Electronic Music NewsThe Thrill is back
The News Review:
- The Thrill is back
- Lessons in composing planned
- RADIO LINKS TO ITUNES
- To enable music sharing is legal to download it isn’t?
- Take Movies Photos and Music Anywhere With IOGEAR’s Portable Media…
- Ian F goes in search of adventure
- Hadouken! album is finished…finally
The Thrill is back
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 8, 2008
- Peter HartlaubHalou at Cafe Du NordFollowing a North American tour with Bob Mould Halou is settling in for a residency at Cafe Du Nord. Starting tonight the San Francisco atmospheric-electronic music trio will play every Wednesday at the Market Street venue through April focusing on material from its rougher-edged new EP “Sawtooth” and its forthcoming album. “The sound is quite a departure for us” said drummer and producer Mikael “Count” Eldridge. “We’ve always had guitars on our albums but on this record guitars are more the heart of the sound. The songs were written on guitar rather than added late so the songwriting is much different and the new songs are a hell of a lot more fun to play live. The new material also features a pair of guest players that further shaped the sound: cellist Zoe Keating who has played with Imogen Heap and Rasputina and former Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie.
Lessons in composing planned
stuff.co.nz – Apr 8, 2008
The 23-year-old graduated with first-class honours in composition from Otago University in 2006 and is now working on his Phd in ethnomusicology. He has composed music for stage and film and also plays synthesizers – "piles of them" – with his experimental electronic rock bank Knives at Noon. The three piece is coming to Palmerston North in May. The two-hour workshops on Tuesday April 22 and Thursday April 24 introduce students to composing music. The first An Introduction to Modes covers some of the basics in approaching music composition by exploring the characteristics of different musical styles such as classical jazz pop and film music. The second workshop Developing Musical Ideas follows on from the first introducing students to practical tools for turning ideas into larger compositions.
RADIO LINKS TO ITUNES
New York Post – Apr 8, 2008
The partnership allows Clear Channel to share in revenue from iTunes the biggest retailer of digital music while luring listeners. Radio companies are introducing so-called HD and Internet stations to compete with satellite radio and win back advertisers who have migrated to the Web and cable television. "It marries music discovery to music purchase which is going more and more electronic" Jeff Littlejohn Clear Channel's executive vice president of distribution and development said in an interview.
To enable music sharing is legal to download it isn’t?
Geek.com – Apr 8, 2008
Conversely Judge Kenneth Karras in a case in New York found that placing files in an area they can be shared with others may end up in illegal publication and therefore copyright violation. Fred von Lohmann staff attorney for the. ”Raymond Sayeg defense attorney for the students in Boston commented that Judge Nancy Gertner’s ruling was:A landmark decision that will change how these cases go forward…. The level of proof has gone up significantly … The industry doesn’t want to be put to the trouble to prove that someone actually downloaded it from you.
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Ian F goes in search of adventure
Dispatch Online – Apr 8, 2008
The trio are considered to be among the best DJs to come out of the station since the days of Barney Simons Alex Jay and Chris Prior. Ian F made a name for himself when together with Sasha Martinengo they took over as hosts of 5fm’s midday show in 2002. In the process they released a string of electronic house CDs winning a South African Music Award along the way. In an interview last week Cape Town-born Fraser sounded confident about his decision. It’s one of the toughest decisions he has ever made. It took him almost two years to think about. “My wife (Jane) and I have been planning to do a trip overseas for the last two years.
Hadouken! album is finished…finally
BBC News – Apr 8, 2008
So the question is why are we just now hearing their debut album?Singer James Smith told Newsbeat: “We weren’t in any rush to get an album out and I know that sometimes when you get a bit of hype then the pressure’s there to get it out and capitalise. “We just wanted to get it right. The result is Music For An Accelerated Culture due out on 5 May. Fans of the band will recognise some of the band’s earliest material on the album. For the others Smith explained Hadouken!’s sound. He said: “It’s essentially an electronic record. It’s energetic there are a few poppy songs on there we’re not ashamed to do that and there’s some guitars and some live drums but I think it works as a whole… Fans of the band will recognise some of the band’s earliest material on the album. For the others Smith explained Hadouken!’s sound. He said: “It’s essentially an electronic record. It’s energetic there are a few poppy songs on there we’re not ashamed to do that and there’s some guitars and some live drums but I think it works as a whole. ” With nu rave band-of-the-moment Klaxons now on hiatus there could be a danger the band have missed their window while other new electronic artists like Late Of The Pier and Does It Offend You Yeah? have gained in popularity. Guitar player Dan ‘Pilau’ Rice insists the band aren’t overly concerned about whether the record sells or not. He said: “I think you can spend too much time worrying about it we’ve made the album we wanted to make and we just have to sit back and see what happens.