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Re: Six digital music pioneers

Brian Sexton — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:46:41 -0000

Where is Trent Reznor????
He made an online ARG to promote him album...
He put USB's in the bathrooms at concerts...
He came up with the Radiohead idea, but didn't have the album ready before Radiohead...
He released the Saul Williams record online.
He was one of the first major artists to split from his record label deliberately
He deserves some credit, in my opinion he single-handedly started this new revolution.

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Gerard McGarry — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:59:46 -0000

Kylie Konnect? Are you serious? Dated naming conventions aside, I signed up for that service and it's nothing like a social networking site. All the standard features you'd expect to find are missing. The design is actually worse than MySpace and it's completely unintuitive.

I could launch a better social networking service with my eyes closed!

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monica — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:03:49 -0000

Trent Reznor is definetly my fave!

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Patrick — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:18:51 -0000

New Orleans electro-rock group MUTEMATH has gained most of their popularity soley through internet buzz from MySpace and PureVolume and have now sold more than 70,000 copies of their debut album and 30,000 copies of their debut EP. The group spent their first three years together video blogging their shows and streaming their music on the web before their debut release was finally picked up by Warner Bros in a unique deal that allows the group to retain all publishing rights to their music.

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my music blog — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:32:37 -0000

a very good article though there are many people have been missed out. maybe you should need to create another list..a comprehensive and detailed one. but really, this is a great read!

Re: Six digital music pioneers

Angry Dave — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:25:41 -0000

Obviously a list compiled by someone who doesn't know their arse from their elbow.
How an earth did you neglect to include Trent Reznor on your 'list'?

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Alex — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:08:06 -0000

I'm missing Chris Huelsbeck

He composed and arranged many soundtracks for C64 and AMIGA games
e.g. Turrican II (which is one of his greatest work in my opinion) - outstanding music on a device where anyone couldn't believe to be able to produce such sounds

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thewebgal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:49:27 -0000

What about Robert Fripp (Ex King Crimson dude) ... the DGM website - his bootlegTV site had all kinds of videos from the live concerts of his band, etc ... see - http://www.dgmlive.com/abou...

A (Very) Brief History of DGM

DGM began operating in 1992 as a response to the dishonest and exploitative practices of the EG Group of Companies. The EG Group collapsed in 1991, undermined by the EG partners' ambitious interests in property and the Lloyds' insurance market. During 1988-91 EG diverted artist income from the EG Music Group by "loans" to another of the partners' companies, Athol & Co. This led, in turn, to the sale of phonographic and publishing copyrights controlled by EG. The sale was contested, with resulting litigation ongoing during 1991-97 between EG, Virgin Records, BMG Music and myself. At the end of the litigation, the EG partners were no longer partners and EG, as a respected player in the music industry, mostly a bad memory to those whose interests EG had claimed to represent.

This was only the beginning of DGM.

The new DGM site is based on the insights of David Singleton and which led to the creation of BootlegTV (1999-2001), an online music distribution company based in Seattle. BTV closed during the Great Downturn but, even by then, the interests of VCs had already prejudiced the company's operation and direction. This parallels our experience within the music industry: the commercial interests of record companies, and other music suppliers, have an almost wholly negative effect on how music is served to open ears and hungry hearts.

More recently, the accounting practices of Virgin and BMG have not, in the licensing arrangements that followed litigation, been ideal. A current item of interest (March 2005) is that Virgin US has lost the entire King Crimson catalogue of master tapes. To misplace the masters of a large and established catalogue requires either talent or much practice, and these are not the only two possible explanations.

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trey — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:31:43 -0000

Phish really should be up there, they invented the whole recording every show, putting it on a website, and selling them to fans for a nominal cost.

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DavidE — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:42:04 -0000

How about They Might Be Giants? They used to have exclusives available on eMusic. I believe that the Dickies also had a deal with eMusic back in 1999 to distribute their new stuff on eMusic first, and eMusic had their entire catalog available.

Also, people have mentioned Barenaked Ladies, but nobody has mentioned that they have made at least one of their albums available as a free download.

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Dave Nofmeister — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:01:55 -0000

Seems that a firestorm has started. : )

When I heard about Barenaked Ladies on USB thumb drives, that was probably the most awsome of them all.

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blaine smith — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:27:47 -0000

Where is TRENT REZNOR?!?!?

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Michael Gregoire — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:50:57 -0000

Here's a more interesting article about the state of online distribution: http://blocsonic.com/blog/j...

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Michael Gregoire — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:48:43 -0000

UM... Aerosmith! The corporate rockers to beat them all!??? Kylie Minogue? Bowie... kinda... Gabriel.... eh.... kinda.... Where the hell is Prince? Where the hell is Public Enemy? What a f'n biggoted article.

Prince and PE should be at the TOP of the list

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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:42:34 -0000

Trent Renzor should definetly be on this list. First, he leaked a majority of his songs from NIN's newest album, Year Zero, on flash drives dropped in bathrooms during his tour. Second, the remix of this album, Limitless Potential, was available to download legally through BitTorrent. And third, he and Saul Williams just released a new album online with a great philosophy; if you just want the songs and don't care about quality, you can get the album for free, but if you want a CD quality version of the album, you'll need to pay a small fee directly to the artist. This concept is how the music industry should evolve; if people just want the songs and not the quality, give it to them, if they're a big fan, they will pay for the album because the WANT to support the artist, and if they want CD quality, they'll have to pay for it.

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Marcelo — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:35:03 -0000

Yes, Prince is definitely missing in this list.

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Ryan Jarrett — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:40:06 -0000

This is all original work my friend (spelling mistakes and all I'm afraid). This was never meant to be an exhaustive list but just a handful of examples - as indicated in the intro this was hoped catalyse debate and conversation.

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dra — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:27:10 -0000

What about NIN?

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gRa — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:19:22 -0000

Yeah, the authors obviously ripped this from somwhere. Reznor should probably be first on the list.

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Owen — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:13:00 -0000

Yea I agree. How did Reznor not make this list?

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Rajhesh Panchanadhan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:02:30 -0000

PHISH should have been in your list. This band had a fan following and had a dedicated usenet page which was converted to Internet (phish.net). This band pioneered the digital download concept in its livephish.com. This was further replicated as a dedicated site (nugs.net) for various bands including Widespread Panic, Umphreys Mcgee, even Metallica

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Bargmann — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:17:27 -0000

Hmmm, it seems all of the comments are related to the distribution-side of things...
If memory serves, I think Megadeth was actually one of the first to put out an album (Countdown to Extinction from '92), that was recorded/edited/mixed/mastered digitally, all the way through...

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Joey — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:51:18 -0000

How did Trent Reznor (NIN) not make this list? Update the list while its still popular.

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BigToddFan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:30:32 -0000

Inarguably, any such list as this MUST include the incomparable Todd Rundgren. Always a leader in every area of popular music in one way or another, I think it reasonable to point to MANY of his achievements as qualification. Start with the first live concert broadcast by microwave in 1978 and move ahead to 1979 when he produced the first videodisc format demo for RCA. Later on, he produced the first interactive audio-only CD-ROM, No World Order, in 1993. In 1994, Todd’s No World Order won "Best Composition/Arrangement for from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' inaugural awards and the "Best Interactive Disc of the Year" Award from Video Magazine. In 1995 he had a website up supporting The Individualist, a recording which brought him to be named one of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers by Multimedia Producer Magazine in the November 1995 issue, and also won the Digital Hollywood Award in 1996 for Best Music CD-ROM.

That's just some of what he's done. You can't get much more digital than that, and you can't fault him for being cutting-edge digital before the Web was even a twinkle in Tim Lee-Berner's monitor.

Re: Six digital music pioneers

Slacker — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:27:11 -0000

Very good article. I enjoyed it.

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