Long Records

01/12/2023

29/11/2023

"I hate rankings about who is better. I don't deal with technique, I deal with emotions."

I'm no longer interested in hyper-technical, funambolic musicians who are not able to convey emotions. Better four notes expressed with soul than a thousand without. Think of Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Chet Baker, and Joao Gilberto.

Charlie Watts was for me the essence of the Stones' sound, without doing spectacular acrobatics. Many will disagree. I've read a lot of publications about lists of musicians but for me, music is not competition, it's sharing."

- Jimmy Page

08/11/2023

Bill Withers wrote the song "Ain't No Sunshine" at age 31 while working at a factory, making toilet seats for airplanes. Using his own money, he would record demo tapes and play at various clubs at night. When he debuted with "Ain't No Sunshine", he refused to quit his day job, believing that the music business was a fickle industry. Fortunately for him, the song turned out to be a massive hit. When it went gold, the record company gave him a gold toilet as a gift, marking the start of his new career.

In 1985, at age 47, Bill Withers decided to walk away from it all. He felt that the record companies he worked with were constantly trying to exert more and more control over how he should sound if he wanted to sell more albums. He felt pigeonholed and no longer wanted to be part of the music business. In 2015, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He claimed to have no regrets and provided the following reflection on his later life: "I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that, though. You tweak yourself, looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those k***s until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense, the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for—a return to the easygoing guy I was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind."
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25/10/2023

Premiere of the new song today!!

❤️ Today, I humbly present to you my latest composition. It marks the inaugural movement of a harmonious odyssey entitled "Going Home." Join me on this musical expedition by following and subscribing for what's yet to come.

May the music light up your day! 🎵

The Forbys · Song · 2023

20/10/2023

Producer and composer Tony Visconti has shared his opinion on how he feels the role of the record producer has changed in the modern age.

18/10/2023

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/

Following its acquisition by the music licensing company Songtradr, layoffs spell trouble at the beloved online music platform.

16/10/2023

https://www.thefader.com/2023/10/12/how-venture-capital-changed-the-business-of-sampling

In this week's Rap Column, The FADER's Nadine Smith explores how publishing rights have become investment opportunities, and changed sampling as an art form.

12/10/2023

LifeScore is also a graduate of the Abbey Road RED Incubator…

13/09/2023

All you need is a focusrite scarlett

21/07/2023

Hello Peeps!
My record label established in 2004 called Long Records is releasing today its first globally distributed single. This song may be already known to many of my friends, actually recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 on the gold certified CD compilation “Z Serca Galicji”. Next year we will be celebrating 20 year anniversary of the label creation with a big bang and a lot of new releases. If you have some great music to share, hit us up! Please include only links to soundcloud or similar, email attachments are automatically deleted. Yeah.. and don’t forget to enjoy the music! 🤣😘🥳🎼🎹

Choose your preferred music service :)

24/06/2023

As I was lamenting the fact that Stevie Wonder produced something like 200 unreleased songs in his Songs in the Key of Life sessions, I was pointed to (hat tip: .bsky.social) a Europea…

19/06/2023

A brilliant quote in this NME article about The Windmill Brixton.

Read the full article (amongst some others) at the "MVT Big Reads" section here: https://linktr.ee/MusicVenueTrust

16/06/2023

Cheat sheet for engineers.. 🤣

13/06/2023

Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen…

13/06/2023

https://www.stereogum.com/2226805/paul-mccartney-using-ai-to-release-the-last-beatles-record/news/

It seems that we’ve arrived at some strange, mythical new tipping point for the role of artificial intelligence in music. In a new BBC interview, Paul McCartney says that AI technology has been used to “extricate” the voice of John Lennon from an old demo and that this will enable the release ...

13/06/2023

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/meta-just-released-an-ai-music-generator-that-was-trained-on-20000-hours-of-licensed-music

Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen…

26/05/2023

At The Songwriting Academy we have a huge network of songwriters - new, experienced, and everything in between. Right here is a great place to meet your future co-writer because we all are like-minded folks with the same mission - to write great songs from the heart! I would suggest connecting right now in the comments. Some other ideas of meeting your future collaborator is heading to your local open mic and chatting to people. Open mics are great for new songwriters and performers and for putting yourself out there. You can also use social media and find artists you like and shoot them a message - what do you have to lose! We urge you to take a risk and go for it. Go create magic ✨.

Who wants to connect right now?! 👇♥️

27/04/2023

I would like to thank all the people who have supported me over the last years by starting to learn to play the guitar with me and trusting in my competence. Thanks to you, I have motivation to develop further so that I can pass on as much knowledge as possible to you.

For those who don't know, I am also an artist and by choosing my lessons you support art, creativity and its diversity.

That's why I decided that I will repay you for supporting and this Saturday I will draw some prizes from among my former and current students.

💥1st Prize would be free guitar setup (worth of £40)

💥2nd free guitar lesson (£30)

💥3rd free re string of your instrument (£25)

The list of participants will be published on Friday evening, so you still have time to sign up and take part in the draw.

The draw will take place on Saturday in a live video on my FB page and the selected people will be informed about it up to 2 hours after the draw.

Good Luck 🍀🍀and see you on Saturday live draw!!

17/04/2023

Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve is bound to ignite intra-industry music biz tensions this week…

30/01/2023

Hey Guys, here’s our studio presented in the first pictures I just made. Collaborations, test sessions and bookings are welcome. HmU! [email protected] 👌

18/01/2023

"Pronouns are confusing" bro literally what even is this

21/08/2022

12/02/2022

https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/55th-grammy-award-for-midi

Ikutaro Kakehashi and Dave Smith receive Technical GRAMMY Award from the Recording Academy® In 1983, Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland Corporation, and Dave Smith, president of Sequential Circuits, unveiled MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). The launch of MIDI motivated the cooperation...

08/02/2022

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/paradox-breakbeat-mastery

Paradox reveals the secrets behind his notorious, breakbeat-driven production methods, and shares some free loops from his vinyl-only sample series ‘Wax Breaks’.