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Band Invites Music Copying
R C writes "The BBC is currently running a story about the band Carbon Silicon, including former members of The Clash and Generation X. The report claims that the band is encouraging fans to download tracks, demos, and works in progress from their website . Talking of re-capturing the culture of recording a tape to lend to your friends, they believe that the free availability of their music won't affect sales, and that the availability extra material like tracks in development will attract and engage even more fans."
A new rock group featuring former members of The Clash and Generation X has taken a novel approach to the issue of piracy by urging their fans to copy their music.
Carbon Silicon make all their recordings freely available online, and actively encourage bootlegging or filming of their gigs.
They even attack the current waves of litigation surrounding illegally copied music in their song Gangs Of England, which includes the line, "if you want the record, press record".
"What we're talking about here is fans who are sharing music," Tony James, formally of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Generation X - who formed the group with ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones - told BBC World Service's The Music Biz programme.
"It's just like you did when you were young, when you made a cassette of your favourite tracks you'd love, and would give it to a friend and say 'listen to this.'
"Everyone's going to say, 'hang on - if they've got it already, why are they going to buy the record?' But what we find is actually, people really like buying the records."
Demos online
The music industry has been grappling with issues of piracy over the last few years, in particular since broadband became popular.
Artists who have backed anti-piracy campaigns, include Metallica, Tatu and Peter Gabriel.
But James said that he considered the internet to be the "most exciting thing that's happened to rock and roll".
In particular, he pointed out that people could now record songs in their bedrooms and make them available to the world, and new artists no longer needed "a label, or a manager, or a BBC Radio playlist".
Carbon Silicon use their website to show the development of their songs. Demos are put on the web so people can track how they came together.
"We feel that it's almost like if I could go and watch Lennon and McCartney in the studio making Sgt Pepper, and watch them on the internet making that record, that would be a really exciting thing," James explained.
"So I think what we'll see in the future is people will pay to be there - to be part of the creative process. That's a really exciting thing.
"Our ideas of copyright, and what constitutes a record, will change in the future."
That's why the Creative Commons was conceived. Check it out here
That you can do with modtracking...
Wow! Too bad Nobody else does this!
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In North America at least, the radio stations are locked into deals I've heard where they are bound to play primarily what's on the "charts". The charts are determined by Billboard and other RIAA shills, so an independent artist is unlikely to get real radio play over a wide area from chain-owned stations.
This makes it hard for any artist trying to break through without signing over their soul to the RIAA.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Like the Grateful Dead? And all the bands that followed their lead, giving us over 1000 different bands with music on the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive, and thousands more that allow their music to be legally traded on the Etree Torrent server?
Ok, so you may say that's just live music, but if you want studio music, there's the Internet Archive (again) with Netlabels and Open Source Audio. I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing the news here.
Link here. They've only got about 6800 recordings so far, but it's only going to get bigger.
That's not too bad.
Need someone to put more mics around the drums, tho - you can hear the hi hat, but the cymbals are muddy, the snare is.. I don't know. Barely there. The kick bass is sometimes there, sometimes not.
The bass is a bit overpowering as well. But aside from those nitpicky things I noticed (and no, I probably couldn't do better, so there...) that's not too bad of a track!
Karnal
Like how Trent (of Nine Inch Nails) released "The Hand That Feeds" as a GarageBand file http://boss.streamos.com/download/interscope/nin/w ith_teeth/nin_garageband.sit
From the README file: "For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results. After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy. What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible."
I remember The Offspring tried to give away an album in 2000 as mp3s on their website but had the idea shot to shit by their record label.
Sony Forces The Offspring to Cancel MP3 Giveaway.
Open Sound
http://www.opsound.org/
or maybe
Internet Underground Music Archive http://www.iuma.com/
Typical slashdot, always last with the news...
... wiki link karma whore;
Free Music
Has some good free labels. Could probably stand some improvements by the slashdot crowd.
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A band that streatches the copyright debate even further is the Kelptones fronhttp://www.kleptones.com/from the UK all thier albums are free and avaible via Bittorent .
They have a ground breaking album that mashes up Queeen and Hip Hop classics called Night at the Hip Hopera
is giving away all 3 CD's for free via BitTorrent. Their latest CD was produced by Tim Alexander of Primus. :) http://bornnaked.net/junk_index.html
Huh, that's pretty strange, I've seen it last week. I like to watch it every so often to affirm to myself how creepy this administration is.
Basically, the video has Donald Rumsfeld being interviewed by some talkshow type people. I don't know what show they're from. They ask him about stating that Iraq was an imminent threat to the US and, presumably, the rest of the world. He says that he never said or wrote that, and that someone else in the administration must have. They then confrot him with two specific quotations by himself explicitly using the words imminent threat. All he can do is sputter and act all abashed--like someone with an iron grip just latched onto his balls and called him on the spot. Fade to black. It's quite hilarious, really.
I imagine that it'll be back up, but I'll try to find a live copy of it. It's too good to be lost. Maybe archive.org has a copy... I'll reply when I find it.
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The demoscene, a collection of artistist nerds making cool little animations, spawned something of great importance: the netlabel scene.
Now I'm not sure if the demoscene is as large as it was when I was a part of it (future crew days), the netlabels are bursting at the seams and there is A LOT of high quality music in many different genres available. Several promiment artists have their roots in the netlabel scene when trackers were still #1 (Fast Tracker, Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker), but now adays, while trackers are still in use (Buzz, MPT, Renoise), there are a lot of home studios and garage bands releasing music through netlabels as mp3s and oggs.
Thinnerism
Ronin Collective
Camomille
Kahvi
One
There are also two main repositories where netlabel releases are uploaded, available at:
Scene.Org
Archive.Org's netlabel repository
These netlabels are starting to be taken a lot more seriously these days, and has even attracted corporate attention. Mercedez Benz's "Soundtrack of the Autobahn" contained several prominent netlabel artists.
While 90% of the music available is electronic in nature, there are still some artists (including myself) that are hitting up other genres. It's just a matter of looking. Some of these artists go on tours, and in some cases, the netlabel itself sponsors their artists for tours.
So for people who want to seek non corporate tainted music, the netlabel scene is where to look.
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...