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October 17, 2009 Chances are you haven’t yet heard of Eleventh Sun, but we’re pretty sure you’re going to be hearing a lot more from these 2 Canadian brothers in the future.
The Eleventh Sun, hailing out of Toronto, have been quietly setting the Neurofunk world on fire.From pounding Nu-skool breaks to rolling minimalist drops, combined with pure dancefloor energy driven by dirty basslines and crisp cutting beats, these boys have it all.
October 17, 2009 The counter-intuitive upshot is simple: charging money for the game client was a loser. Making the game play free, but being good at commercializing the space around the game, was the winning strategy. The analogy for the music industry is pretty obvious: digital music has zero monetary value by itself. Digital music, as a tribal flag, has as much value as the tribe is willing to claim for itself, and the monetary future belongs to those who can reach far beyond the mere musical realm and organize (and monetize) a larger cultural phenomenon. And of course this is precisely the thesis of the MTT article The End of the Music Album as an Organizing Principle.
October 17, 2009 Today’s music producers and content creators must focus on getting fans ‘attention’ and keeping it for as long as possible. You need to energize that fan base and one of the best ways to do this is to feed them a continuous stream of stimulating content. It takes time but the benefits………
October 14, 2009 Give us some background. Where are you from originally, where are you now, how did you get there? To take you all the way back, I was born and raised in a town northwest of Boston. My family is pretty musical. My grandfather was a musician, and my father is a multi-instrumentalist musician and comedian. My younger brother is also a musician. I was very fortunate that my parents were very supportive in music growing up. I mean my father was always having guys over to play and I would be sitting in at a young age.
October 14, 2009 Give us some background. Where are you from originally, where are you now, how did you get there?
My name is Soi Disant. And I am part of The Blue Roof Group that has been blue for the past four or five years since I left my past life behind. The Blue Roof is a cumulative and diverse group that incorporates my, that is Soi Disant, creative surges into one file as it were. It’s a whole other personality almost to the other me. I am predominantly a musician. But I also write poetry. I have published one poetry book independently and have created a series of short stories too. They can be accessed at lulu.com. I am also a fine artist and actor too.
October 13, 2009 Give us some background. Where are you from originally, where are you now, how did you get there?
I am originally from Caro, Michigan USA but moved to Seoul after graduating from a degree in music at Eastern Michigan University. I have been living and writing, producing and performing music in South Korea for the last seven years.
October 6, 2009
Updated on October 7, 2009 by
Scott Olson
The slow death of record stores and the increased opportunity afforded to emerging artists are two stories that we have all become familiar with. Distributors of CD’s have no doubt fallen on hard times as well. Given the cost of distribution, and the fact that record stores are disappearing from the map, does it make sense for Indie artists and labels to consider getting a traditional distribution deal as a major goal?
Existing retailers are getting more exclusive. Rising “music retailers” Wal-Mart and Best Buy only stock that which they know will sell millions. And in place of an increasingly bland music retail scene, artists are making it easier to get their music from them directly (or at least by buying their CD of amazon).
October 6, 2009 In an effort to look ahead of the trends happening in the music industry, I’m advising all independent artist to give up on the Compact Disc from here on out. Chances are, by the time you put the finishing touches on a new project, it will be like handing over an 8 track tape to a potential fan. Not sexy.
For the naysayers I’ve created this post to show you all of the different ways you can measure your success with a digital release. You can read Part 1 of this post here.
October 6, 2009 In the mid 90’s i had been lucky to be involved with some major rap band releases. As radios were very slow to react, we use to manufacture few hundred thousands of promo CDs, stickers etc for street marketing campaigns. Means that we used to pay almost half a million dollar to be able to give away music, just to get our new band heard by the kids ….
October 4, 2009 5 tips to not look like a starving artist :
1-Dont spam comments and message boards asking to check ur music
2-Dont spam comments and message boards with Autoplay players
3-Find out who might be interested by your music, create your own network
4- Be interesting, dont be too pushy
5-And first of all, be creative & radical, dont be another copycat. Internet is killing the formated artists in case you dont know.
originaly posted
on my blog here http://highsnobiety.com/columns/olivierrosset/
October 2, 2009 On the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center bombings, I found myself chatting with Himanshu and Victor of the controversial new rap duo, Das Racist. Unlike most days in recent history, these bohemian Brooklyn’ites, recalled exactly what they were doing.
September 30, 2009 The founder / CEO of Live Music Machine is a friend.
If anyone has a chance, can you check out Live Music Machine and leave some helpful comments below.
Would you use this product / service? Why /why not?
September 30, 2009 <Insert trendy company name>’s mission is to provide unsigned and independent musicians with a team of organized, determined, and passionate individuals to help them create and sustain successful music careers. Our services will expose these artists to their target markets without seizing any rights to their music. We aim to create unique service packages for our clients to help them jumpstart their musical careers and gain necessary exposure in their local music scene. By “breaking” our clients into their target markets, our goal is to strengthen the presence of independent music everywhere and help the previously unknown, but truly excellent talent rise to the top.
September 30, 2009 Remix Celldweller’s track “Louder Than Words” and get a chance to be featured on the “Remixed Upon A Blackstar” Remix Compilation (TBA 2010) and a chance at winning over $5,000 in prizes from FiXT, Cakewalk, FabFilter & Ohm Force.
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