Erol Alkan & Boys Noize - Waves (Chilly Gonzales Piano Remake)

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KATS KARAVAN, THE HISTORY OF JOHN PEEL ON THE RADIO

KATS KARAVAN
THE HISTORY OF JOHN PEEL ON THE RADIO

Featuring Marxman "Fascist Boom"
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Sailing By Night Part 1 by Oisin Lunny on Mixcloud

YAIC panelist and Habbo‘s UK country manager Oisin Lunny answers a few questions on Habbo, the music industry‘s challenges and his tour with U2...

How can you describe Habbo, in a nutshell?
Habbo is a virtual world and social networking environment for teenagers. It's an online hangout where teens can meet up, play games and develop their self-expression.

The core of the Habbo experience is the virtual world or virtual “hotel”, Habbo Hotel. Millions of teenagers meet each other every day in Habbo’s cafés, clubs, at the pool area or in the millions of private rooms created by the Habbos themselves. Currently there are over 60 million user-generated rooms in the different Habbo communities.

What are the key factors behind its success?
Habbo is all about self-expression, it provides teens with a safe environment in which to express themselves creatively. The key to Habbo is social interactivity: meeting other Habbos and having fun together.

What makes it different to other, similar, online environments?
The level of self-expression in Habbo is what sets it apart form other virtual worlds. The Habbo community is always packed with fun events whether it is seasonal events (Christmas, Summer etc.), competitions, celebrity visits etc. In addition to the actual virtual world, all community members have their own Habbo home pages where they can present their virtual life in Habbo. The personal pages are naturally highly customizable and can be used for sharing content, forming different kinds of groups etc. Habbo pages are tightly linked to the virtual world: you can, for example, access users’ own rooms with a click of a button as well as include friend lists and game scores from the community. Habbos can also join different kinds of groups and make group pages for themselves and their friends.

What is your specific role?
As Country Manager I’m responsible for the managing the UK team, the P&L, and day to day operations in the UK. I’m also responsible for strategic marketing partnerships and helping to bring exclusive content in-world such as music and movie celebrities for meet and greets.

What lessons can musicians/music industry learn from a project like Habbo?
Entering a virtual world is all about engagement, it gives acts a chance to speak to their fans in real time and promote their music to a captive teenage audience. Whereas traditional advertising was merely talking at teens, Habbo allows acts to have a deep conversation with their fans and to gauge their feedback on their latest tracks.

What will you be talking about at YAIC?
I will be talking about the Habbo approach to our community, how we listen to and engage with millions of teens, and how we facilitate their activity and creativity. I will also speak about the business models behind Habbo which delivered over €50m in turnover last year.

You work as a musician yourself, is that right?
Indeed, I've worked in the music business for over 20 years. I still have a keen interest in writing and producing music and also DJing from time to time. Having a creative sideline is a good compliment to working in technology, and keeps you energized about both music and technology!

You toured with U2? You must have some great anecdotes!
I was in a band called Marxman on the Talkin' Loud label and we had a LOT of fun doing U2 support gigs like Roundhay Park in Leeds UK (audience of 190,000) and also my hometown of Dublin. Bono is perhaps the king of anecdotes, none of which I can repeat ;-) Around the same time we did Europe with Depeche Mode on the Songs of Faith and Devotion tour, that was an entirely different kettle of fish, full of all night parties and even more unrepeatable anecdotes.

Can you describe your work as Lifeblood?
Lifeblood Productions "Music For All Media" is my own production company for projects such as film and TV music and also remixes, more info can be found at www.lifebloodproductions.co.uk.

Will you be talking about Lifeblood also at YAIC?
I think the aspects of music production I could talk about will be more than familiar to the YAIC attendees, so will keep the presentation on Habbo, new technology opportunities and best practice. Having said that, if anyone wants to know more I would be happy to speak after the presentation.

What are the five main challenges facing the music industry in 2009?
* Teenagers have more interest in engaging with music than ever, and more means of doing so, but in the large part, very little interest in actually buying music in the traditional manner
* The quantity of music content / sites can be overwhelming - so peer recommendation and community is vital - music blogs are a fascinating example of technology facilitating the sheer love of music, but frustratingly these are not monetized
* Industry heavy-handedness with file sharing creates a negative relationship with music lovers - a lose-lose situation. Spotify is a glimpse of the win-win alternative.
* As the industry struggles to maintain existing business models and increasingly niche distribution infrastructure, adoption of new business models can be slow, and can happen too late to make a difference, sadly.
* As Tim O'Reilly wrote in 2002 "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy" - in 2009 this could equally apply to the labels themselves.

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September 09 Podcast

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. . : : A R o o f W i t h A V i e w : : . .

Dear friends, family, and friends of friends....

Time is once again in short supply, so here's a few I made earlier,
if you like, please do buy or Spotify the originals.

:: Mix 1 ::

1. Tomorrow Never Knows / Junior Parker
2. The Winner Is / Danna - DeVotchKa
3. The Keeper Of Secrets / Luke Slott
4. Human / Sol Seppy
5. Body Talk (Part 2) / Wheat
6. Soldier On / Midnight Well
7. Flume / Bon Iver
8. Easier / Grizzly Bear
9. Bye / Elliott Smith
10. Foreshadowed / Harold Budd & Brian Eno
11. Cinematic Orchestra / Evolutions II (remix)
12. I Was Young And Needed The Money / Cut Copy
13. Red On Chrome / Jimmy Behan
14. Missing Link / Stratus
15. Supervitesse Expansemix / Mahogany with Ulrich Schnauss
16. The White Flash (Ft. Thom Yorke) / Modeselektor
17. Archangel / Burial
18. Hold On (Strange Version) / Smith & Mighty
19. Higher Love / Depeche Mode
20 . NYC / Interpol Download MP3

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:: Mix 2 ::

1. Melody (Extrait de Melody Nelson) / Serge Gainsbourg
2. Your Sweet Love / Lee Hazlewood
3. As Long As I've Got You / The Charmels
4. Fridays Child / Them
5. Break Of Dawn & Fly / J.K. & Co.
6. Korea (Dialogue) / Steve Buscemi and Bronson Dudley
7. Earth Moon And Stars / The Starseeds
8. Just My Soul Responding / Smokey Robinson
9. The World We Live In / The Politicians
10. No No No / Dawn Penn
11. My People...Hold On / Eddie Kendricks
12. Free Radicals (A Hallucination Of The Christmas Skeleton Pleading With A Suicide Bomber) / The Flaming Lips
13. Belisama (2e partie) / Belisama
14. The Fly High (Remix) / Fin
15. Freak Out Requiem III / Amon Düül
16. Inside Out / American Gypsy
17. Friends & Countrymen / Wild Bunch
18. Hung Upside Down / Buffalo Springfield
19. Dark Days / DJ Shadow
20. Tulsa Rags / Steward Copeland

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:: Mix 3 ::

1. Melody Day (FourTet Remix) / Caribou featuring Luke Lalonde, Adem & One Little Plane
2. Week-End Du Ski (extract) / Jean-Michel Bernard (The Science Of Sleep OST)
3. Hurdy Gurdy Man / Donovan
4. Hippie, Hippie, Hourrah / Jacques Dutronc
5 . Mr. Farmer / The Seeds
6. Would You Believe What I Say / The Unit
7. Louie Louie / Richard Berry & The Pharaohs
8. Drifting / Claude Huey
9. I Walked Away / Bobby Paris
10. Subway Joe / Joe Bataan
11. One Way Out / Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
12. The Key To My Happiness / The Charades
13. Locked In A Room / The Poets
14. In Love / Tony Galla & The Rising Sons
15. Theres A Ghost In My House / R. Dean Taylor
16. Out Of Our Tree (The Wailers) / The Wailers
17. Starlett Johannson (Connan & The Moccasins Remix) / The Teenagers
18. Program / Silver Apples
19. See Emily Play / Pink Floyd
20. Besasha / Kareem Isaaq & Middle Eastern Rock
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog / The Stooges
22. Golden Frost / The Brian Jonestown Massacre
23. Bubble Burst / Beyond The Wizards Sleeve
24. I'm A Gamekeeper / Thee Headcoats Sect
25. Judy Is A Punk (Original Demo '75) / The Ramones
26. Never Understand / The Jesus and Mary Chain
27. Feelin' / The LA's

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* Come and say hi *

I'll be playing records and the like at Bestival this weekend.
Expect bump and grind dance music from the 1940's onwards
at The Nighcap Club,Time For Tease Arena.
Midnight Friday, Saturday and Sunday
more info / booking here

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I'll also be giving a presentation at this years IMX
You Are In Control conference, Reykjavík, where the theme is:
"The Digital Revolution Shakes the Creative Industries
What's to be Gained, Lost or Learned"
more info here

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* and finally *

"I, like the view, start in the middle and spread out in all directions;

the beginning is too long ago and the end is too far away:

start now . . ."

Chiaroscuro

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Love always,

Oisin x

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Music: www.myspace.com/oisinlunny
Website: www.lifebloodproductions.co.uk
Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/oisinlunny
Business: www.linkedin.com/in/oisinlunny

Blog and podcast archive: www.oisinlunny.com

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If you enjoy the music featured in these promotional mixes please visit a local record shop, somewhere, or iTunes/eMusic
or Amazon/Beatport/Boomkat/LostTunes to download the original tracks and support the artists and labels making it, or maybe you could
find them on the excellent Spotify application. If you are a copyright owner, and would any of these audio snippets removed, just let me know...

Another reason to love... BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

ONE - BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

Midsummer Podcasts 2008 - repost

. : H a p p y S u m m e r S o l s t i c e : .

. . : : t o c e l e b r a t e , s o m e m u s i c : : . .

Dear friends, family, and friends of friends,

Wishing you happiness and everything your heart desires this Summer Solstice.

Enjoy the music.

:: 1 ::

Darryl Hall - The Farther Away I Am
Low - Laser Beam
Jim White - Jailbird
The Sumner Brothers - Pain
Bon Iver - re: Stacks
King Creosote - Nothing Compares To You
Goldfrapp - Not Over Yet
Stephen Stills - Singin Call
The Miserable Rich - Pisshead
Ted Barnes - Caught Out
Satyajit Ray - Charu's Theme
Blonde On Blonde - All Day And All Night
The Millenium - Karmic Dream Sequence Number One
Tom Scott - Today
Bill Wendry - A Wristwatch Band
The Superimposers - Autumn Falls (Instrumental)
Jazziac Sunflowers - Your Eyes Of Love
Roxanne - Roxanne's Suite
Hollace Metzger - Just The Right Volume (extract)
Loose Ends - Feel The Vibe
FC Kahuna - Hayling
The Shortwave Set - The Downer Song
Ashley Slater - Req's Sunshine
Santogold - Your Voice
Earl Zinger - Song 2
The Congos - The Wrong Thing
Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain

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:: 2 ::

Tom Waits - "35 Summers" from Rumble Fish
Jeffree - Mr Fix It
Bettye Lavette - Hey Love
Cannonball Adderly - Capricorn
Gospel Artistics - No Not One
Belita Woods - My Magic Corner
Spaghetti Head - Funky Axe
Funk bootleg
Freddie McCoy - Gimme Some
Aretha Franklin - I Can’t See Myself Leaving You
Paulette Reaves - Let Me Wrap You In My Love
Funk bootleg
Clarence Reid - Till I Get My Share
Eddie Bo - If It's Good For You (It's Good For You)
The Turtles - I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're The Royal Macadamia Nuts)
Brenda George - I Can't Stand It (I Can't Take No More)
Bobby Bland - Gotta Get To Know You
Mongo Santamaria - Cold Sweat
Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads - Googoo Mutt
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
Little Richard - Directly From My Heart
The Millenium - Prelude
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Marco Di Marco - Take Off
Mandrill - Fat City Strut
Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One

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:: 3 ::

Headcleaner - Bootleg Beatpusher
The Flies - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
Tintern Abbey - Vaccum Cleaner
The Gods - Hey Bulldog
Thee Milkshakes - I Need No-one
The Vibrations - Cause You're Mine
Tintern Abbey - Beeside
Garland Green - Angel Baby
The Firestones - Buy Now And Pay Later
The Blue Notes - Hot Chills & Cold Thrills
Stemmons Express - Woman, Lover, Theif
Ohio Players - Love Slipped Through My Fingers
Honeybees - Let's Get Back Together
Lost Soul - Secret Of Mine
Major Lance - It's The Beat
Billy Butler - Right Track
Bob & Earl - Ooh Honey Baby
The Steinways - You've Been Leading Me On
Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Just Brothers - Carlena
The Showstoppers - Ain't Nothin' But A House Party
Major Lance - You Don't Want Me No More
The Checkmates Ltd - Kissing Her And Crying For You
Odds & Ends - Yesterday My Love
Ivorys - Please Stay
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Stop And Get A Hold Of Myself
Marge Dobson - Be Your Baby
Dana Valery - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Ella Fitzgerald - Get Ready
Mongo Santamaria - We Got Latin Soul
Lou Courtney - Me And You Doin The Boogaloo
The Tymes - What Would I Do
Herb Ward - Honest To Goodness
Ritchie Adams - I Can't Escape From You
Sherrys - Put Your Arms Around Me
Just Borthers - Sliced Tomatoes
Firstborn - The Mood Club
Little Richard - I Don't Want To Discuss It
Willie Kendrick - Change Your Ways
Luther Ingram - If It's All The Same To You Babe
Oisin Lunny - Theme for a Northern Soul
Jimmy Mack - My World Is On Fire
Herbert Hunter - I Was Born To Love You
Spyder Turner - I Can't Make It Anymore
Chuck Woods - Seven Days Too Long
L. Allen - Can We Talk It Over
Marie Knight - That's No Way To Treat A Girl
Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By
Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz
Compass - Her Sadness Primer
Tomorrow - Why
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Firstborn featuring Bennan Murphy - Home Movie

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. . : : and finally : : . .

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Some words from "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles:

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well,
yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.

How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood,
some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being
that you can't even conceive of your life without it?

Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?

Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

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Love always,

Oisin x

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If you enjoy the music featured in these promotional mixes please
visit your local record shop or iTunes/eMusic/Beatport to download
the original tracks and support the artists and labels making it :)