F Major Beatmaking Demo w/ Maschine 1.5
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Check out this very informative video that serves a product overview for Native Instruments Maschine. Looks Awesome.
This will probably get annoying
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Promoted Tweets on Twitter(2) from Twitter Tweets on Vimeo.
Hyper-targeted ads on Facebook, MySpace and using Google AdSense have become valuable tools for many music marketers. But what about Twitter’s new ad platform? In brief, advertisers select keywords that will trigger a promoted tweet and then select which of their tweets to feature. These promoted tweets then appear at the top of Twitter search results for those keywords. A yellow highlight delineates that the tweet was promoted (aka paid for). This Twitter produced video shows how the system works…
Revolutions Per Minute: The Analog Spirit in a Digital World
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Side 3: Outside the Big Box from Rocket Panda Media on Vimeo.
Rocket Panda Media presents a film entitled Revolutions Per Minute: The Analog Spirit in a Digital World. The documentary explores the viability and appeal of analog and physical music forms in an age of instant and disposable digital music.
Exile Gets Nasty
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Exile @ The King Of The Monster Beat Schowcase (Tracy,CA) from K. Pizzle on Vimeo.
How Lady Gaga got so rich
posted by Eric
Spotify, a Swedish based company, is a music streaming service that recently gained a lot of buzz for being a possible “savior” for the music industry. Users get free streaming with minimal ads, or for a small monthly premium, uninterupted access. However, Spotify has fallen under some harsh criticism from artists/songwriters who claim they are getting ridiculously tiny pay outs for having their songs available for streaming. In fact, it was reported that Lady Gaga recieved only $167 dollars from one million plays. Even more shady, major record labels have stakes in Spotify and the royalty/accounting process is not known.
Speaking to BBC News in January, Spotify boss Daniel Ek said: “The truth is that the amount of money an artist makes per stream is increasing because we’re getting more and more people to become subscribers, our advertising revenue is growing month-on-month.”
hmmm
Sharing is Caring
posted by Eric
Flattr, is a donation/”micro payment” system developed by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde. “…particpating musicians, artist and bloggers but a donate button on their site. Flattr members pay a flat monthly fee to the micropayments system and at the end of each month the money is divided among participating sites that a Flattr member wants to reward.”
Of course, any blog, artist, or whoever could set up a donation system themselves, but, the philosophy here is to create a system to encourage people to do so. I’m a fan of this concept because it creates a system that will initiate people to assign value to something and if they want to subsequently pay money for it. ..I just don’t think that Flattr will catch on and be widely used.
How much ($) do you value the content you get from blogs and the like? This content is all for free. But, do you think that to maintain quality, or even gain quality, should authors be compensated? Email your thoughts from the perspective of being a content consumer to thefutureblog.com@gmail.com, or hit us on twitter (twitter.com/thefutureblog)
how do ya’ like them apples?
posted by Eric
There is some skepticism on if Itunes is significantly profitable for Apple, or acts as a loss leader for its hardware. Regardless, you can’t deny that Steve Jobs nails it time after time with introducing new and innovative products, such as the Ipod and Ipad. Just look at these numbers:
300,000 iPads sold last Saturday
450,000 iPads were sold as of Thursday
0 iPads are left in stock Best Buy is out of stock
85,000,000 iPhone and iPod Touches have been sold
4,000,000,000 apps have been downloaded
185,000 apps are available in the official
3,500 of the apps are for the iPad
250,000 iBooks were downloaded on Saturday
600,000 iBooks were sold as of Thursday
Don’t Think
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“There’s a specific region of the brain — the prefrontal cortex — that grows as we mature and socialize, enabling more focused attention but also keeping more random or dissociated ideas in line. Lehrer speculates that this has particular ramifications for musicians who improvise — skilled instrumentalists might actually have learned to ignore this part of the brain that self-edits creativity and spontaneity.
The history of music is full of people looking for ways to, well, alter their minds to become more inventive players. This research suggests they may have actually been onto something. But sorry, bands, you still can’t write off your cortex-killing bar tabs as a medical expense.”
(via: la times)
Maybe, Maybe Not: Cassette Tape Comeback?
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“Beyond the commercial viability, cassettes offer their own cachet. At a time when oversaturation has devalued music, cassettes give listeners a way to stand apart from digital malaise and to have fun with the ritual of listening to music again.”
“…offers a far richer listening experience than the CD. The analog quality of the music blends with the tape hiss, translating into a subtle but audible difference. Tapes blast a sound that’s just as warm and distinctive as the crackle and pop of vinyl, and the trend is catching on.”
“As such, cassettes are boutique items, tailor-made for collectors.”
“…record companies have found a temporary savior in vinyl. As a result, the price tags on records have increased. Although cassettes have always been a staple in the trenches of noise and industrial music, the larger indie cannon left them behind until recent years.”
(Via Creative Loafing)
