Tag: Audiogalaxy
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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We don’t have any real friends: Money vs Art
I’ve been trying for the last decade to explain the problem of money vs art, or audience vs product and that bastard Aaron Funk as well as creating some amazing music during that time nails it in ONE interview:. Fuck that whole game of what music is supposed to be right now. It’s so fucked…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Pigs might fly
Rob at Demonbaby (via ravery and arthole on LJ) has posted a great post about the closure of Oink and from an insider’s perspective what is wrong with the record industry. I like particularly this line: I would have gladly paid a large monthly fee for a legal service as good as Oink – but…
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Monkeying around: The Myspace Musical Revolution
interesting…a band in the UK (Artic Monkeys) last week went #1 in the UK with very little traditional promotion – as far as I can tell this is the first purely Myspace/online fan marketed band to get successful that way alone – at least in the UK. I just read the interview in this weeks…