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Drug of the nation.

Severed Heads: If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A 1,000 Times (1987).

16 May, 201917 May, 2019 Industrial, Record, Television 5

From the cellulose nitrate days of music video.

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Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.

9 February, 2018 Audio, Games, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Television 0

Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.

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DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.

4 October, 2017 Film, Games, Links, Television, Your rights 1

No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.

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Soundtracks replaced with extruded substitute music product. If you’re lucky.

14 May, 201715 May, 2017 Film, Games, Television 1

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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Video: Go-Betweens, techno in six steps, a pop hit in four minutes.

13 May, 201713 May, 2017 Indie, Musician, Television 0

Some telly to finish your day.

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Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.

2 May, 20172 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, Television 1

And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.

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Cabaret Voltaire: Doublevision Present (1983).

16 January, 20179 May, 2018 Industrial, Record, Television 0

The Audio And Visual Quality Of This Programme May Be Of A Slightly Lower Standard Than Is Usual Today.

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Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.

15 January, 201718 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3, Television, Writing 0

Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.

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Links: Smart TVs, mining the Internet Archive, new Popcorn Time.

1 January, 2017 Links, mp3, Television 0

Why Smart TVs are as terrible an idea as they sound, automatic categorisation of the Internet Archive and a new version of Popcorn Time.

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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.

30 December, 20161 January, 2017 Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Television 0

How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.

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Radio and television finally admit, in 2016, that they’re competing with the whole vast Internet.

29 September, 201620 May, 2017 Media, Opinion, Radio, Television 3

The mass media have suffered the effects of the Internet much in the manner of the record industry, as consumers, conclusively sick of their shit, withdraw their attention. Their worry has gone from piracy to … being ignored.

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On this day in 2015 … gettin’ piggy with it.

20 September, 20169 September, 2018 Opinion, Sex, Television 0

At approximately 10:20pm BST on Sunday the 20th of September, 2015, the image of the Daily Mail‘s Monday front page hit Twitter. And Britain exploded.

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SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.

19 August, 20169 May, 2018 Film, Industry, Television 7

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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Sign up or go underground in the summer of ’81.

18 February, 201110 May, 2017 Record, Television 0

You’re young? Never got into the Australian mainstream in the ’80s when it was happening? Annoyed that most of Mushroom’s output is not available

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Seven Ages of Rock.

10 January, 20103 January, 2017 Rock, Television 0

The ABC in its infinite wisdom has started broadcasting its first run of the BBC’s Seven Ages Of Rock in the Silly Season, with

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That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.

4 July, 200820 May, 2017 Media, Television 0

The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over 50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65. If

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Encore season of ABC’s Long Way to the Top

21 July, 20022 October, 2016 Television 0

ABC-TV is repeating Long Way to the Top on Saturday nights at 9:30 pm. And don’t forget the Long Way To The Top concert

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All I Want For Christmas Is: Tori Amos’ arms to get so fat that she floats up into the sky like a big balloon and the lack of oxygen makes her die slowly and painfully from suffocation — and that she can do it without warbling about her feelings and emotions and making a gimmick out of it to appeal to depressed middle class teenagers across the globe who know this same feeling of fatty-arm-floaty-death-suffocation … Or a pony would be nice, too. — Miss Alex

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