Archive Listing for June, 2010

1. The war on music

   

   It’s foolish to ignore the future of music distribution. It’s obvious that the old encumbents are bloated and slow to act.

   June 26^th, 2010 ||Read the full post

2. New ‘Swarm Intelligence’ DJ mix – Against the Grain

   

   Another DJ mix to download from Berlin based label owner & producer Simon Hayes. If you enjoyed Simon’s previous Agentcast you’ll love his new mix entitled ‘Against the grain’ over at SwarmIntelligence.net. Plenty of Irish based labels representing. It’s full of energy and rolling beats, get downloading because it’s absolutely banging. Check out the track [...]

   June 22^nd, 2010 ||Read the full post

3. Download Podcasts and DJ mixes the easy way

   

   Do you want an easy way to download DJ mixes and podcasts? You need Juice, an excellent program written by the fathers of podcasting Adam Curry and Dave Winer. Juice is a podcatcher, a podcatcher is piece of software that allows you to subscribe to a podcast or RSS feed. Juice will automatically download any [...]

   June 13^th, 2010 ||Read the full post

4. Pay for illegal music downloads?

   

   The Internet revolution is like the railway revolution of 200 years ago. New and excessive opportunities are available for everyone. The major record labels missed the 6.15 and while they stand freezing on the virtual platform they whine about ‘piracy’ and CD sales being down. They fail to point out that online music sales are [...]

   June 12^th, 2010 ||Read the full post

5. After Vinyl: Staying in control

   

   I love vinyl as much as the next old school audiophile. But at times temperatures in South East Asia soar in to the 40′s and humidity is in the 90′s. It’s clear that records were not built for this type of environment. Trust me, warping is confirmation. Records should be stored in a dust free, [...]

   June 8^th, 2010 ||Read the full post

6. Goodbye darkness my old friend

   

   Excellent news from the friendly folk at Juno. They are phasing out MP3 downloads. Horray! As from today Juno have stopped accepting label uploads and deliveries in MP3 and will only accept lossless WAV, FLAC or AIFF. We will continue to sell your releases in MP3, WAV and FLAC formats, but will only accept content [...]

   June 2^nd, 2010 ||Read the full post

7. Beem on the squeeze

   

   Electronic music producer & recording artist Fredrik Mjelle A.K.A ‘Beem‘ has released his 3rd album, a 9 tracker entitled ‘Peel’. Beem is a co-founder of Skweee, a musical style with origins in Nordic countries Sweden and Finland. So what’s the deal with Skweee? Some say it’s a Nordic take on minimal techno, 8-bit hip-hop/dubstep hybrid [...]

   June 1^st, 2010 ||Read the full post