Ok ok, I know that many people hate electronic music but the design of the guide to electronic music is great. You see various genres like house, trance and techno on the left side. Clicking a genre leads to a roadmap of subgenres starting in the 70s ending today. You recieve a description of the selected (sub)genre and see the development process over the years. Now, clicking on a subgenre leads to a short article about it and various tracks that let you experience the genre.

Categories: Cool

Jamendo is a community website that lets you discover a growing collection of currently 1010 free music albums released under Creative Commons using latest p2p technology.That´s right, you are free to download everything using bittorrent. But that´s not all Jamendo is about. They have a very active community that reviews albums, rates and tags them and offers personal recommendations.

Categories: Cool, Music and Video

Until now I´ve heard a lot about the music service pandora offers but I never happened to test the service myself. Well, I tried it today and have to say that the concept itself is fantastic. You tell them a song or artist that you like and the service tries to find similar artists using characteristics of the artist or song. So, if you enter The Beatles for instance you will be connected to a radio that plays music that offers the same characteristics as the Beatles.

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That´s at least what the RIAA is saying according to an article posted at the electronic frontier foundations deeplinks subsite.

Categories: Music Industry

If you are one of the people who download music from MySpace this little hack might be just for you. Everytime you look at a band profile a music player loads and starts playing the first tune of a maximum of four tunes. You can listen to all of them but download only some, sometimes you can´t download any.

Categories: Knowledge

The 50 best music videos of 2005 features 50 music videos with links to the videos. I´am not sure how the author selected them because there is no information whatsoever about the selection. Only 50 entries neatly sorted from 1 to 50.

Categories: Cool

Good news for the first real post on the new server. It seems that more and more artists are beginning to take a stance against the practice of major music industry players like Sony BMG. Well known bands like Foo Fighters and The Dave Matthew´s Band already spoke out against selling copy protected music CDs to consumers.

Categories: Music Industry

I wrote an article about living without the music industry a month ago. In this article I added some good sites that offered free musik downloads. Lots of people replied to this article and added more sites that they used to get free music. Free, meaning free of charges and free to download without breaking the law.

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry

Well this is no big news to the internet community. We, more than everyone else, are keen on using new media devices and like to be among the first when it comes to technology in general. A survey among canadian music retailers now found out what we actually now for a very long time: Copy protection is bad for business. Customers are more frequently than before returning cds which they could not play in their personal computer or copy to their mobile player. Retailers also observe that customers tend to put cds down when they spot the copy protected logo.

Categories: Advice, Music and Video, Music Industry