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- Burn down the disco. Hang the iTunes DJ. » VentureBeat venturebeat.com
It [enables] all iPhones and iPod touches with the Remote app installed to find your iTunes Library. When those guests set your library of the source, they can then pick any song from your library to play next. If you’re at a large party with dozens of iPhones, the next song can be crowd-sourced by popular vote.
- Land of Kings landofkings.co.uk
Dalston music fest, 16th & 17th April 2009.
Via headlessness.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | YouTube to block UK music videos news.bbc.co.uk
Well done, everyone.
- HAND BAKED ARCADE handbakedarcade.co.uk
A temporary social space that can be setup anywhere from a club night to a squatted art space. We build the ultimate retro gaming area, working with whatever space we have from single monitor setups to multiple projected screens and full size arcade machines.
- MusicBrainz Blog » Blog Archive » MusicBrainz Flickr machine tags blog.musicbrainz.org
Using Flickr machine tags you can now tag your photos on Flickr to refer to specific MusicBrainz entities.
Digital had been seeping into our world for about three years and the Napster effect was apparent. Being a small company and working directly with artists, we could really hear and see what was starting to happen. It was a realization that fighting it wouldn’t work; understanding it and being able to grow it was what was going to work. It was a psychological shift for us.
- Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp now does download codes. Ace. "Not just any download codes, mind you, but the sort you can email to your fans OR zap over to Moo for print-on-demand, great looking, and dirt cheap physical download cards."
- building.jjh - The potential of location-aware music streaming building.jjholloway.com
The more I think about it, the more I want a portable Last.fm player. Not just a client app, but a proper dedicated piece of hardware, with big round love, ban and skip buttons.
- Artists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter - Google Docs spreadsheets.google.com
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- BLEEP - Special 5th Birthday feature beta.bleep.com
To celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their 5 favourite releases or tracks from the entire Bleep catalogue.
- The New Worck: The New Worck 207 of Cursor Miner tnieuwewerck.blogspot.com
What a musical trip! 'Round The World In A Blu-Tac Bobcat'! Underground electronic producer Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings) in the mix.
...and here's the Line site, too.
- LJ Kruzer - Bandcamp audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.
Allows electronic dance music fans to listen to DJ sets like they were albums. Users are able to view tracklists, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. They have the ability to quickly skim through sets or instantly play any song contained at any point in any DJ set.
- 2009 - The Pull Music Paradigm Shift Emerges - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com · Archived on
Interesting, but sort of scary and wrong at the same time.
"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."
New label from the Slutty Fringe boys.
'Hearts' is quite an exceptional album about heartbreak and, despite it lacking in instrumentation Line makes great use of the sounds created for the album and supplements it with some wonderful lyrical flourishes. I changed my mind about this album the more I listened to it.
- » Line – Hearts (Unchartered Audio) Bearded Magazine: The home of independent music beardedmagazine.co.uk
Another review of Hearts: "Line – aka Neil Wells – has delivered a straight forward, but powerful brew of techno and downtempo beats, with some wicked tunes to boot."
- Jeff Price: From MTV to YouTube: When the Net Pays Everyone But the Musician huffingtonpost.com
"When media giants fight over music, you know it has to be valuable. Looking, listening and occasionally buying a "good" song drives revenue, tremendous web traffic and generates big advertising dollars." Great article (with a pitch for TuneCore's new model thrown in at the end).
- The art of noise refined - Times Online entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Take a springtime stroll through the streets of Belbury. This provincial English town, created by CS Lewis in his allegorical novel That Hideous Strength, is also the imaginary home of the electronic eccentrics Belbury Poly. There are Tudor buildings next to modernist municipalities; spots of Arcadian reverie and pleasant public gardens with fountains and statues of nymphs; and, on the outskirts, green fields, unexplained crop circles, haunted woodlands and ancient stone monoliths dedicated to pagan deities. Listen to Belbury Poly’s most recent album, The Owl’s Map, and you’ll find all of this invoked by some of the most delightful electronica to arise in Britain since Aphex Twin, the Black Dog and Global Communication in the early 1990s.
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- RA: TheFeed - Get up close and personal with James Zabiela residentadvisor.net
"An exclusive first listen of the opening 20 minutes of his new Renaissance Master Series compilation (due out in late February)" featuring Boards of Canada, Trentemoller and (yes!) LJ Kruzer's remix of Cyan341.
PMS gets coverage in Wired. "We had another option and that was to tap into our customer base and their expertise. Let them do the expert filtering, selecting the best products and writing the corresponding reviews for us. At the time this was a pretty abstract idea and Warp were not able to even consider this as an option -- and in their defense, I can see why they saw this as a very big and scary idea."
Ultimately, the days of sticking the online equivalent of a brochure up on the internet and calling it your web strategy are over. It’s about presence - and presence requires ongoing activity. Just like going to work, being at a party, or any other kind of social milieu - just physically being there is not enough. You have to be doing something.
Review of John Tejada's Fabric 44 from the, er, Burton Mail. Cool! "Seamlessly mixed and constantly building, Tejada has turned in a stunningly good set combining his own innovative productions with tracks from the likes of Orbital, Spooky and LJ Kruzer."
- The ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity... - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com · Archived on
- ireallylovemusic › fabric 44 - john tejada ireallylovemusic.co.uk
Quite simply, john tejada has crafted an absolute stormer 75 minute mix of straight up techno that ebbs and flows perfectly. Ranging from detroit styled house, through to harder edged acid via some serene ambience, the mix is an excellent way to catch up when you don’t have the insider knowledge, nor budget to keep up with the more interesting, and dare i say it, somewhat exclusive, corners of the techno world.
- Rumblefish | Sonic Branding and Music Licensing rumblefish.com
Find and license music for any project—TV shows and advertisements, movies, websites, video games, podcasts, and more."
- cherrypeel.com - the democratic music revolution cherrypeel.com
"Every band starts out at the bottom of the charts and if the community likes what they hear, they vote the band up. This works well for lesser known bands as the community votes on the quality of the song, not media hype or name recognition." Looks similar to thesixtyone...
"The product may seem like a powerful musical tool crammed into a gaming system but, in practice, the DS does a very good job of letting you control all of the many features of a synthesizer." Want.
Via scrubadub.
Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.
Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.
Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.
Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.
- Police vet live music, DJs for 'terror risk' • The Register theregister.co.uk
"A dozen London boroughs have implemented a "risk assessment" policy for live music that permits the police to ban any live music if they fail to receive personal details from the performers 14 days in advance."
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- How not to review music « doctorvee doctorvee.co.uk
"I think I will give the track-by-track review a miss — in case I end up sounding like this." Crispy Godber, a star in the making.
New artist site. No music yet but who needs audio when there's desktop wallpaper.
- People’s Music Store | New Music Ideas newmusicideas.com
"Is this the next killer site - or a bit of a dead duck? Let’s have your thoughts in the comments please." Look forward to the comments on this. Haven't spent enough time using PMS but like the concept and the people behind it are very friendly.
Promonet was designed to help you quickly find pre-cleared MP3s for use in your blog, podcast or music website.
- RESOURCES - ISRC - Home Page ifpi.org
"The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments." One suggested tag for this is "metacrap".