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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:35:32 +0100

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Violent Moods - Human Nature

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:10:41 +0100

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Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro - In Heavy Weather

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:55:54 +0100

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Dubphonic - Smoke Signals

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:49:02 +0100

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Aratone - Epidemic

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:21:42 +0100

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PreciseHero - particle (moments)

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:07:18 +0100

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LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:29:13 +0100

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Red Snapper - Red Snapper

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:23:12 +0100

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Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:43:04 +0100

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Jneiro Jarel - Three Piece Puzzle

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:04:22 +0100

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Feed your RSS monster

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:19:26 +0100

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Laineet - Long journey compliments

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:09:46 +0100

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Bobby Hughes Combination - Nhu Golden Era

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:50:25 +0100

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Nautilis - Are You an Axolotl

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:55:16 +0100

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Souls of Mischief - 93 'till infinity

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:51:29 +0100

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Roots Manuva - Brand new second hand

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:49:25 +0100

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Malcolm Kipe - Lit

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:53:18 +0100

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Modill - Midnight Green

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:28:18 +0100

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Vibra's Podcast #1 is out

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:21:02 +0100

Diving into the world of instrumental beats, Vibra's first podcast showcases some serious talent. Dropping sweet crackling melodies over smoked out beats, these artists simply leave you yearning for more. Check it out (http://feeds.feedburner.com/VibraMusicPodcast)

Fink - Fresh Produce

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:06:49 +0100

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Pablo Moses - Pave the Way + Dubs

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:13:22 +0100

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Mindtrap - Northern Rooms

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:59:26 +0100

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Testing Vinyl CDs: Groovy Up Top, Optical Down Below

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:15:25 +0100

The idea for last week's Listening Post column, which examined the strange demand for vinyl records in the digital age (http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029), was inspired to a small extent by Optimal Media Production (http://www.optimal-online.de/Home.357.0.html)'s vinyl/CD hybrid, which is just like a normal CD except that on the top, it has vinyl grooves etched in. Place a VinylDisc on your turntable, drop the needle at the start of the track, and you'll hear up to 3.5 minutes of music at 33 RPM.

Facebook music?

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:19:50 +0100

Co-ed Magazine claims (http://coedmagazine.com/entertainment/Music/3400) to have label sources stating that Facebook is set to announce phase 1 of a major expansion into music at next week's ad:tech (http://www.ad-tech.com/) conference in NYC. The move would confirm rumors (http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2007/10/facebook-may-la.html) we reported three weeks ago and coincide with public moves that Facebook has made (http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2007/10/as-music-20-act.html) recently.

Flying Lotus - 1983

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:04:01 +0100

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Fink - Biscuits for Breakfast

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:01:40 +0100

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Sonos Unveils The Sonos ZoneBridge

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:34:00 +0100

Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, introduced an addition to the suite of products for the Sonos Digital Music System – the Sonos ZoneBridge (BR100). The new ZoneBridge is the easiest way to set up and extend an all-wireless Sonos Digital Music System. ZoneBridge is available for $99 at all Sonos authorized retailers and at www.sonos.com.

Radiohead new album: music industry react to unique release

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:18:26 +0100

Music industry experts are saying the unique way Radiohead's new album 'In Rainbows' is being released will revolutionize the way people think about music. The band have not set a price for the download version of the album, leaving the price field blank, to let customers decided how much to pay for it.

The Dining Rooms - Tre

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:25:22 +0100

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Absynth 4

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:07:53 +0100

A legend in its own time, ABSYNTH returns in a more powerful, creative and intuitive guise than ever before. Renowned for its organic, evolving soundscapes that range from sublime pads to complex sonic textures, ABSYNTH 4 continues to build on its exceptional reputation. The addition of new features combined with an optimized workflow and user interface brings fluidity and simplicity to the creation of intricate and intriguing sounds.

Una - The Rain is Over and Gone

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:49:41 +0100

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Portable MP3 Player Ownership Reaches New High

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:21:45 +0100

New York, NY — A new study by global market research firm Ipsos indicates that as many as one in five Americans over the age of 12 now own portable MP3 Players and one in 20 own more than one. And interest in viewing music videos, photos, TV shows and even full-length movies from these devices is especially strong among younger consumers who have experience downloading music.

The Future of Vinyl

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:54:48 +0100

by Paul Bristow A few years ago, many people were worried about what would happen when the few remaining pressing plants – stopped producing. At that time, with the appearance of CDs and other digital formats and with the decision – by most London High Street shops – to stop stocking 45 RPM 7 inch vinyl singles (and 33 RPM 12 inch vinyl albums); it seemed that it would just be a short time before Square Dance Records vanished from the shelves!

Wooster Collective's talk at Conflux

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:05:47 +0100

Sometimes you'd go to a conference to listen to someone whose work you admire and the experience turns out to be quite disappointing. But once in a blue moon, you listen to someone else's words and feel like you're falling in love. That's what i experienced a week ago when i heard Sara and Marc Schiller from Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com/) talk at the Conflux festival (http://confluxfestival.org/) in Brooklyn.

Plej - Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:54:40 +0100

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Is Hip-Hop Dead?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:17:15 +0100

by Walter Dawkins Is hip-hop dead? It sure sounds like it if you turn on the radio. What used to be exciting, groundbreaking music seems to have been reduced to a one-note din. The only topics discussed are bling-bling materialism, how many guns you have, and ho's. Hip-hop poster boy 50 Cent appears on the cover of Rolling Stone with the caption Mastering The Art of Violence. There's the raunchy Lil' Kim, and of course, top dog and now Oscar-winner Eminem, who has threatened to kill his wife numerous times on his records.

Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:58:39 +0100

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When the weather was beautiful

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:07:53 +0100

Interview with Theo Jansen Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist with a background in science. For the last 15 years, he has been evolving a series of wind-powered animals, made of plastic tubes. When these constructions are fed by wind, they set into motion and transmute into organic-looking creatures; or beach-animals as Jansen calls them. Theo Jansen received the Jury's Special Price in the Interactive Art category at Ars Electronica Festival 2005. Sebastian Campion met him for a talk.

TM Juke Talks Studio Recording

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:58:08 +0100

TM Juke is a UK-based DJ/musician/producer. To keep your head above water in the DJ/musician trade it's good to be a multi-talented studio whiz, and TM Juke fits the bill nicely, doing all his own bass, keyboards, and guitars on the latest CD, Forward, bringing in others to handle wind instruments and other necessities. The TM Juke philosophy is basically drink coffee, don't sleep , and if you look at his touring/DJ/recording schedule, you'll see that a lot of money has been invested in the java. Gearwire's Joe Wallace asked TM Juke how Forward came together.

Niche Markets Will Change Music Forever

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:46:37 +0100

by Yaro Starak for News, Technology The Web How much niching can you handle? The long tail has been mentioned on my blog many times - the concept of millions of markets selling hundreds rather than hundreds of markets selling millions. It's also clear that although the Internet is a global technology, the localisation factor is paying dividends and search engines are working hard to provide local search. Niching and localisation go hand-in-hand; one of the best ways to niche a market is to localise.

The Best Page in the Universe

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:42:01 +0100

In 1997, Maddox created a satirical website The Best Page in the Universe. The website became popular due to Maddox's blunt and sarcastic writing style as well as his humorous commentary. He later developed The Best Store in the Universe and began selling T-shirts and other merchandise featuring his most famous quotes, such as Littering kicks ass and For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three.

Shadow Artists

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:50:25 +0100

I have never experienced an art form more all consuming than graffiti. At one point, graffiti had a very firm grip on my life and lifestyle -it was the last thing on my mind before going to bed and the first thing that came into my head every morning. From acquiring supplies and photographing a finished work, to wandering the city trying to find the perfect spot to paint and marking the terrain along the way, graffiti motivated almost every move I made. Even perils with the law, fights with rival writers and injuries sustained while out on missions couldn't have ended my relationship with graffiti. I still love it to this day...

Behind the Beat

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:51:25 +0100

The revealing photographs found within the pages of Behind the Beat expose the creative spaces of top DJ's and music producers from the UK, US and Australia. This book is an open invitation to step into the private world of the hip hop home studio and discover its inner workings. Featured are the studios and equipment of some of the most influential music creators working today, including ....

Interview: DJ Krush, turntable maestro

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:53:58 +0100

The Japanese beat wizard sits down with MP3.com to talk about his decision to dig into his entire catalog to remix it all for a greatest hits double CD. By Jim Welte Q: Let's start off by talking about the concept of digging back into your own catalog and remixing almost all of it. Seems like quite an undertaking. What spawned the idea of doing this? DJ Krush: It's simply because it's boring to release just a best of album, so I wanted it to reflect who I am right now, not who I was when these songs came out the first time.

"Dark Days"

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:56:39 +0100

The documentary Dark Days gives an unromanticized and fascinating glimpse of the lives of a community of homeless people surviving in a train tunnel in Manhattan. The most interesting people we see in Dark Days are those — like Ralph, especially — who understand the mistakes of their younger years and appear ready to rebuild their lives above ground. Yet, they seem powerless to make that new start, trapped in a hole they can't climb out of. At first, I gave it like a cap — two weeks. And then it became like home, says Tito, a five-year resident.

Caleb Neelon

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:55:47 +0100

Born in 1976 in Boston and based in neighboring Cambridge, Caleb is an artist, writer, and educator. He is co-author of the Thames and Hudson book Graffiti Brasil, author/illustrator of the children's book, Lilman Makes a Name for Himself, and an editor at Swindle magazine.His artwork has been featured in Arkitip, Bant, Boston Magazine, the Boston Sunday Globe, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Art New England, Alarm, Vogue Girl, Contemporary, and several books, including Supreme Quality, Graffiti World, Enamelized and Street Logos.

New Akai MPC2500 Announced

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:54:58 +0100

We knew there was something afoot and Numark, the new owners of the Akai brand, unveiled the latest in the MPC range at London's PLASA show this week. The MPC2500 is the successor to the MPC200XL, featuring the formers classic user interface and building from there. It features velocity and pressure sensitive pads, twin onboard effects processors and an additional send for outboard effects, Q-Link controllers, plus 10 outputs and an S/PDIF digital output.

Portishead's new album

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:52:57 +0100

The highly anticipated new album by Portishead is finally due to be released. The exact date will be announced on their myspace page shortly. Portishead's album Dummy is a timeless record that reserved a spot for Portishead in my heart forever. In 1997 they followed up with their next release called Portishead and a special live album came after that, but they've been quiet ever since.

iTunes DRM-free Plan

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:52:09 +0100

Speaking at a joint press conference with EMI Group in London, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reiterated his stance against copy protection in music downloads, and explained exactly what the iTunes store is doing to promote interoperability between portable media devices.

David Elsewhere - Kollaboration

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:57:52 +0100

David Elsewhere Bernal (born August 2, 1979) is a popping dancer from Santa Ana, Cali. He became known through this video clip recorded at the Korean-American talent show Kollaboration in 2001. The clip showcased Bernal's characteristic take on contemporary dances popping and liquiding. Performances of these dances were rare at the time, and the clip became very popular and circulated on the internet. Bernal was later hired to participate in advertisements for Heineken, VW, iPod, 7-Eleven Slurpee and Pepsi. He also made a cameo appearance in the movie You Got Server and TV performances including The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.