Rosie and Me.

Posted January 31st, 2010 by admin. Comment (1).

The internet is packed with artists trying to hype themselves. Try browsing today’s popular songs on Soundcloud. Most of what you get is made with laptops, beatboxes and a whole lot of social networking. (Anything acoustic is rare.) It took at least three hours, listening to a few hundred (if not thousand) songs and a [...]

An Analog Affair

Posted January 28th, 2010 by admin. Comments (2).

There’s some kind of trend in music these days. And it seems it hit the mainstream hard as of last year: elektronic/analog beats with dreamy, indie vocals. The use of this combination was first noticed by part of the public in The Postal Service, a side project of Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard [...]

You have the right to hear arms.

Posted January 27th, 2010 by admin. Comments (2).

May be the Biggest thing that happened to Soundcloud this week: The Hype Machine is now spotting embedded Soundcloud players. Hypem’s Zoya Feldman already told about it earlier, now it finally happened. This makes The Cloud Player and Soundcloud a killer tool for bloggers. So if you you tend to write about music yourself, you [...]

Pussy and the Mouse.

Posted January 19th, 2010 by admin. Comment (1).

We’ve all been properly introduced to the mash-up phenomenon by now. That one song that is actually two or more songs but blended into one recording (and hopefully well done). People like Girl Talk or 2 Many DJs pushed the genre to it’s limits and frankly, these days you’ll need to make a really really [...]