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  • Follow Friday: blogs that keep me up to date on the new music industry

    I’m borrowing one of my favourite Twitter memes called Follow Friday, though I hardly ever participate. On Fridays, many Twitter users recommend their followers to follow interesting people that they themselves are following. It’s kind of like networking. Actually, it’s more than just ‘kind of’ like networking!

    I always find it really tough who to recommend, but I love the principle. That’s why I have decided to recommend some of the blogs I subscribe to so I stay in the know about developments in the (new) music business. Maybe you can recommend some to me too?


    Billboard.biz
    A rather traditional source of information – not too forward thinking, but has some interesting case studies every now and then.

    Digipendent
    Looks at trends in music & the digital world.

    Digital Audio Insider
    Describes itself as a blog about the economics of digital music and I think that’s quite an accurate description.

    Digital Music News
    Definitely one of the best blogs out there on this topic! So I gave it some sweet italic loving!

    Digital Noise
    A CNET blog about music and technology. Hightlights lots of interesting innovative initiatives in the digital music business.

    FileShareFreak
    A blog about filesharing, piracy, torrent sites, lawsuits and other fun stuff.

    Future of Music Coalition
    A non-profit organisation looking at the future of the music business and how artists can cope with the rapid changes.

    Hypebot
    A blog about the new music business. Hardly misses a thing. Very impressive!

    Make It In Music
    Artists have to take more and more control of the tasks record labels previously used to take care of. This blog educates them on how to do that. Also interesting for people who are simply interested in the music business, but not as an artist.

    me*dia*or
    Kind of a monitor of the music business blogs. Everything in one place here, but I prefer visiting the individual blogs / reading their RSS feeds.

    Media Futurist – Gerd Leonhard
    The blog of Gerd Leonhard, who’s a media futurist. He appears to be touring constantly, speaking at conferences about technologies and how our society could adopt them. He shares many of his presentations, slideshows and ideas on his blog. Great material! Also check out the interview I had with him about the future of music distribution.

    MIDEM(Net) Blog
    MIDEM is one of the world’s biggest music business conferences. MidemNet is its simultaneous digital music business conference. The blog is filled with interesting analyses by industry experts.

    Music Ally
    The corporate blog of this digital music business information and strategy company.

    Music Business and Trend Mongering
    A blog about the great ideas and trends in the new music business.

    Music Think Tank
    Awesome blog about what works and doesn’t work (and why!) in the music industry. Highly recommended.

    MusicBizGuy Speaks
    A music business veteran’s view on the new music business. Very impressive track record and highly insightful articles.

    Net, Blogs and Rock’n’Roll
    A blog about the digital discovery of music and entertainment.

    New Music Strategies
    The name more or less speaks for itself. Sporadic posts, but high quality guaranteed.

    P2P Blog
    Lots of news about innovation in peer to peer technology.

    p2pnet
    About filesharing, peer-to-peer technology, RIAA madness, and innovation in the sharing of digital information.

    Remix Theory
    A blog about remix culture.

    Rocketsurgeon’s Music 2.0 Directory
    A listing of all the tools and services participating in the ‘new media revolution’. Very cool.

    RouteNote’s Blog
    RouteNote’s a company specializing in the distribution of artists’ music to (digital) music stores. Their blog offers a great look into the world of digital music distribution.

    Techdirt
    About innovations in technology and how this affects government policy and the economy around us. Probably my favourite blog of this whole list.

    The Daily Swarm
    A bit like me*dia*or, in the sense that it aggregates content from other places and links back to the full articles. Sometimes they catch something I had missed, so I try to keep up with them as much as I can.

    The Forrester Blog for Consumer Strategy Professionals
    Not necessarily about the music business, but definitely gives great insight into marketplaces that are changing because of technology. These guys are really on top of the trends and give valuable insights into them.

    TorrentFreak
    Another favourite blog. They ask some very tough questions to the music business about how they deal with filesharing. Also has a lot of news about torrent trackers, politics, what’s hot in the filesharing networks, and much much more.

    TuneCorner
    TuneCore also specializes in distributing signed artists’ music to digital music stores. On their blog, great tips about music and technology, insights into the new music business, and how to use the web to your advantage.

    Wired | Music
    Wired is a technology news website and has a music section too. Great read! They have a very talented staff.

    ZeroPaid
    Another (good) blog about filesharing.

    Whenever I spot a great article worth reading in one of these (and other) sources, I share them via Google Reader, so have a look at my shared items and subscribe to them!

    What are blogs you would recommend? Did I miss any good ones?

  • Reception of my paper about online promotion of new music

    Recently I released a paper titled the best practices of the online promotion of new musical content. I pushed it through some networks and sent it to contacts I’ve made while studying the music business and the results have been phenomenal. Giving away something good for free really does work! Some highlights.

    I submitted it to Techdirt, probably my favourite technology blog, where Mike Masnick blogged about it. This blog post was then mentioned in the daily newsletter of the ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

    From the ASCAP newsletter

    It was also posted to the great Make It In Music blog, as a guestpost. Students of the music business course at the NYU were given this paper to read. Someone is even making a Spanish version of it to increase the reach of the paper, especially in Latin America. Thanks Pp! I’ve also been spreading it around LinkedIn with some pretty good results.

    Wow!

    To be honest, part of the strategy of my thesis was to build some momentum, release it, make it go viral and brand myself as an expert on this topic, but even this paper is making some ripples.

    The ironic thing is that in the paper I say that giving away something of value for free can be a great promotional tool… especially if what you’re giving away is easily reproduced and easy to share. The reception of the paper proves exactly that.

    Extremely motivated to get that thesis done asap and start utilizing the momentum I’ve built! More soon! 🙂

    P.S. If you’d like to read the paper, click here for the PDF.

  • So this is what I would have looked like in the 80s

    A Facebook app called YearBookYourself is doing its rounds and going viral because of its high level of awesome. Before I talk more of the bore, here’s what I would’ve looked like had I been 23 in the 80s.

    80s Bas

    Awesome, I know. Go check out YearBookYourself, upload your pic and see what you would’ve looked like anywhere from the 50s to the 2000s, with a 2 year interval. Share the results! (on your blog or in the comments! :-))

  • Sofia’s People (Great Portrait Video!)

    Philip Bloom, a great filmmaker and director, visited Sofia last weekend. He decided to try out some equipment and went down the streets of Sofia with a video camera that looked like a photo camera. He smiled at people and tried to make them comfortable while taking their picture, but actually he was filming them. 🙂

    The result is beautiful! Have a look at the video below.

    Great job. It just shows that everyone is beautiful.

  • Vibrasphere at OUIM 5 Years in Sofia, Bulgaria (VIDEO!)

    A few weeks ago the Bulgarian psychedelic trance community, OUIM.org, celebrated its 5th birthday. They invited a bunch of great progressive psytrance DJs like Vibrasphere, Sandal Wood, Kalumet, Kliment and there were also some harder sounds from Bulgaria and Macedonia (see it here). Well, I went there and made a video… so without further ado, I present to you………. ME! :mrgreen:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLH31PKNvY

    Like it? Are you in Bulgaria also? Then come out to the Astral Projection party on the 4th of April!

    BasBasBas.com is about my life abroad. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul, Bulgaria and travels in the region, but like to ponder about the future also. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • My Fukkk Offf in Istanbul report – short version

    I posted about this before, but they wanted me to make a shorter version, so I did. It’s a lot better I think. Have a look and get to see a more vivid version of me (compared to the ‘writer’).

    Shot at Club Dirty, 13-Dec-2008 for SPIN Earth.

    Music by Fukkk Offf (Rave Is King): myspace.com/fukkkofff

    Here’s the old Fukkk Offf in Istanbul video. What do you think, is this one better?

    Do you live in Istanbul and are you interested in getting into music shows for free, in exchange for making similar 2-4 minute videos? Email me at and I’ll get you in touch with the right people.

    BasBasBas.com is about my life abroad. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul, Bulgaria and travels in the region, but like to ponder about the future also. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • The Snowman

    Snowman

    Sofia is covered in snow once again, so Tsvety and I decided to make a small snowman on my balcony. I’m looking forward to the spring though… Enough of this snow, I want to be able to sit on my balcony and chill out properly. 😎

    How’s the weather over at your side of the world?

    BasBasBas.com is about my life abroad. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul, Bulgaria and travels in the region, but like to ponder about the future also. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • My Mix Melange

    Long time no blog. Woops 😉 You should know that I’m always active on Twitter though, so be sure to follow me there.

    In the past I used to blog about all of my newest music mixes on here, but recently I had so many posts to share, that I decided to just leave the mixes on The MiX-Files. Today, however, I decided to give you an overview of all the recent DJ sets I did.

    The last time I posted a mix was December 5th, I believe, when I posted an experimental mix where I set speech to music to create an experience that’s different every time you play the mix. Check it out. Since then I’ve posted a lot of stuff.

    How about…..

    AdeptDepth – a heavy drum ‘n bass set. BumpBump – a dirty yet fresh electro house set. My DJ sets from New Years Eve in Istanbul! Or some stuff I intended to play on NYE, but didn’t get around to: NYExtra. Then there’s boombooty, a booty-shaking breakbeat and house mix. Then came the night that I decided drum ‘n bass is dead, which led to me making MindWarp, in which I attempt to confuse your conscious mind with all kinds of eclectic beats & breakcore. And most recently I produced a steaming hot house mix to keep you warm this winter (ScoopMeUp) as well as NuclearMeltdown, in which I explore the darker & harder sounds of music.

    Or you can just click whichever picture appeals most to you and see what kind of mix it redirects to. 😉

    NuclearMeltdown ScoopMeUp MindWarp
    boombooty AdeptDepth BumpBump

    I’m also actively blogging about The Future of Music Distribution for my thesis and I’d love to receive some comments on that blog.

    I’ve also set up my own radio station for my spacescape project on blip.fm. Check it out!

    Finally, some of my mixes are available as streams on a new (and awesome!) service named Soundcloud. Click here to check me out on Soundcloud.

    And that’s that! Be sure to check out a few of the links and let me know what you think! You’re feedback is so valuable to me; you cannot imagine.

    Right now I’m quite busy with writing my thesis as well as working on promoting the content of a record label online, but I’m also getting very settled here, out a lot, with a lot of stories to tell, so will be blogging more soon… and posting some pictures again, finally. 😉

    BasBasBas.com is about my life abroad. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul, Bulgaria and travels in the region, but like to ponder about the future also. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • Groove Armada’s New Mini-Album… For Free!

    Groove Armadas new EP... for free!Groove Armada, the famous big beat, electronica and trip-hop producers, are sharing their newest EP freely with their fans through a nifty downloading scheme. One of the guys from Groove Armada recently stated about filesharing that “it’s utterly futile to try and stop people, just like it was stopping people creating mix tapes once they had two decks and a tape recorder”.

    You can download Groove Armada’s newest mini-album by clicking here or on the picture (provided by aeter). All you need to do is enter your age, since the deal is sponsored by Bacardi rum and you have to be above the legal drinking age in your country, and your email address to receive the first song of the album immediately and to acquire the rest later.

    This is very interesting to me, since I’ll be doing my final thesis of my bachelor degree very soon and it will be about the future of music distribution. It is very obvious that labels need to adopt new business models and that the old models simply don’t work anymore, since music is going back to being a service, instead of a product, so access is the most important thing. Groove Armada have realized this very well and have started this music distribution campaign which is bound to go viral (it already is).

    Apparently Groove Armada spoke about this deal with Bacardi at the MIDEM Conference  in Cannes, France where the music business meets every year. Below is an example of one of their chillout songs, for two more famous songs, check out Superstylin (big beat) or My Friend (lounge/electronica) on YouTube.


    Groove Armada – Fly Me To The Moon from Giul Viera & Fabia Oliveira on Vimeo.

    For Groove Armada’s new mini-EP, click here. If you’re a music lover like me, also have a look at The MiX-Files where I post my DJ sets as Spartz (for drum ‘n bass), spacescape (experimental & psychedelic), and EvilAngle (house/eclectro/breakbeat).

    BasBasBas.com is about my life abroad. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul, Bulgaria and travels in the region, but like to ponder about the future also. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • Merry Christmas from Istanbul (Not Constantinople)


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg
    (if YouTube is blocked in your country, enter this URL at atunnel.com)

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