Archive for the ‘music’ Category

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Free music downloads (or not)

April 30, 2007

Thank you Peter Gabriel. You originally brought us a revolution in MTV watchability with your outlandish and advanced for its time music video “Steam” (it won a Grammy for Best Music Video). That was back in the eighties.

Fast forward to today where your love of all things technology continues unabated. You’ve just launched We7.com, a site that lets us download music for free.

But there’s a small catch. When you download music from the site (after registration of course) the MediaGraft engine “grafts” 10 second “highly relevant and pertinent” localised and personalised ads onto the songs. You also give downloaders the ability to choose the type of ads that are attached to songs.

You say it best: “It’s all the fun of sharing – the artist friendly way.”

I wonder what it’s going to sound like:

“Hit me baby one more time”
For all your domination fun adult toys, visit your nearest Master and Slave outlet, Visa and Mastercard welcome.

“It’s a beautiful day…don’t let it get away…”
Check out The Weather Channel for your daily forecast.

“I saw the crescent…you saw the whole of the moon. The whole of the moon…”
Why not take the kids along to the planetarium this weekend for an out of this world experience. Half price for seniors.

“That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spot light, losing my religion…”
The Children of God Gospel Church welcomes all to a special fellowship this Sunday. Bring a friend.

And so on and so forth.

Peter Gabriel, I wish you luck and all that, but I just wonder how it’s going to catch on…

“I’ll be your sledge! Sledge hammer!”
Visit Builder’s Warehouse on Sunday and get 50% off any tool box set. Don’t delay! Stocks are limited.

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The LastFM word on music

April 10, 2007

Although this is not a new development for the Internet, those of us mortals who only recently upgraded to a broadband connection and waved a fond farewell to 56k Telkom badness can now enjoy all the vast and joyful richness the World Wide Internet has to offer.

That being said, I am salivating over LastFM - that music site that learns what music you like. I won’t try to get into the deeper explanation, I’ll leave that up to a friend of mine, Lloyd Gedye, extraordinary writer for the Mail & Guardian who has a jolly good review on his blog at http://isolation.tv. And here it is:

http://isolation.tv/archive/2007/03/27/friends-lend-me-your-ears-a-feature-on-lastfm.aspx

Read, learn, enjoy. It’s broadband music for your starving ears.