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In furtherance of yesterday's plea urging GoDaddy to do the right thing for Maddie, I felt it would be remiss of TheWhippinpost to not equally do the right thing and say, big-up GoDaddy.
GODADDY - MONEY ASIDE: DO THE RIGHT THING FOR MADELEINE
There is something smelly about this - The smell of money.
[UPDATE: GoDaddy did the right thing - Matter closed. Thanks to everyone who got in touch. Bo!]
90 per cent. of musicians are not millionaires—they earn about £15,000 a year from their royalties.
Michael Connarty - Labour MP, Falkirk East.
40,000 musicians and 3,500 record labels (that number seems large, to me) have apparently signed a petition to increase the length of time copyright exists on their art... and by extension, of course, the duration over which royalties are paid.
You'll rarely read posts from me urging you to check out an artist at all costs - In fact, this is the first time I believe. But when I do, you should take it seriously.
If you're reading this before Friday 30th March 07, go to Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 "Listen Again" page and immediately click on the "5 mins" button, four times (to fast-forward 20 minutes into the show).
Completely by chance, I got to meet with the legendary "era-defining" international DJ of house music, Jon Da Silva (Actually, it's Dasilva but you'll most likely see it written on flyers as Da Silva).
Here's a list of Windows Vista-compatible sound cards, as compiled by the good folks at IeXwiki, with comments where appropriate. I've also included what they list as incompatible - but workable - and the just plain incompatible.
On the sleeve-notes to one of Brian Eno's albums (sorry, can't remember which one), I remember reading how he came across an easy trick to achieve an "all-round ambient-type" sound from a stereo recording (and amplifier) by wiring a third rear speaker into a stereo amplifier - Brian Eno, for those that don't know, is regarded as the grandfather of ambient sound.
Create music to fit a specific scene in the upcoming new series of "Skins", and - if you win - have it actually used in the final cut of the TV show to be aired on E4 (sister station to Channel 4, a major UK TV channel, with attitude).
[UPDATE: Just saw it! See below... if you're really interested that is!]
Noneric - AKA Hans - of Digitalmusician.net and his team have been working very hard on their online collaboration software - The Digital Musician Recorder (DM-Recorder) - over the last few months which, I have to say, just looks awesome.
I just happened to bump into the brother of Ian Lewis tonight - Haven't seen him for years. Good catching-up with you again Nige ;)
Anyway, his brother, Ian, runs Whitby Studios (still!) which is based in the UK (Cheshire). Since 2003 they've been offering student placements for those wanting to learn the finer points of audio engineering, in a real working busy studio.
