Ryuichi Sakamoto’s professional musical career spanned almost five decades, starting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in the mid-1970s where
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The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Stu Spasm documentary: I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago — playing in London on Friday 8 November.
I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago is screening at the Castle Cinema in London on Friday 8 November 2024 at 9:00pm as part of the Doc’n’Roll Festival.
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The next frontier in IP parasites: codec royalties on content.
It is difficult to overstate just how much better everything would be for everyone except the parasites if software patents were abolished.
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Battlefield Earth (2000). A saga of the year two thousand.
It was twenty-three years ago, but the pain remains fresh.
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Stu Spasm’s Wikipedia article now has an old photo of him.
Tales from 1986, when I was nineteen and just embarking on making my youth suitably dissolute.
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The War of the Worlds: The Book, The Drama, The Musical, the Film
Is it not the most appropriate time to consider the great disaster story The War of the Worlds, as a pandemic continues to sweep the globe, with no end in sight?
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019).
It’s a fun film if you don’t bother trying to make sense of it. And it has lots of explosions.
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Felix Colgrave: Royal Noises from Dead Kingdoms: The Music of Double King (2018).
Colgrave’s animation is beautiful. It is alternately stark and lush, full of repeating patterns and startling aberrations and the score, Royal Noises from Dead Kingdoms, mirrors the hypnotic visuals in its layered, thoughtful construction.
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Links: Dragon Ball Super mass piracy, origin of the gated reverb snare, the return of illegal raves.
Plus Salman Rushdie’s disco turn, and “Ace Of Spades” played on an actual spade.
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Hans Zimmer, Benajmin Wallfisch: Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack (2017).
The soundtrack is deserving of a short review in its own right, not the least for its own curious development.
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Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.
The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.
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DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.
No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.
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Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.
And some stadium chiptune.
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The virtual reality hype slowly faces up to real reality.
Despite continuing attempts to keep the Virtual Reality hype going, the real reality has not improved since late last year.
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Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.
And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.
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Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.
♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫
Links: Wikipedia supports fair use, film archiving, the joys of the B-side.
If I can’t hear music, you can’t either. But that 7″ is amazingly pretty.
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Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.
More ongoing thrills.
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Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.
Why buy when you can trust other people’s computers? I’m sure services will never suddenly disappear or block paying customers.
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Soundtracks replaced with extruded substitute music product. If you’re lucky.
Licensing is hard. Why not use some bulk filler instead.
(sex, uh, sex uh, crime, cry cry cry cry crime, crime)
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Links: Blockchain BitTorrent, Kim Dotcom movie, my Blockchain book interview.
Bram Cohen, Kim Dotcom and David Gerard. Only blockchains bind them.
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Links: SoundCloud $70m, Facebook the label, Discogs, Bitcoin and Boss Baby.
why does bitcoin keep coming up in my music links WHYYY
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Links: Buy from Bandcamp on Friday, why Hollywood is(n’t) doomed, US pirate warning scheme fails.
GREAT DEALS ON NAZI SCALPS AT BANDCAMP, ONE DAY ONLY
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Movie links: Netflix kills DVDs, more copyright trolls, 32% of US adults watch pirated films.
Bad! Bad troll! Bad!
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Virtual Reality: it’s the new 3D! Expensive, consumers don’t want it and it makes you throw up.
3D technology has been the next big thing for only the last sixty years. It offers amazing improvements over ordinary moving images: darkness, muddier colours, blurriness, headaches from watching for more than twenty minutes and slower action sequences so the viewer doesn’t bring up their last meal.
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Your day’s video selection: goats, bats, Mel Brooks and Hitler.
A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.
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DRM links: Denuvo removed, Super Mario locked, 4K Netflix for almost nobody, GOG, EFF.
News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“
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Links: China’s top music site, 808 The Documentary, Shazam is listening.
Douban.com, a movie about a drum machine, software that grabs your microphone.
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Witch house is the new coldwave: totally not goth video links.
The nicest Nivek Ogre interview ever, 1984 goth clubbing and Joy Division’s influence on rap.
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SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.
SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.
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