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Caught this over at Music ally. I always hated rapidshare and all of these similar site with 10000 ads. Except Sound Cloud

There’s plenty of noise today about file-hosting service Rapidshare apparently providing record labels with details of users accused of uploading pre-release albums to the site.

The labels can then take this IP address data to ISPs to identify the users - with one person already saying he’s been the subject of a police raid after uploading a copy of Metallica’s Death Magnetic to his Rapidshare account a day before its release.

It’s a sign that the music industry is taking the piratical threat posed by sites like Rapidshare seriously, rather than just focusing on P2P. Research indicates that particularly for pre-release leaks, file-hosting sites are increasingly important.

NYpost published an interesting article about the growth of vinyl sales and Best buy trying to catch some market shares…

Vinyl sales grew 15 percent year-over-year in 2007 and 89 percent in 2008, making the 1.9 million vinyl albums purchased last year the most since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. This year is shaping up to be even better, with 670,000 vinyl albums sold through mid-April.

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“Our goal is to occupy as much square footage as possible with music products,” said Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman, whose personal vinyl collection numbers more than 300,000, making it one of the largest private collections in the world.

I doubt this very much so…remeber this guy’s collection

I doubt that I will start buying records at best buy but if this can help the vinyl culture I am all for it.

I lost my old tuner and found this free vst as replacement. Works A1 for elec and acoustic guitar(need a mic for this )!!!!!

http://www.gvst.co.uk/dl070421/GTune.zip

Here is what it looks like, simple but effective:

New joint off the HipHopDX Presents A Crack in the Bridge mixtape, dropping 05.12!!!!!!

Chubb Rock & Wordsmith- Another party joint produced by Strada

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Here is another project to try to generate $$$ in the music business downfall….Corgan says it is to do a work of art out of it but I mean 40$ subscription?????

The latest band to go direct to fans is the Smashing Pumpkins, with mainman Billy Corgan launching a 12-week $40 subscription service for “access to various media updates detailing the creative process within the studio” as he records the band’s next album.

That means exclusive video footage and photos, if you’re wondering, plus music. It specifies a minimum of five studio updates a week, with each being a minimum of five minutes in length - so subscribers will get five hours of audio/video stuff for their $40. Oh, and the whole thing will be turned into an “art film” at the end.

“It is my goal to far exceed the normal docmentary process and use the moment to create something that invokes synchronicity, electricity, and faith into a moment that is ever unfolding,” says Corgan. Yeah, but will it be as good as Siva or Cherub Rock, hmm?

Caught this over at Music Ally

More behind the scene of the video shoot for Old 2 the New ENJOY!!!!!

Off of Wordsmith & Chubb Rock’s “Bridging the Gap” support the album JUNE 16TH

After a series of data loss and freaking bad server problems, I am FINALLY back at it!!!

Sorry for the inconvenience people!

I’ll be gone till next saturday so please bare with me with the lack of updates….only to come back stronger.

Also on Thursday night look out for me on the first row at the :

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Just like you did, I hated and still hate the backstreet boys but I found over on illmuzik.com a post about this nice instrumental of one of their hit song that can really help a lot of producers(pop, r&b…) to understand how crucial is the producer/songwriter relationship.

Here is the instrumental track:

Here is the completed song:

If you were a producer or singer would you have picked that beat by itself??? I doubt it, I would’nt have! Combined with excellent songwritting(for pop music of course!) this song came alive(bad wordplay)…any thoughts?

Caught this over at my man Jim Bond’s Be a Better Producer Blog great tips and logic froma pro….when they really had to engineer a record…

This is a must watch video.  Any time a legendary Engineer/Producer sits down and gives you mixing/recording tips, you listen!

“Before his nineteenth birthday, Andy Johns was working as Eddie Kramer’s second engineer on classic recordings by Jimi Hendrix and many others.  In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has engineered or produced records by artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones to Van Halen and Rod Stewart, whose sales total in excess of 160 millions copies.”

I’ve watched this a million times.  There are a whole bunch of good tips in there.  He even tells you how be got the drum sound for the Led Zeppelin drum break classic “When The Levee Breaks”.