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- Apps That Make Your Phone Even Smarter
- Music: Amazing Baby White Rabbits Major Lazer
- Discovering Nic Fanciulli.
- Big names in electronic music for Derry festival
- Music: Paul van Dyk brings the volume to Saltair
- Electro Unicorn Pop Pioneers
- Don’t Be Late It’s 3008 and Rap Is Dancing
Apps That Make Your Phone Even Smarter
New York Times
html” >Testing Smartphones’ I. ELECTRNIC EAR FR MUSIC Shazam might be the most shown-off cellphone app these days. pen the program hold it up to a speaker and Shazam will deliver the song name artist and album — then put you within one click of buying the song or reading the liner notes. The program is available for iPhones the T-Mobile G1 and Android phones and BlackBerrys and it’s free. USER-TAILRED TUNES Pandora is one of the most addictive pieces of software known to man. Create a playlist with a few selections and Pandora infers your musical tastes and builds you a personalized radio station.
Music: Amazing Baby White Rabbits Major Lazer
BlackBook Magazine
n rainy-day ballads heavy with comfy-country guitars and Evan Dando’s ’90s heartthrob languor clouds quickly clear to make room for energizing electronic guitars and electro-bass beats. Kate Moss croons over the chords of “Dirty Robot” and Liv Tyler sings the breathy vocals on “Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” a mellow and dark affair that prepares fans for the album closer an eerie rendition of Xtina’s “Beautiful. ” — Nadeska AlexisThe Revolution.
Discovering Nic Fanciulli.
Examiner.com
" He hears what he likes and spins what he wants. The crowd that went to see Nic at Harlot were true house lovers. There can be a stigma that house music is all about drugs and partying and it is often categorized along with all other electronic music such as trance. But when you talk to Nic you start to understand first hand that drugs and partying are not the nuts and bolts that make up the identity of house music. He talks about music and the industry as a serious profession and when talking to other house lovers you hear that it is all about the music and not about the parties. It is something he has dedicated much of his life to and it is not something frivolous to him. If that is not enough to make a distinction between house music and other electronic music genres when talking about etd.
Big names in electronic music for Derry festival
Fermanagh Herald
Some of the biggest names in electronic music will converge on the city of Derry at the end of June for Celtronic 2009. Now firmly established as Ireland’s leading electronic music festival Celtronic 2009 will be the acclaimed festival’s ninth edition. It will take place at several venues across Derry from Wednesday June 24th until Sunday June 28th. The festival is internationally renowned and has received regular praise from the international music press.
Music: Paul van Dyk brings the volume to Saltair
In Utah This Week
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall van Dyk returned to Berlin in 1990 and set out to visit all the clubs he had heard about from the West Berlin radio stations. “It was somewhat disappointing because they were really one-dimensional. The whole wide world of electronic music wasn’t offered in the clubs of West Berlin” he says. Van Dyk dove into music stores buying the records that had introduced him to music and began making mix tapes for himself and friends. ne of these mixes was passed on to a promoter who being impressed by the unique variety of the mix offered van Dyk his first opportunity to DJ. The venue so happened to be Tresor one of the most influential clubs for electronic music throughout the ’90sVan Dyk admits the first night was a little scary but what he remembers the most is the way the music sounded. Having only been a bedroom DJ and being conscious of the “grannies” living upstairs he had never listened to his mixes at a loud volume.
Electro Unicorn Pop Pioneers
College Times
College Times caught up with Telepathe’s Melissa Livaudais in an e-mail interview. If you’re lucky maybe you can help her find her skateboard this week. College Times: Rolling Stone has said your music is a combination of Bananarama and TV on the Radio. Do you agree with that? Melissa Livaudais: Yes. Speaking of TV on the Radio guitarist for the group Dave Sitek produced your first full length album “Dance Mother. ” What was it like working with him? Amazing. We are now officially in the “Sitek Cult.
Don’t Be Late It’s 3008 and Rap Is Dancing
New York Times
am the rapper-producer who is the architect of the Black Eyed Peas sound said in a telephone interview this week. “It was dance music. The only place it lived was the clubs. ”And now it’s migrating back there. “Boom Boom Pow” is one of three songs currently in the Top 10 of the Billboard singles chart that drag hip-hop out to the dance floor; there’s also Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me (Calle cho)” (Ultra) and Kid Cudi’s “Day ‘n’ Nite.
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