#music (595 links)
- Open Source Flash MP3 Player webresourcesdepot.com
"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."
- H O T P O C K E T S hotpockets.info
New label from the Slutty Fringe boys.
- Altsounds.com Reviews | Line - 'Hearts' (Album) hangout.altsounds.com
'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.
- 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."
- What do you mean by web-presence? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
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.
- 7 Marketing Lessons From Derek Sivers - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
- Tejada's latest a techno essential - Leisure - Burton Mail burtonmail.co.uk
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
- 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 Nintendo DS is your instrument: the Korg DS-10 arstechnica.com
"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.
Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.
Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.
- BandCentral -The Online Band Management Tool bandcentralhq.com
Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.
- Buzzmachines.com - Jeskola Buzz free modular software music studio buzzmachines.com
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."
- 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.
- Line - Kraftwerk snares and heartstrings anytwopoints.com
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.
- IODA PROMONET iodapromonet.com
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".
- TrackGrouping - MusicBrainz musicbrainz.org
Musicbrainz Pie in the Sky page makes my head hurt. "This page describes (or contains discussions about) major new evolutions that will likely require dramatic changes to the server codebase (what we usually refer to as NGS), or an important additional quantity of development work. "
- Impress Music Ltd impressproductions.co.uk
- Avant Garde Project - 20th Century Classical, Electroacoustic, Avant Garde Music Downloads avantgardeproject.org
A series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
- EMI's £700k taxi bill • The Register theregister.co.uk
The report says that costs at EMI Music were out of control, and that reporting structures were so dysfunctional, management struggled to find out the true picture.
- Band Metrics - Private Beta bandmetrics.com
Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."
- Dropcards | Create your own digital download cards dropcards.com
Very glad someone is doing this. Looks like a good service, but quite pricey and doesn't help satisfying instant gratification urge with online sales.
- But if they steal it - how can I make money? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
Some sensible arguments here.
- citizensound - music strategy for brands, brand strategy for music citizensound.net
An international music marketing collective offering sonic strategies for brands and their agencies, along with brand strategies for musicians, managers and labels.
- 10 Mistakes Bands and Musicians Make - Music Think Tank - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
Surprisingly good article.
According to reports most fans chose to pay nothing to download the album. However, it still generated more money before it was physically released (on December 31) than the total money generated by sales of the band's previous album, 2003's 'Hail To The Thief'.
- Radar Music Videos | connecting filmmakers with music video opportunities radarmusicvideos.com
Radar was set up in 2006 to inspire, empower and connect people worldwide through music video filmmaking.
- How can I get a music video? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
I recently stumbled across Radar Music Videos. It’s a site that connects independent video producers with musicians, with some quite spectacular results. For quite realistic budgets, there are some very impressive music promo clips.
- STFUmusic stfu.regicide.org
An open collective of electronic musicians and visual artists who use the internet as their main means of communication. It is a network of groups and individuals who come together to make live electronic music events happen.
- Tony-b Machine tony-b.org
Brilliant, daft techno machine.
- x0xb0x: Transistorize the World ladyada.net
A full reproduction of the original Roland TB-303 [...] The x0xb0x will never become 'discontinued,' because it is fully documented and released (under an appropriate open-source license). The PCB files (schematic, board, BOM and gerbers), firmware, software and panel DXFs are available for download.
- How many social media platforms?!!! | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
Social media strategy suggestions from Dubber.