• Les majors bloquent la production de disques vinyle au détriment des labels indépendants | Trax Magazine
    https://www.traxmag.com/majors-bloquent-production-disques-vinyle-au-detriment-labels-independants

    Intéressant : c’est la même chose pour le livre.

    Bon, j’ai toujours gardé ma collec’ de « disques » (les vrais :-), retardé jusqu’au dernier moment l’achat d’une platine CD (le double « Weld » de Neil Young n’existait qu’en CD, et je le voulais vraiment - jamais regretté d’ailleurs, un disque fabuleux).
    Mais maintenant, il va falloir doubler la mise pour en avoir de nouveaux.
    Il y a eu un article du même tonneau dans le New York Times la semaine passée :

    Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl
    Left for dead in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format. Getting them manufactured, however, is increasingly a challenge.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/arts/music/vinyl-records-delays.html

    En passant des commandes massives qui monopolisent les usines, les majors Universal, Sony et Warner enrayent une partie de la chaine de production de disques vinyle, déstabilisant les petits labels en occasionnant des retards inédits sur leurs sorties.

    C’était en quelque sorte l’une des rares bonnes surprises de cette pandémie. En 2020, alors que le monde était en partie à l’arrêt, les ventes de disques vinyle ont explosé. Aux États-Unis, ces dernières ont même dépassé le nombre de CD écoulés dans les magasins, pour la première fois depuis 34 ans. Et ce retour en fanfare du vieux support noir tombé un temps en désuétude ne semble pas prêt de s’arrêter. Sur le premier trimestre 2021, 19,2 millions de vinyles se sont écoulés aux États-Unis, contre 9,2 millions un an plus tôt. En France, cette progression est plus discrète mais suffisante pour poser une constatation : longtemps annoncé sur le retour, le vinyle semble bel et bien avoir repris une partie de ses droits face au CD.

    Voyant le vent tourner, les majors de l’industrie du disque – qui avaient pourtant étaient promptes à saborder le support au profit du CD dans les années 80 et 90 – se décident donc à rééditer l’intégralité de leurs fonds de catalogues, occasionnant des embouteillages inédits dans la chaine de production des vinyles. « Là où il fallait deux mois en temps normal, ce sont désormais entre cinq et sept mois d’attente pour produire un vinyle », explique Laurent Didailler, directeur général de Pias France qui distribue de nombreux labels indépendants, dans un article pour Télérama. Ce dernier constate que concernant les retards de production, le problème « est surtout le comportement des majors du disque, qui ont fait main basse sur toutes les filières de production. » Logiquement incapables de s’aligner sur les gigantesques commandes payées en avance que passent les majors comme Sony, Universal ou Warner, les petit labels indépendants sont donc relayés au second plan et doivent parfois attendre de longs mois que la chaîne de fabrication de vinyles ne soit plus monopolisée par des rééditions de disques de Pink Floyd, AC/DC ou David Bowie. Quitte a retarder sans cesse les sorties physiques de leurs projets.

    En parallèle, les majors ont aussi décidé d’augmenter drastiquement le prix de vente de leurs disques, argumentant que le prix des polymères, qui rentrent dans la fabrication des galettes vinyles, s’est envolé pendant la pandémie en raison d’un manque de matière première. À titre d’exemple, un disque vinyle comme Young Americans de David Bowie coûtait 14,99 euros TTC avant la pandémie. Il est désormais vendu à 39 euros. Une hausse faramineuse qui risque de faire du vinyle un produit de luxe dont le grand public pourrait se détourner. « Les majors voudraient tuer le vinyle qu’elles ne s’y prendraient pas autrement », se désole chez Télérama Christophe Ouali, patron de la boutique de disques Le Silence de la rue à Paris et coprésident du Gredin, syndicat professionnel regroupant près de 300 disquaires indépendants en France. Affaire à suivre.

    #Musique #Vinyls

  • The Last Nightmare Of Captain Mission - Maniaxxx Turin, Italy
    https://www.beast-records.com/bands/maniaxxx

    The Last Nightmare of Captain Mission is the hallucinated trip in the mind of a mutineer, founder of the first anarchist colony in history, just before his death in the Madagascar sea.
    Psychedelic, noisy and psychotic; garage/post-punk rides between WIlliam Burroughs and ghost sea tales.
    Maniaxxx are :
    Matteo Givone (Vocals, Guitar, percussions)
    Andrea Laface (Vocals, Bass)
    Francesco Musso (drums and percussions)

    https://maniaxxx.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-nightmare-of-captain-mission


    #maniaxxx #beast_records

  • When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” | The New Yorker
    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/when-the-beatles-walked-offstage-fifty-years-of-abbey-road

    Excellent article sur le plus grand album de la pop musique.

    In the spring of 1969, Paul McCartney telephoned George Martin to ask if he would be willing to work with the Beatles on a new album they planned to record in the months ahead. Martin, who was widely regarded as the most accomplished pop-record producer in the world, had overseen the making of all nine albums and nineteen singles that the Beatles had released in Britain since their début on E.M.I.’s Parlophone label, in 1962. His reputation was synonymous with that of the group, and the fact that McCartney felt a need to ask him about his availability dramatized how much the Beatles’ professional circumstances had changed since the release of the two-record set known as the White Album, in the fall of 1968. In Martin’s view, the five months of tension and drama it took to make that album, followed by the fiasco of “Get Back,” an ill-fated film, concert, and recording project that ended inconclusively in January, 1969, had turned his recent work with the Beatles into a “miserable experience.”

    “After [‘Get Back’] I thought it was the end of the road for all of us,” he said later. “I didn’t really want to work with them anymore because they were becoming unpleasant people, to themselves as well as to other people. So I was quite surprised when Paul rang me up and asked me to produce another record for them. He said, ‘Will you really produce it?’ And I said, ‘If I’m really allowed to produce it. If I have to go back and accept a lot of instructions that I don’t like, then I won’t do it.’ ” After receiving McCartney’s assurance that he would indeed have a free hand, Martin booked a solid block of time at Abbey Road studios from the first of July to the end of August.

    To speak of “sides” is to acknowledge that “Abbey Road,” like most Beatles albums, was originally released as a double-sided vinyl LP. This was the format with which the group had revolutionized the recording industry in the sixties, when its popularity, self-sufficiency, and burgeoning artistic ambition helped to establish the self-written album as the principal medium of rock. Earlier, in the fifties, when “long-playing” records first became available, their selling point was their capacity. Unlike the 78-r.p.m. records they replaced, LPs could hold more than twenty minutes of music per side, which made them an ideal format for the extended performances of classical music, Broadway shows, film soundtracks, modern jazz, and standup comedy that accounted for the lion’s share of the record market at the time. Best-selling pop singers like Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Elvis Presley also capitalized on the potential of the LP, not least because a prime virtue of albums in the pop market was their packaging. The records were sold in foot-square cardboard sleeves, faced with a photograph or illustration that served as an advertisement for the product within. By providing a portrait of the artist and a platform for the sort of promotional copy that had previously been confined to fan magazines, album “jackets” served as a tangible accessory to the experience of record listening. LP covers became an established form of graphic art, and the high standard of the graphic design on the Beatles’ early albums was one of the ways that Brian Epstein and George Martin sought to distinguish the group from the patronizing stereotypes that applied to teen-age pop.

    All of this, it goes without saying, is ancient history in an era of digital streaming and shuffling, which threatens the very concept of a record album as a cohesive work of art. In this sense, the fiftieth anniversary reissue of “Abbey Road” is an anachronism, a throwback to a time when an LP cover could serve as a cultural icon and the order of the songs on the two sides of an album became etched on its listeners’ minds. In the iconography of Beatles album covers, “Abbey Road” ranks with the conclave of culture heroes on the front of “Sgt. Pepper” and the mysterious side-lit portrait on the group’s first Capitol LP. Yet, like so much else on the album, its cover was a product of compromise. After entertaining the notion of naming the album “Everest” and travelling to Nepal to have themselves photographed in front of the world’s tallest peak, the Beatles elected to simply walk out the door of the studio on an August afternoon. The famous tableau of the four of them striding purposefully across the now-landmarked “zebra crossing”—Lennon in white, Starr in black, McCartney in gray, and Harrison in hippie denim from head to toe—advertised the differences in a band that had first captured the attention of the world in matching suits and haircuts. But its iconic status owed to the way it came to serve, in retrospect, as a typically droll image of the Beatles, walking off the stage of their career as a group.

    To return to Ned Rorem’s formulation: How good were the Beatles, notwithstanding the fact that everyone knew they were good? Good enough to produce this self-allusive masterpiece with their dying breath as a band. Good enough to enlist the smoke and mirrors of a modern recording studio to simulate the merger of musical sensibilities that they had once achieved by means of an unprecedented concentration and collaboration of sovereign talent. In this sense, “Abbey Road” memorializes a paradox of the group. The singing, songwriting, and playing on the album affirm the extent to which all four of the Beatles became consummate musical professionals in the course of their eight-year career. But the ending of that career affirms the extent to which these four “mates” from Liverpool, whose lives were transformed by such a surfeit of wealth and fame, never gave a thought to professionalizing their personal relationships with one another.

    Their contemporaries, such as the Rolling Stones and the Who, would carry on for decades as lucrative rock franchises, long after the bonds of adolescent friendship that originally joined them together had withered away. But, for the Beatles, whose adolescent friendship institutionalized the archetype of the rock group, a ubiquitous mode of musical organization that has endured to the present day, the deterioration in their personal relations completely outweighed the financial incentives that came with their status as the most successful musical artists of their time. From the beginning, they were understood to be a “band” in both senses of the word: as musicians, of course, but also, on a more elemental level, as a group of young men who shared a sense of identity, solidarity, and purpose. “I’ve compared it to a marriage,” Lennon would say. “Up until then, we really believed intensely in what we were doing, and the product we put out, and everything had to be just right. Suddenly we didn’t believe. And that was the end of it.”

    #Musique #The_Beatles #Abbey_Road #Vinyls

  • Le Grand Frère et ses #Vinyls
    http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/pbg/le-grand-frere-et-ses-vinyls

    Des jeunes en perte de repères, errant à la dérive tels des animaux sauvages, agressant leurs parents, leurs amis, les gentilles petites vieilles dames qui donnent à manger aux #Pigeons, des graines de voyou, à la voix perçante et aux gestes maladroits.

    Pour eux, tout semble perdu. Une vie de désespoir, uniquement égayée par les soldes du Black Friday et la perspective d’une bonne baston autour d’un grille-pain, semble les attendre.

    Mais heureusement, le Grand Frère est là, avec son BAFA et ses techniques pédagogiques tout droit sorties de la fin du XXème Siècle.

    Dans cet atelier radiophonique, la Police du Bon Goût invite donc ces jeunes sauvageons à karchériser les platines vinyls avec leurs meilleurs disques, leurs morceaux les plus suants, secrets, noirs, et sexy. Et comme cela, la (...)

    #Mix #social #PBG #chips #grand_frere #Mix,social,PBG,Pigeons,Vinyls,chips,grand_frere
    http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/pbg/le-grand-frere-et-ses-vinyls_06255__1.mp3

  • Dépression post 35 heures
    http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/pbg/depression-post-35-heures

    En ce lendemain du marathon panikéen qui a vu votre radio préférée proposer pas moins de 35 heures d’antenne non-stop, rythmées par des émissions de 20 minutes s’enchaînant sans pause tel un gigantesque manège infernal et sublime, l’équipe de PBG a une petite forme, voire une forme assez déformée.

    Du coup, on ne parle pas (ou si peu), on sort les galettes #vinyls qui nous remontent le moral et l’énergie, et on vous propose 1h30 de #Mix erratique et collégial, sans guide ni genre, selon les désirs, et ça fait du bien.

    Bonne écoute !

    Tracklist :

    Death Grips - Guillotine The Peas Project - Good This Way Artist 00 - Kyoto (Roulette rekordz 02) Tricky With Gravediggaz - Tonite is a Special Nite Cristian Vogel - Matchless Phresh Phantasy - Come on Acid Hekate - B1 Untitled (The New Fangled (...)

    #the_descent #hangover #survival #the_descent,hangover,vinyls,survival,Mix
    http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/pbg/depression-post-35-heures_05547__1.mp3

  • In the #Mix for love
    http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/pbg/in-the-mix-for-love

    Musique et beaux objets.

    John Bender - Victims Of Victimless Crimes Squarepusher - Vic Acid Blawan - And Both His Sons DRVG CVLTVRE - Bring Me Labradoodle Monoton - Teil 2 Kho Shin Moon - Zaffa Eddie kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind Jam Band 80’ - Jammin (with the jam band)

    Axiome - Poque Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness - Yinde The Beatles - Being for The Benefit Of Mr Kite Squarepusher - The Barn Kondi Band - Y’alimamay (Chief boima Remix) Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain Los Mariachis de Vera Cruz Unit Moebius - Monitor Eruption - Give Me A Little Piece Of Your Sweet Side Anxiety - Pegasus The Caretaker - Now The Night Is Over And The Dawn Is About To (...)

    #vinyls #musique #Mix,vinyls,musique
    http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/pbg/in-the-mix-for-love_03772__1.mp3