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Music: Well, what in the name of the three rings of ferber? Er, Lullaby Renditions of NIN
Sun, 18 Mar 2007

Some days you just miss things that are obvious, while other times you accidentally tread into a doorway others have passed by for years. (Ideally when this occurs, you type 'look' and are told by the dungeon master you're either in the land of the troglo-humans or the dimension of supermodel-bimbos.) This day, however, my brother in law tread to my door and handed me this item pictured below .. an item scarcily believed to exist until it lay clutched in my sweaty fingers, like the last chocolate bar in a world where vermin destroyed the cocoa crop forever. <-- yes yes my friends, the sleep deprivation talks.

Now, I've not actually listened to it yet, but soon enough my dear friends. For now I must snuff in its . Should you flip over this CD, you see such wondrous words as 'glockenspiel', and a word that oozes 70s .. 'mellotron'. Or maybe the mellotron is the bad guy in the Transformers, I'm not sure anymore.

BTW, yes, I debated the 'baby' versus 'music' category. I might listen to this in the presence of non-unimonthians, so here it goes.

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Music: Death of the Back Catalog; take that Sony, BMG.
Sat, 31 Dec 2005

(OKay, maybe, 'take that artist estates' too)

My observation of the day (besides the glorious beautiful full day of snow we've gotten; bring it on Mother Nature - make us remember why we're alive!) is that due to digital music (mp3s etc) and fat hard drives, we're going to be buying (re-buying) less old or back catalogue music. I'm sure the music industry has loved every time we've rebought our favourites - how many times has each Beatles track been sold to each Beatles fan? LP? casette? CD? mp3? Same for the movie and television industry.. but my friends, times are a'changin'. As hard drives get bigger and backup systems become more automagic.. we won't lose music. We'll keep it forever, and skimp on the $1/per/listen the industry will want. We'll try like hell to keep things sane and not just-so for the maximized business models.

Back catalogue sales are about to pay. Good riddance.

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Music: Sick of self-serve?
Sat, 16 Jul 2005

Just as voice-over-IP could made telephone-companies irrelevent (they're all scrambling like mad to find new markets, or become data pipe companies, or survive via legislation), mp3s and iPods have pretty much made record stores redundant. I know I've gone over it before - how I will buy a CD, rip it to mp3 files, and only then listen to it while on my way somewhere (leaving a graveyard of jewel cases in the basement.) At this point, if everyone has an mp3 player (be it dedicated like the iPod, or as part of a PDA or cellphone, like the upcoming iTunes cellphones) all we need is simpler delivery for this consumable society. iTunes Music Store does pretty well, but as my wife adds -- it won't really happen until you can buy from a selection of tracks right on your phone and have the track delivered then and there (or perhaps never have the track and just pay pennies to listen each time, piping it from the carrier?)

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Music: Negativland, Toronto 2005
Wed, 11 May 2005

Negativland's members are often described as pirates of the airwaves (though I would dub them more as folksingers of the era) due to their extensive use of 'found art' including tape loops from radio, television, theatre and .. peoples cell phone conversations - nothing is sacred in their travels to challenge audiences.

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