Posts by Peter Darlington
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Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Spotify has been a massive bonus for us at AudioCulture as it allows us to embed whole albums on pages for visitors to dig into. Added to that is Recorded Music NZ's drive to get all (as in everything ever released, at least by the bigger labels) New Zealand albums online over time, which is rather incredible (the chance of prototype early teen hearthrob Ronnie Sundin's cool 1960 album getting reissue any other way is zero but we will have it in a week or two thanks to Spotify and RMNZ).
Hmm, yes that does sound great. I'm also annoyed when people post Spotify playlists online that I'd quite to jump into for a look.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to bob daktari,
why is that? - its another wonderful tool for the music nerd and casual listener
Probably a "not enough hours in the day" issue as much as anything. Competing against vinyl, my local, owned digital repository, radio streaming, soundcloud, bandcamp, mixcloud etc... I may have hit the wall.
Have you gone for Premium as those pop up ads are pretty annoying on the Free package my kids use?
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I've still never run up a session of Spotify. I suspect I'd like the social aspects but the rest of it just plain leaves me cold.
Also, big ups to Daft Punk. To get on that biggest selling artists list is a hell of an achievement for a couple of (mainly) anonymous French dance music producers. They've been 'big' for quite a while so it's easy to forget how unlikely their background was in terms of future success. I wonder how much the fact that they could both actually play musical instruments helped them, in terms of their ability to build extra layers into their music, gain a pop understanding etc...
2. "Hero" by Frank Ocean, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Diplo
Great choice Robyn, love this too.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to George Darroch,
Thank you for filling the 2011-2015 PAS Skrillrex quota.
:-)
I'd have to be honest and say that it's mainly the Ragga Twins that does that tune for me. Although the video is fun too. -
Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I do quite like this one ...
Me too. Just proves that there's probably nothing that can't be improved by a little Jamaican ruffness.
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We don't have enough Skrillex on the PAS music pages.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to bob daktari,
I don't think ya average music consumer/listener cares about the things Neil does... and the vast majority don't know who he is either... now if Dr Dre was behind it maybe people would be happy to shell out a big bunch of money on a music only player.
Yeh my first thoughts were, digital music service for old white people.
However, I agree with Russell that we've reached the point where we should be doing a little better with better quality audio. Most of the services I use offer lossless options now but I just haven't got my crap together to start using them. I definitely have that worry that lossless might make my 80GB of MP3's sound just a little bit, er, shit.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. It would have been May 1994 when I hooked up the first public library computer in the Nelson/Tasman region to the Internet. We used Telecom Learning Link (remember that?) initially and then moved fairly quickly to Planet Nelson run by the anarchic and lovely Chris O'Donoghue.
I remember the feeling at the time that this was big stuff and 20 years on it really feels like the whole world changed from that moment.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Both sides of…, in reply to davesparks,
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
Well played.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Russell Brown,
.. ‘Hooligan 69’ …
you lucky bastard …
You'd have loved them. They also gave it heaps on this one ...
So jealous. Reggae owes me money really arrived like a gunshot, takng dancehall/ragga to a whole new level. It was like reggae from outer space and I guess was referencing the underground stuff happening in London that would become breaks and jungle but at the time I'd never heard anything like it.
The first time I heard it would have been 1991(?) on a late night mid week show on Radio Active. I was down Cuba St the next day to grab my vinyl copy and it's been a treasured possession ever since. I think that Radio Active show played a tune off it every week for months. Good times.