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Lawson/Dodds/Wood album… release is nigh. :)

August 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’ve finally heard the proper mixed ‘n’ mastered version of the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album. It sounds amazing - Patrick has done an incredible job both of the editing and mixing mastering.
In case you missed it, Lawson/Dodds/Wood is a trio that came out of my Recycle Collective project (which is currently on a temporary hiatus). I’d played […]

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It pains me to say it, but Billy Bragg couldn’t be more wrong…

July 26th, 2008 · 9 Comments

…And here was me hoping that the arguments over ‘flat license fees’ for music online were going away and people realised it was largely unworkable. Gerd Leonhard has been pushing this for a while as the answer - Gerd is a futurist, and as I’ve said before, he approaches the industry with the characteristic fatalism […]

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Social Media Thoughts 5: Sharing the Love pt 1 - fans.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you listened to the podcast I’ve been talking about in the last couple of posts, you’ll know that one of the things I’ve been thinking about of late is how Social Media lets the story of what we do and why we do it be told in as many ways as there are people […]

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Review - And Nothing But The Bass (No Warning e-zine)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

“And nothing but the bass! No, don’t be afraid, you are not likely to get bored just because a single instrument takes the spotlight in this recording; in fact you will have the opportunity to discover a new world of sounds and colours conjured up by the intelligent use of the bass, which is perhaps […]

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Thoughts and Questions on Originality.

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Been having some fantastic conversations with creative people of late on the subject of originality. It’s a subject that seems to lead to wildly different comments and responses from creative people, but rather too often seems to become deified or fetishised to the detriment of the resultant art.
With solo bass being such a niche musical […]

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Some thoughts on ‘Free’ methodology and practice…

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s the big buzz-concept in the online world - the new currency is attention, recorded music can be duplicated at zero cost, so we should all give it away in order to promote ourselves as a brand, and the caveat often added to this is that we make our money off live shows.
OK, let’s contrast […]

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Downloading made easy, the Reverb Nation Widget way!

April 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but you can download all of Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Pt II from the widget below. It’s a four step process, as follows:
1. click the word ’songs’ at the top of the widget.
2. click on ‘What Was Going On’
3. put your email address into […]

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Two free albums for you to download!

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Oh yes, you read that right, TWO delicious free albums - volumes one and two in the ‘Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline’ series.
Part 1 can be had from Last.fm by clicking here
And for Part 2, you have to go to my Reverb Nation Page - and sign up for the mailing list there, then […]

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Creativity and Socially Networked Marketing - the good and the bad.

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

So much is being written about the egalitarian nature of online distribution, it would be easy to believe that all our worries as wannabe professional musicians are now over. We all know that we can get a myspace page and a facebook music page, a reverbnation widget and a last.fm page, just like the big […]

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Managing Information Streams Pt 2 - Twitter!

March 10th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Thanks so much for all the comments and feedback about the first Managing Information Streams post. Some GREAT stuff in the comments there.
I want to follow that up with what is fast becoming my favourite web-filter, and will hopefully become my primary interface with my network - Twitter.
The tech media has been full of articles […]

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