What to do with 4133 frames of video, a D-SLR and a printer with plenty of ink and paper…
Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/05/shit_were_diggin_max_tyries_hand_made_mo.html
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Category Archives: music
Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video
new music
New to me that is. Slightly less late to the party than I was with OK, Computer (10 years after release !), I’ve found a lot to listen to in the SXSW torrent files. Over 5GB, in fact. The 2006 torrents are still available and contain names that I’ve certainly become aware of through mainstream radio exposure/iTunes in the UK: Abigail Washburn, Corinne Bailey Rae, Editors, Josh Ritter, KT Tunstall, Paolo Nutini, and We Are Scientists, so I fully expect that somewhere in this year’s 3.1GB of music there will be some artists that will become more widely known.
As it is, I’ve already found 3 or 4 standout tracks that are calling out for me to buy full albums directly from the artists, which can’t be a bad thing at all.
last.fm widget
The ‘local noise’ entry in the sidebar is now active with last.fm‘s Flash based widget and shows the most recent tracks I’ve been listening too. Not that exciting, really (especially with my current addition to OK Computer – just shy of 10 years late to this party…) apart from the fact that the little arrows in circles on the right of the track will play a 30s clip of the track just in case you’re curious, whilst mouseover the track name shows the album art (but in a thumbnail that’s too small to make out properly – hey ho).
whomix – doctor who theme remixes
From Tim, who obviously thinks I need a distraction:
whomix – doctor who theme remixes: http://whomix.trilete.net/
What a lot of work – a few select examples also came with the link, with my favourite being the Nyman one:
Nyman: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=45
007: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=167
Flamenco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=106
Morse: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=97
Piano: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=169
Cyberdisco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=120
Ambient: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=128
Cool – they did it
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band make chart history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6260995.stm
Number 31. Now I might just have to find out what they sound like, but to be honest that secondary to what they’ve done:
“Murphy added that they had been contacted by a number of big record labels, including one who recently turned them down.”
Vive la revolucion ?
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band set to crash charts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6248535.stm
Unsigned, and tipped to make the UK Top 40: not without plenty of hard work (500 live shows), but with a cracking quote:
“If someone comes along and gives us an offer, we’ll talk to them.
But it depends whether we need it. If we can get enough exposure and get in the top 40 by the end of the week, do we necessarily need a large label?”
Superb ! Sunday could prove to be very interesting.
Canadian Music Creators Coalition: A New Voice
Canadian Music Creators Coalition: A New Voice: http://www.musiccreators.ca/
This is very satisfying to see: artists signed to (major) labels publicly gathering to point out that the aims and desires of the Artists are not the same as those of Labels themselves.
“…not in our names…” is a very apposite statement indeed, and it behoves the labels to notice that this time it could hurt even more: whilst there appears to be a limitless supply of small-time copyright infringers to sue (even with the public relations damage it entails) there is a much smaller set of artists, and making them rethink their affiliations when contracts are up for renewal could be a very expensive lesson.
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