Electronic Music NewsMark Lane Resynthesized
The News Review:
- Mark Lane Resynthesized
- International Music Summit Returns To Ibiza
- Electronics Arts cuts outlook on weak holiday sales
- Rapper: A Common path to ‘Universal Mind Control’
Mark Lane Resynthesized
LA Weekly CA
purely electronic music was polarizing but in Europe where Lane had been making contacts through his work with On-Slaught magazine it was the norm. He saved his money and at the end of 1984 headed overseas. Almost immediately the musician hooked up with members of the Klinik which included Ivens who acted as his backing band for a time and recorded several tracks with him. Lane collaborated with the leaders of electronic music including Conrad Schnitzler of Tangerine Dream and Martin Bowes of Attrition and opened in large theaters for experimental bands like the Legendary Pink Dots and Tuxedomoon. He consistently sold out pressings for his independently released albums.
International Music Summit Returns To Ibiza
Billboard Business News NY
It takes place on May 27 to 29. Around 300 delegates attended the inaugural event in 2008 and the number of places has increased to 400. The organizers stress it will continue to focus on being an intimate gathering with high-level delegates and speakers. The 2009 event program of panels events and workshops will address the dance music industry’s position in relation to the economic downturn.
Electronics Arts cuts outlook on weak holiday sales
guardian.co.uk UK
The surprise announcement drove shares of the video gamepublisher down 10 percent in after-hours trading on top of an11. 5 percent decline during the Nasdaq session on Tuesday. EA had already slashed its fiscal 2009 estimates blamingslowing demand at retail stores and a delay in the release ofits latest “Harry Potter” video game.
Related from Sales-monster: Study: Online holiday sales look promising
Rapper: A Common path to ‘Universal Mind Control’
CNN
and Lupe Fiasco and groups that are known as the next movement — like Cool Kids — that are using different sounds and different things to progress the music and I’ve always been open to advancing and growing. I did an album called "Electric Circus" where I used a lot of electronic music back in 2002 and that album was ridiculed at the time but I feel now in hip-hop there’s more opportunity to do progressive music and it be accepted. McLaughlin: Speaking of West you teamed up with him on "Be" and "Finding Forever" and those albums were well received. Why did you decide to change directions by teaming up with Pharrell Williams [of the Neptunes] on this album and do you think "Universal Mind Control" might suffer — among your fans and among music critics — because you didn’t link up with Kanye? Common: No I believe that music is about making quality things making quality art and no matter who you decide to work with you and that person have to come up with something special come up with something that is excellent material so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it. I believe I chose to go in this direction because I wanted to do something different and I didn’t want to be predictable in what I do and it came from an organic place. It wasn’t reactionary or anything.