Archive for January, 2006

Vive la vida (Dj Colonel)

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Can’t wait till it is summer again … enjoy this track!

Labels don’t like digital radio

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

The entry of satellite and digital radio into the technological mainstream is increasing tension with the record industry, which wants new rules governing how consumers can make digital copies of songs from the airwaves.

At issue are new devices that can record and save high-quality digital copies of tunes as they’re being broadcast by these new […]

Blessed (Xerxes)

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Ambient/Newage style track influenced by Vangelis and Mike Oldfield.
While compiling a nice lounge and ambient copyleft cd, I stumbled on this absolute beauty. I was quiet for a moment. The rest of the cd didn’t have the same quality though but it is still better then paying 20€ for the same quality.

Siloh [v1] (Disconnect)

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Floating away on this track …
This track is a fusion of progressive and tech trance, which seems to be my style as of late. A blend of pulsing pads, funky drums, and techy rhythms. This is the first version. When I get sufficient feedback, I’ll fix anything that’s broken.

iTunes turning into spyware

Friday, January 13th, 2006

There is always something happening these days in the (online) music industry. We have DRM scandals, RIAA sueing everyone, France becoming P2P heaven … But today we have a new scandal and this time it is Apples iTunes

The problem:

Apple’s latest iTunes update, which, by default, switches on the “MiniStore,” an advertising/recommendation section that […]

Lead of Strings - Frozen Dreams 2006 (Lead of Strings)

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Fastly becoming one of my favourite trance-artists. Check out his brand new song (free to download). Who says trance is dead?

Pledge to never buy a DRMed CD ever

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

FreeCulture.org writes
DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community. We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a consequence of poorly thought out technology and the laws that support it.
I’m sorry but I will not do that. DRM is not the root of evil, if […]

Lifesigns (Seaside 78)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Ok, I’ve decided to release this song which I’ve been written for a long-long time, and just finshed last week. I don’t know: I like the ideas and the atmosphere but the lot of things in it making the overall sound so dumb and unbalanced…it cries out for a pro mastering, maybe I’ll send it […]

Eleven (v2) (Disconnect)

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

A mixture between progressive and tech trance. What a track! Copyleft is teh way to go in 2006.

20 mln tracks sold in the last week of 2005

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

In the week between Christmas and the new year, millions of consumers armed with new MP3 players and stacks of gift cards gobbled up almost 20 million tracks from iTunes and other download retailers, Nielsen SoundScan reports. Before the week ending January 1, 2006, the record for the most downloads sold in seven […]