Doctorow: “Streaming will never stop downloading”
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
“…there’s no reason to believe that people will lose the urge to collect music.”
“Streaming is an implausible and inefficient use of wireless bandwidth.”
“Why would we voluntarily increase our reliance on expensive, scarce wireless bandwidth delivered by abusive thugs when we are awash in cheap, commodity storage that grows cheaper every day and which we can buy from hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of retailers?”
“The more we pretend that there is a technical possibility of designing a downloader that can’t save its files, the more incentive we create for legal and technological systems that attempt to make this come true.”
I get all his arguments, and I agree with them in theory. The thing is, for me, none of them have ever really mattered. The reason I don’t use streaming music services is because they don’t seem to make any sense to me. I’m never quite sure what to listen to, because without a library of music that I’ve spent time acquiring staring me in the face, I don’t have any cues to prompt me as to what to listen to.
It’s not so much that I like to “collect” music as much as I need to in order to remember to go back and listen to it.
Streaming will never stop downloading
Cory Doctorow
guardian.co.uk
Sen Zimnej Noci by Strom Noir
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
“Strom Noir creates beautiful ethereal guitar drones adding detail with field recordings and other sounds and is essential for fans of Beautumn and Sleepy Town Manufacture.”
Mit Ohne by Steinbrüchel
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
You should download this record!
Mit Ohne by Steinbrüchel on eMusic.com (7 downloads)
Mit Ohne by Steinbrüchel on Amazon.com (7 tracks for $6.93 USD)
Retold by Nest
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
A few weeks back, a package arrived from Wales containing a nicely crafted disc of music from Nest, which consists of Otto Totland from Deaf Center and Huw Roberts, who runs Serein. It will be released January 31, 2010, and it is definitely worth picking up.
Janek Schaefer / Stephan Mathieu – Fifty Inner Spaces (for JG Ballard) / Girl
Posted on | December 3, 2009 | No Comments
“Crónica is very proud to present its forty-seventh release, a very special split 5″ vinyl by Janek Schaefer and Stephan Mathieu in a limited lathed edition of 50 numbered cuts. All of the discs in this release are unique originals, with different audio content, packaged in 50 original covers.”
Deaf Raven
Posted on | December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Have some music you’d like to have heard? The new Deaf Raven label is accepting submissions.
“DEAF RAVEN is a two-body operated independent music collective based in New York & Atlanta, Georgia. Launched in late 2009, DEAF RAVEN focuses on getting sounds heard by the wide array of talent in the outer-limits of music & audible art: such as ambient, drone, electronica, noise, shoegaze, experimental & the avant garde. Although vinyl releases are planned for the future, our releases will consist of packaged silver CD’s, 320kbps mp3/aac, & FLAC formats. We look forward to bringing a whole new light to the new & unknown sounds of the underground available for listening.”
“My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement”
Posted on | December 2, 2009 | No Comments
Here’s an interesting article from a fellow trying to figure out how much money his old band makes on digital downloads.
“There’s a theory that labels and publishers deliberately avoid creating the transparent accounting systems today’s technology enables. Because accurately accounting to my silly little band would mean accurately accounting to the less silly bands that are recouped, and paying them more money as a result.”
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement – Toomuchjoy.com
Home Normal and Arctic Circle present: The Boats
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | No Comments
The fine folks at Home Normal present The Boats, an evening of music from The Boats, Danny Norbury, Ian Hawgood, Konntinent, Isnaj Dui, and Simon Scott. Looks very nice, and if you’re in or around London on December 20th, it definitely seems worth your time.
Dustland by Gentleman Losers
Posted on | November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Dustland by Gentleman Losers on eMusic.com
Docile by Peter Broderick
Posted on | November 13, 2009 | No Comments
Docile by Peter Broderick on eMusic.com
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