Ableton Live 9 release date has been announced for March 5 this year. I’m very excited to get my hands on the push controller as well as the newly redesigned Live.
Particularly interesting will be the Max4Live scene. They are now building this into the highest end Ableton so more people will have their hands on this incredible tool.
Edited: February 18th, 2013
Woah, go check yerself! Ableton Live 9 has just been announced, to be released in 2013.
New improvements include a dedicated controller, Suite includes max for live (YES!) among dozens of other core-usability improvements.
This is major news for the music making community. More to follow
Edited: October 26th, 2012
This week Apple announces their iOS 6 operating system, which will probably be the OS that’s on the iPhone 5. I have been using the OS for a little while now and I noticed an interesting feature in the redesigned iPod app.
Basically when you’re listening to a song that’s part of an album available on the iTunes Music Store a small box appears at the bottom like this:
From there you can click the button and you get offered to complete the rest of the album as if you were in the iTunes Store App.
This is great news for artist selling music. Speaking of, why not check out this rapper’s album, The Aug EP, its sweet, I love The Drive Through!
Edited: September 17th, 2012
I always loved a great cover of a great song, but this time we’re in for something different
Edited: August 8th, 2011
This article originally appeared on ATAM Productions
Back in March of 2011 I first started to try and actively get more Twitter followers. My original plan failed because I wasn’t able to maintain that “Follower Momentum.”
The new plan was to follow possible fans and then hope that they follow me back. It seems obvious then: the more work you do in selecting who you follow, the more success you will have in connecting with true fans. In this article I’m going to explain the prescreening process I went through. Eventually I’ll post my long term results in another update.
Earlier this year I took my Twitter follow count from a meagre 100 or so up to about 360 followers in 24 hours but I spent a lot of time and the quality of my followers was garbage. How did I achieve this and why did I ultimately fail?
Edited: August 4th, 2011
With all the news of hackers, government scandals and widespread corruption, two of the worlds most infamous underground groups, Anonymous and Lulz, announced an official statement.
I’m not completely sure how I feel about this gang; they’re sort of like a new, digital form of ancient pirates. On the other hand, despite their renegade behaviour, it is a natural revolution against government tyranny and corruption as any other revolution has been throughout history. The only difference now is that the computer technology is more vulnerable to attack and more vital to our lives.
The main part of the statement posted is as follows:
Let us tell you what WE find unacceptable:
* Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.
* Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for federal contracts we all know they can’t fulfil.
* Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough so the status quo will never change.
These governments and corporations are our enemy. And we will continue to fight them, with all methods we have at our disposal, and that certainly includes breaking into their websites and exposing their lies.
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
From the full release linked below:
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
Edited: July 23rd, 2011
Let’s be frank here for a minute.
The only reason that I use a hardware email client is for the instant search capabilities that I have.
I was an early adopter of gmail and one of my favourite features was the instant search speed of the google servers. When you wanted to find a key word it would look at a huge number of emails instantly and the search provided relevant results too!
When I started using multiple emails on different domains I quickly needed to find an email client to aggregate multiple accounts and gmail didn’t seem to fit the bill anymore.
My first problem with using an email client became apparent about 3 or 4 months in. I started to experience a slow lag every time I needed to check my email. I don’t like to keep my email client open while I’m working because I find it distracting, and this was in the days before solid state drives!
My new solution is to keep my inbox clear constantly in my email client while keeping my important emails in a folder that isn’t my inbox. The Apple Mail client is smart enough to not fetch these messages until I want to browse that folder, so voila, instant inbox almost all the time!
Edited: June 19th, 2011
I have been looking for a few more ways to improve this site and lately I have added Disqus to handle all the comment and trackbacks for ColdplaySucks, just some mostly under the hood improvements!
Edited: June 17th, 2011
The new box for OS X Lion? Think again, Lion will be digitally distributed only.
As far as I know OS X Lion is coming to the world and Canada on July 22, 2011. The new OS is going to be distributed only on Apple’s internal App Store and will be at the low $30 price point much like the release of Snow Leopard.
Clearly this low price point has worked well for Apple by encouraging early-adoption while simultaneously discouraging piracy. I think that this is not a sustainable price for consumers though, I was recently reading an insightful article about the economics of todays music industry and what is known as the “Long Tail” and how this comes into play with dance music today.
Edited: June 15th, 2011
Let me start off by first warning: This is NOT the real music video for this song/remix.
I have been a big fan of the Skream remix to Cassius’ I Love You So ever since I first heard it a couple months ago. The original is released on the French electronic label Ed Banger (as in “head banger” pronounced by zee French) is very similar in sound yet radically different in style. I’ve been a fan of Justice and Uffie as well but haven’t heard enough other releases to really know for sure if I’m an Ed Banger myself when I listen to their tunes.
Now onto the video, this online re-edit is so perfectly done I can’t believe its not actually for this song. This is actually the video for the song “Luv Delux” by Cinnamon Chasers and was directed in 2009 by Saman Keshavarz.
Someone at Tempa (Skream’s label) should give Keshavarz a call:
Edited: February 28th, 2011