fuss about Blue Nile for being DDD, but I’m not sure why they’d stand out a number of years later.
January 1971: Using NHK's experimental PCM recording system, Dr. Takeaki Anazawa, an engineer at Denon, records the world's first commercial digital recordings, The World Of Stomu Yamash'ta 1 & 2 by Stomu Yamash'ta (January 11, 1971)
I worked on the first fully sampled recording (engineered and sampled) using Stevie Wonders Synclavier. That is now in the Smithsonian Museum (not full album).
Entroducing (1996) by DJ Shadow, a.k.a name Joshua Davis (USA) was the first album to be recorded using only sampled sounds.
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- KVRAF
- 5117 posts since 30 Apr, 2019
Yay googleIndeed, the first commercial digital recording was Nippon Columbia NCB-7003, "Something" by Steve Marcus, released January 1971.The only other commercial release to come out of these early Denon/NHK recordings was Nippon Columbia NCC-8004, "The World of Sutomu Yamashita," according to Anazawa."
