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Nokia Nsights on Music

Published on April 2, 2007 in music and podcast. Closed

Nsights

I got invited by Nokia to talk a bit about podcasting and music discovery. The results of that interview, combined with opinions of Clo Willaerts, Alex Koprivnicanec, Steven Lemmens and Dieter Sermeus, can be found on the Nokia Nsights blog. Instead of just creating a sales brochure for their N95 phone, Nokia created a place where new technologies and trends are discussed, thus touching the bleeding edge of Internet, music, photo, video, and GPS usage. The perfect positioning for a state-of-the-art phone like the N95.

Today, the Nokia N95 starts a new and exciting future, building on the combination of all these revolutionary devices. Therefore, we’ve invited visionaries from across the technology world to share their insights into different parts of the future that got here early.

The videos

Podcasting: the rise of audio content

Discovering new music got easy

The videos for Internet and Music are already online, the others will follow soon!

Humo’s Pop Poll 2007

Published on March 20, 2007 in music. 4 Comments

I don’t know if I was expecting too much, but the content of the Humo’s Pop Poll De Luxe was a bit of a disappointment. Thanks to my good connections I was the “+1″ for a VIP-ticket yesterday at the Sportpaleis. While the VIP-treatment is always a most enjoyable circumstance, during the show we often had a “WTF?” feeling, but not in a good sense. K3 doing “3 biggetjes” comes to mind, and the dance steps of the woman that was supposed to be the head of TV station één (she wasn’t). DJ Tony from Willy’s en Marjetten (Bart Depauw) came on stage in a Borat minimal swimming outfit and placed an image in our mind that took several doses of alcohol to get rid of afterwards. Whoever wrote Roos’ texts wasn’t very inspired and even the Methusalem of Humo(r), Guy Mortier, who undoubtedly writes his own texts, was not up to his – granted, quite high- level. Most of the comedy acts went for cheap routines on gays, blacks and women. Wim Helsen even combined all three in an interview with Tom Lanoye. The best stand-up comedy act came from a Dutch guy: Najib Amhali. Ouch!

As for the music: most of it was loud. It felt more like a circus: everyone was invited to do one or two tricks and then disappear again. Why a group like the Van Jets were invited to play, will remain a mystery for me. The musical highlights for me:

Just after the break: Steven Wold aka “Seasick Steve” who played blues with just a guitar and a heavy left foot. Authentic, addictive and big fun.
Seasick Steve

Geike Arnaert together with Sioen did a cover of Nick Cave’s “Wild Rose”. Gripping and classy. ‘Kiekevel’!
Sioen Geike
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Radio.Blog.Club is Youtube for music

Published on February 2, 2007 in music. 5 Comments

radioblogclubDid you ever wonder if there was something as easy as Youtube for audio? That you could use a simple copy/paste procedure to put a music player in your web pages? Well, there is. I’ve started using the Radio.Blog.Club player for my Sample Spotters blog and it’s proven to be as convenient as Youtube.

Radio.Blog.Club is a french project that works differently from YouTube. The music is not hosted by them, but by individuals. You can install the Radio.blog.player, which allows you to ‘convert’ your music (it actually creates MP3 files at 64kbps with the LAME encoder, but calls them .rbs files) and then stream them from your own site in a playlist. The clever thing now is that Radio.Blog aggregates all these playlists and allows you to search from a central place. You can then listen to individuals songs (streamed from their respective hosts) or get the copy/paste HTML code to include them in your own blog/site. So they give you access to the music, but they don’t actually host the files, which puts them in a better position against the RIAA. They also have the RadioBlog store where you can buy music (through Amazon).

Some examples:

This is the Dusty Springfield version of “Just a little lovin” that was later remixed by Outlines (obsolete)
You can make fancy versions of the player by picking your own colors (obsolete)
Sometimes they even have some rather obscure music like this song by Shinichi Osawa (obsolete)

O holy fright

Published on December 25, 2006 in music. Closed

Evil santa
Wishing you all a merry Christmas, and what better way than with this musical jewel of pure Christmas joy:



(or download an mp3.)

What I love about it is just when you think it couldn’t possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once, building to the most glorious mess I’ve ever heard. I smile every time I hear it.
from thesneeze.com via defectiveyeti.com and themorningnews.org