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Timmy Curran Word of Mouth Free Download
by admin on Jan.27, 2008, under Alben, Freie Musik
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Top 10 Bollywood Music Albums of 2007
by admin on Jan.25, 2008, under Alben, Artists
A month ago I started this poll to see which music album everyone thinks is the best this year. I picked 16 movies which had good music. I already had 10 music albums in mind which I thought were the best this year, but still wanted to see what everyone’s opinions were. And this poll really helped me to come up with a list which I think will be agreed by almost everyone. Please note that this list doesn’t take into account the success of a movie, but plainly goes by the level of excitement and enjoyment it provided in listening and the repeatability factor. Lets start with 10th best music album and go up from there - (continue reading…)
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Radioheads free Album now the top-selling CD in the US!
by admin on Jan.12, 2008, under Alben, Randinformationen
In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay, ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week after the CD version hit record shops and other retailers.
The album, the first in four years from the closely watched British rock act, sold 122,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That represents a mixed result for the band. It’s a sharp drop compared with the debut of Radiohead’s previous album, 2003’s “Hail to the Thief,” but it’s far from a flop, considering the steep decline in music sales in the last four years and the typically weak sales in the post-Christmas period. “Thief” sold about 300,000 in its first week in 2003.
In any case the figures challenge the conventional wisdom that music fans no longer have an affinity for plastic. The sales of the album, which also snagged the top spot on the British weekly music chart, came despite the fact that “In Rainbows” — in the form of digital files — had been acquired by many fans after the band offered it in an unconventional pay-what-you-want offering through a Web site, inrainbows.com. The album was released on plastic CDs and vinyl LPs on Jan. 1, with the CD priced at $13.98, though it could be found for as little as $7.99 at outlets like Amazon.com.
Some retailers viewed the Radiohead figures as a sign of the continuing market for so-called physical products in the music business, where the popularity of iTunes, music blogs and other sites have made the digital file appear to be the coin of the realm. In particular they said even fans who received the digital files distributed by Radiohead may have decided to pay for the better audio quality versions on CD or LP.
“Having a physical, archival high-fidelity master recording that you can side-load into your MP3 player of choice for a similar price is significantly better than just purchasing zeros and ones,” said Eric Levin, owner of the independent record shop Criminal Records in Atlanta and founder of an 18-member alliance of independent retailers. “I feel like that’s what 75 percent of the people are saying.”
Mr. Levin said that at his store vinyl copies of “In Rainbows” outsold the CD by a wide margin. Demand for the album was such that some record shops put it on sale before the label’s planned “street date,” resulting in sales of about 9,000 copies the previous week.
But sales of the plastic and vinyl versions of the album also received a boost from digital services like iTunes, where the album sold about 28,000 copies. The iTunes service, which sells individual songs for 99 cents and albums typically for $9.99, had not carried any of the band’s previous albums, owing in part to Radiohead’s demand that its recordings be sold only as complete works.
But Bryce Edge, one of Radiohead’s managers, said the band decided to sell “In Rainbows” on iTunes because it expects that EMI, the British music giant that released the band’s first six albums, will soon post them for sale on the service, and it would be strange for the new album to be excluded. An EMI representative declined to comment.
The decision to release the music as a digital file so far in advance of the CD also allowed time for the music to circulate on free, unlicensed file-swapping networks. Big Champagne, a tracking service that studies file-sharing, estimates that the album was downloaded more than 100,000 times on free networks in the first 24 hours after Radiohead delivered it to fans who had preordered it from its Web site. But Eric Garland, chief executive of Big Champagne, said that by offering the music for as little as zero from their own site, Radiohead “stole market share” from pirate networks.
Mr. Edge said that sales of 100,000 copies of the album this week would be “almost certainly less than the number we would have achieved if we hadn’t” offered it as a digital download. But the band still came out ahead, he said, in part because it attracted so many fans to Radiohead’s Web site, where it collected e-mail addresses from fans looking to acquire the album.
The band has not said how many copies it distributed. Now that the CD is in shops, some fans who paid for the initial downloads may have been tempted to buy the album, in effect, for a second time. But Steve Gottlieb, chief of the independent label TVT Records, said he believed the sales mainly reflected fans who were acquiring the music for the first time.
“Radiohead is one of those really big groups that appeals to people outside the intensely pirating demographic of 16 to 29,” he said. “To the extent Radiohead still has a significant audience in its 30s and 40s, there’s a bigger audience of those people who will still pick up something at Best Buy or don’t want to bother with figuring out how to go to a Radiohead Web site and track it down.”
Still, Mr. Gottlieb said, the sales suggested that the band’s name-your-price offering, and fans’ subsequent free sharing of files, had taken a toll. “Clearly we can’t give it all away and expect to sell CDs,” he said.
But Radiohead will have yet more opportunities to gain fans. The band said yesterday that it planned to perform in more than 20 North American cities this year.
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This One is for Joe - A tribute to Joe Strummer
by admin on Dez.25, 2007, under Alben, Freie Musik
In December 22nd 2002 the world lost a great man, musician and ambassador for rock n’ roll, Joe Strummer.
As a tribute to Joe and the 5th anniversary of his death we present reinterpretations, remixes and mashups of great Strummer tracks, from The Clash to Mescaleros, solo work and even his work with Big Audio Dynamite. Hopefully we’ve represented the love of eclectic music he showed the world with a punk attitude, broadcasting on a pirate satellite
- http://www.mutantpop.net/strummer/
- http://www.mutantpop.net/strummer/this_ones_for_joe.zip
- http://www.mutantpop.net/strummer/finalinlay-cover1.jpg
- http://www.mutantpop.net/strummer/finalinlay-cover2.jpg
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/xraystyle/58400369/
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Das einzig richtige Modell für die Musikindustrie!
by admin on Dez.17, 2007, under Alben, Freie Musik, Randinformationen
Seit einiger Zeit gibt es das Musikportal AmieStreet auf dem jede noch so kleine Band ihre Musik gratis verkaufen kann. Das Grundprinzip ist so simpel, wie genial! Solange noch niemand die Band kennt sind die Songs kostenlos. Sobald eine bestimmte Marke der Downloads überschritten wurde wird die Musik langsam im Preis angehoben. Somit regelt sich das Angebot komplett nach der Nachfrage. Gute und beliebte Musik darf dann gerne etwas kosten.
Mit 0.98 $ ist der Preis aber immer noch wesentlich billiger als bei DRM-verseuchten Download Portalen. Die Musik kommt in guter MP3 Qualität daher und die Server sind schnell. Der Download ist somit sehr angenehm. Ein weiterer Schritt weg von den zu mächtigen Plattenfirmen, denen nicht mehr die Musik und die Künstler wichtig sind, sondern nur noch die Verkaufszahlen und der erzielbare Gewinn. Hoffentlich ist dies auch der Anfang vom Ende von den Popstar-Castings…
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Die Ärzte - Jazz ist anders
by admin on Dez.15, 2007, under Alben, Freie Musik
Die Ärzte hatten den Schweizern angeboten ihr neues Album “Jazz ist anders” zum freien Download und damit auch ohne Kopierschutz ins Netz zu stellen, wenn Blocher nicht gewählt werden würde. Die Schweizer sind drauf eingegangen und Blocher wurde nicht gewählt. Nun ist jedoch unter dem großen Ansturm der Server des Bademeisters in die Knie gegangen. Naja bald geht es weiter:
“Danke an alle Schweizer, die Christoph Blocher nicht gewählt haben.
Aus aktuellem Anlass: Wir kapitulieren! (Vorerst.)
Leider habt ihr es im Handumdrehen geschafft, unseren Server genauso lahmzulegen, wie euren Blocher. Deshalb müssen wir euch noch um ein wenig Geduld bitten, bis wir eine technisch massen kompatible Lösung gefunden haben. Schaut bitte ab Mittwoch, den 19. Dezember, gegen Mittag nochmal rein, dann haben wir das (hoffentlich) alles so hinbekommen, dass ihr auch eine reale Chance auf euren wohlverdienten Gratis-Download habt.
Sorry!”
Hier geht es zur Bademeister Seite.
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Von Elektro bis Rock…
by admin on Dez.11, 2007, under Alben
Vate kommen aus Mexico und machen seit Mitte der 90er Jahre ruhigen Ambient-Sound. Nette, elektronisch angehauchte Tracks, die sich gut als Background-Musik beim Arbeiten als auch zum Ausruhen nach etwas längere Partynächten anbietet. Das Volk-Album ist von 2005, kommt mit zahlreichen Samples, gezielt eingesetzten Vocals und gewinnt stellenweise auch schon mal etwas an Fahrt. ApoloX und Diablo seinen hier als Anspiel-Tipps empfohlen.
Vate - 10 Tracks - 80 Min. - 86MB - Homepage
Das Listen-Album von Tri^d könnte fast ein Sampler sein. Angefangen bei klassischen Ansätzen, über Rock und Pop, mal Frauen- und mal Männerstimmen bis hin zu Elektro ist das Tri^d-Spektrum ausgesprochen breit gefächert. Veröffentlicht im Dezember 2006 ist Listen die aktuelle Tri^d-Platte und kommt, wie auch das Kollektiv hinter Tri^d, aus den USA. Unsere Anspiel-Tipps hier sind Mesmerize und Breathe.
Tri^d - 13 Tracks - 65 Min. - 88MB - Homepage
Eva Garcia macht unsere 5er-Runde komplett und rundet das vorgestellte Paket mit französischem Charme ab. Singer-Songwriter Musik mit englischen, spanischen und französischen Lyrics. Irgendwo zwischen Skin, Sinéad O’Connor und Rebekka Bakken. Definitiv aber unsere Empfehlung der heutigen Downloads. Die Musik macht Spass, gefällt mit Sicherheit, der Freundin, den Arbeitskollegen und den Eltern und passt zum guten Wetter. Anspiel-Tipp: Die ganze Platte!
Eva Garcia - 07 Tracks - 31 Min. - 40MB - Homepage
