Archive for 'Music'

last.fm vs TechCrunch

Being the heavy user of Last.fm I was a little concerned when techcrunch broke the story that supposably, last.fm had given the RIAA, information pertaining to users who had scrobbled any tracks from the Upcoming and undrealeased U2 album. The fact I can’t stand the rose tinted glasses wearing, Irish Hypocrite is beside the point. Firstly, what got me [...]

Introducing the V-Piano

NAMM was a couple of weeks ago now, and there have been some major announcements in the music industry. Roland have managed to push as many new products onto us as I can ever remember at least over the last 5 Years. The most interesting of which is the newest addtion to the V series [...]

$75,000 – Another Epic Waste of Money.

Whatever happened to commonsense and peoples BS meters. The CopySense Appliance is the only solution that can identify and block illegal sharing of copyrighted files while allowing other legitimate P2P uses to continue.Audible Magic via TorrentFreak So what does the $75,000 network appliance get you, well nothing other than another piece of useless technology attached [...]

Review in 20s: Mike Oldfield – Music of the Spheres [Music]

This is a new one for the reviews section, Music! When you think Mike Oldfield, you think Tubular Bells and The Exorcist. Music of the Spheres is completely different yet very much the same, based on the premise that everything in the universe has a unique sound or vibration. Oldfield has orchestrated a journey by [...]

Confessions of a Serial Soundtrack Collector

It seems no matter how good a film is, the music that goes with the film is always under appreciated, while there are exceptions to the rule we really should pay more attention to the music, it will make or break a film. I don’t really know hoe I ended up collecting soundtracks, but two [...]