Nearing the bottom of the barrel with the Rocknerd v1 recoveries. Look through the list and let me know any favourites you think particularly warrant retrieval.
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Links: Smart TVs, mining the Internet Archive, new Popcorn Time.
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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Mogwai: Central Belters (2015).
As the year comes to an end there is the realisation that a half-complete text file has been languishing for a triple compilation released in October 2015. What a difference a day makes to being “somewhat late” to being “so old it’s a retrospective”.
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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.
How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.
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Digital distribution: Streaming takes over, Apple goes label, go to your listeners, Bandcamp 2016.
The fine art of getting your music to paying listeners as of late 2016.
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Reviews: Rose and the Diamond Hand, Venus Hum, Hand In Waves (2016).
Goth rock, electronic pop and witch house.
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From the high seas: Pirate Bay in Australia, DDOS attacks, Kickass Torrents revived, monetising piracy.
Yo ho ho and three megabytes of hot RAM.
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Links: Side-Line goes full Nazi, CDDB bought by Nielsen, 23 random Naked Lunch quotes.
Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. How to hip-sing!
“Yup, all $9.24 from monetization is going towards the wedding. There will be ice sculptures.”
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The Celibate Rifles: Merry Xmas Blues (1983).
Then give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.
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Video game music Christmas, by Seth Everman.
WATER LEVEL (that everyone hates)
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Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.
Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.
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Links: Stoner metal, Stevie Wonder, Bill Drummond on punk.
Essays on aesthetics.
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Links: Prenda Law copyright scam too far, Internet advertising is trash, SoundButt.
Prenda Law are finally arrested, Internet advertising is a scam at all levels (and you can help!) and careful when posting.
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New instruments: The Mitt, PushPull and a 3D-printed wind instrument designer.
A new controller, a new squeezebox and something to design a wind instrument in any shape you can think of.
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Songs for “oh God can I hit Amazon in time” week.
BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
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Electronic reviews: Epileptics, VvvV, Shiny Darkness (2016).
Electroclash witch house, electric prog and industrial synthpop.
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Links: Bandcamp for New Zealand charts, EFF versus the music industry, the productivity of silence.
The important thing is to wear a fetching Skullcandy hat like the one up there.
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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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Reviews: Soviet Soviet, Fossey, Nórdika (2016).
Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Wire: On The Box: Live on Rockpalast (1979, 2004); KEXP, 2013.
Two Wire live performances, because they’re good for you.
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Links: Independent music earnings, Pakistan’s music industry, answering recruiters, Spray.
How much money one musician actually makes striking out as an independent, the Pakistani music industry, responding to recruiters and Ricardo Autobahn and Spray.
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Reviews: Pass-Ages, Embrace The Crisis, Tombaugh Regio (2016).
Synth-based indie pop, with some stomping jangle too.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Ganser: relentlessness by guitar.
Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
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Rocknerd is now fully SSL-enabled! How to do this yourself.
Rocknerd is now served over SSL. Please try https://rocknerd.co.uk/ on all your gadgets and let me know of any problems. Here’s the technical detail of how I applied this to WordPress.
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Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).
sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.
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