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Ever since the advent of rock and roll and the vinyl record explosion in the 50s, record companies - whose business is making money - have been using music in order to meet that aim.

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From Thursday to Saturday last week I was following Andrew Dubber’s tweets from a music industry conference in Finland called Is This It?

The premise of the conference is that it’s a ‘music seminar about music‘, though there was a baffling and conspicuous absence of actual musicians speaking at it. The overall tone, it seemed - as drawn from the various tweeted quotes - was that it was a bunch of music industry people desperately trying to come up with a way to continue ‘business as usual’ - marketing strategies, ways to feed more data to collection agencies to get paid, and the usual crop of should’ve-been-left-in-the-70s ideas involving scantily clad women as a marketing draw. So far, so heinous.

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And the last session was Join and Collaborate - CT did a nice job of setting it up with his facilitator bit, but this was where the Nokia-ness of the session first impressed itself upon the kind of discussion we had.
Everyone immediately assumed we were talking about the corporate world. About using social media in [...]

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Another lil’ interview, that brings together so many of my interests Martyn’s an amazing singer/songwriter, and has been running his own label for over a decade. He’s recently been opening for Ani DiFranco in the States, and has been through so many different parts to his career, from churchy-singer-dude in the 80s, to Sony-signed [...]

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