{"id":1059,"date":"2009-01-23T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2009-01-22T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:45:14","slug":"groove-armadas-new-mini-album-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/23\/groove-armadas-new-mini-album-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Groove Armada&#8217;s New Mini-Album&#8230; For Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Groove Armadas new EP... for free!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1274\/704809709_ad683a5949.jpg\" alt=\"Groove Armadas new EP... for free!\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" \/>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeropaid.com\/news\/9972\/Groove+Armada%3A+Fighting+File-Sharing+is+%27Utterly+Futile%27\" target=\"_blank\">stated about filesharing<\/a> that &#8220;it&#8217;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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>You can download Groove Armada&#8217;s newest mini-album by clicking here<\/strong> <\/span>or on the picture (provided <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/aeter\/704809709\/\" target=\"_blank\">by aeter<\/a>). 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is very interesting to me, since I&#8217;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&#8217;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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=Groove+Armada+free\" target=\"_blank\">it already is<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/midemnetblog.typepad.com\/midemnet_blog\/2009\/01\/bacardi-case-study-learning-from-a-pioneer-brand-artist-relationship.html\" target=\"_blank\">Groove Armada spoke about this deal<\/a> with Bacardi at the MIDEM Conference\u00a0 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-u9lQ9bkwE\" target=\"_blank\">Superstylin<\/a> (big beat) or <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=9AhzX0pou-U\" target=\"_blank\">My Friend<\/a> (lounge\/electronica) on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1027246&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1027246&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Groove Armada &#8211; Fly Me To The Moon<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/giuefa\">Giul Viera &amp; Fabia Oliveira<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>For Groove Armada&#8217;s new mini-EP, click here<\/strong><\/span>. If you&#8217;re a music lover like me, also have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themixfiles.com\/\">The MiX-Files<\/a> where I post my DJ sets as Spartz (for drum &#8216;n bass), spacescape (experimental &amp; psychedelic), and EvilAngle (house\/eclectro\/breakbeat).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>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\u2019d like to stay up to date, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/basbasbas\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1139007\" target=\"_blank\">get email updates in your inbox<\/a>. 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