comfortnoise / new.com (dj) / comfortnoise podcast
comfortnoise is dedicated to advanced dubwise electronic music such as techno, house, reggae-dub & dubstep: it's about bass music in a open and wide sense. >>> check out new.com's mixes
new.com is a swiss dj with international experience since 2007. he basically plays vinyl records as a consequence of a well-developped quality consciousness. besides playing all over switzerland (resident at cabaret club, zürich & palace, st. gallen), he's been djing at anu/san francisco (usa), 222 club/san francisco (usa), space:garage/riga (latvia), fire-club/berlin (germany), k5/nuremberg (germany), jta/augsburg (germany), zerodieci/genova (italy), molodoi/strasbourg (france), noumatrouff/mulhouse (france).
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comfortnoise has been founded in november 2003 by new.com, while dubexmachina has been founded in september 2007 by himself as well in order to establish dubstep/bass music in zurich's underground music scene. >>> see history: comfortnoise
comfortnoise podcast is a monthly internet-radioshow with national and international guests, hosted by new.com. it's been started in october 2009. the shows are video live streamed over livebeats and later archived in high quality mp3-files together with detailed and timecoded playlists. >>> check out all comfortnoise podcasts
comfortnoise podcast was formerly p45 radio, streaming 50 shows over audioasyl from april 2005 to september 2009, throughout hosted by new.com. p45 records was a legendary zurich based record store run by cosili, serafin & new.com until march 2009. >>> check out p45 records and p45 radio's archive
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comfort noise is used in telecommunication because listeners prefer a low level noise to dead silence. the sounds that are heard when there are no voices on the line are often overlooked, yet are important contributors to the perceived call quality. dead silence is disconcerting for most people. comfort noise is therefore an artificial background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the silent time in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection.
comfort noise in electronic music is used to fill the space between the bass drum beats. it is a background noise that often stays unobserved, although it is indispensable to evoke the characteristic mood inside this sound: comfort noise desings the carpet that holds the listener unfailing on the ground of a fuzzy, warm, cosy and relaxed feeling. prototypical use of this effect occurs in the m-series, from four to seven.
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