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Music tastes are strongly driven by social factors. Its tribalism, sub-culturalism and identity. A lot of times the sound itself is interpreted differently based on the genre and social affiliation. That's why a synth pad is considered totally cheesy when Kylie uses it, but the same sound in Aphex or Sizzla comes off cool.

It would seem to suggest that last.fm should work well, but for me it just doesn't seem to. It just keeps saying I would like Autechre.

Researchers found that popular songs were popular and unpopular songs were unpopular, regardless of their quality established by the other group. They also found that as a particular songs' popularity increased, participants selected it more often.

The upshot for markerters: social influence affects decision-making in a market.

New Release

Ghostification

Ghostification

Hi-fi grime/dubstep/dub made from twisted crystalline tech sounds and some of the deepest bass we've heard in awhile. Spacious, funky, and restrained... just make sure your subwoofer is turned up!

Format:12"
Label:Soot
Release Date:June 19,2006




  • Micronomics Festival
    City: Brussels
    Venue:
    Artists(s):
    Text of Lineup: WOENSDAG/MERCREDI/WEDNESDAY 30/04 22:00 lowdjo 24:00 viktor french 02:00 end

    DONDERDAG/JEUDI/THURSDAY 01/05 17:00 la fanfare du commando fête 22:00 rubicub 23:00 nena’s polla 24:00 dubanity 01:30 timeblind 02:30 shaman 04:00 end

    VRIJDAG/VENDREDI/FRIDAY 02/05 22:00 oÂ’tanzz aairbus 23:00 sub-altern 24:00 sublym diagonal 01:30 lysergic 03:00 antz 04:30 end
    Description: WOENSDAG/MERCREDI/WEDNESDAY 30/04 22:00 lowdjo 24:00 viktor french 02:00 end

    DONDERDAG/JEUDI/THURSDAY 01/05 17:00 la fanfare du commando fête 22:00 rubicub 23:00 nena’s polla 24:00 dubanity 01:30 timeblind 02:30 shaman 04:00 end

    VRIJDAG/VENDREDI/FRIDAY 02/05 22:00 oÂ’tanzz aairbus 23:00 sub-altern 24:00 sublym diagonal 01:30 lysergic 03:00 antz 04:30 end

    europe ... its all about hat UTF-8 yo
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    Event Time: May 1, 2008
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  • apple goofs up airport update

    or revert the airport update: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88815&postdays=0&postorder=as...

  • timeblind / geiom / appleblim live in london tonight mar 23 2008

    Nottingham's Deselect transport their audiovisual night to London, putting on an evening of live, bass-heavy electronic ...

  • viel spaß im ausland

    Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser or addict ? (Well that ...
  • Deselect Easter Sunday
    City: London
    Venue: The Salisbury
    Artists(s):
    Text of Lineup: Timeblind, Appleblim, Geoim, Dr Derek F
    Konx-on-Pax, MiJim, vjCoda
    Description: Quality food and films before 8pm. Deselect used to run the awesome Moog in Nottingham with amazing music, vibe and really good food. Alan moved down to London and he's starting now to do some quality things like he used to up north.

    Geoim (skam, city center offices, berkane sol) is also from Nottingham and when I played there he did an absolutely wicked 2step/experimental garage set in about 2003 that convinced me to start messing with those beats. 5 years later and of course we are both into dubstep.

    and Apple"skull disco"blim !

    ok, I'm excited.
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    Event Time: March 23-24, 2008
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  • the age of recording is truly over

    I have a big problem with you (russian) assholes SELLING STOLEN FILES to people. You claim you have the right to sell ...

  • Shawty Lo/Timeblind Blend CB exclusive

    Dev79, the illustrious playboy of Philly put up a Shawty Lo vs. Timeblind blend (that's would be called a mashup in my "elder speak") on centralbooking's blog. It sounds huge, rocks parties. The track is Strategy Decay, which funnily enough was the one track I would have left off of Ghostification but lots of people (like Rupture) have been working it to good effect.  read full...

  • cost of gas in germany : $7.71 per gallon

    Gas (95) is at a national average of €1,397 per litre which comes to about US-$7.71 per US-gallon with current exchange ...
  • I am legend
  • my other blog...
  • jay-z inks deal with iTunes : iLluminati and Apple finally conjoined
  • go obama !
  • how not to get your myspaced hacked
  • Berlin vs. New York Round IV
  • Space is the Place
  • massacres in myanmar
  • For those of you that don't pay attention to the world of finance ...
  • west coast touring
  • TodaysArt / SC Symposium
  • quagmire
  • Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
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Links and things

September 14, 2006, 9:29 am

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

NYC events iCal : anything that looks good.

Berlin events (parties, shows, vernissage, films): subscribe to google calendar / iCal

When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.





comments
  1. RJ http://www.houseofelectronicmusic.com: March 15th, 2008 at 21:03
    Very much appreciate your insight on the DMBResource, great info.

    Rgds!
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  1. erikeeze&shantizze : February 21st, 2008 at 00:02
    you go obama work it
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