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Our good mate Dubmood has “released quick promomix for the summer to promote whats up and comming from the hotest chipmusic label on the www“, and after having a listen to it, I may even agree with him as its a banger. So if you like your electronic music give it a listen.. just click the image below to download. 

Many members and visitors will doubtless have seen the wildly inaccurate statement today by AEG that Prince is not suing his fans and referring to the Prince Fans United sites as phoney etc

read it all here http://www.princefansunited.com/

Prince, that guy who used to make good music wants to now sue his biggest fans!

Read it all here http://www.princefansunited.com/

Was radioheads idea a massive success or a disaster?

According to this report “2 out of 5 Downloaders Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for “In Rainbows” Album” but strangely enough “The results of the study are based on data obtained from comScore’s worldwide database of 2 million people who have provided comScore with explicit permission to monitor their online behavior. “

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Gini Helie Hopes you are well…..and would like to introduce her band:

miLenka and the pyramids….

you can listen to some songs here…

www.myspace.com/milenkathepyramids  (some very impressive songs, well worth a listen!)

and see new artworks from her

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9497289@N05/show/

Apparently, Radiohead yesterday released their album online for those that preordered, with up to 1/3 of people paying nothing and getting the album. Well, funnily enough, I paid quite a decent amount and never got the download link. I have already emailed them and Im sure they will sort it out, but it raises the question, If one was to download the album somewhere else, even though they had paid for it, would that constitute piracy? Or if someone downloaded the album and they hadnt paid a cent for it, would that be piracy, when you can quite easily go to their website and download it for free. How about if you gave it to your friends after you had paid for it, would that be piracy when again, its free off their website.

Food for thought.

It was only the other day when american corporations declared war on individuals. Now it seems australia wants to copy our sister america, and throw people in the big house for downloading music (article here). “We would hope that the ISPs and the record companies could come up with an alternative solution,” said MIPI general manager Sabiene Heindl.  Well if Radiohead can come up with a decent solution, how come people earning hundreds of zillions of dollars cant? Look, lets be honest, artists who work hard deserve to be paid out the frame like donahue (ice-t), but we all know half these executives dont have a creative bone in their bodies so why should they be getting paid all the big money? Michael Franti encourages people to go to his shows/concerts and record them and share them, and he seems to do ok.

 People will always pay for good music, its just how much do these big companies want that is the problem. 

bobby byrd said he knows you got soul, but do you really?

straightup is a place for you to fill your ears with funky and rare grooves.

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Radiohead fans will be able to choose how much to pay for the band’s next album, In Rainbows, which is available for download on 10 October

What a brilliant idea from an equally brilliant band!

All you have to do is log onto the site here and decide how much you want to pay for the album and preorder it, then… “You will receive a further e-mail shortly before the 10th October detailing your username and activation code. The e-mail will also provide the link to the download area. ”

Hopefully people wont be putting in 10 cents or something ridiculous, but I think this will show that people are willing to pay for good music, and that we arent all pirates who should be in fear of our lives becuase the RIAA wants to arrest and lock us all up.