Troubleneck Brothers - Back to the Hip Hop (Stepsun 1994)
Jeru the Damaja - Mental Stamina (Payday 1994)
The Notorious BIG - Thing's done Changed (BadBoy 1994)
Jeru the Damaja - Ain't the Devil Happy (Payday 1994)
Al Tariq - Think Not (Correct 1996)
Jeru the Damaja - Static (Payday 1994)
Al Tariq feat. The God Connection - Spectactular (Correct 1996)
Kurious feat.Casual - What's the Real (Hoppoh/Columbia 1994)
Kurious feat. Sadat X + Mike G (Baja Mix)- A Mansion + A Yacht (Hoppoh/Columbia 1994)
Kurious - Top Notch (Hoppoh/Columbia 1994)
Al Tariq - Do Yo Thang (Correct 1996)
Al Tariq - Gods Connect (Correct 1996)
Size 13 - Second Hand Smoke Mix Listen/Download
Hermitude - Ruffwon (Pasobionic RMX) (Elefant Tracks 2006)
Funkdoobiest -The Funkiest (Epic/IR records/Sony 1993)
Pumpkin and Friends - Rockin It (Enjoy 1983)
New Flesh - Lie Low (Big Dada 2002)
Dj Rob Hanna (Lethal Weapon) - Five Fingers of Death (Rooftop 1988)
Killa Instinct - Media Manslaughta (European Rhyme Records 1993)
K-Delight - Ignorant Beats (Ruf Beats 2001)
Hades - Cannibalistic Act (Underground United/Steal City Records 2008)
Ivens - The Ninth Letter (EcoTone/Obese 2007)
Def Wish Cast - Street Bombing (Basic Equipment/Hydro Funk 2007)
Da Grand Wiz Myme 01 Residential Evil's Mix Listen/Download
Average Aussie Band - Aussie Rap (Powderworks 1983)
Spit Sindicate - The Lost Boys (Obese 2008)
Sleeping Monk - Fulltime Emcee (West Subs Inst.) (Parallax View/Callejero 2003)
Def Wish Cast - Lions Raw (Basic Equipment/Hydro Funk 2007)
Delta - Paper Weight (Atled Records 2002)
Bingethinkers & Scott Burns - Full Rotation (Look Up 2008)
Tycotic feat. Herb - Needs (Asylum Fifty 7 2006)
Sleek the Elte - Basslines (Badfly 2003)
Hermitude - Nightfall's Messenger (Plutonic Lab RMX) (Elefant Traks 2006)
Realistix - Android Funk (Grass is Greener 2004)
Cross Bred Mongrels feat. Trauma - Digital Criminals (Independant/CBM 1999)
Hermitude - Ruffwon (Pasobionic RMX) (Elefant Traks 2006)
Tha Wizid Ov Oz - Myme 01 Avererage Aussie Mix Listen/Download
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Download debate on prime time TV
So there was a program, discussion on downloading and the effect it's having on the music industry and artists (primarily Australian), right now. Nothing new in a world sense, this debate has been going on online, throughout blogs and everywhere from record stores through to the offices of major label record labels for quite some time.
This edition of the SBS program "Insight", appropriately titled "Mi Tunes" was aired last night at 7:30pm. SBS is primarily a channel that focuses on World news, World music, World cinema. Along with ABC, it offers a more global perspective than it's commercial competitors whose programming often appeals to those who don't really like to think that deeply - sensationalist current affair programs, well written but often glossy, cliche ridden drama and comedy programs from the states and a bunch of reality tv programs that are quite frankly shit and a waste of ones life.
So getting back to this discussion on downloading. These are my thoughts on last nights program and the whole debate:
It's a complex issue. It's certainly not as black and white as the draconian inhabitants of major record labels think it is. As far as Hip Hop and club music goes, mixtapes, mixshows and risk taking both in a musical sense and wider perspective, were the foundation for the development of these genres. If anyone has read Frank Broughton and Bill Brewsters excellent book "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life", then they would have seen that record labels when mixtapes were starting out couldn't understand them, their first reaction was to use their might to stop these tapes circulation and existance in every way possible. The same thing is happening with dowloading the only difference is that rather than taking each person who downloads music as opposed to paying for it to court, there is this three strike bullshit. As someone who has a blog, is a freelance writer, deejays and buys records, what infuriates me is these suits have no idea about the deejays role in breaking music still. Worse still if it was up to them, all we would hear is the garbage commercial music that is shoved down our throats everywhere from the mainstream newspapers to You Tube. They're still stuck in the past, spending ridiculous money on acts whose albums for the most part sound like a collection of lucklustre singles rather that a cohesive whole that you actually want to listen to. They promote acts who all look and sound like each other and then wonder why record sales are falling and blame it on downloading. Without the array of cool blogs out there there are a plethora of great artists that would never be known if it wasn't for music lovers putting their music out there. Not whole albums, but a song or two, so that people know about music that often is forgotten, ignored or unknown.
From a deejays perspective - if a track is shared, won't more people then want to see the artist live, won't more people want to go and get their record? Also, it's promotion - a lot of these artists, if it weren't for deejays, if it weren't for blogs, if it weren't for mixtapes, their fanbase would be non existant pretty much. I see a few of the musicians on the show's point of view to a degree, that downloading is taking money out of their pocket. But then at the same time, it would seem that downloading and uploading entire albums would seem to be the problem, not a song or two so that more people can actually check out their music and find about a cool artist they may not have necessarily known about. I didn't hear anything in the discussion about music blogs, so from in that sense, I definitely felt that ground wasn't covered. The debate focussed primarily on the activities of primarily high school teenagers and the effect their activities are having on Australian musicians - that's it. If you're passionate about good music and promoting it, that's what you're concerned with because that's what you do. You also want to see more music from the artists whose music you dig, so you will go and buy their records, tunes online as well as playing music that has not been released on music stores online or wax, music that deejays and music producers often put out there themsleves so that it gets heard! Ollie
This edition of the SBS program "Insight", appropriately titled "Mi Tunes" was aired last night at 7:30pm. SBS is primarily a channel that focuses on World news, World music, World cinema. Along with ABC, it offers a more global perspective than it's commercial competitors whose programming often appeals to those who don't really like to think that deeply - sensationalist current affair programs, well written but often glossy, cliche ridden drama and comedy programs from the states and a bunch of reality tv programs that are quite frankly shit and a waste of ones life.
So getting back to this discussion on downloading. These are my thoughts on last nights program and the whole debate:
It's a complex issue. It's certainly not as black and white as the draconian inhabitants of major record labels think it is. As far as Hip Hop and club music goes, mixtapes, mixshows and risk taking both in a musical sense and wider perspective, were the foundation for the development of these genres. If anyone has read Frank Broughton and Bill Brewsters excellent book "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life", then they would have seen that record labels when mixtapes were starting out couldn't understand them, their first reaction was to use their might to stop these tapes circulation and existance in every way possible. The same thing is happening with dowloading the only difference is that rather than taking each person who downloads music as opposed to paying for it to court, there is this three strike bullshit. As someone who has a blog, is a freelance writer, deejays and buys records, what infuriates me is these suits have no idea about the deejays role in breaking music still. Worse still if it was up to them, all we would hear is the garbage commercial music that is shoved down our throats everywhere from the mainstream newspapers to You Tube. They're still stuck in the past, spending ridiculous money on acts whose albums for the most part sound like a collection of lucklustre singles rather that a cohesive whole that you actually want to listen to. They promote acts who all look and sound like each other and then wonder why record sales are falling and blame it on downloading. Without the array of cool blogs out there there are a plethora of great artists that would never be known if it wasn't for music lovers putting their music out there. Not whole albums, but a song or two, so that people know about music that often is forgotten, ignored or unknown.
From a deejays perspective - if a track is shared, won't more people then want to see the artist live, won't more people want to go and get their record? Also, it's promotion - a lot of these artists, if it weren't for deejays, if it weren't for blogs, if it weren't for mixtapes, their fanbase would be non existant pretty much. I see a few of the musicians on the show's point of view to a degree, that downloading is taking money out of their pocket. But then at the same time, it would seem that downloading and uploading entire albums would seem to be the problem, not a song or two so that more people can actually check out their music and find about a cool artist they may not have necessarily known about. I didn't hear anything in the discussion about music blogs, so from in that sense, I definitely felt that ground wasn't covered. The debate focussed primarily on the activities of primarily high school teenagers and the effect their activities are having on Australian musicians - that's it. If you're passionate about good music and promoting it, that's what you're concerned with because that's what you do. You also want to see more music from the artists whose music you dig, so you will go and buy their records, tunes online as well as playing music that has not been released on music stores online or wax, music that deejays and music producers often put out there themsleves so that it gets heard! Ollie
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