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Viacom hopes the Beatles: Rock Band game sets stage for rebound
Los Angeles Times
Dollar-conscious consumers who don’t already have instrument controllers will probably be attracted to a $160 “value bundle” that uses ones from the original Rock Band that Viacom has been unable to sell. The marketing material for the Beatles: Rock Band urges consumers to use Guitar Hero controllers enabling Viacom to piggyback on its more successful rival. “ur core competency is media” said Paul DeGooyer senior vice president of electronic games and music for MTV Games. “Let [Activision] take on the burden of getting those super-tight margin instruments out there. ” Bobby Kotick chief executive of Santa Monica-based Activision said his company was more than happy to sell controllers to the Beatles: Rock Band players as it has increased the efficiency of manufacturing them this year and earns a profit on them. Kotick expects that the Beatles game for which his company made a presentation to the rights holders but never formally bid is going to be a “big launch. ” But he said Activision would compete on two fronts.
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Troy’s electronic music show moved
Port Huron Times Herald
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Interview: Electric Zoo rganizers Mike Bindra and Laura de Palma …
Village Voice
The United States is most definitely at a different point in the electronic music festival life cycle than Europe. Without getting into Europe’s stage (dirty 30s?) it’s fair to say that Electric Zoo a weekend-long electronic music festival created by long-time events organizers Mike Bindra and his long-time business partner Laura de Palma is the event ushering America into its young adulthood. ver Labor Day weekend Electric Zoo will pair old-school legends (Frankie Knuckles Richie Hawtin Francois K) beside hipster favorites (James Murphy and Pat Mahoney Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Busy P) and guido gods (ATB Armin Van Buuren Deadmau5) on four different stages all hidden away in the (relative) wilds of Randall’s Island. To get the lowdown on this momentous occasion we recently spoke with Bindra and de Palma by phone about the appeal of techno outside territorial dance-music genre geeks and Port-o-Potties. What made you two decide to do an electronic music festival in New York City?Laura de Palma: Because we’re crazy! [laughs] It’s been something that we’ve been working towards for years.

Music Monday: Local electro-funk musician Neiliyo talks shop
UT The Daily Texan
This week The Daily Texan caught up with Neil Petty the man behind “Neiliyo. ” Combining chunky Day-Glo beats from his laptop with a funk guitar and an infectious energy Petty is a constant force in the downtown dance club scene. The Daily Texan: What album have you listened to the most in the last week?Neil Petty: The “Boogie-Funk 2008” podcast. DT: If you could collaborate with any musician in the world who would it be?NP: Lil Wayne — I’d be all over the radio.

DHS Clarifies Laptop Border Crossing Rules: What You Need to Know
PC World
Any copied files could be stored “indefinitely. ” (Imagine what the Border Patrol’s iTunes Library will look like after “indefinitely” storing DRM-free music from several dozen searches. ) The ACLU is also taking a dim view of the DHS policy and is.

SCREEN SCENE: ‘TAKING WDSTCK’ CAPTURES GD VIBES F LEGENDARY …
Niagarafallsreporter.com
Adam is a sky watcher. Stars and planets fascinate him. He’s an electronic engineer who seems to know everything there is to know about Voyager space probes and telescopes and other things celestial. He lives in a well-ordered universe of his own making. His apartment is spotless the boxes of macaroni and cheese offer up his meal of choice and he is painfully almost weirdly anti-social. In “Adam” this main character has Asperger’s Syndrome which some consider adult autism. Whatever this affliction is it renders Adam unable to act “normally” in social situations.

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Concert today to help Studio 1219
Port Huron Times Herald
Belleau said Troy performs electronic music from the 80s. “It’s kind of ambient very soothing very relaxing kind of music” he said. Belleau said the hour show will start between 9 and 9:30 p. It’s free but donations will be accepted to help pay for studio operation costs.

Electric Zoo: Electronic Music Festival
Decider New York
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Government restricts border laptop checks
TG Daily
The new rules also stipulate that any data abstracted from laptops phones cameras and music players must be destroyed immediately investigations have ended. “The new directives announced today strike the balance between respecting the civil liberties and privacy of all travelers while ensuring DHS can take the lawful actions necessary to secure our borders” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Civil liberties activists have long maintained that the government has no right to read contact lists and confidential emails proprietary business files financial and medical records or other private information. Customs and Border Protection officials can now keep electronic devices and data stored on them only if they have cause to believe it is connected to a crime.

Real Talk With Girl Talk
Washington Post Blogs
I’m trying to master the art of that. It’s interesting to me still that people are really able to dance and go crazy at the shows. I want them to but it’s not a traditional sort of music to dance to. Electronic music or all dance music is very repetitious. Even in the hip-hop world there’s a lot of repetition and a lot of call and response. Within my set it’s pretty linear.

Do the Beatles stand a chance against Guitar Hero?
Examiner.com
thebeatlesrockband. So the question that needs to be asked is "Who will win?" It’s obvious that both franchises are sure-fire hits for their respective developers but does Activision have what it takes to bring down Rock Band yet again? r is this EA’s year to dominate the genre for a change with the help of Paul George John and Ringo?.
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Pop/Dance Music 28/08/09
Belfast Telegraph
The Stiff Kitten’s occasional electronic music session Burnout is back with a bang and with a reputation of hosting only the finest proponents of dancefloor excellence in the past such as Carl Cox Hot Chip and 2ManyDJs to uphold a Sunday night set from Mark Knight in the headline slot continues their tradition of electro excellence. Founder of the Toolroom Knights record label in 2004 Knight recently celebrated both the signing of electro megastars Faithless as well as the imprint’s 100th release making it the biggest-selling label on Beatport the world’s biggest digital music store. Support comes from SK’s own Timmy Stewart doors open at 10pm and admission is £12.

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Catching up with Depeche Mode’s man behind the scenes Andrew Fletcher
Creative Loafing Atlanta
The press was very much fixated on rock. These days the writers tend to be nice to us but back in those days they had a lot of fun putting us down didn’t they! They didn?t even think of us as a proper band really. We didn?t use a drummer and we used tape machines but we knew that electronic music was way forward for the time. In some ways it was good and in some ways it was bad but almost all pop music these days is electronic. I?m sure that writers were mean to Kraftwerk before you. No I don?t think they were quite as mean to Kraftwek as they were to us. But indeed Kraftwerk really are our heroes.
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Mobo stars enjoy massive year
BBC News
" In the past big British winners like Amy Winehouse and Corinne Bailey Rae have been rewarded for individual achievements but were far from ushering in exciting new sounds or scenes. In the last 12 months though a movement has centred around acts that rub shoulders and collaborate and it seems Dizzee and Tinchy have cracked the formula of how to take urban music to the masses. They have softened the edges of grime a British genre that emerged from garage drum ‘n’ bass and hip-hop fused it with dance music that appealed to white club crowds and harnessed the power of big pop choruses. The result is a fusion of electronic pop and hip-hop that has broken out of the capital’s insular clubs and has been influenced by the US but does not blindly follow.

Managing the management
Ha'aretz
They sang about being aliens who landed on earth. I was blown away by how well-constructed their pop was. At the time popular electronic music had a tendency to sound cold. Some bands like Radiohead solved that problem by making their songs complex or epic in scale while electro-clash groups were emphasizing their robotic sound. MGMT grounded their electronic music in melodic rock songwriting. They brought it to a human level without being wanky. I remember hearing one song called “Money to Burn” and thinking it must be a cover because it was too sophisticated to be theirs! But it was original.

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Class of 2013 doesn’t know life without rap music Cartoon Network …
New York Daily News
” >Planet Hollywood. The class of 2013 which will mostly be made up of students born in 1991 have also always been able to read books on an electronic screen. The fun facts about incoming freshmen are on. The list looks at the cultural impacts on students beginning their college career.
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Get 200+ Free Electronic Music Downloads!
Synthtopia
We put the group together to make it easy for Synthtopia readers to share their original music with other readers. Synthtopia readers have now shared well over 200 original tracks in the group. The tracks range from DJ mixes to remixes to Berlin-school electronics to synth pop to ambient. You can listen to all the tracks online. Better yet – most are available as free downloads.

West puts Indian DJs into a spin
AFP
Remixing cueing music and scratching vinyl records are new-found passions for young Indians who aspire to be DJs a career that until recently was misunderstood and often ridiculed. In a tiny nightclub in India’s capital city New Delhi lights spin around DJ Nasha whose pulsating music has the hip-shaking crowd yearning for more original remixes. Late after midnight as he fades the set enthusiastic fans surround him for a look at his console and flood him with requests for lessons in the art of mixing. “This acceptance and love has come after years of rejection” said Nasha 32 who like other Indian DJs uses only his stage name — which means “intoxication” in Hindi.

Les Paul: The Passing of a Legend
Wired News
“They called it a broomstick with a pickup on it” he later told Guitar Player magazine. So he pushed on with his sound experiments. He replaced the standard studio echo chamber with his own electronic echo created by his guitar. He mastered overdubbing techniques. In 1947 he took the first fruit of this labor “Lover” to Capitol Records. Paul had created a sonic carnival with countless layers of rhythm and lead guitars experimenting with microphones and recording speed synthesizing new tones. That he had done it at all was astounding; that he had done it at home made the recording a true wonder.

- DJs Spin 12 Straight Hours at Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
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DJs Spin 12 Straight Hours at Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Rolling Stone
?In the event’s second year early sets were dominated by indie and art rock and even a touch of hip-hop. When night fell neon spotlights heralded the arrival of Dan Keyes of Young Love who hit the stage with electro-heavy ?rock jams. Standing atop a stack of amps Keyes ended ?his set with the befitting “You Must Dance” and the crowd meandered to the indoor stage at the ld American Can Factory leaving a sea of abandoned T-shirts and crushed PBR cans. After seven hours of bacchanalia had separated the ?mice from the men the Juan Maclean took the stage with vocalist ?Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem.
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Police explain shutdown of electronic music show
San Jose Mercury News
—Inglewood police say an electronic music concert at the Forum on Saturday was shut down because people on the upper levels of the sold-out arena were jumping down onto the floor. Police spokesman Lt. Mike McBride said Monday that the maximum capacity of the arena floor quickly reached its limit of 3500 people. About 17500 people attended. McBride says Los Angeles County Fire safety officers warned promoters and venue managers that if they couldn’t fix the situation police would shut down the all night festival.

The Woodstock Regeneration: Capturing The Vibe f A …
Hartford Courant
Maybe even the rain was dumb luck. Music as antidote demonstrated the power to heal and inspire suggesting a pathway back to We the People Emersonian self-reliance and an America sustained by idealism faith and spirituality. Like politics and society music and music culture went through a transformational journey during the ’60s as the musical strains of gospel folk and social protest Motown the British Invasion electronic technology and the advent of FM radio and TV converged to elevate pop music to an assertive emotionally charged art form that was unprecedented in stature influence and reach. Between “Highway 61Revisited” (. The festival idea pioneered with the Newport Folk Festival (1959-1971) and the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) was enabled by growing audiences and new technology capable of projecting amplified sound across larger areas and longer distances plus the competitive career-making opportunities for the artists.

Les Paul Dies
New York Times
He played guitar with leading prewar jazz and pop musicians from Louis Armstrong to Bing Crosby. In the 1930s he began experimenting with guitar amplification and by 1941 he had built what was probably the first solid-body electric guitar although there are other claimants. With his electric guitar and the vocals of his wife Mary Ford he used overdubbing multitrack recording and new electronic effects to create a string of hits in the 1950s. Paul?s style encompassed the twang of country music the harmonic richness of jazz and later the bite of rock ?n? roll. For all his technological impact though he remained a down-home performer whose main goal he often said was to make people happy.

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- Exclusive: John Hughes pens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview
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Underworld at Hard Summer 2009
Los Angeles Times
" says Karl Hyde frontman for pioneering British electronic music outfit Underworld in regards to the resurgence of dance culture in America. He’s speaking on the phone from London. "There was a real momentum kicking in. Audiences were growing and younger people were coming out to the shows including a magical night at the Hollywood Bowl. Then we played that big show in Miami [the 2008 Music Ultra Festival with a crowd reported to be about 50000] and it was staggering.

Biggest names in Electro music for Letterkenny
Donegal News (registration) (registration)
Two of the hottest names in electronic music will headline the show on Friday August 28. Boys Noize who is arguably the hottest producer and DJ of the moment. Real name Alexander Ridha he was born in 1982 in Hamburg Germany. As a kid he played the piano and drums and began to purchase records at an early age.

Exclusive: John Hughes pens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview
MTV.com
n a trip to England he discovered punk bands like the Stranglers the Buzzcocks and the Clash. For him it was like finding the Beatles. A true music geek he then got into pioneering electronic acts like Kraftwerk Neu and Can. “I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists” he said. He knew what he liked and he used to buy albums based on who the producer was but realizing he didn’t have an ear for music he found his true calling. “The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent” he admitted. Hughes was particularly taken with the Scottish band Simple Minds whose “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was the anthem of “The Breakfast Club” and for him an antidote to the bland corporate rock by bands like Toto that he couldn’t stand.
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How I Create Electronic Music
Internet DJ
Now from listening I make a hook in melodics. That is something that goes well with the tension and is repetitive but variating mostly around the 4-5 octave and has elements of or follows the structure of the chords. It can be as less as 3 notes but it has not to remain too much in the music only be remaining in the mind and rembered by the listener. Now I add the chorus chord part with all the dynamics on the chords such as filtering note decay chorus depth distortion amount gain whatever you can apply to make it dynamic and full sounding maybe some basic drums and melodic accents. Then make a hook to that. It has to be rock solid something that you can hum or singMake it within the shift you have applied to the chord parts and think of shifting it more or back later when it returns make it around the 7th note of the main scale or used chords maybe maybe use combinations of 2 notes in the scale of the theme from the used chord(s). This is where I go adding more structure to the song an intro with drums or instruments then a verse then chorus then whatever maybe the verse again maybe the chorus again maybe the outro already choose and structure.

Activision and Double Fine settle lawsuit over Brutal Legend game …
Los Angeles Times
The title had originally been part of the games portfolio of Vivendi Games which last year merged with Activision. Believing that as part of the deal Activision had declined to publish Brutal Legend Double Fine partnered with Electronic Arts to complete and publish the game. Activision's lawsuit threw a monkey wrench in those plans with the contention that Activision still had the publishing rights to the game.

- How I Create Electronic Music
- West Coast Sound Interviews Underworld on Eve of Hard Summer 2009
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- Electronic Arts’ Loss Widens as Revenue Falls
- The Electronic Takeover

How I Create Electronic Music
Internet DJ
Now from listening I make a hook in melodics. That is something that goes well with the tension and is repetitive but variating mostly around the 4-5 octave and has elements of or follows the structure of the chords. It can be as less as 3 notes but it has not to remain too much in the music only be remaining in the mind and rembered by the listener. Now I add the chorus chord part with all the dynamics on the chords such as filtering note decay chorus depth distortion amount gain whatever you can apply to make it dynamic and full sounding maybe some basic drums and melodic accents. Then make a hook to that. It has to be rock solid something that you can hum or singMake it within the shift you have applied to the chord parts and think of shifting it more or back later when it returns make it around the 7th note of the main scale or used chords maybe maybe use combinations of 2 notes in the scale of the theme from the used chord(s). This is where I go adding more structure to the song an intro with drums or instruments then a verse then chorus then whatever maybe the verse again maybe the chorus again maybe the outro already choose and structure.

West Coast Sound Interviews Underworld on Eve of Hard Summer 2009
LA Weekly
To be part of something that’s celebrating new permutations and new reflections on electronic music is great. It’s something of an honor really. What do you think of the nu electro scene?Like any genre of music electronic music fragments and new artists come out of it. Without the underground there wouldn’t be pop and without pop there wouldn’t be underground music to react against it. We had done some festivals with Justice and we dig it. There’s a respect for the difference.

Kontakt Player Launched
PC World
All sound libraries are managed in a graphical library browser providing an overview of your sound collections. Kontakt Player is also the basis for a new range of self-powered sample-based instruments which will be available for download and purchase directly from Native Instruments. Now available are the company’s new Maschine Drum Selection–hard-hitting drum and percussion sounds for modern electronic and club music styles–and Evolve Mutations–a new instrument for movie TV and game composers. The Maschine Drum Selection priced at $59 contains 20 full drum kits adapted from the company’s Maschine factory library. As a Kontakt-Powered instrument the Maschine Drum Selection is ready to play both as a standalone instrument and as a plug-in for all major instrument hosts providing an assortment of gritty urban kits heavily processed acoustic drums and vintage analog samples for various electronic music genres. It offers soundshaping controls and includes a flexible graphical step sequencer that can be used to set up intricate grooves directly within Kontakt Player and Kontakt 3. All kits are also included in additional formats for use within Kore 2 Kore Player and Battery 3.

Electronic Arts’ Loss Widens as Revenue Falls
Wall Street Journal
He said the company planned to increase its marketing spending to promote its games but would fund it by making additional cost cuts. Still analysts are optimistic about the company’s outlook because EA is expected to come out with a strong lineup of games in the next two quarters including the latest in its popular “Need for Speed” racing and FIFA soccer game series. The company is also the distributor for MTV Games’ highly anticipated “The Beatles: Rock Band” music game. Michael Pachter an industry analyst for Wedbush Morgan praised the company’s forthcoming titles. “We think their product strength continues into the September quarter” added Evan Wilson an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities who upgraded his investment rating on the company about two months ago. For the period ended June 30 EA reported a net loss of $234 million or 72 cents a share compared with a loss in the year-earlier period of $95 million or 30 cents. Revenue fell to $644 million from $804 million.
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The Electronic Takeover
The Windy Citizen
  It?s natural to think of these names when thinking about Lollapalooza; however there is a part of Lollapalooza that has been overlooked in past years.   I?m speaking about the DJs that perform at this annual event.   In the past DJs have been pushed to the side except for the year when Daft Punk headlined which was the only real look at electronic music until now. Thankfully this year?s schedule is looking to showcase electronic music as a serious musical competitor. DJs from all around are coming to Lollapalooza such as  Diplo from the notorious duo of Major Lazer;.

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Coldplay closes All Points West
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
When the band played its very first hit single “Yellow” a cascade of large yellow balloons came rolling into the crowd and bounced along its surface. When one came bouncing back toward Martin he deftly popped it with the neck of his guitar. Coldplay also utilized a smaller second stage (like U2) on which they huddled together to play an electro-freak version of their otherwise pedestrian hit “God Put a Smile on Your Face. ” Martin followed that with a solo piano rendition of the Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right To Party” — a tip of the cap to the Brooklyn rappers who had to pull out of the festival. Earlier in the muddy day electro-pop newbies La Rouge and Lykke Li had the crowd at the third stage raving for hours. Rock acts We Are Scientists Mogwai and the Black Keys were among the highlights at the second stage. The Black Keys in particular impressed with their thunderous two-man blues-rock assault.

Idol Records founder Erv Karwelis is a magnet for Dallas acts
Dallas Morning News
With an extensive catalog of 85 titles Idol Records has been a home for local musicians such as Black Tie Dynasty Deathray Davies PPT Flickerstick GBH ld 97′s Centro-Matic and Chomsky. The label’s 2009 releases so far have been its most diverse yet. There’s acoustic guitar and banjo duo the ‘s; pop-punk band Here Holy Spain; experimental electronic pair Little Black Dress; and former Sorta frontman Trey Johnson whose solo debut Mount Pelée is an urbanized-Americana gem. “Erv does a good job of picking what he likes out of the Dallas area” says Toby Pipes of Little Black Dress. “He doesn’t like to stick to one sound with the label. His hands aren’t tied to anything. Dallas has so much variety that I think that’s why Erv goes where he goes.

My Bloody Valentine Arctic Monkeys Rock All Points West on Moody …
Rolling Stone
they at least seemed like they were enjoying themselves. N yeah i went to see tool but i wound up leaving with love for gogol bordello. not my style of noise I guess. Anyway thats no reason to be disrespectful. Tool and Gogol were the only two acts that I really liked.

Gonzo’s Guide: Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival Electronic Music …
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
Grand Rapids Electronic Music Night organized by Rob Bliss 7 p. -midnight today Rosa Parks Circle 134 Monroe Center NW free. Coast Guard Festival today through Sunday; free ship tours music an arts and crafts show carnival rides and more; big parade is at 11:45 a.
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Brooklyn Electronic Music Fest Announces Remix Contest For Flashmen
Top40-Charts.com
Brooklyn Electronic Music Fest Announces Remix Contest For Flashmen @ Top40-Charts. com – 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries. Read the latest music news on rock pop country jazz rap hip hop and more get ringtones and lyrics.