The Torture Garden is a Mp3-blog filled with suggestions for good music – made to fight off bad music!

The site has interviews, concert reviews and general observations regarding music from musicians such as Arcade Fire, TV  On the Radio, Adem and all in between! The Torture Garden links to great sound-taste-bites, so that one can actually hear what it’s all about.

You can find The Torture Garden here.

• Georgia Tech Edison Fund Invests In Band Metrics: Band Metrics is a web based system that provides in-depth geographical reporting of where and how music is played, shared and discussed online. [HypeBot]

• Music Industry Wants Royalties from iTunes 30 Second Samples: This entire industry seems to be run by people who don’t just not understand the internet, but are aggressive about not understanding the internet. They have their old way of doing business and the old way the world works, and they’ll be damned if any new fangled thing like a complete upheaval in the way people acquire and listen to music is going to change that. [TechPoint]

• Dear Lily Allen: An open letter to Lily Allen in song format, regarding her recent campaign against filesharing and her decision to quit music.[YouTube]

• What I Learned From a Music Industry Startup: We can talk until we’re blue in the face about how artists should be using facebook, myspace, last.fm, immem or what-have-you to connect with fans (which is all true), but if the music sucks, none of that is going to matter. [Justin Travis]

• MPAA Opposes Download Royalties for Songwriters: The Digital Media Association (DiMA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other industry organizations are opposing ASCAP’s claim for public performance royalties for digital downloads of sound recordings for their composer, publisher and songwriters members. [Music Industry Report]

• The Liberating Effect of MP3 Blogs: Nick Hornby used to find record shops scarily intimidating (remember High Fidelity?), but the advent of MP3 blogs has liberated music fans everywhere. Writing exclusively for OMM, the author reveals why… [Guardian]

Hiram started a blog about music called Sing a Simple Song.  The basic premise is that someone picks a song and writes a story about it.  Simple enough, right?  So head on over.  It’s just started, but there’s a couple of tunes up already.

Take care of yourselves and get plenty of rest.

H and M

Aai sarkhe daivat

Ghungte mein chanda

Sin lugar a dudas, UndoMondo es uno de nuestros blogs de música favoritos para escuchar con la fiebre porcina o nomás por el gusto de escuchar buena música. Este sitio que funciona desde Estambul siempre presenta lo mejor de la música en diversas corrientes: folk, indie, jazz y demás.

No hay pierde, las propuestas de UndoMondo siempre van a complacer y a interesar. Además de  que se pueden escuchar los audios sin tener que instalar ningún codex, se pueden bajar sin restricción los archivos.

Por lo pronto, los dejo con el hasta hoy último programa, el número 72.

Para acceder a la página de UndoMondo, clickea aquí.

Mainly because i hate seeing a blog with nothing more than a welcome message, I decided to pass a little link-love along to the good people at AURGASM - Your favorite music you’ve never heard.

I’ve visited this blog off and on since, well, since music blogging was uncool! Every time I visit I discover new sounds that thrill. And of course being somewhat cheap – i like that all the sample tunes they provide are available for download! (Yes Aurgasm folks  -I’ve bought 1-2 CD’s based on your posts  -i’m cheap, but not THAT cheap

The great thing about blogs like this is, not only do you get to check out a lot of new music, they’re well written with the purpose of showcasing the artists to the best of their means. Way too many people think “MP3 blogging” is a case of posting links to full CD’s for download by the masses with a disclaimer to protect the blogs ass – but this sort of well thought out, well written blog is, to my mind, a strong contender in the race for the future of online music promotion. (Big labels take note – locking  down ALL content is dead – but you provide blogs with “ammo”, you’ll most likely sell more music, and better still, the general public might not think youre quite as greedy and inept as we generally do!)

Anyway, enjoy the sample MP3 , and then head over to AURGASM pronto like for much more music, and much better writing than you’ll probably ever find on this blog – HAH!

Sample Mp3 from the Aurgasm Blog:

Footnote: Nice site makover guys! I love the new logo and the new layout a lot. i mean the old site was fine and all that, but this new style has really stepped it up a notch – congrats on a job well done there, to both the Aurgasm team and U.K. based designer Tom Kershaw

A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.

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mp3 kelime anlamı nedir ?

MP3 (Mpeg-1 Audio Layer 3) ses dosyalarını, ses kalitesi korunmak şartı ile, orjinal dosya boyutunun 1/20 ’si oranında sıkıştırmaya
olanak sağlayan bir teknoloji standartıdır. Uzantıları “.mp3″ olan bu dosyalar, oldukça yaygın olup, bir çok web sitesinden
kolaylıkla bulunabilir. Çoğu Window 98/xp kullanıcısı, işletim sistemlerinde bir mp3 okuyucu olduğunu göreceklerdir. Ancak
bu mp3 okuyucu programları populer mp3 sitelerinden edinmeniz de mümkün. Mp3 okuyucu programlardan winamp(windows),
macamp(MacOS), mpg123 (Unix) yaygın olarak kullanılır. Mp3 dosyaları genellikle, İnternet üzerindne akıcı olarak dinlenmek
yerine, bilgisayara çekilip kullanılır. Ancak mp3 dosyalarını streaming özelliği sayesinde Real-media gibi kullanmak da mümkündür.
Hatta internet üzerinde çok sayıda mp3 formatında yayın yapan online radyolar da mevcut.

sayyac bir sayac servisidir. denemeye bugün başlıyorum hadi bakalım hayırlı olsun

Fuh! Memang penat giler aku mengedit theme nie.. Berjam²!! Naik gile aku.. Ada jer yang tak kena dengan theme nie.. Tak sama macam aku mengedit di menteil.net walaupun pakai theme yang sama.. Bila edit tang sini Google Adsene pulak lari, bila edit tang sana sidebar pulak hilang.. Nasib kesabaran aku dapat menghasilkannya..Ditambah pulak dengan lembabnya celcom broadband.. Sabo jer la..

Ok.. Bercerita dengan visi (chewah!), aku akan aktif semula di blog nie.. Bukan aku sengaja tak nak aktif disini.. Cuma masalah celcom yang kadangkala sangat lembab membuatkan semuanya tergendala.. Lagi satu, rakan aku simple boyz dah hilang tak dapat dikesan.. Huhu.. So kena la keje sorang..

Ada sape nak jadi uploader kat sinie? Aku bagi letak banner baek punya besar kat side bar.. (tengok pic atas tu).. Apa untungnya? Hehe… Rahsia nie.. Aku dapat berlambak visitor dari blog mp3 nie.. Tak caye? Tengok screenshot dari WP stat..

Tapi aku nak serius uploader.. Aku penah dapat uploader cam sial! Cakap jer melangit.. Keje haram! Tengok macam simplez boy tu, kemas jer keje dia..

Apa pon aku akan berusaha kuat untuk blog nie.. hehe.. Sharing is caring kan..

my mp3 blog!!

communication #5

(Curtis Mayfield – Oh So Beautiful)

what more can I say about one of the 20th Century’s greatest musical communicators? regulars to themusicologist will know how much the man has been an inspiration to me. featured heavily over the last 20 months and will be featured many, many more times in the future.

This cut is taken from his final album New World Order. Recorded seven years after the incident that not only paralysed but was eventually to kill him. Remarkably he managed to finish this set laying on his back, (the only way he could get enough air into his lungs), singing one line at a time. After he recorded each line, the songs were edited together.

Eric Clapton is quoted to have called it “the greatest album of the year”

Curtis, step up and let us know what ‘time’ it is.

LISTEN TUNE…..

“It is glorious….
this is Curtis…never forget the life we live is oh so beautiful, yeah…
this life we live, (life we live) is oh so beautiful, (oh it’s so beautiful),

and I just want to tell you, i’m inspired to live my life,
you trust in me I trust in you, we try to do what’s right,
long as we we can grow, it doesn’t matter where you go,
there’ll always be you see, some sacrifice,

????????????????????????????
sometimes I gotta struggle day and night,
but I must do what I do,
cos life is truly really good,
now it’s time to get the money and watch my people grow,
and now I gots to go to another level,
I made my moves, and paid my dues it’s on again, (it’s on again yeah),

this life we live, (life we live) it is oh so beautiful, (is oh so beautiful), oh so beautiful,
(oh so beautiful life is beautiful),
the love we give, (the love we give), is oh so beautiful, (is oh so beautiful),

to see the sun shine,
you gotta come out sometimes,
it’s not for us to know, or wonder why,
reaching out in harmony,
praying for longevity,
just trying to find,
some meaning of my life

know when life’s got a way of making things look tough,
but still i’m thinking that is not enough,
t’aint ever make me feel like giving up,
i’m never gonna stop, don’t stop, won’t stop
i gots to have my fun,
wont be like be that it will be so dull and done
so I’m chillin’ and ill never fake the fun, (don’t fake the fun, don’t fake the fun)

this life we live, (life we live) is oh so beautiful, (oh so beautiful), oh so beautiful,
(oh so beautiful oh yeah)
this love we give, (the love we give), is oh so beautiful, (is oh so beautiful), oh so beautiful,
(so beautiful)

imagine if the people of the world girl,
could find the balance, to take the challenge, my my,
just to solve your conflict with another,
sister and brother,
father and mother, hey hey

to reap all the glory,
we must take inventory,
and love everything in it,
cos this is our planet,

this life we live, (this life we live) is oh so beautiful, (oh so beautiful), oh so beautiful,
(do you know what I’m talking about),
this love we give, (yeah, yeah), it is oh so beautiful, (oh yeah), oh so beautiful, (it is glorious),
this life we live is oh so beautiful, (you got to reap everything you sow in life, oh yeah) oh so beautiful,
keep love on the planet we live in,
this love we give, (oh yes) is oh so beautiful,
smell a rose sometime, stop this crime

communication #4

(Alton Ellis – Breaking Up)

today’s slice of the communication pie is a 1968 cut credited to Tommy McCook and the Supersonics, (The Treasure Isle musical backbone), with no mention of the singer anywhere on the label. It is, of course, delivered in finest style by the unmistakeable voice of the Godfather of ‘Rock Steady’, Alton Nehemiah Ellis who, as some of you know, passed away this month.

Probably better known for his Studio1 version, this is the one he cut for Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid’s, (The Trojan), musical powerhouse, Treasure Isle. Released on an early, (Orange label), Trojan 45. . such a top ranking early reggae classic that it’s ‘easy’ to pass over due to it’s familiarity but there’s a chance that some of you may not have heard it and more than that the message cuts especially deep for themusicologist at this time so it had to be flung down.

Alton, come in brother man and let the people know what you’re talking about.

“when you turn and you walk through the door…(ahhh ahhh)”

communication #3

(Billy Bragg – I Keep Faith)

ok..the vibes are beginning to flow. feels a bit like running waist deep through water but they are, at least, on the move. bit of motion on the ocean rather than still waters running too deep.

music connects, we know that and also purifys, nourishing the soul. but in my experience one of its greatest gifts is to inspire. and with that in mind it’s time for a prime slice from inspirational musicologist Billy Bragg.

the second cut from his 2008 set Mr Love & Justice to feature on themusicologist. the other being a critique of ‘Big Pharma’ entitled The Johnny Carcinogenic Show, (musicology #127)

multi faceted dimensions on this cut..but especially going out to all my loved ones….I hope you all know who you are.