More from the New Old Web

There’s plenty of great writing and music-making happening on the web, folks acting like it’s still the mid-1990s (through the early 2000s). No clickbait, no press release regurgitation, no hot-topic parasitism/bandwagoning, no SEO-optimized topic laundering, no artificially typed word salad, no social media histrionics, just deep dives into topics the individuals have spent meaningful time exploring. Two recent examples:

▰ Ethan Hein writes about isolated tracks (like the ones in which you can listen to just Paul McCartney’s bass line from a Beatles song) in the context of his work as an educator:

“It’s too bad you have to violate copyright law to share these things, because they are incredibly valuable resources for teachers of music technology, theory, songwriting and popular music history. I use these multitracks in every class I teach, every semester.”

▰ Andrew Tasselmyer interviews Chris Carlson, creator of the great iOS music-making app Borderlands:

“[T]he thing that comes to mind when I think about how I want Borderlands to feel when you’re interacting with it is the way it feels to pinch down a guitar string and feel it resonate beneath your finger. Or even having a good subwoofer in the room with you, when you feel that vibration…the experience of holding down a note, but then also adjusting an effects pedal parameter and listening to that process.”