I thought I’d try out the brand new Soundcloud HTML-5 widget on one of Jake’s new tunes. Soundcloud is a tool that’s been invaluable to him as an independent electronic musician just starting out, and he’s had to upgrade a couple of levels (from Free to Lite to Solo) to accommodate his fairly prolific output. [...]
December by Jake Dubber Jake has just released the fourth of his series of albums from 2011. That’s it there. Have a listen. It’s a bit of a landmark, because it marks the end of a major project for him. The idea was that he would just collect together everything that he’d finished at the [...]
Tagged: Jake
The excitement in our house this week is the release of (my son) Jake’s album ‘June’. He started on a project at the beginning of this year to make music, and release whatever he’d finished at the end of every three months. So the first of these was a sort of extended EP called ‘March‘, [...]
Categories: Music
There was a three-page article in GQ Magazine recently, in which U2′s manager Paul McGuinness makes the case for artists needing to make money from their music in a world where people are downloading it for free. He called it “How To Save The Music Industry“. In it, he asks that the sort of clever, [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Jake, Music, Music Industry, U2
Day 01 by Jake Dubber My son Jake is doing the AQA Baccalaureate at his college. It involves the usual A-levels (he’s doing Philosophy, Music Tech and English Language), an extra AS-level class in Critical Thinking, 100 hours of extra-curricular activities, and an extended project. The extended project can either be a 5000 word essay [...]
Tagged: AQA Baccalaureate, dubstep, Electronic, Jake
Relaxing is a serious business for Craig & Clutch Clutch and I decided it would be a good idea to host a whisky tasting in St Andrews during the Golf Open. Turns out it wasn’t, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have a good time. Not quite the generator of extra pocketmoney we were hoping [...]
Categories: Family,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: Clutch Daisy, Craig Hamilton, golf, Jake
