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Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age The internet broke all the rules about music. How we acquire it, how we discover it, how we listen to it...even how we watch it. For over 20 years music journalist Simon Reynolds (Generation Ecstasy, Rip It Up and Start Again) has documented the ever-morphing world of sound...which is now no longer changing as much as blowing apart entirely online. The past is retrievable at a touch, and geographical boundaries are meaningless. In this essay for MTV Iggy, he traces the internet-enabled rise of "xenomania," as it leads to the next frontier, "the future-hunger," of music. Words by Simon Reynolds Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including music, passes. All those Analogue Era deterrents and blockages have now been swept aside by the torrential every-which-way data flows of Web 2.0. Infinite choice + infinitesimal cost = nomadic eclecticism as the default mode for today’s music fan. Sahelsound

MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia Samples.fr Et voilà, le nouveau blog est maintenant en ligne ! En théorie plus de bug de son sur ce nouvel espace… Enjoy ! Le blog tourne au ralenti depuis quelques semaines, pour une bonne et simple raison : je suis entrain de préparer une nouveau blog, plus généraliste, mais toujours axé « samples » … ! Les derniers bugs sur le site suite à la dernière version de WordPress (et son nouveau player audio qui n’est pas compatible avec le player actuellement présent) m’ont poussé à repartir sur du 100% neuf ..! L’idée est également de mettre à jour les articles de samples.fr (avec plus d’infos et d’autres extraits)… Bref, pas mal de nouveautés ! Merci pour vos messages et à bientôt ! • « New Slaves » de Kanye West (2013) • « Gyöngyhajú Lány » d’Omega (1969) Omega est un groupe très populaire en Hongrie (ils détiennent toujours le record de vente pour un album avec Gammapolis) et plutôt productif durant les années 70 et 80. Merci pour vos mails ! Les extraits :

Resonant Frequency: Five Thoughts on Music Scarcity A couple of weeks ago, there was a post on Altered Zones highlighting a track identified only as "AutoTune", a track that had apparently originated somewhere in Niger. The reason the song was identified by country instead of artist, with a title that described the predominant element of the music rather than what it was actually called, is because it was taken from the memory card of a discarded cellphone found on a trip to West Africa, so more precise identification wasn't possible. A number of songs gathered in the same way were assembled onto a cassette release called Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1, put together by the SahelSounds blog, and the origins and details of each are similarly obscure. Most of what we know about these songs from this tape is that someone living in a certain part of the world thought enough of them to put them on their mobiles and, presumably, listen to them. It's not a lot to go on, which is part of the fun.

Lab Electronic Musician's Hangout The Best Cover Songs - The Covers Project Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites From Wired How-To Wiki Have you ever been annoyed that services like Muxtape (which is currently unavailable, thanks to the RIAA), Favtape or other playlist-based music sites don't let you download songs? The better sites offer a link to purchase the songs through the iTunes Store or Amazon.com, but the rest just stream the music. Or is it? In this guide, we'll show you how you can grab just about any file you want by exploring your browser's cache. NOTE: Depending on the copyright applied to the song you're downloading, using this technique may violate the copyright of the content owner. Music resources Why this works When you stream music content from a site, your browser has to download the file and store it for playback. The trick is to find the temporarily stored song file in your browser's cache and then copy it to a more permanent location on your hard drive. Using Firefox The first thing we need to do if find out where Firefox stores its cache. Using Internet Explorer Using Safari

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Bad Cover Versions // The Worst Cover Versions Of All Time, In One Unhelpful Repository Guitar Tuner @ Chordbook.Com The guitar tuner can be put in repeat mode (just click on or off the (R) buttons. So you can here the tunings and tune to them. This page also shows you how to make some common alternative tunings to your guitar. Standard guitar tuning Traditionally used to create a Celtic or ethnic sound, this tuning has been used by many guitarists including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Open C tuning - with the 6th string dropped down to C this gives a big dynamic range to your guitar sound Drop D tuning - dropping the 6th string down to D is a easy way of giving adding an extra dimension to the bass strings where you can easily make octaves Open G tuning is a great tuning for blues guitar work. D minor tuning is a rich minor tuning Open D tuning is a great tuning for blues or slide work This is a variation of a tuning used by guitarist and songwriter John Martyn (he actually uses CFCCGD).

MusicTech - Tutorials and reviews for producers, engineers & recording musicians | MusicTech Le Mellotron música simple para gente complicada. Guitar Scales @ Chordbook.Com This page shows you some common scales on the guitar. You can use the repeat and speed buttons to practice along. blues BLUES The basis of most popular music! chromatic CHROMATIC Fantastic for finger work and again getting you to new keys, chords quickly. diminished 7ths DIMINISHED 7THS A 4 note version of the major arpeggio. dominant 7ths DOMINANT 7THS As these scales start on the 7th degree of the scale usually, you can use them to shift key or get you into a new harmony fast, really good when a track shifts up a semitone or tone. harmonic minor HARMONIC MINOR Both melodic and harmonic minor scales give a dark colour to your improvisations, in particular the harmonic version has an eastern quality which fits nicely into more complex and exotic material. major MAJOR SCALE An essential! major arpeggio melodic minor (ascending) melodic minor (descending) minor MINOR SCALE An essential! minor arpeggio pentatonic (major) pentatonic (minor) whole tone