Tag: napster
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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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Billie Ray Martin – Crackdown Project minimix & CMP Mininova remix
Friend to Radio Clash and fellow Year-Zero-n (hmm must work on that collective noun) Celebrity Murder Party has been busy – not only remixing several of the upcoming remixes for Billie Ray Martin’s Crackdown Project releases (both remixes of Just Fascination and Crackdown) but also producing this promo minimix where you can hear some of…
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Kutiman remixing YouTube
When I talk about someone remixing YouTube you’ll probably roll your eyes and say ‘I’ve seen that before.’ – well maybe not like this. Kutiman takes all the acapellas, demos, gear tests, people showing off their skills which there are millions of in YouTube – and a bit like the Napster Nuggets aka Mic In…
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Mixwit goes the way of Muxtape: RIAA still stupid, News at 11
Just got an email from Mixwit, a service to make mixtapes of tracks that are already online via Seeqpod and other services, and share them (not the tracks, just streamed via Flash) I’ve used and hope to use in future – they’re closing at the end of the year, for unspecified reasons: “I won’t go…
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Complete CONtrol; or how Glasvegas and Columbia need to get a clue
I’d like to think doing an own goal on the Net is known as doing a Metallica; like being Dooced, it’s where you go against your own fans (as with Metallica and Napster, and recently having a go at bloggers daring to write about them). But that’s restricted to aging non-technical metal leather blokes right?…