This just in (courtesey of hypebot and @suffolkandcool). Got to be the saddest news of 2010 so far. Let’s hope there’s another avenue for aspiring artists soon….
Jamendo, which made available tens of thousands of free tracks licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License is changing course under new ownership.
“After months of uncertain search for a new investor, the company has finally been purchased by one of its clients.” company founder Patrick Haour told Hypebot. “The .com website will keep on existing, but the main focus from now on is on background music licensing”. This paid portion of Jamendo has previously been known as Jamendo.pro.
“Only a very small team has been maintained to keep things running,” said the talented Haour, who will be leaving the company on March 1st and already contemplating his options.
Well according to Gabor over at Electrical Language, who has it on good authority from Dave Pearson that my “ravings over too much ale and reggae” can be heard in Canberra.
Strewth! Can you have too much ale and reggae?
PCP#297… Podcastasomething…
With tracks by….Sklatasangs, Los Campesinos, Citizen Sound, Tanakasomething, La Tarrancha, Soap Company, Dan Whitehouse, Cloak And Dagge, Earlyw~rm, Els Minima, Baga Sound System.
PCP#297- Ska, ska, ska… Sklatasangs!, by Sklatasangs. Valencia, Spain. [Jamendo].
- There Are Listed Buildings, by Los Campesinos. Cardiff, Wales.
- Wa-Do-Dub (feat. Ammoye), by Citizen Sound. Ontario, Canada.
- Colorless, Coherence, by Tanakasomething (Grünemusik). [Jamendo].
- La Palabra Lliberta, by La Tarrancha. Anguilla, Spain. [Jamendo].
- We All Feel The Same Pain (Soap Company Remix), by Dan Whitehouse. Wolverhampton/Croydon, England.
- Night (Cloak And Dagger Remix), by Benga & Coki.
- Do The Wrm, by Earlyw~rm. Ontario, Canada. [ReggaeDubwise]
- El Dia Que Dante Va Baixar A L’infern, by Els Minimal. Catalonia. [Jamendo].
- Baga Jungle 2010, by Baga Sound System. Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegowina. [ReggaeDubwise]
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We now have two dub communities. ReggaeDubWise is back online, thanks to some rethinking by Carl, who’s been accepted into to a cancer program. We all hope that this works out for him!
And thanks to Gadman, we still have our new DubArk, so all the reggae tribe can be saved 2 by 2. Irie!
It’s been confirmed that the ReggaeDubWise.com community has closed down. This is a real shame, not just for the listeners of my podcasts, who have enjoyed the music, not just for the dubsters that have used the community for sharing, improving and help each other with their music, but also for the Carl Horton, and Rob Connelly who have given so much to make it work.
Carl is suffering from cancer and Rob has lost a close friend, a relationship and even his home during 2009. Regardless of your faith or your views, please spare a thought for these guys today and pray that 2010 will be a better year for them.
I’ve just calculated the downloads for all my podcasts for 2009. It’s over 230,000, which is excellent. It means that more people have heard more of the great artists I have the pleasure of playing and promoting on the show.
When I started podcasting in January 2006 I really didn’t think I’d be still at it today. I didn’t think there was enough great music out there to keep me interested. How I was wrong. There are now more netlabels than ever and more great music released every day.
So, if you’re an artist that I’ve played in the last 4 years, thank you for allowing me to play your music. If you’re a listener, thank you for downloading and (hopefully) enjoying what you hear. Here’s to 2010 being ther best year ever for netlabels, artists, podcasters and listeners everywhere!
ps. I keep all the monthly data here if you’re interested in numbers!
After quite a few positive (and negative) comments from yesterday’s post about the RATM machine I see that there’s now a facebook group called… SOD SONY – LET’S MAKE ‘FEAR OF A BLACK JESUS’ CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1 INSTEAD!.
Oh yes! This really hits the spot. Let’s get behind this people! Truly independent British music, Truly independet and authentic Christmas message.
Very nice to see fellow AMP podcaster, Roland, from Machdose, bring his selections to Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar.
Especially like the downtempo track “Cotacachi!”, by Nuuro. Really Haunting!
Excellent track “While She Sleeps (Morning Edit)” , by The Lights Galaxia, is the best track IMHO, from Catching The Wave’s selection from Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar today.
I’ve been a fan of Dave Almgren (aka Voide) for quite a few years now. It’s around this time of year he comes up with a new album and he’s doing it again with “Red Turns To Blue“, which should hit the streets in January 2010 at the latest.
Once again Dave teams up with vocalists Suzie Electric and Marie Craven (aka Pixieguts).
I hope to bring you some tracks on PC Podcast soon!
Greg Healey gives his selections for Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar today. Greg has a weekly radio show “Analogue Island“.
Greg chose a track by my old mate, Spidersleg, as well as the Cwtch album (featuring Marie Craven aka Pixieguts).
David Domingo, co-director of netaudio.es gives hisselection of the best creative commons audio of 2009.
Some very interesting downtempo electronica from Mosaik and soem classic tracks from Henrik Jose (aka Bliss).
Blogger of the Music Forest, from Japan, Masayuki, gives us his Netlabel selections for 2009 from Phlow’s Advent Calendar today.
Some rather interesting “chiptune” stuff as you might expect from a Japanese source, plus some “game boy dub” (dubstep?) from quarta330 which is quite excellent.
Unfortunately archive.org is down as I write this, so a lot of the links are down. Netlabel FAIL!
Michael Gregoire pushes all the right buttons from the start when he includes Jamendo favourites Juanitos and The Diablo Swing Orchestra in his Phlow-Magazine Advent Calendar selection.
So it was great to find some golden nuggets that I’ve missed over the year – especially Russian Pop Duo Muha and Nashville band Paper Navy.
I wonder what tomorrow’s selection will be?
In Day 4 of Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar we have selections from Mogwai from Mannheim in Germany.
In addition to starting he works with his project Kreislauf he works with N0theen and netaudio.blogspot.
Some interesting dubstep selections from the 20/twelve Dubstep netlabel as well as reference to the excellent Budabeats and Acroplane, who of course, you’ve heard tracks from on my podcasts.
Just listening back to PCP#289 for tomorrow and…. wow, something seems to have happened to make this episode really special….
…an it’s gots lots of glokenspiel in it!
Intrigued? Can you wait until tomorrow? Well you’ll jolly well have to!
Christmas really has come early this year with Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar.
Day 3 gives us a downtempo, dubtech-stylee selection from Psycoded. As one of the members of the Cologne Commons team he helped organising one of those rare events where people meet in real.
Well worth a listen!
Checkout the Needle In The Groove netlabel for some eclectic hip-hop. The label is based in Lincoln, here in the UK, but features Hip-Hop from all over the world. Definitley going to serve up something in PCP soon, but check them out for yourselves!
Day 2 of Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar of netlabels gives us the choices of Netwaves – a weekly radio program dedicated to netlabels and netaudio, broadcasted on Belgium’s oldest commercial-free independent local radio.
Some great tracks today include artists like Dadub from the ever-excellent A Quiet Bump and a new band for me, pandoras.box, from Bavaria, Germany.
If you missed some of the great Creative Commons Licensed music from various netlabels this year then checkout Phlow Magazine’s Advent Calendar.
Each Day you can download some tracks and recommendations from Phlow’s bloggers and music artists!
Today: selections from Brigitte Bijoux.