February 2010
12 posts
WatchMy new mix.
Brian Eno on making music, innovation by "leaving...
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. To some extent, this was how ambient music emerged.
“My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a...
My thoughts on on-demand streaming
I generally don’t write much about the sector anymore (too busy trying to make 8tracks work while paying the bills), but I thought worth re-posting my response to The Key to Making Free Music Services Work here.
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Keep in mind that the largest category of music service today is — by far — ad-supported radio, which generates ~$39bn in revs globally, about TWICE that thrown...
We love this (of course : ) )
emperorsnewclothes:
8tracks:
Thanks to all our listeners! January was our biggest traffic month to date: 322k uniques with 714k visits.
I don’t just have a soft spot for this site. It really is awesome.
Last.fm, Pandora (so 2009), Hypemachine, and all the rest are good, but 8tracks.com is the closest you come to a hybrid blog / music site.
Conclusion: It’s RAD