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Coole DJs tragen Schiesser
25/05/2010 / Jonas Morea
Vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr musste mit Schiesser der Unterwäschehersteller schlechthin Insolvenz anmelden. Ein Jahr später hat sich Unternehmen ein wenig erholt, und dank des nun schon sieben Monate dauernden Winters ist der Bedarf an Wärmendem für drunter extrem groß gewesen.
Zusammen mit Innervisions ist nun der zweite der Teil der Kooperations-Shirt-Reihe, das Ludwig-Shirt, in modifizierter Form erschienen. Nach rosé beim letzten Mal ist nun anthrazit die Farbe der Stunde und man hat sich etwas besonderes einfallen lassen: Zunächst wurden die Originalknöpfe entfernt, dann haben sich Dixon und Kristian Beyer von Âme bei Knopf Paul als Sortierer betätigt und neue Knöpfe ausgesucht, womit jedes Shirt nun ein Unikat ist.
Das Innervisions X Schiesser gibt es für 35 EUR im Innervisions Webshop zu kaufen.
source www.minblog.net
Mobile phones last resort to buy music
21/05/2010 /
Mobile phones are apparently the last place users will purchase music says a new report from ComScore.
Less than 2% of mobile users actually download music, which means that the mobile music market has a long way to go before they can start turning a real profit.
Contrary to seeing young kids blaring music through their phones down the street, most people listening to music on their mobile phones (24%) get their music from a computer.
Since iTunes stranglehold on the mobile/internet music market for the last decade, Nokia and Spotfiy have both launched their own services in order to break up the iTunes monopoly, mostly unsuccessful until now. Nokia, with its Comes With Music and Spotify both launching in late 2008.
11% of people owned a MP3 player in 2005, but most people remain brand loyal to iTunes and Apple, with a 28% share -1.2 million people across those five countries downloading music from their site.
This is only the beginning of the mobile music market, other start ups like Beyond Oblivion which News Corp. just took over will hopefully help change the whole dynamic of the industry.
(ComScore's data was gathered from users aged 13 and over in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States.)
Sources:
http://kn.theiet.org/news/may10/mobiledownloads.cfm
Ari Stein
source www.electronicbeats.net
ONES TO WATCH - Blondes
19/05/2010 / Ari Stein
The Big Apple hasn’t had anything to shout about for a while; instead it has been following the long tailcoats of London’s constantly evolving scene for the last few years.
But a new duo called Blondes has emerged through the cracks of the city’s steamy subways and overcrowded streets looking to change all that. New to most but surely not for long, the two make hedonistic, gothic disco if one can call it that.
In the space of twelve months, Blondes have not only scored a deal with Merok (the label behind Crystal Castles & Esser initial success) but have also caught the deep intense gaze of arty-disco lovers everywhere. Both Zach Steinman and Sam Haar have crisscrossed across the world, meeting in Ohio at Oberlin College where Tortoise and Beach House first met, then temporarily living in Berlin and then finally setting up shop in New York.
The music Blondes make seems quite improvisational and spontaneous, which is why it sounds quite refreshing. Their lead single Spanish Fly (an intense medieval poison) roams around the cosmic underground similar to London’s Hounds of Hate and New York’s Gavin Russom - subtle keys, long drawn out melodies of epic proportion, ending on a more comfortable ambient note. Songs like ‘Moondance’ meander for over 10 minutes or so, but I enjoy the zone out quality to it, quite like I embraced the brilliance of White Rainbow.
Pitchfork described them as “Giorgio Moroder synth workouts and Boards of Canada wispiness”. I’d rather call it Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark raiding Todd Terje’s vinyl collection.
There really isn’t that much Blondes music out there, but they seem to have already caught the attention of the bewildering chameleon superstar Tiesto. Yes, they are opening for him on one of his U.S. dates. Amongst that, they also have done a great remix for John Talabot.
Blondes debut EP Touched will be out on Big Pink’s Milo Cordell run label on the 28th of June. You can download Spanish Fly right here.
source www.minblog.net
China, the future of music?
18/05/2010 /
Brighton,UK recently hosted the mammoth music industry showcase, The Great Escape, better known as the SXSW of Europe. The Great Escape brings hundreds of new acts to the UK's shores with the hope of exposing themselves to the right people.
With that in mind, plenty of debates and discussion was taking place at the festival, one in particular that held alot of interest for people, was the potential of music industry in China.
Ian Hogarth, founder of Songkick, winner of the Brit Council's UK Young Music Entrepreneur Award
For a long time China held no persuasion in the west for the music business, but only until recently with the enormous expansion of the markets, a population of 1 billion people and industrial growth has the west really noticed China's potential as a huge market for the music industry.
The British council as part of the Brit Council′s UK Young Music Entrepreneur Award chose five new entrepreneurs as finalists. The following present participants at the TGE were, Nikhil Shah from Mix cloud; Karen Piper from Radar Maker; Storme Whitby-Grubb from Little Touring Ltd and Ian Hogarth from Songkick.
Whilst there are still only a mere, 5000 shows a year in China, Ian Hogarth who was eventually chosen as the winner of the entrepreneur award with £5000 had these inspiring words to say about the future potential of China's industry.
"China's nascent music industry has leapfrogged that of the West. In China recorded music is a promotional loss leader, deals are 360 degree by default, and live and online are the core growth areas of the industry. Songkick plays at the intersection of live music and the web, helping fans to track their favourite artists and never miss an amazing concert, so China is a place for us to learn, and a place to grow"
We are all aware of the ever-present red tape surrounding China and its creative industries. Google left China only this year because of that same problem; also Bob Dylan was denied a visa because of his risky threat as a performer in the country.
What remains clear is the potential, "nearly 40% of Asian youth are listening to even more music than they were a year ago, according to Synovate Music Matters Survey, and there are more than 300 million broadband internet users in China - a 42% increase in only two years, as cited by China Internet Network Info Center."
source www.electronicbeats.de
Unglaubliche Kronleuchter von Hans van Bentem
15/05/2010 / Anja Base
Hans van Bentem kreiert die eindrucksvollsten Kronleuchter, die uns jemals aufgefallen sind. Zugegebenermaßen haben wir noch nicht viele Arbeiten von Kronleuchter-Künstlern gesehen, doch wir sind uns sicher, dass wir hier jemanden haben, der sein Handwerk wirklich versteht.
Diejenigen unter euch, die gerade um die 20.000 Euro herumliegen haben, können sich ja mal überlegen, ob sie das Geld nicht in einen von van Bemtems umwerfenden Kronleuchter investieren wollen. Seine Kristall-Lichtfiguren haben unterschiedliche Designs. Gegenwärtige Werke stellen einen Vogel, Totenkopf, ein Flugzeug, eine Gitarre oder auch gerne mal einen Penis dar.
Die Motive sind wirklich beeindruckend und passen perfekt in jedes Haus, welches Dimensionen wie etwa Madonnas Unterkünfte umfasst, die neulich einen Leuchter in Form eines Revolvers erwarb.
Hans van Bentem ist ein niederländischer Künstler. Mehr Informationen über seine Kronleuchter und aktuelle Projekte findet ihr unter hansvanbentem.nl.
