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"If there were fewer labels and releases everyone would be happier, but that's difficult to accomplish. I am hoping for a loud voice of reason talking to everybody: producers, labels, distributors, and shops. Like hey, "Think it over, think twice before you release a record." Maybe things can get better again. The main problem isn't that people download or don't buy records anymore, the main problem is that there's just too many releases."
- YouTube - RjDuino youtube.com
Using a custom RjDj patch to control an Arduino. Made possible via the "netsend" and "netreceive" objects in PD, which are also usable in RjDj. The interface with the Arduino is made through the Firmata firmware in combination with the PDuino library.
Si Begg's next release out for free. "Don't get me wrong I'm all for me making money out of my music. But as I say, i'm not exactly churning out platinum hit singles here. I'm thinking its more likely I'll make my money a) from possibly licensing the tracks to compilations b) PRS royalties from radio play etc c) maybe getting the tracks used in film and TV d) gig, remix and production work encouraged by generally raising my profile. All of which is more likely to happen the more people that get to hear and hopefully enjoy my music."
- Rock Band® creators.rockband.com
Use our tools to author playable tracks. Upload and submit your tracks for review by the Rock Band Creators community. Approved tracks become available in the Rock Band Store and on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace*, and you get a cut of every purchase.
- Rock Band game platform opens to indie music | Digital Noise: Music and Tech - CNET News news.cnet.com
To program songs for the game, you or your developer friend first needs a membership to Microsoft's XNA Creators' Club, which was launched a couple years ago to let independent developers create casual games to sell through the Xbox Live Marketplace; a membership costs $49.99 for four months or $99.99 for a year. You'll then be able to get free tools and instructions from the Rock Band Creators Web site to convert your master recordings to the MIDI charts used by the game.
Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music
At no. 1, "Max Tundra’s Limited Edition Kosher Chicken Soup". Ah, Ben.
- Playdar - Music Content Resolver playdar.org
A music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.
- When I Enter the Office, the Imperial March Plays — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS giantrobots.thoughtbot.com
Wish more people did stuff like this.
Via roamin.
- Obscene Strategies obscenestrategies.co.uk
An independent radio promotions company based in East London.
- Type | A record label typerecords.com
New Type Records site. Nice.
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Dr Who’s new toy » RPS At E3: APB - The Most Important Game At E3 rockpapershotgun.com
"Jones said how most open city games tend to come with about 100 licensed tracks, but that they realised that most players would far rather listen to their own mp3 collection. But this is an online game. So they’ve done a deal with Last.FM to use their technology in such a brilliantly imaginative way. If you’re listening to a favourite track in your car, and drive past some other players, should they have the same track on their hard drive the game will find it, and they’ll hear it from your car as you go by. Should they not have it, the game will find a track that’s similar and play that instead." Pipped.
Via infovore.
- Kiddie Records Weekly kiddierecords.com
Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children's records. This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers. Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners.
- Max from sbooth.org sbooth.org
Mac audio ripper with Musicbrainz integration.
IA is a brand new London based label, owned and run by Clare Thwaites; DJ Clare Large.
- Six goals for your social media strategy | citizensound citizensound.net
Centered around music.
DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere.
- Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data.
- Miami - Crossfade - Miami - Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application blogs.miaminewtimes.com · Archived on
This new Twitter app would basically broadcast 30 second updates of what Hawtin is playing live, allowing anyone following him on the network to see the playlist as it builds up track by track and in real time.
Via maebh.
- Indie Music Tech: Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) indiemusictech.com
Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands.
I Fight Dragons is Chicago's finest (and quite possibly only) NES-Rock band. They have very detailed delusions of grandeur, most of which include gross misuses of Nintendo products in combination with music in the Popular Rock genre.
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art #startups - Bumps | Stones Throw Records stonesthrow.com
The three percussion experts behind the seminal indie rock / post rock band Tortoise showcase their rhythmical prowess, coming together for Bumps, the self-titled concept break beat record.
- A Mixtape entitled ‘On sleeves’ | Line anytwopoints.com
Been waiting for this to drop for ages. Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Gastr del Sol, Bjork, Speedy J; very good.
It’s refreshing to see such a big brand being so philanthropic, providing the sort of support most artists would be happy to be connected with, which is so often where big brands can get it wrong.
Answer: people who you know who will probably like it who don't work in the biz. Because not only is it effective, it's also a nice thing to do. Thank you, Dubber, for expressing so clearly something I've spent ages trying to explain to label people.
- WordPress › Last.fm For Artists « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Adds a widget to list an artists upcoming shows or your top tracks from Last.FM on your Wordpress blog
- Topspin » Twitter Emerges as a Viable Direct Marketing Channel topspinmedia.com
In the first day of release, Twitter lead the traffic drivers to the Jimmy Eat World site, with more than 22% of all traffic coming straight outta Twitterland. Twitter was third as a driver of revenue, though, driving just over 20% of all sales. Still, with the large number of people reached, and email a smaller percentage of total sales in this campaign than we see on average, it’s very reasonable to conclude that Twitter was a meaningful driver of incremental revenue.
- » That Sony Meeting Song, by Toad songbytoad.com
"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.
- Et In Arcadia Ego - The Village Orchestra ruaridh.marciablaine.com
Liner notes for The Village Orchestra's Et In Arcadia Ego. The album is made from samples of tracks the artist really hates (Richard Marx, Chris Isaak, The Corrs, Bruce Hornsby and The Range etc)
- ioda: independent online distribution alliance iodalliance.com
Via sideb0ard.
- Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org
"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.
Twitter users sending a tweet with the name of a band or artist to MuZoid receive a reply in less than 2.5 seconds with a link to a bespoke webpage containing gig listings, a discography, a recommendation of similar artists that the user might like. If MuZoid doesn’t know an artist, she makes a note of it and gets busy learning. Once enough information’s available, she’ll tweet back to the original querant with an update.
- The End of the Music Album as The Organizing Principle - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com · Archived on
Gang of Four's Dave Allen on the album as arbitrary audio bundle. "Technically then, we can say that 1930 was the year that the organizing principle for the length of a popular music album was implemented, and with the advent of that organizing principle it is worth noting that musical artists had no control over the length of time their masterpiece would run; they were at the mercy of contemporary technology."
- Is a Last.fm Powerplay campaign right for you? - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com · Archived on
Answer: probably not.
a social music game that brings fans and artists together and empowers artists and listeners to determine what's hot by creating virtual record labels.
- Line: Q&A :::Proper Songs::: propersongs.blogspot.com
What I'm tried to do is combine the things I love about electronic music, especially proper techno and electro, with... proper songs.
- The FADER - Freeload: Harmonic 313 Mix thefader.com
The relationship between musicians and the people who make music websites is slightly broken. The problem is that anyone developing a new service for bands has to make money to keep the project afloat - and that means pulling in enough eyeballs to sell advertising on the site. The best way to get people to stick around to click on some ads? Make them invest time and energy in creating a profile, and encourage them to continually update it.
- London Music Meet or Freelance Club londonmusicmeet.tumblr.com
A weekly get together between those working in music. Intended to provide a working environment whilst also sharing questions, knowledge and gossip about music and the industry. Every Thursday at Leon in Spitalfield Market. 2pm onwards. Wi-fi available