Another week, another installment of the Fresh Faves which our loyal readers singled out over the weekend on the Listening Post. Much appreciation to each and every artist who submitted their lustrous recordings making it nigh impossible to pick and choose the best of the crop. Cracking on then, let's hear it for the bands featured in Batch 49 of the Fresh Faves: ABIGAIL HUBBARD…
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Of all the vintage digital toys cluttering up my home studio, perhaps my favourite is the Casio Rapman, which I reviewed for Making Music magazine in 1991 (see below). Until working with Swami Baracus on last weekend's Immersion Songwriting event I'd never seen it used by a really gifted rap artist. It struck me that its collection of cheesy oldschool riffs deserved to be shared…
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