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02.17.11New music video from PhilterI was kindly allowed to use music from Philter on some of my latest time lapse experiments. Magnus Gangstad, the man behind Philter is working on his new album. And has just released his latest music video on Vimeo. The album is due in May. This sounds (and looks) promising. ...and a scary touch in the end... Philter - Revolver (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) from Philter on Vimeo.
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06.04.08Free music for your productionsRecently I asked my twitter friends if they had any favourite places for finding music that can be used in podcasts and productions on the internet. Here's the result: Jamendo About 10 000 albums. Lots of creative commons licensed. Modern design. Pretty good search and useful tag cloud. Owlmm Fantastic search engine that you can feed with some of your own music to let it find similar music. And narrow your search to give Creative Commons licensed music. Podsafeaudio Lots of creative commons licensed music. Podsafe music from Uhørt Lots of creative commons licensed music and even soundtracks. Update: Wikimedia Commons Large archive of images, video and audio. And of course a ...
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09.21.07Missing a marketing opportunityEMI is my favorite record company. They got that position when they stopped using DRM on their music back in April. The marketing value of that move was probably worth millions. Yesterday I did a presentation for the nice people at EMI Norway and during my preparation I did a Google search for "buy high quality music". And guess what. The EMI press release about leaving DRM in iTunes is hit number one. The press release was linked to from thousands of web sites. The page with the press release has Google Page Rank 7 while the home page of EMI Music ...
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03.26.07A quick story on music marketingIt's sunday evening and I am sitting here, making a presentation for Microsoft(!). While listening to Silversun Pickups. Because Mike Arrington broke copyright law and wrote this. So I learned about this excellent band. More than 300 000 people subscribe to Mr. Arrington's feed. And here is Techcrunch compared to MTV. But that's on the internet. And MTV has a huge network of television channels. And MTV don't want to reach me, they want to reach young pleople. I'm 36. Rock on! I planned to end the post there, but people that don't know me would think that I actually mean ...
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01.27.07Pump Audio – a truly fantastic toolI am going to do a presentation about new media for Universal Music in a couple of weeks. I'll have to ask them some questions about what I bring up in this article... So you want a huge selection of music for your professional productions? Not stock music but something from quality artists. Uncompressed and with no DRM. Cheap and with a simple license model? And you want a fantastic search tool for all that music? And help when filling in the cue sheets? And updates to your library as new music is released? Look no further. I have found the ...