MP3s: Surreal Mash-Ups of 50 Cent and Golden Oldies (2)
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We were ready to pass on DJ Dok Rok's mash-ups of 50 Cent and various hits from the '50s (and to a lesser extent '60s) until we gave them a listen and discovered that not only are they surreal and interesting in that familiar mash-up sort of way, but they're also pretty well made. To my ear, these mash-ups sound better than anything Fitty has actually released. Stream DJ Dok Rok's mash-up of 50 Cent's ...
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Michael O said:
Hip hop like this needs to be treated like an infection and eradicated with the strongest medicine possible.
Fans will be the most comprehensive curators (1)
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There's a section in my book called "Creating and Curating the Archive" where I wrote, In future, if they’re not already, fan communities will quickly become the most authoritative archivists for the artists they follow. They collect memorabilia and ephemera — from ticket stubs to magazine interviews and amateur bootleg recordings — that most people would dismiss as tat… As well as memorabilia, these items will include what are currently rare and hard-to-find audio and ...
ntrtek is dead, long live ntrtek (1)
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In December October 2007, I started ntrtek as a personal news feed for digital entertainment / music & media industry headlines from German and International sources selected by hand and shared via Google Reader. Meanwhile, I received positive feedback from subscribers, mainly business friends who seem to be quite happy with the selection. Some of [...]
Musical toothbrushes: new income for Big Music (1)
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p2pnet news | Music:- Could the likes of Hasbro’s Turbo Tooth Tunes become the new corporate music industry targets as it tries to fill the vacuum created by its failure to recognize P2P as the music delivery system of the 21st century? Hasbro has in all likelihood forked out for the right to feature Hannah Montana, et al, but whether it has or not, Britain’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and the Performing Rights Society (MCPS-PRS Alliance) ...
trht.net - The Ultimate Music Database (1)
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KillerStartups.com - all (97)
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What it doesThe Rock Hard Times is an impressive music database which facilitates searching by artist, genre, country, or label. The site is like a mashup between IMDB and Wikipedia, allowing anyone to edit any of the content on any of the pages. There is a significant amount of information on this site, and if you search for an artist who isn’t yet there, you can create a page for them yourself. A test search ...
The Autodesk case makes sampling legal (1)
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Zuneral Celebrates Death Of DRM (1)
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Music 2.0 Week In Review: Napster, EMI, A Band With A Plan & More (1)
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> Napster finally switched to all mp3 with 6 million tracks from all 4 majors and many indies. Hypebot has an exclusive interview with Napster COO Christopher Allen. Later in the week the company reported a rise in quarterly revenue despite slow subscription growth. > Can The Music Industry Save Itself? Part I - Intro, Part II - Off With Their Heads. More next week. > Citi Bank set tough new goals for EMI. > ...
The Forrester Research Apple report few will buy (1)
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Forrester Research has put out a US $279 report that few will buy, as it has been dissected across the web and its “important” predictions are now well known. Will Apple actually...
Record Industry Innovation Prize (1)
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I just posted the seed of an idea in Music Think Tank, and I’d be really interested to hear what you think about it. Head on over and have a read. Essentially, the idea is that the Record Industry should offer a cash prize to the most innovative and successful new online music business startup. Moreover, tech entrepreneurs who enter to compete for that prize should be exempt from royalties for two years while they ...
Rifflet.com - Where Unfinished Songs Find a Home (1)
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What it doesEver hit a rut in which all your creative juices just suddenly ran dry? It happens to everyone. If you happen to be a musician and have some odds and ends as far as musical stuff, goes, you could post it up on Rifflet the self dubbed ‘home for unfinished songs’. A rifflet is a song piece—a beat, a guitar riff, an fragment of a melody. Musicians can upload their rifflets, provided they ...
'Give It Away And Pray' Isn't A Business Model... But It Doesn't Mean That 'Free' Doesn't Work (3)
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I've been noticing an interesting trend lately. While more folks aren't totally averse to the idea that they need to somehow embrace "free," they're mishandling what they do with "free" and then going on to complain how "free" doesn't work. The basic problem is this: they hear about the importance of "free" and so they give something away for free. But they don't have a business model around the free content. They don't understand the ...
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Chet K said:
This is one of the best explainations of the new digital economy and how business models need to change that I've ever read. Nicely done.
BPI, IFPI both report retail drops (1)
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Digital Music - The Future (4)
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In the latest figures released, both the british BPI and the internation IFPI have reported big drops over the past year in how many cds are being sold at retail, in shops like HMV in the UK, and Walmart in the US. The IFPI are suggesting a 12% drop on the previous year, which amounts to over 2billion USD in lost cash. They are reccomending ISPs start filtering illegal downloads, despite the virtual technical impossibility ...
The Marginal Value of the Long Tail (1)
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When Napster launched its six-million-track-deep MP3 store earlier this week, I wrote that depth of catalog is important but only to a point. The marginal value of the million least-popular songs is far from the value of the second million or the third million. People rarely get that deep into the catalog. Even with my out-of-the-mainstream tastes, I probably have no interest in much of any store's tracks and rarely want an album that a ...
Can anything beat the iPod? (1)
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The MP3 player market is one where logic is thrown out the window and as long as the player is manufactured by Apple, it'll perform quite well. Although there have been a number of solid alternatives, none have gained ground. And by the look of things, the Zune is up next on the chopping block. According to GameStop, it will stop selling the Zune in its stores due to insufficient demand from customers. And although ...
Trans World Posts Q1 Loss, Music Sales Slide (1)
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Trans World, which operates f.y.e., Suncoast and other retail chains, posted a $11.8 million first quarter loss. Total sales dropped 19% to $233 million and same-store revenue dropped 6%. Same-store music sales dropped 23% on a comp basis while sales from the top 50 titles dropped 30% on a comp basis. CD sales accounted for 37% of revenue, down from 44% the year before. During the conference call, president and COO Jim Litwak said the ...
The Rock Hard Times: the Wikipedia of Music? (1)
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The Rock Hard Times is a music search engine and database where you can perform searches or browse by artists, genres, places (countries), and labels. Each page on the site is filled with content like album listings, photos, videos, and links to lyrics, tabs, fansites, shopping sites, and more. The Rock Hard Times' creator, Mime Cuvalo, envisioned the site as an IMDB of music, but really the site is more of a mashup between IMDB ...
Recording Industry vs The People (8) permalink
I work hard on this blog, for no pay, so if I can be excused a moment of unseemly, off-topic, self-congratulation...... Justia.com has "Recording Industry vs. The People" listed as the #2 all-time copyright law blog in terms of popularity, right behind David Donoghue's Chicago IP Litigation Blog.Copyright Law Blog rankings ranked by all-time popularity, 5/24/08(And if I can't be excused a moment of unseemly, off-topic, self-congratulation, I'm sure I'll hear about it in the ...Shared by ntrtek (19)Contribute commentDigital Audio Insider (6) permalink
I received an e-mail today from Lala.com, touting the new features it will roll out next week as part of a site redesign. You can preview it here. The big one is the new "a la carte" streaming option, where you pay 10 cents for the right to stream a single track as many times as you want: As far as I know, this sort of thing hasn't been done before, and it creates some ...Shared by ntrtek (19)Contribute comment
