The Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival is a four-day music and arts festival held at the 600-acre Sunshine Grove property in Okeechobee, Florida. The event occurred over the weekend and held much controversy as many on reddit claimed a death occurred while none of it was being immediately reported. Local news in Florida finally confirmed the unfortunate death early this week.
Legendary tech house DJ Nathan Coles has passed away. Read more
Herb Deutsch, the co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer and professor at Long Islandâs Hofstra University, died on Friday (December 9). âHerbâs legacy and place in the history of music will never be forgotten. And here at Moog, his laughter will be missed and cherished,â Moog Music Inc. wrote on Facebook. âWe are endlessly grateful for your friendship, collaboration, guidance, and creative spirit, Herb. Our love is with you and your family.â Deutsch was 90 years old. Read more
It’s with a heavy heart that we have learned of the news that renowned producer and DJ i_o, born Garrett Lockhart, is dead.
A message on his Twitter account announced the tragic news, stating that aged 30, i_o passed away yesterday, November 23rd, 2020. “This extremely talented spirit taught us that even if nothing matters, you can still lead with love,” the post states. “Garrett’s truth and soul lives on through the music he shared.”
Erick Morillo was found dead this morning (Tuesday, September 1st), Miami Beach police confirmed.
The international star DJ was facing charges of sexual battery following rape allegations.
Legendary UK musician, producer, and DJ Andrew Weatherall passed away this week aged 56.
Weatherall was a linchpin of British popular music at a time when its very definition was being written. Highly respected as an artist constantly pushing the envelope in dance music, he believed and lived by the notion that this music could be more than was ever imagined.
It is with sadness that the world’s music community learned of Keith Flint‘s passing today.
The Prodigy frontman was found dead at his Essex home, aged 49. Police are not treating the death as suspicious:
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of today at the age of 76.
The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time. As a 22 year old graduate student in 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrigâs disease. He was given only a few years to live, the illness leaving him in a wheelchair and largely unable to speak except through a voice synthesizer.
As the world paid tribute to and mourned the loss of one of the brightest stars in our cosmos, Detroit techno producer/DJ Terrence Dixon took to his Facebook page to express his personal opinion on Prof. Hawking’s death and his relationship with God and science:
We have heard about the ashes of the deceased being scattered at sea, shot in space, or even pressed into diamonds, all in the name of achieving some sort of immortality status after death. A company, however, has decided to go the extra mile with their post-life offerings. Their idea? Pressing the departed’s ashes into a playable vinyl record. Which means, people not only get to remember someone in their thoughts but also through their ears.
Behind this unique endeavor is a company that goes by the punny name of And Vinyly. If the name itself does not make you cringe a bit, its vision as a business might: to help the departed “live on from beyond the groove.â As Open Culture puts it, it is enough to make the deceased “literally spinning in their grave… on a turntable.”
And Vinyly was founded in 2009 by UK-based musician and vinyl collector Jason Leach as a concept originally conceived just for fun. Eventually a lot of people liked the idea enough that he just kept the business going. It is also an expensive service, which can cost around $4,000 for 30 copies of the record, all of which contain the ashes of the lost loved one.
Unfortunately, copyright-protected music is not allowed, so don’t expect to have your favorite songs included in the vinyl. However, you can fill it with any other sound of your choice on each of the vinyl’s 12-minute side. It can be a voice recording, nature sounds, or maybe just silence. And if you want to go the extra mile, you can hire musicians to record some tracks for a fee or get an electronic music producer of your choice to lend his services.
One can also avail of extras such as album cover art, with an option to have James Hague of the National Portrait Gallery in London and/or street artist Paul Insect to create the artwork; extra copies to be distributed at record shops worldwide and a ÂŁ10,000 ($12,000+) âFUNeral,â where your record will be played at your funeral.
For Jason Leach, this is about the power of sound and how it can impact many. âSound is vibrating you, the room, and itâs actually moving the air around you…and for me thatâs powerful,â he says. ,”Thatâs whatâs so powerful about hearing someoneâs voice on a record.”
Check out this video to learn a bit more about Vinyly and how its service helped a man honor his mother’s memory
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