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Wayne & Wax

@wayneandwax.bsky.social

musicologist at Berklee, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, principiante jaranero, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba

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Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · last wk.

it is still so wild to me, an academic by habit, where you might write an article and see it published months or years later, that when I write for, say, Pitchfork, I deliver a draft and the piece gets published a day later. where is the middle ground?

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · 2w ago

just a random Saturday evening in the neighborhood. Ethiopian basslines resounding all afternoon. got as close to the soundsystem as the dog would let me. distorted Teddy Afro jams still ringing out as the sun set. even from a distance the bass warbled my camera.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · 4w ago

this 1972 printing is already pretty yellow, but I can't resist snapping a pic on a smoke-hazy day like today. I'm looking up too. pulled this one off the shelf for a re-read last week because it remains prescient, and hoo boy, does it ever.

me holding a yellowed copy of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up in my backyard, which is lit at midday with an unnatural yellow haze on account of wildfires in Canada.
Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · 4w ago

I work on a farm several hours a day this time of year, for money and veggies and health, and I just love how sore and tired my body is right now and how little explosive diarrhea I have

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · 2mo ago

working up a new unit in Technomusicology where I task students with making a remix using only short loops (2 beats?) of the source material. having trouble finding any good writing on the practice of composing with short loops. any articles come to mind?

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"This was a new way of working. We were trying to emulate the hip-hop pioneers in New York. We loved how you could make random connections and how it made our quirky British songs sound cool and American."

Jeff Weiss@passionweiss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The story of EMF's "Unbelievable." David Ma breaks down the secret history of a how a slight by comedian Andrew Dice Clay and a fleeting Rick Rubin meetup led to one of the quintessential early 90s jock jams. www.powmag.net/p/emf-interv...