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chris

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:04:20 +1200

In what sense are the two incompatible?

totally compatible, only that the ‘discover’ button could be more transparently labelled ’picks’/ ’recommended” or something. This obfuscation misleads. On a plus note, the site is fast as lasers from here. and yeah, with Mr Codtail I think including the number of votes…

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:38:27 +1200

Oh and Loui the Zu has a Soundcloud account, where nearly everything's downloadable.

I'm really liking this guy a lot.

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:35:10 +1200

So more of a "curated music website" than a "music discovery website"?

In what sense are the two incompatible?

But it's more like Hype Machine in function than We Are Hunted — where the whole chart is compiled and ranked by the owners according to some secret sauce.

There are…

chris

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:08:48 +1200

You basically get onto the Discovery button loop by impressing the people fielding new tracks as they come in. Which is fair enough — a degree of curation is useful on these sites.

So more of a "curated music website" than a "music discovery website"?

Andrew C

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:53:26 +1200

What a great site.

Its possible I am a bit thick and have not figured out how to do this yet, but on a wish list would be (in order of preference):

1a. find some way to move automatically and start playing the "next" track. Like in hype machine. Not…

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:26:06 +1200

Righto ...

The bFM Top 10 is taken from whatever the chart looks like at 9am on Thursdays. But they only launched at 8am last Thursday — so unbeknownst to the person compiling it at bFM the chart was basically all beta data. D'oh!

The orange button is a "curated…

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:49:45 +1200

Am I the only one who has picked up on what appears "dodgy" goings-on on theaudience.com?

I doubt it's "dodgy". I'll ask them about it though.

Steve Barnes

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:15:39 +1200

The rankings on the show bore no resemblance to what was actually on the charts.

“The Charts”? There are several lists of popular music. BFM Top Ten, Cheese on Toast Essential Ten, Kiwi FM Top Ten to name but three. Then there is the “Official NZ Top Ten” issued by…

Clorpet Codtail

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:07:38 +1200

Hi Russell,
Am I the only one who has picked up on what appears "dodgy" goings-on on theaudience.com?
I was really happy when I saw this site launched but not so much now after I consider the following:
(1) The website promotes a privileged few bands over the rest by…

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:30:31 +1200

I don’t mind a bit of blood myself, but I want to choose the time and place I encounter it, thanks.

Would that not change the entire point of said piece of art? Lets face it, blood in and of itself , doubt it is meant to conjure up thoughts…

Steve Barnes

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:22:48 +1200

Steve Barnes

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:10:05 +1200

Mr Shearer isn’t too bad!:)

Tell me if I’m wrong but are the first words of this song “The fix is in, there’s a ne-ocon dance on in Epsom”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITMRHJnaJY
I love the mocking tone of the chorus and that the “Mickey’s” have been slipped and the Joker is Cocky…

tarlen

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:20:39 +1200

It's an allegorical grapefruit. Each of the nine segments represents a different phase of the listening experience from first hearing to overexposure.

That's better than the truth, go with that.

Jos

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:33:47 +1200

Mr Shearer isn't too bad!
:)

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:25:32 +1200

Acid house...
It's an allegorical grapefruit.
I should have seen that....
Hang on, are you taking the pith?

Scott Chris

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:20:53 +1200

The Audience has a confusing logo – what idea is driving it?
Is that a bandwagon wheel, a tape reel, a pizza, a pie chart, a ruddy miscoloured lemon or a curious orange?

It's an allegorical grapefruit. Each of the nine segments represents a different phase of the listening experience…

Kimberley Verburg

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:54:19 +1200

Have just spent so much time trying to get round the "requires Flash to play music in your current browser" objection that I didn't have time to listen to more than Loui the Zu's cracking track. (Stop gap solution: use Safari ) Very keen to hear the rest.

Also, I'm…

andin

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:33:48 +1200

I'm going to be extra cheeky
Bugger me I think I could get lost in there.
fucking brill!
Makes me glad I was never a Black Sabbath obsessive too.
On my next move, soon now, I will investigate ISP's
Do Snap cover Kawakawa?

Russell Brown

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:50:24 +1200

Tech question: how can I watch that Reggae Britannia without chomping the broadband allowance?

Get a new ISP? Snap Internet recently upgraded our 105GB cap to 550GB a month. It's basically the same as having no cap.

Biobbs

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:14:18 +1200

Well, somebody has to do it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBo0LLlKu5Q

Bruce Wurr

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:16:31 +1200

Russell did you ever get to the Hayward? They don't have a set collection per se, just exhibitions (usually one free, one paying), but it's certainly my favourite.....mind you I am completely biased towards the entire southbank area!

Simon Grigg

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:13:03 +1200

Thank you for that – but trust me I suffer from that urge to obsess about some perhaps best forgotten fifth form memory that nobody else quite gets too.

Fortunately I'm married to a brutally honest quality controller.

Jeremy Eade

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:10:38 +1200

In the spirit of rock n roll.

" Students occupy Queen Street".

I thought the herald said we weren't protesting?

Hebe

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:11:27 +1200

music-obsessive blog Oh God, I thought, another one. Dylan's bloody brass buttons clinky-chinking on some authentic and unlistenable dog of an album and so on and on. I'm wrong. Your music blog is seriously fucking interesting, and I say that as a female with far too many music bores in…

tarlen

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:49:09 +1200

One assumes the voting is limited to one vote per user per song, and that users are tracked by email address or IP address so one person can't create multiple accounts to get extra votes.

One vote per user per song PER DAY. So if there's a song you like,…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:46:46 +1200

It's the teeny things...

Yeah, but it will get there. I think the concept – and 99% of the execution – is pretty amazing and money well spent.

As I tweeted, I would've done anything (almost) for a site like that when I was first putting out records (not that…

Hilary Stace

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:45:01 +1200

This has been popular on Facebook today. A musical politician. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxS98q6YLnA

Greg Wood

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:33:26 +1200

Wow – theaudience is a nice thing. And that She's So Rad track is the best thing since sliced Cocteau Twins on toast.

(Humbug moment: voting for a song without having signed in takes me all the way through the registration process with the tune happily playing in the background…

TracyMac

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:30:06 +1200

THANK you, everyone, for the Rothko love. I will be perving at those links later. Seriously, the feeling I get in that room is pretty much what I imagine other people feel in church (which is the intention, I believe). The NGA in Canberra also has one, next to Pollock's…

Christopher Dempsey

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:10:36 +1200

Rothko? Brings to mind that fabulous play by ATC about an afternoon in the life of Rothko, with a guy sent to be his assistant. Memorably it featured a large canvas at the back of the stage that was maniacally painted towards the end of the play. The play was…

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:00:50 +1200

Rothko, eh? The hotel I stayed in (The Nines) on my short visit to Portland OR earlier this year had an enormous Rothko in the lobby. I should have twigged it was going to be expensive accommodation--had to pay my university a whole bunch of $$$ as I over-spent my…

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:28:08 +1200

Now, don’t be hating on the Tate Modern, it’s a great place. Just the Turbine Room alone is pretty awe inspiring.

Yeah, but I felt a bit colonised by much of the art.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:55:16 +1200

Now, don't be hating on the Tate Modern, it's a great place. Just the Turbine Room alone is pretty awe inspiring.

Anyway, speaking of Diplo, here's all his "Diplo and Friends" Radio 1 shows, kindly posted up onto Mixcloud:

http://www.mixcloud.com/DiploandFriends/

Tim Michie

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:41:35 +1200

Richard Stewart

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:31:19 +1200

Really irritating that you can't sign up without a social media account; the same with Spotify.

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:53:14 +1200

Christ! It keeps coming!

Opossom, the well groovy little combo formed by former Mint Chick Kody Nielsen and Bic Runga, has its debut album out on iTunes today.

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:49:02 +1200

One assumes the voting is limited to one vote per user per song, and that users are tracked by email address or IP address so one person can't create multiple accounts to get extra votes.

Creating mutiple accounts would be a bit of a pain, though. Probably easier to get…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:44:15 +1200

Demo graphics...
The Audience has a confusing logo – what idea is driving it?
Is that a bandwagon wheel, a tape reel, a pizza, a pie chart, a ruddy miscoloured lemon or a curious orange?
Or is it a focus for crowd sourced push play or a radiating hub broadcasting…

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:16:53 +1200

I’ve asked The Audience for clarification on the rule quoted in the Herald story that “only unreleased songs are open to public voting and grants”.

The definition of “released” seems a bit tricky. Do artists have to keep everything off Bandcamp? What about Soundcloud?

Update: “Bandcamp’s ok. Commercially released tracks (iTunes…

ed hayes

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:02:38 +1200

Simon Schama's doco on Rothko (screened here recently) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8AIIAgYpg

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:02:38 +1200

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