When the web touches an industry it disrupts and then absorbs it, to paraphrase Kevin Kelly. One of the first it touched, disrupted and absorbed was the music industry, so it is interesting to return to it from time to time to find out how it has adapted. A recent In Business podcast did just…… Continue reading Music business in flux (still)
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Welcome to Mars: electronica/documentary hybrid
One of my favourite things that I have – at least digitally – is a podcast series in twelve parts called Welcome to Mars. A work of pure genius, it combines a series of unscripted monologues by Ken Hollings with some giddying, insanely inspired synth music by Simon James. It says it is about “the…… Continue reading Welcome to Mars: electronica/documentary hybrid
Tony’s Top Twenty Tracks for 2008
I think we’re past the point where you can do reviews of 2008 (look forward, chaps, forward) but for the sake of posterity I’m posting my top 20 most listened to tracks of that year, according to Last.fm… So, basically, a big year (in my head) for M83. Burial, Crystal Castles, Santogold and The National…… Continue reading Tony’s Top Twenty Tracks for 2008