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Moods in Music

It really isn’t questionable: Your frame of mind, mood and general state dictates what mood you’ll be producing in. But can you manipulate it? Meeting up with your homeboys, getting ready to make some rap music, it might be easy to find a platform. You are likely to grab a couple of beers and ‘download’ [...]

How to make money as a musician

Be great – and be heard. Good advice doesn’t always have to be that complex. It simply isn’t enough having a label push you onto radio (or MTV) for that matter. It could be part of it, though. The be heard half is about getting attention. No matter how good you are, you need attention. [...]

Links Nov 09

Business Matters: Last.fm, Xbox, SXSW More p2p – Sweden grows music purchasing (because p2p downloads stopped?). Denmark has succes with ISP music subscription – musicians make money… Where is the traction – either way – and why do the labels insist on dying. Sigh. Oh, and other fun stuff in the ‘we dont have a [...]

ccMixter transtions from Creative Commons to ArtisTech: No business model, no thoughts – thumbs up.

What’s this ccMixter? ccMixter a remix community. Celebrating mashup and free culture. It’s also a promotional tool for Creative Commons, and the software powering the site, is an open source option for connecting progressive licensing on media sites. What’s this ArtisTech? A new music label, that says it tries to benifit from and develop models [...]

BlueBeat streaming: Shutting Down … ?

0,25 a track for downloads. Or simply use high quality streams. While it seems like the US based company behind BlueBeat has a noble and meanfull vision: stopping the insanity overpriced online music, it just can’t keep going this way. Itunes won’t be happy, the labels won’t be happy. Even the crybaby artists, that don’t [...]

Time flies – hardly on music

Wow. Time keeps on flying – almost a month has passed since last update. And yet nothing amazing has happened. Why? Howcome nobody wants to talk about the success of Danish ISP TDC – that provides unlimited use of music on mobile and internet platforms. Two million users – tremondous amounts of paid money to [...]

Musician – Stay away from Twitter, Facebook and social media in general

After thinking about it, I retract my previous post: Stay the fuck away from all things social. Including twitter, facebook and everything else. STOP CRAPPING ALL OVER MY INTERNET. That goes for all search engine specialists as well – full of shit assholes, crapping all over useful audio results with spammy link schemes and click [...]

Soundsnap now paid membership

Sign up for SoundSnap, it’s free. Download five sounds a month. I thought it looked wrong last time I visited the site. Right for some. Annual license is $149 which will allow unlimited downloads. Anyway, just another ‘we are free until we have enough users’ – site. Hope it pans out for them. I have [...]