Posts by Simon Grigg
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are you predicting a downturn from the recession as people spend less on music from having less to spend ?
I think that hit came in the last 12 months figures:
Breaking out total transactions, digital tracks grew 8.3% to nearly 1.16 billion units, which is down from the 26.7% growth the configuration generated in 2008 when that years total was 1.07 billion downloads versus 2007's 844.2 million units.
And I guess the fact that music purchasing has increasingly moved from US$15 albums to US$0.99 tracks kinda buffered it from the worst of the recession. Although the one thing that really hit me, spending time in the US in the depths of the dark part of the downturn was how it didn't seem to deter anyone from the worst aspects of gross over-consumption of anything.
if recorded in some skodie bedroom in dunnerz on a four trak cassette player back in the 80's :)
Heh, what may be the warmest, most comforting and blissful record I own was recorded on cassette in a Chicago bedroom.
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So, read any Bono this New Year? :)
Unfortunately I have.....
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uhhh...not the facebook generation, maybe the corporate licensees ? perhaps he shoulda said bebo generation...
No, because most of those transactions are kids buying tracks from iTunes and other online stores. Single track purchases by fans.
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so has there been a decline in the *ahem* mastering standards of mp3's as producers rush their product out to consumers happy to listen on shit equipment whereby the subtle differences aren't noticeable ?
No I don't think so. that would assume that most producers / artists don't passionately care. They do, and my experience is quite the opposite: the toughest part of making a record is getting the technicians and music makers to stop trying to improve it: Ok, it's good..it doesn't need another mix...can we please release it now..yes I know that you think that the hi-hat will really leap out if you just get that new toy and have a few more days, but please...
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The Facebook generation gets its music for free and doesn't expect to pay for it, and this has helped bring about a musical Dark Age.
So I wonder who's handed over the cash for the 1.55 billion (yes billion) music transactions in the US last year. I get fucked off when I read this sort of doom-laden ill-informed drivel.
When you start to poke around for data, you get a sense of the landscape. According to this U.K. study, artists now make the majority of their money doing live performances
Drivel Pt.2. Perhaps this study could tell me a time when 99% of acts haven't made most if not all of their money from live?
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really...do they still make long player albums on vinyl ?
Vinyl sales are increasing every year..up some 36% in the US in 2009. It's become the delivery medium of cool. Most largish rekkid stores,if you can find them, have vinyl again, and not just in the niche genres, and in increasing quantities.
Vinyl will still be here long after the CD is a distant memory, and I'm doing my bit to ensure that. Most bands in the UK release their singles on 7" again.
The remastered Beatles albums come out sometime this year on 12" plastic and are expected to sell enough quantities to give vinyl another huge boost.
can't really hear the qualitative difference between a 192 mp3, a FLAC and an LP' thing,
I gotta say, 2009 was the year when I did start re-noticing the difference. And enjoying it. The jump from Mp3 to well mastered Cd and then to vinyl is huge, and I'd forgotten, having swamped myself in MP3s like everyone else.
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I recall a show -- Ministry of Sound? -- at the Aotea Centre that was huge. 5000 kids on a weeknight, I think.
Was that the one where Paul Oakenfold headlined and was given something rather nasty as he placed his first tune on the decks and passed out, only to wake after it was over?
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My turnaround on this issue is a 180 since the advent of the mp3
Wanna buy 15,000 12" records..some hardly used...
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I may have been looking on the wrong places, but I get the impression that that sort of...lifestyle?...was fairly slow to catch in here.
You were well and truly looking in the wrong places, Rich. Rave culture spluttered into life here circa '87 and I'd hate to think how many dodgy old XL labeled wave yer glowstick anthems were sold out of Grant Kearney and Sam Hill's Bassline Records between 89-92. By '95 it was winding into something else, most especially the big Lightspeed gigs at Ellerslie as the early ravers grew up a notch.
Go and ask a few 35 year olds about The Brain...
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Espresso Love
except didn't they notoriously spell it Expresso Love from most of their (rather long) life?