Posts by bob daktari
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to George Darroch,
I’d be curious to know if such things exist elsewhere – is a kind of subscription model for live music.
while not for live music, I reckon Drip does a good job of subscription for pre-recorded music type deal with many flaws and limitations
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I'm a collector, its what we do - some I want for when I want to use the turntables (not as often as I should)... some for if I ever get a DJ gig again (unlikely)... some for the artwork and sleeve notes, some purely to support the artist/label and many because they are records I've always wanted to own and fill gaps in my collection I want filled - its a sickness as my old gran would have said
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
personally I've always found that listening to a record instore is the best way to miss everything that is great about that record and why you should buy it, crappy turntables, horrid headphones etc. ensure a rather bleak try before you buy experience - a QR code system would work though i'm not sure if the effort setting one up would pay off in increased sales (pay offs) given the finite supply
While I am not the average consumer by any stretch... but I always know why I want a record and the music is these days the smallest part of that equation due to digital and its all the other things that make me want the record (which often goes unplayed, cause digital)
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The key point is that streaming is killing retail music sales but coming nowhere near replacing the revenue from such sales.
Disagree - digital ( legal and not) is what hurt retail... streaming came much much later and it is the present day saviour for a lot of pre-recorded music (flawed as it is), just not one that replaces the sorts of potential returns from the olden days and it probably never will, them days are gone for all but a very very few.
I'd say that streaming is actually helping retail sales, for vinyl at least, cause many consumers want that tangible object they can connect with, few want a CD.
In She's So Rad's case I have to ask - would they have done better if their CD was actually distributed to retail. Instead bandcamp, flying out and possibly groovy are I am guessing the only places you can get it.
Saying that there is a huge problem for the majority of artists to secure revenue streams, this isn't new but it is getting harder as there are more active bands from everywhere all baying for our 30 second attention spans and over subscribed entertainment dollar.
Its so much harder to get people to part with their hard-earned as life is a struggle for many.... subscriptions and streaming are one of the few things of late that actually attempts and to degrees can address this, lets not demonise streaming - but you're right if someones art moves you find a way to say so financially if you can and do so across all creative mediums cause its tough for all.
We'll always have a musical culture, creativity isn't controlled by commerce - the question is how commercial will it be if no one can make a buck? Or is the solution patronage - I hope not
Anyways... here is a lot of local goodness
http://urbankill.tumblr.com/post/125341800988/youre-not-invited-new-zealands-underground
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Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to Joe Boden,
numbers don't matter
Assuming the government puts the TPPA to a vote in the House (which it doesn't have to do) a 'no' vote by Labour would have no legal effect because the Executive alone has the power to ratify."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/trade/news/article.cfm?c_id=96&objectid=11487555
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Another one for the not sick of hearing about Christchurch, want to hear more and to help where one can
With the lose of CampbellLive a very important source of Christchurch story telling and new has vanished so please more of this here and on your own blog James - much appreciated the efforts you and so many other do on behalf of the city and its people!
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it would be a foolish party that doesn't court the bogan vote... a clever party does so via policy and engagement over a long time frame - a bit how one would like parties to operate anyway, a long term view of how they can shape New Zealand communicated to the electorate as opposed to staggering from one self made crisis to another always deflecting blame
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Hard News: Friday Music: Silver and Gold, in reply to TracyMac,
I semi regularly search for such things and have for a number of years and the results of that is I believe there is a distinct lack of protest/angry songs about the state of the world full stop, given a) the state of things and b) how easy it is to create and share these days
I don't for a second think young people are indifferent - the ones I meet are switched on and really concerned about the same things as us older types
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The Tally Ho Story from David is wonderful – would love to see more stories like this from musical heroes. Highlights just how rock n roll many of our musicians are or at least were – the APRA nominations show just how bloody great they are!
While Hosking is a bellend, we live in a country where his radio show plays SJD – that alone is a wonderful thing, shame about the host
Discovered this today from a techno dude I quite like coupled with some locals done and doing good things, not sure if I like it but repeat listens will clear that up
https://soundcloud.com/cyrilhahn/same-ft-yumi-zouma
Rounded off with the Herbert Essential mix its been a pretty mint music week
Heads to the Wilco fans – they’ve just dropped a free DL new album
http://pitchfork.com/news/60420-wilco-drop-surprise-new-album-star-wars-for-free/
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Speaker: Honest Bastards & Dishonest Cowards, in reply to BenWilson,
We've become quite good at spotting what's wrong with Labour, but not very good at agreeing on what they should do now.
I think the single thing labour need do is to offer up a vision of hope, hope to those so utterly devastated by this govt policies and those stuck in the middle watching their lifestyles crumble (but house prices go ballistic)
Engage, empower and excite