Brazilian born Rodrigo Moratto, drops his debut single, Whatever, Whatever on 22ndMarch 2010.
The track has raced up the specialist commercial pop charts, reaching number 10, and now Rodrigo is preparing to unleash his robo-pop assault on UK audiences. Whatever, Whatever is the first single to be taken from his debut album ‘Budz in a Soundrop’, released on 7th June 2010.
Would you like to appear in a video with Icelandic singer jónsi? Are you in East London on the evening of Friday 26th March? If so please respond to this advert via email to jonsi.com@googlemail.com and include: full name, home address, email & telephone number for each person in your group (you are allowed up to 3 persons in a group). The first 50 to respond will be invited to come and appear in the video!
Note: You must be prepared to come dressed as an animal of your choice(!) There will be a prize for the best outfit! By responding to the advert you are agreeing to be filmed and for your image to be used. Successful applicants will be notified by 5pm on Wednesday, March 24th.
2010 Tour
jónsi has teamed up with the stage production company 59 Productions & Phil Eddolls to create the most amazing live show possible for his 2010 ‘Go’ tour. The 59 productions team is creating a cross-artform live stage show which will be an eclectic marriage of film, art installation, theatre performance and live concert. Check out the video below for a look into the live stage show being produced for the tour. From the looks of it, this will be a new kind of concert experience.
Hailing from Ireland, Black Soul Strangers are a four piece melodic pop rock outfit currently making serious noise on the London live scene. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Joy Division, Queens of the Stone Age and Damon Albarn, they release their brand new single ‘THE HAUNTING’ on March 14th through Squeek Records.
This track has rarely been off the stereo at UK Music Jobs towers since it landed on our desk a few weeks ago. Expertly produced it’s a powerful and evocative slice of soul searching that marks the band out as serious contenders for next big thing status.
Mixcloud is a website dedicated to streaming music. The main difference is that they focus on radio content as opposed to individual singles. Put simply, in their words, Mixcloud “helps connect radio content to listeners more effectively”. By hosting radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes in the ‘cloud’ (without software or storage), the audio is available to listen to on-demand and instantly, whereas podcasts require downloading to a hard drive. Uploaded audio is therefore referred to as ‘Cloudcasts’, and saves the owner or listener using slow and restrictive file hosting websites.
Having an efficient and clean uploading process and a strong search function, Mixcloud has the two pronged attack of helping content creators promote and helping listeners discover the audio that they want to hear. I have been using the site myself for nearly a year now, and have found that broadcasting is easy (and free!), and listening and discovering is an enjoyable experience. For more info, check the ‘What is Mixcloud?’ video after the jump…
January saw a “highly productive and optimistic” MIDEM 2010 conference take place in Cannes. The event had kicked off with the “New Models At Work” panel session, with Amanda Palmer speaking about her 2009 self-funded solo album, and her online community of fans. Hal Ritson from The Young Punx added that artists need to “get some emotional contact with [the people listening to their music]” and that music bloggers giving away free downloads should be viewed as the modern equivalent of radio promo. Starting with an inspirational DIY discussion is great, but I’m sure people were looking for other ways to get involved, as each artist’s strategy will be completely different.
Luckily, there was a diverse set of panelists and topics; with video games and mobile device apps being two major industries in the future of music, as well as possible revenue streams for artists, I am glad to see that those topics were of great importance, and even had specific discussion panels (see below). One of the quotes from the ‘Apps’ panel became the most retweeted live posts of the conference… the news that “Shazam #App is selling 300,000 songs a DAY via iTunes”.
UK Music Jobs office radio regulars, We Have Band, have announced the release of their debut album ‘WHB’ on April 5th 2010 through Naive. Before the album they’ll be releasing a new single ‘Divisive’ on March 22nd, which just got its first exclusive play on BBC Radio 1 last week.
Check out the video of their recent single ‘HoneyTrap’ after the jump…
The 2010 BRIT Awards are just around the corner (16th February), and we thought we would hold a little poll to see who our Music Jobs members and blog readers deem worthy of titles in some of the main categories.
What is reactive music? Well, it is music that responds to it’s surrounding environment and manipulates the sound accordingly. A simple example, is whilst playing music through your iPhone, you can effect the sound with different swinging and shaking movements. Essentially, it enables you to remix songs live and create a different recording every time.
RjDj is an iPhone app and web platform operated by the team at Reality Jockey Ltd. They hope to create a buzz around reactive music and turn it into a consumer format. The startup launched its own free app last year that offers an ever-changing variety of tracks and effects. Below is a video explaining some of the options.
Oh the beloved Grammys. Where did it all go wrong? For a start, you have a “Best Alternative Music Album”, which, although it actually has some great and well-deserved nominees in there this year, the title alone makes it sound like it’s something that only sells 200 copies for EMO kids to listen to in their basement. Next… Lady Gaga. Have you actually listened to any of her music? Distictly average, and I’m being kind there. “Ooh, but it’s her style and character too” I hear her fans pout. Well, Roisin Murphy has been doing that for the last decade (including a great performance at Sonar 2008). “Best Electronic / Dance Album”? Let’s not even go there!
Soundcloud is possibly my favourite music website. I use it at least every week for a variety of music purposes. I love the clean feel of the site and the intuitive simple functions. It is such a user-friendly and well evolved website, that it is hard to believe they are just celebrating their 1st birthday. As any kind of musician, label owner, radio / podcast show host and more, Soundcloud is a great way to send and receive music, and it provides an efficient way to distribute, privately or publicly. It is becoming a hugely popular tool, and yet their friendly nature is still seen across the site. In their words, “We’re a few people who moved from Stockholm to Berlin, found some more cool people there and set up a small company to create the best dedicated music site in the world.”
Quick Facts
* SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals that makes sending and receiving music simple and efficient.
* Accounts are accessible to everyone.
* SoundCloud is in use by many of the worlds leading electronic music producers and labels.
* Some people think of SoundCloud as an email application but for music, and with a play button.
* Founded in 2007 by Swedes Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss and based in Berlin–Mitte, Germany.
