Noise Cancellation
On February the 10th, Bernhard Fleischmann, beloved Viennese Electronic(a?) fetishist and Morr Music fanboy, released his new album, The Humbucking Coil. I would’ve posted this earlier, as he presented it live on the 9th, but I’m just back in the Metblog business. (Hello there.)
Even if you can’t catch him live before the 10th of March (with Herbert Weixelbaum as Duo505) or 23rd of March, you might still want to listen to the album below.
This blog is not dedicated to reviewing music so I’ll keep my thoughts for myself, but: if you agree with me that the above is a wonderful simple noisy calming almost danceable superkalifragilisticexpialidocious fun and heart warming piece of music (take a deep breath now) by a man who seems like a sweet little boy on stage, then I have good news for you!
I have these Fleischmann/Morr Music stickers to give away - 3 each. Leave a comment plus a way to contact you, as well as three adjectives (I haven’t used) that describe the music from your point of view, and one of these might grace your *insert object of interest* soon.
Adjective away!
YAY for coming back, mister!
By the way, you can have “the rest” of the Kid606 sticker. If you still want it…
I think that …ehm… music isn’t wonderful, maybe it’s simple, for sure it´s noisy, not-calming-at-all and never danceable. But it’s just my opinion.
I also think that I don’t like to see something like “buy MP3s from Bleep” on Metblog’s posts. And that’s something more that just my opinion.
these tracks are tranquil, soothing, dreamy, if you’re in the mood for them. otherwise repetitive, redundant, boring. i may be contacted through the obvious channels, but please don’t.
i’m not sure if i completely agree with umberto about the bleep link. of course their prices are way too high, so they deserve to go out of business and starve to death, in my opinion. but it may well be that the price point is exactly right, and that aside, if they are not evil, i.e. keep only a small cut for themselves and don’t take away too many rights from the artists, it’s a wonderful alternative to the olde record labels and deserves to be promoted.
maybe it should be separated from the rest of the post a little more and marked up as advertisement. maybe that depends on whether bleep is the only place where you can get that music.
one more thing: the mp3 playing widget is sinister. downloading a lo-fi version of the whole song, but fading out every 30 seconds … WTF?
Sean said there’s nothing wrong with the post, Philipp agrees as well.
Bleep is part of Warp Records, and I wouldn’t necessarily call them evil. Anyway, I had two options when making this post, either not write anything, or get some music linked. As I couldn’t find a full version of any song on the album, I thought that’s the best compromise. Alas, the crowd is obviously not very thrilled *shrugs* more stickers for me :)
The label receives 65% of the sales price; and all rights are retained by them. As we work directly with the majority of these labels, much of it is credited straight back to the artist. We are one of the only sites that can boast this.
We [Bleep] even pay MCPS for the label out of our 35% cut.
Regarding the MP3 preview; it is a low quality mono stream designed to load fast and stop anyone having access to the high quality retail version (thus ’stealing’ the music from the artist/label).
Hope this clears some things up,
Ed
there’s nothing wrong with a full-length low quality mono stream; there isn’t anything wrong with a representative 30 second sample in low quality mono either; it was just the schizophrenic middle ground solution that i found weird. it’s like the distributor reaching into my player and pressing the stop button to remind me that it’s not me who has control over this music.
but props for thinking about the arists. i hope this distribution method becomes more popular, in order to achieve 2 goals: firstly, distribute your overhead over more purchases. at the moment, you charge roughly 3 euros for facilitating the download, as a sort of specialised internet service provider, the download of a single album. or 50 euro cents for a single song. it’s much better than any of the flat fee offerings that charge less, but don’t let you own the music you bought. but still … for this kind of money you can manufacture a CD (if it is mass produced, of course, but in the digital realm production numbers don’t impact costs) and ship it to a store. maybe it’s just me, but i’m thinking shuffling a couple of bits to and fro ought to be cheaper.
secondly, if virtually anyone was buying at places like bleep, the artists could sign up with you directly, not through a label. there are so many good ways to find music you like now - last.fm, pandora.com, the whole amazon-ish “people who bought this also bought that” thing, etc. it’s time to cut out the middlemen and -women.