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50 Year After Abbey Road: Two Worlds Of Music Listening
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With the Beatle's Abbey Road near the top of the charts 50 years after release, MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan explores how older, physical-focused music fans remain the quickest route to high-value, large-scale revenue, as well as, much and how little has changed in the music industry. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry blog Half a century after it first after it first topped the charts, the Beatles’ Abbey Road is back at the summit of the UK charts. With the ...
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The Beatles: Abbey Road
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Abbey Road was the last Beatles album on which all four members recorded together. By the time they gathered to work on their 11th studio album at the Abbey Road Studios between February and August 1969, they had done it all, seen it all and owned virtually everything they ever wanted. In fact, they had become so famous they were detached from the culture they helped start back in '64. Giving up touring in 1966 to become studio cobblers, the ...
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Abbey Road Graduate CloudBounce Closes $250K Seed Round
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HypeBot
Abbey Road Red Incubator graduate CloudBounce, an instant digital audio mastering service, has raised a $250,000 seed round. Investors in this round include UK-based VC Ascension Ventures, and a group of Finnish business angels. CloudBounce offers instant feedback on an audio track using AI. The (artificially) intelligent machine, unlike Shazam or Echo, makes processing decisions based on context and to deliver the most relevant mastering. For example, mastering Pucci’s Tosca would require very different enhancing to Black Sabbath’s War Pigs). ...
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Abbey Road Adds 3 Promising Music Tech Startups To Incubator
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Abbey Road Red, the music tech accelerator based at the iconic Abbey Road Studios has named its latest group of startups. It's the second class for the only music tech incubator in Europe. The latest 3 music tech startups named to the Abbey Road Red accelerator program are: Audio Hunt- an online marketplace and community that gives musicians, engineers, producers and everyone in between access to the greatest audio gear and services on the planet. Users can search the online ...
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Pianist Erik Sondhy releases "Abbey Road Sessions Volume 1" on IndoJazzia Musik
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All About Jazz
Erik Sondhy is a Balinese jazz composer and pianist with a unique voice. In July last year (2015), he realized a childhood dream by spending six hours improvising on a Steinway piano in the world famous Abbey Road studios. He left with enough material for four albums. IndoJazzia Musik, a new label, was tasked with handling the international distribution rights to the first release, Abbey Road Sessions Vol.1. We hear echoes of Fats Waller, Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett and Iiro ...
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Universal Music Group's Abbey Roads Studios Launches Music Tech Incubator
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The Beatles have long since decamped, but their Abbey Road Studios is still very much alive. Last night the UMG owned company launched a new initiative focused on music technology and innovation at an event in the iconic Studio Two. Universal Music Group owned Abbey Road Studios has launched Abbey Road Red, a music tech incubator that it says is the only such program in Europe. Based in the building where such breakthroughs as stereo music were invented, Abbey Road ...
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Google 360 Welcomes Anyone, Anywhere Inside The World-Famous Abbey Road Studios
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HypeBot
If you've had a lifelong dream of seeing where the magic happens within Abbey Road Studios, Google just made it come true. Partnering with Abbey Road Studios to create and compile more than 150 different 360-degree panoramic images, Inside Abbey Road was born. Google introduced Inside Abbey Road to fans around the world in a blog post on Tuesday (April 14th): Throughout the studios you’ll find more than 30 stories, full of anecdotes and facts about the studios, like the ...
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U.K. Govt Steps in to Protect Abbey Road
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All About Jazz
Following speculation over the sale of Abbey Road studios, the U.K. government has listed the building at Grade II, which gives it a protected status. The 1830s villa at No. 3 Abbey Road in north London was given Grade II status based on the historic merit of the studios. The decision, based on advice from the body English Heritage, was confirmed today (Feb. 23) by culture minister Margaret Hodge. EMI, which owns Abbey Road, announced on Sunday (Feb. 21) that ...
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EMI Says Abbey Road Studios NOT for Sale
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Michael Ricci
After nearly a week of public outcry over reports that Abbey Road Studios in London was up for sale, its owner, the financially troubled British record label EMI, has finally spoken. In a statement issued Sunday, EMI denied that the studio was being put on the market but confirmed that it was seeking financial help to save it. In the statement, which raises nearly as many questions as it answers, EMI said it had received an offer for Abbey Road ...
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National Trust Considers Buying Abbey Road Studios
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Michael Ricci
The National Trust, a British preservation charity, has emerged as a possible buyer for Abbey Road Studios in London. A statement on its Web site says that because of an astonishing outpouring of public emotion in response to a suggestion by a BBC radio announcer, the organization would consider buying the complex, where the Beatles recorded most of their music. According to unconfirmed reports, the studios longtime owner, EMI, is entertaining offers to sell it. Its not often that the ...
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