Archive for July, 2007

nashville’s finest - the mixdown on 91.1 wrvu vanderbilt

  • For nearly a decade in Nashville TN, John Brassil (DJ B) has been pumping the airwaves thick with independent electronic music – and we don’t mean the stuff you hear on Radio One. Brassil’s “the Mixdown” is one of 91.1 WRVU Vanderbilt’s  most popular radio shows, and has been for years. Supporting a multitude of underground record labels and independent electronic artists from around the world, DJ B and the Mixdown are always primed and ready to showcase music that listeners cannot find anywhere else.

    If you cannot tune in on the FM dial, you can stream directly from the station @ http://www.wrvu.org/sounds/wrvu.ram

  • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Special Features, Global Broadcast | No Comments »

77% of uk music fans illegally download

  • Entertainment Media Research and Olswang have just completed their most recent digital music survey – it states that 77% of online music users in the UK actively download unauthorized music and media from file-sharing networks. The primary cause of this spike in illegal downloading appears to be that people are much less concerned with being prosecuted for pirating music than in previous years. 

  • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Global Broadcast | No Comments »

Too many fingers, not enough apple pie

  • Eminem’s publisher Eight Mile Style LLC and Martin Affiliated LLC are suing Apple, contending that Apple does not have the right to sell digital downloads of the rapper’s music on iTunes – although Apple legally pays out to Eminem’s record label Universal.

  • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

itunes hits 3 billion sales

  • As of today, the online music retailer owned by Apple has sold more than 3 billion songs, becoming the 3rd largest music retailer in the United States.

    www.itunes.com

  • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Rathergood.com – animation for the generation

Impulse music purchases hike wireless service prices

  • AT&T has launched a new service allowing users to download music from eMusic.com – the mobile service will cost users $7.49 for five songs (five times what eMusic singles cost otherwise). The reason behind the mobile music delivery service price is customer impulse buying – Americans have been proven time and time again as consumers that will pay any price for convenience. Meanwhile, Sprint’s wireless download song price is now at 99 cents, while Verizon tops the spectrum at $1.99 per download.

  • Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Roland SP–555 - live performance hardware

Sony BMG profits moving up

Tripofagia - trip-hop central

  • Tripofagia has been operating for years and has amassed a large amount of information concerning the dark and beautiful world of Trip-Hop and Downtempo music. Complete with artist overviews, samples, history, and reviews, Tripofagia.com is (by far) one of the best resources for the genre.

    www.Tripofagia.com

  • Friday, July 27th, 2007 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Putting the electric back in EDM

  • When analog recording was reaching its pristine pinnacle in the 1980’s and 8bit sampling technology was just getting affordable, electronically created dance music began pumping through massive speaker cabinets in dark warehouses throughout Detroit and Chicago.

    Now jump 23 years into the future - analog vinyl records, once the sole medium for distributing dance music, are now nearly extinct - the dance music scene has moved from underground parties into prime-time venues with commercial zest - hundreds of thousands of brands and imprints flood the marketplace - and everyone is a DJ. It seems that the only thing that has not changed, to a great extent, is the music itself - although 23 years of musical evolution and digital technology has honed the sound to a razor’s edge. So, what’s next?

    It appears, as of late, that the sound of electronic dance music in general has hit a nostalgic root. Looking to breathe a little more style into their music, both bedroom and professional producers alike from across the globe are scrambling to get their hands on the original equipment that started it all. Rummaging through pawn shop backrooms, garage sales, and Ebay, producers are feverously digging for early analog and 8bit digital gold from brands such as Oberheim, Akai, Ensoniq and countless others. These rare acquisitions can give a producer an edge to their sound - and a possibly a spring in their step.

    So, what can we expect over the next 23 years?
    I’ve got a fairly good idea - but we will save that conversation for another time.  

  • Thursday, July 26th, 2007 | Posted in In the Studio, Special Features | No Comments »
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