Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Music: Content with the content https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313234#post313234 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313234#post313234 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HS6Jh3O6r4 self-explanatory really... ]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 19:06:13 +1200 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313184#post313184 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313184#post313184 As if EDM’s aesthetic crimes weren’t enough, there’s a growing recognition that the celebrity DJ culture is not what it seems. The online dance music store Beatport has posted this furious open letter about the increasing prevelance of “chart-boosting” – DJs and producers paying a company to buy their tracks… ]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 18:30:36 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313174#post313174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313174#post313174 Some of these guys have nearly 20 million followers. If the single biggest source of Likes for every single one of them is a Facebook hype-shop in Mexico City, that starts to smell pretty bad.

That's roughly the population of Mexico City. So either they do an awful lot of…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 16:33:28 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313168#post313168 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313168#post313168 Fri, 16 May 2014 16:12:22 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313164#post313164 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313164#post313164 Invisible string band...
my new favourite Elvis video…
That's Brains, from Thunderbirds, with contact lenses...

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 15:55:46 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313161#post313161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313161#post313161 yes and no – most promoters know who are real talented at their craft... they also know who sell tickets – the two are often not the same

Generally though we've been well served for a long time by our local promoters, they serve up a good mix of the…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 15:47:07 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313152#post313152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313152#post313152 showing up in these charts is a way to get DJ bookings, which are far more lucrative

Good point, which translates to us getting "top international DJs" who turn out to be a bit meh.

Or, missing out on the hyped people due to distance and dollars, which may be…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 14:40:03 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313151#post313151 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313151#post313151 gorra post a couple of things I found today.

my new favourite Elvis video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-VSn-NHK2Q

the sweetly groovy Caravelles...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXWV-Kb8w0

and some funky Yugoslavian jazzsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OkVI_l-kU

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 14:19:03 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313138#post313138 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313138#post313138 I'd say in relation to dance music its been over a decade of some gaming the system, its the target that moves the underlying motive always being the same – used to be way more about motivating a audience to vote/like/preview

Its not like the retailer in question isn't against…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 12:36:16 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313135#post313135 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313135#post313135 http://www.upthepunks.co.nz/wiki/index.php?title=File:Section2a_03.jpg ]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 12:19:56 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313134#post313134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313134#post313134 That’s Tuesday the 27th (not next Tuesday)
– just to clarify…

Thanks for the save. Crucial date information accidentally omitted from the sentence there …

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 11:57:24 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313133#post313133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313133#post313133 Hey, here’s a thing.
At 6pm on Tuesday at AUT, called
Pull Down the Shades: Why Chris Knox is Fucking Brilliant!
That's Tuesday the 27th (not next Tuesday)
– just to clarify...
:- )

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 11:48:43 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313130#post313130 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313130#post313130 Chart boosting as you’ve called it is older than EDM and would no doubt stretch back to the very first compiled chart I’d wager.

Oh, sure, but it seems like it’s becoming pervasive.

Is buying votes any worse or different than asking people to vote the audiences lottery wheel of…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 11:34:50 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313129#post313129 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313129#post313129 So Beatport makes a margin on all those fake downloads (the artist is just recycling their cut, possibly with the record company participating in the hyping cost if the musician has a very sweet deal).

Crocodile tears?

I think they're genuinely unhappy about it — as evidenced by the no-second-chances…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:44 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313128#post313128 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313128#post313128 Fri, 16 May 2014 11:23:26 +1200 peter mclennan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313126#post313126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313126#post313126 https://soundcloud.com/nacey/misun-july-cousin-cole-nacey ]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 11:02:17 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313124#post313124 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313124#post313124 So Beatport makes a margin on all those fake downloads (the artist is just recycling their cut, possibly with the record company participating in the hyping cost if the musician has a very sweet deal).

Crocodile tears?

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 10:51:44 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313123#post313123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313123#post313123 oh yeah... Ron Hardy mix from 87 – its a sunny day, whats not to like?

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=415

]]> Fri, 16 May 2014 10:44:36 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313121#post313121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313121#post313121 Fri, 16 May 2014 10:42:09 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313120#post313120 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-content-with-the-content/?p=313120#post313120 Discussion from blog post.

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