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the memespread project. neat.

found this link over at kottke’s.. it’s an interesting post about how this dude jeffrey veen “stopped buying cds and started loving music”. i’ve never heard of metacritic, and upon initial glance, it looks like yet another site that i’ll regularly visit (as if i don’t already consume enough media).. i do, however, slightly disagree with his notion that “labels” are unneccessary… i think that there’s definitely a shift happening — not everyone wants to go out and do the real legwork involved in discovering new music. i think the music mavens out there need a good way to publish their latest finds and playlists.. and then the masses will follow.. ok, i’m just rambling here. i’ll think about this some more, but i’m sleepy. ooo, here’s another interesting post about the music industry, triggered by the whole “grey album” thing that happened a few months ago. mash-up is getting huge. i mean, i’m finding that whenever i play a bootleg at one of my gigs, people really gravitate towards the dancefloor since it’s familiar…

whoohoo! mother’s day gifts at mySimon!

Windows noises, remixed? made entirely in SNDREC32.EXE.. who needs Apple Garage Band anyway?

Interesting… but, if he’s really good, he’ll make a mash-up of David Bowie’s new songs, and win himself a car.

[thanks doug]

so, i heard this piece on NPR about the soundtracks nominated for academy awards like a few months ago, and can’t stop thinking about it for some reason, and today, i bought the soundtracks to both big fish, and cold mountain, as a result..

what was great about this NPR piece was that basically you were sitting with the NPR music critic, Andy Trudeau as he analyzed the music… very engaging.. and as a result, i can’t stop thinking about it (and consequently, bought the cds)..

this is what dan messaged to me while we were both sitting in a meeting today at work.

from the WMC in miami a few weeks ago… i didn’t take nearly enough pictures, but mixed|elements did.. here’s my fav

found at yizzle.com. thanks andy.

NPR did a great April Fools’ piece yesterday about “Portable Zip Codes” — hilarious. Go Postal!

listen here

[thanks doug]

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