UR's Bastille Day
It's Bastille Day all over again as UR infects the populace of Detroit and beyond with the Bastille Day video! Inspired by several tracks from the Electronic Warfare 2.0 project, the video tells the story of...well, we're not telling, just see for yourself!
DJ Skurge
DJ Skurge is busy as usual! Not only is he finishing up work on his latest mix project for Japan's Underground Gallery, but he's hard at work on new tracks with his bandmates in both Model 500 and the Aquanauts...
Shawn Rudiman
Rudiman ventures over to the continent, the European continent to be exact, to do a series of shows with the talented Kenny Black. Rudiman was the man responsible for an incredible remix on the already fantastic Kenny Black's Reconnected Back From Outer Spaced ep...
DeSean Jones
Alter Ego Management is pleased to add DeSean Jones to its roster of exclusive artists. Just turning 20, this young sax playing phenom has already turned heads, playing with everyone from jazz vets like Chick Corea, gospel greats like Yolanda Adams, and techno legends Underground Resistance. Stay tuned for more on this future legend.
In Memoriam - Ron Murphy RIP Alter Ego joins with the rest of Detroit and beyond in mourning the passing of Ron Murphy, a music mastering legend. Murphy's history is way too long and detailed to go into here, but the man had a long history as an engineer back with Motown and other Detroit soul labels before gaining international notoriety as techno's mastering master.
For those who don't know, mastering is an integral part of making vinyl records, the process that takes place between when a piece of music is "finished" by the producer and the record is made in the pressing plant. Mastering takes the music and prepares it to be duplicated, making a master copy that all other records will be pressed from. Sound frequencies that might cause a record needle to skip, making sure the record will sound loud when played, these things happen in the mastering process.
Ron not only saw that countless records sounded the way they should, he also played a key role in the creation of some of the more challenging records, ones that played in reverse, ones with "locked" grooves, and more. Where other mastering houses might be quick to say, "we don't do that," Ron was just as quick to say, "let's see what we can do." He will most definitely be missed, but he lives on whenever and wherever his records are played.
