New Music from 8tracks
Posted on Saturday the 30th of August, 2008 at 9:50pm
As you may or may not have heard, the bodalicious Muxtape is no more. Sigh. Well, they say they'll be back, but somehow that seems optimistic. Still, the splendid Opentape project has decided to strike back for the kids and extend a pleasingly brash come on to the R.I.A.A. Let's hope the latter come to their senses before too much longer and see that they have no choice (if they want to survive) but to work out some new, creative systems to recompense artists in the brave new world of the internet, where music will be shared. They have the most effective distribution networks ever invented ready to work for them, and yet they spend all their time and an awful lot of money trying to rein it all in. Their shareholders should fire them...
Anyway, in the meantime, we have 8tracks! Now, they claim they are legal - so I guess we'll see, eh? The King is dead, long live the Blair/Bush... (Ooops, "little bit of politics", as Ben Elton used to say).
So, without further ado. Here is 'Rascal Tracks - Numero Uno':
Twelve cuts from my new faves Breakfast Song, Welsh harp music, Enur and M.I.A remixed, the awesome Tinariwen, some rarer things from Thom and the Radioheaders, Portishead for comparison, mediaeval Andalusian sacred song, and - lest we forget - the incomparable Smiths, live in their home town...
Sing, ye all, and be merrie!
Anyway, in the meantime, we have 8tracks! Now, they claim they are legal - so I guess we'll see, eh? The King is dead, long live the Blair/Bush... (Ooops, "little bit of politics", as Ben Elton used to say).
So, without further ado. Here is 'Rascal Tracks - Numero Uno':
Twelve cuts from my new faves Breakfast Song, Welsh harp music, Enur and M.I.A remixed, the awesome Tinariwen, some rarer things from Thom and the Radioheaders, Portishead for comparison, mediaeval Andalusian sacred song, and - lest we forget - the incomparable Smiths, live in their home town...
Sing, ye all, and be merrie!