The 23 kids who sang in Pink Floyd's The Wall have obviously been sweet talked by a lawfirm to claim their royalties from the sales of the album and track with their voices.
I guess this is fair enough, but it was a deal made in simpler times…apparently they were given a mars bar each.
Article Here (skynews carrying a pic for Dark Side of the Moon…duh)
Wired has an interesting interview with Wilco the chicago based band who fell-out with their middlemen and decided to go it alone…through the web.
After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide — they streamed it online for free.
It seems that this was a rather successful tactic…
This guy has A LOT of music on his harddisks…he is up to 900,000 tracks now and averages 1000 new tracks per day.
Why? Because he is trying to build up a collection of every peice of music ever recorded…a noble cause, although somewhat difficult to achieve. I also guess it is only a matter of time till some record execs take offense to this and send a lawsuit his way…lets see 900,000 x $150,000, thats a lot of 'lost earnings'…
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The Economist has a fascinating exploration of the future of the music industry and music itself.
?DIRTY pop with wonky beats and sleazy melodies? is how the Sweet Chap, aka Mike Comber, a British musician from Brighton, describes his music. The Sweet Chap has no record deal yet, but he has been taken on by IE Music, a London music-management group that also represents megastar Robbie Williams. To get the Sweet Chap known, last year IE Music did a deal to put his songs on KaZaA, an internet file-sharing program. As a result, 70,000 people sampled the tracks and more than 500 paid for some of his music. IE Music's Ari Millar says that virally spreading music like this is the future.
Found another music recommendation page. Similar style to musicplasma and gnoosic where you put in your three favorite artists and it recommends.
I was most impressed with this one though…To test it out I used 'Faudel', 'Abdel Gadir Salim' and 'Lazarperry'…I feel a search like this separates the men from the boys. Not only did it work, but it recommended 50(!) artists I might like, none of which I have heard of…fantastic!
It is based around the iTunes community, unfortunately you do need iTunes to preview the music…I prefer the surprise though 
This has to be heard to be believed…
The first track of William Shatner's First Album, Has Been. It is playable through the website, which i have to say is a very nicely made site for the launch of an album.
A truly great album by the Pakistani artist Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, a legend in his time. The album was produced with Canadian guitarist Michael Brook to give it a slightly westernised feel. People tell me that Massive Attack had something to do with the post production as well.
Best track on the album has to be Taa Deem, a rollercoaster of beat-based lyrical music.
Classic french drum&bass, with a hint of hiphop too. Great energy music which varies from some pretty quick heavy beats to some chilled breakbeat, its a good mixture.
Another album i got because it had a cool sounding name. This one is in Nubian-Sudanese apparently, this is close to Egyptian as you may have guessed by the title. Essentially they are blues lyrics but put across in a very happy and uplifting way. I guess it helps when you dont understand them.
My personal favorite track on this album is Qidrechinna (trans: I am destined to love), which is one of the very few tracks i could just leave on repeat and not get sick of.
This is probably one of my favorite albums, the band is French but the lyrics are Lebanese is from Beirut, Lebanon and the lyrics are Lebanese not suprisingly, and are truly beautiful.
The album has overtones of Massive Attack, with a hint of Portishead all put together in a delightfully non-western way. The second to last track 'Dub4Me' is true crusin' music.
The artist website is here but be warned, it does have background music so pause your mp3 before going to this one. Although this is good if you want a sample of what I am (trying) to describe.
