Topic: MUSIK - on June 17, 2007 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Prince's Girls, Vol. 2
15 songs
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 16, 2007 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
the vegetable orchestra
Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 6:21:00 PM CEST
Is Banning Bootlegs Constitutional? No... But, Yes
Apparently, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has taken on the issue of whether or not a law banning concert bootleg recordings is unconstitutional. The court found that it actually is unconstitutional. It violates the copyright clause of the Constitution ("promote the progress... for a limited time...") because it does not set a limited term on the rights of the content producer.
againstmonopoly.org the second circuit two-step (application/pdf, 107 KB)
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Sgt Pepper must die!
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? It's meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe ... we've all felt that way. And so have the musicians we asked to nominate the supposedly great records they'd gladly never hear again.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
DJ SPOOKY: Venice Biennale 2007 [mp3]
Brian Eno once famously remarked that the problem with computers is that there isn't enough Africa in them. I kind of think that its the opposite: they're bringing the ideals of Africa: after all, computers are about connectivity, shareware, a sense of global discussion about topics and issues, the relentless density of info overload, and above all the willingness to engage and discuss it all - that's something you could find on any street corner in Africa.
I just wanted to highlight the point: Digital Africa is here, and has been here for a while. This isn't "retro" - it's about the future.
For the Venice Biennial 2007 I decided to go through a lot of my files of music from around the African Continent to accompany my installation for the Africa Pavilion. I looked through my record collection for non cliche kinds of stuff like the Baka People who make drums out the way they play in water or the "Car Horn Orchestra" of Ghana which has a gathering of many taxi drivers who converge in downtown Accra to make a large symphony of honks from their taxis at the end of the work day or for funerals of drivers.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 5, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
1,683 guitarists play 'Smoke on Water'
More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" - a song that was the first many of them ever learned.
Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part in a Kansas City radio station's effort to break a Guinness world record for the most people playing the same song simultaneously. The record had been 1,323 people playing the same song in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 1, 2007 at 2:27:00 PM CEST
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
1979 Animation by Roger Mainwood
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 22, 2007 at 1:51:00 PM CEST
RIAA Takes Cue From The Onion: Wants Radio Stations To Pay Up For Promoting Music
You know your business is in trouble when you feel the need to start taking cues from the Onion for ways to squeeze more money out of customers. Last year, it was Verizon, who was found to have copied The Onion's satirical "charge-you-at-a-whim" plan.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 12, 2007 at 4:45:00 PM CEST
Popstar Prince flüchtete vor Kuss-Attacke
Ein Fan hat den amerikanischen Popsänger Prince (48) im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bei einem Konzert in London zu Boden geküsst.
Während des Auftritts in geschlossener Gesellschaft in einem Club sei eine Frau auf die Bühne gestiegen und habe versucht, dem Sänger einen Schmatzer auf die Wange zu drücken, berichtete die Zeitung "Daily Mirror" am Wochenende.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 12, 2007 at 4:42:00 PM CEST
Prince plays surprise gig
The singer, who was in town this week to launch a series of gigs at the O2 Arena later this summer, made the most of his trip, staging the show at KOKO.
Taking the stage at around 11.30pm, Prince performed a set that mixed classics, instrumentals, new tracks, covers and songs that showcased his band.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 11, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Another Slab of the 'Tube
I've been periodically posting some recent YouTube music clippage and have grown to like my role as the invisible VJ. I have even grown a Mark Goodman 'fro, but you can't see it.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 11, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
THE 100 WORST COVER SONGS
We've already done our 100 Greatest Cover Songs list, so you knew it was only a matter of time before we paid respects to the flip side of the coin. Some of these covers were sincere attempts to make good songs, others are so inexplicably awful that you don't know what the hell they were thinking. Others are clearly meant to be jokes, but it doesn't make them sound any better, even so. We had polled retroCRUSH readers for nearly 2 months and got lots of great responses, and we give deep thanks to all of those who threw ideas our way. We'll be putting a several up each day and should have the entire list posted up shortly, so come back each day!
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