Tag Archives: music
How to make money as a musician
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Lost.
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. [...]
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ccMixter transtions from Creative Commons to ArtisTech: No business model, no thoughts – thumbs up.
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Lost.
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 [...]
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Why Musicians Need To Be On Twitter
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Lost.
It’s distributed service. Take it anywhere – more or less. Easy to connect to other artists. Networking will never die. It’s shiny and 2.0. Hell yeah. and one more very important thing. Twitter is lifestreaming, microblogging and a whole lotte fancy stuff made simple. My version: an open textmessage. Wikipedia can give you a twitter [...]
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A bit more on Imeem – and music streaming
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Lost.
Related to the previous rant, Techcrunch sums up label conservatism.
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Business models – accept the markets terms
Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by Lost.
Hypebot has an interesting piece on Imeem. Of course Imeem is in trouble. Just like all the other Music 2.0 and oldschool Web 1.0 conservative labels. The labels are strangling whatever pennies they can in order to pay premium bonuses to the boards before the nepotists finally jump. You can only do so much assf*****. [...]
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Splice Music lives on
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Lost.
SpliceMusic has been bought by RemixGalaxy.com – who are now promising sweet updates and great remix contests… in a matter of no time. Great news for many of the people hanging around at Splice – although it can’t be that many. It’s been dead in dev and staff regards for a year plus. Lost Audio [...]
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Music 2.0: List of social music sites
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Lost.
Surely there are many missing. So please help build a complete and up to date list of social music sites, if you can. Drop a comment.
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9 fantastic music production sites
Posted on 02. Aug, 2008 by Lost.
Ever search the net for music to use in a production environment? Be it podsafe, CC attribution, public domain, royalty free or other free and semi-free stuff. Have trouble finding anything? No problem. LostAudio just found at least 20GB of sound/music that is legal to use. The below is an incomplete but useful list of [...]
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How to Create Electronic Beats
Posted on 01. May, 2008 by Lost.
Beat-bearing – a tangible sequencer Watch More How to and DIY videos
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Details: ISP subscription music is here – DK internet and tele provider TDC launches FREE MUSIC Apr 1st
Posted on 31. Mar, 2008 by Lost.
First and foremost: This is not an april fools. It’s the real deal. TDC, the largest ISP in Denmark launches free subscription based music in a couple of hours. It’s launching on their Play service. Details: Mobile content is delivered free of charge (traffic). One song at a time in AAC (48kbit) format. For the [...]
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Subscription is coming
Posted on 20. Mar, 2008 by Lost.
… make it cheap. Since it still is the four majors that carry almost all music, they should have introduced dirt cheap subscription years ago. They would have made the same money – and they would have carved way through to keeping their position for years to come. Now it is coming. (Maybe) Sooner than [...]
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Hatred and Funky Remixes
Posted on 31. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
If you don’t enjoy our packages – and think the teasers are missing vocals – why not pop by a Creative Commons reference site. You’ll find loads of legal and nice music for your listening pleasure… That was the CC excuse for posting this … what is indeed more interesting is a recent blog entry [...]
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Global Digital Music Sales Up 40 Percent…
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
But Overall Sales Down 10 Percent… The sale of digital music globally hit $2.9 billion in 2007, up 40 percent from 2006. But, as we’ve seen in the U.S. alone, that was not enough to offset the 10 percent decline in overall music sales to 17.6 billion… Music is still one of the biggest things. [...]