Excessive quantities of pseudish babble wrapped around a surprisingly good live techno gig.
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Tag: blockchain
eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good.
eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans.
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Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.
I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.
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Links: Albini on In Utero (again), the inbox flood, Level Music, blockchains (again).
“We’ll save music on the blockchain!” Ethereum can’t scale up to cat pictures.
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HARKII Of Sound Mind podcast Episode 1: “Why I don’t think blockchain will change the music industry.”
In which I go on a podcast and talk about why blockchains are still trash, particularly for music. Don’t fall for resentment-based marketing!
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Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment.
It looks like eMusic’s attempt at a comeback last year didn’t work out so well. Behold: the eMusic Blockchain Platform! … a Kodak moment indeed.
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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.
Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.
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Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.
Into the hot.
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Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.
Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.
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Björkcoin: Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version).
My restrained and professional assessment of the incompetence and stupidity all through the Björk cryptocurrency project was reasonably popular and widely read. This expanded version adds what I was actually thinking when writing up this collapse board cascade of slapstick coded-by-dildo incompetence.
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Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain: EGO by RAC.
Today’s post, over on the blockchain blog, is about Ujo Music’s second attempt at music on the blockchain. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that yet again they fall down the stairs, hitting their head on every step on the way down.
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Links: Piracy doesn’t affect sales, DC hardcore, Bowie and Cale, early proto-blues.
Und Sisters gegen Nazis.
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Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.
And Spray, compressed and convenient.
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Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.
And some stadium chiptune.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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Entertainment on the blockchain with ICOs: Opus, Viberate’s convicted felon adviser, Kim Dotcom.
1. Steal underpants. 2. ICO. 3. Profit!
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.
You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.
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Links: Musical blockchains again.
Not all about me, for once!
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!
And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is out!
IT IS OUT! PEOPLE QUITE LIKE IT!
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24, pre-orders open!
My book is scheduled! Sign up to give me your money!
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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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: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.
And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.
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Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work.
A detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.
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Links: uTorrent, bogus RightsCorp DMCA notices, International 8-Track Day.
Ignoring the previous National 8-Track Day, of course.
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Links: Cogent overblocking again; 3800 pirate sites blocked in UK; blockchain!
Pirates and blockchains. Arrr.
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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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Attack of the 50 foot blockchain!
I have finished the raw first draft of the Bitcoin/blockchain book. Current word count 30,410 (or 35,546 if you include the footnotes). This was supposed to be a 15,000 word rant before lunchtime …
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Links: Floor-sweepings editions, Paul is Still Dead, Imogen Heap’s $133.20, a good industry report.
Fifty year old records, fifty year old conspiracy theories, one hundred and thirty-three twenty and an actually non-stupid music industry report.
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