Anders Pollas

Just inserted Veni Vidi Vicious by The Hives in my cd rom drive because my cd player was dis­con­nected. It appears it’s loaded with mp3s, wall­pa­pers, videos and other good­ies. But it doesn’t say so any­where on the cd or in the book­let… Sur­prise, surprise.

Load­star Records got their new web­site — go check it out — they’ve got some nice music on there…

Spent 10 hours yes­ter­day in the com­pany of good friends at LAB attend­ing RADAR. The dan­ish pio­neer Else Marie Pade was present to wit­ness the launch of the cd EMP — 7 CIRKLER, a project with remixes of her orig­i­nal piece 7 CIRKLER from 1958. She brought along some friends, all of them elderly ladies nod­ding their heads to the beats of Bjørn Svin and the like play­ing with her work. Couldn’t help to notice she looks a bit like my grandmother’s sis­ter… A truly great lineup of inter­est­ing names made the day a very pleas­ant expe­ri­ence — loaded with noise, tex­tures, weird sound­scapes and elec­tronic engineering.

Lis­ten­ing to Chris­t­ian Kleine while doing stuff for uni­ver­sity reminded me to remind you: go buy — you won’t regret it!

Beyond Repair + Valis

Nap­ster is now gone but the impact it had on the music busi­ness and the devel­op­ment and use of p2p net­works is truly amaz­ing. The debate regard­ing copy­right how­ever hasn’t moved on. It seems you have to be either pro or con — pro mean­ing dis­re­gard­ing the copy­right of all artists. Sur­prise, sur­prise — it doesn’t have to be that way. It all comes down to the music indus­try being to slow in devel­op­ing solu­tions as requested by their cus­tomers; the tech­nol­ogy is there, and if the music indus­try doesn’t do some­thing — the users will. I still need to see hard evi­dence of p2p net­works being directly respon­si­ble for the slight drop in music sales — to me com­pet­ing media prod­ucts (often from the same com­pa­nies) are far more likely to cause this. And while I respect every artist’s right to make money off their hard work, I equally respect users world­wide who like to try before they buy, who gets a chance of lis­ten­ing to live gigs and live sets nobody makes money off any­way and at the same time gets the chance to use their p2p soft­ware for legal pur­poses. Peer-to-peer does not equal break­ing copy­right laws. It’s not all black and white, you know. Thank you Napster.

New live sets up at Drum & Bass Arena — give it up for the Andy C .. C .. C .. C — nice one.

And while we’re at it: Don’t for­get The Streets. “Geezers need excite­ment…” — so true…

Jes­per from B&B Inter­na­tional informs that HOMEBREW+FRIENDS is back. First one is the Sep­tem­ber 14th at Rust. Infor­ma­tion and more dates at the web­site. Can’t rec­om­mend it enough — sooo sweet…