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Matador's Patrick Amory Shares "What is Working?"

Source: HypeBot
January 15, 2009

In conjunction with US. independent music trade group A2IM (American Association Of Independent Music), Hypebot has been asking indie professionals: In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your artists build an audience?

Today Patrick Amory of seminal indie label Matador (Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Chavez, Pavement) shares the strategies that are working for him:

Remix 2.0: Mixmatchmusic Acquires Mix2r

Source: HypeBot
January 15, 2009

MixMatchMusic has acquired Mix2r. MixMatchMusic enables musicians and fans to collaborate on music and features a library of 2500 songs stems. Mix2r adds a large community of electronica artists who have uploaded songs and stems and allowed others to create derivative works.

Encouraging outsiders to ivolved in the creative process is perhaps the deepest form of fan engagement. Using both full songs and stems of guitar, bass, drums, keys and other instruments as the building blocks of new songs, the ...

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MP3 Format Moving to 5.1-Channel Sound

Source: PC Magazine
January 15, 2009

While electronics titans like Sony and Samsung have massive booths and endless product lines to flaunt at CES, Fraunhofer's booth was tucked away modestly into the North Hall. There is nothing modest about the company's technological achievements, however – the Fraunhofer Institute is responsible for developing the now ubiquitous MP3 codec, as well as the AAC codec used by Apple in its iTunes Store. PCMag was treated to a demo – inside a 5.1-equipped car parked on Fraunhofer's booth square ...

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Wireless 4G Coming to Europe in 2010

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Even as telecom carriers in North America work on rolling out their 3G networks nationwide, Europe seems to be ready to take the next step.

European wireless service provider TeliaSonera says its plans to have commercial roll out of 4G in Stockholm and Oslo in 2010.

TeliaSoneras goal is to be one of the first operators in the world to launch 4G, says the company. TeliaSonera has chosen Ericsson for the initial 4G city network in Stockholm and Huawei for ...

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Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

In a letter to Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are “more complex than I originally thought."

In the note, Jobs promised to return to Apple in the summer, which many are hoping is true. “Apple won't be the same w/o his creative leadership," tweeted Heredes. “Praying for your health, Steve."

But Jobs' letter contradicts a statement the CEO published just last week, in which he said he was ...

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Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave from Apple

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2009

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said today that he would take a medical leave from the company after learning that his “health-related issues are more complex" than first believed.

Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, will take over Jobs' duties until the end of June, when Jobs expects to return from his leave.

Jobs, 53, disclosed last week that he was dealing with a hormone imbalance that caused him to lose weight. A survivor of pancreatic cancer, he said he ...

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Disc Shelf: A Place to Release Albums Online

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2009

Recently a service for musicians was opened. The service is called Disc Shelf and allows musicians to upload their music and present it to their listeners in form of albums: singles, EPs, LPs, promo discs and WIPs (work in progress). Each album receives a unique URL for distribution.

The whole idea of the project is to have works online that would have no ratings, comments, no weird menus and without it looking like a web page. Instead, it looks more ...

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Slicethepie Launches Anonymous Song Test

Source: HypeBot
January 14, 2009

UPDATE: SoundOut is now live.

Fan to band financing site Slicethepie is launching a new service aimed at labels and artists that want to a test a song prior to release. Dubbed SoundOut, for $20 to $50 users can upload a song and have it rated anonymously by Slicethepie users.

“The way it works now is that the A&R department establish between themselves which artists they're interested in," Slicethepie founder David Courtier-Dutton told Epicenter. “Once they've spent a couple hundred ...

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