From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #264 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, November 1 2000 Volume 05 : Number 264 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) [Brian Clayton ] Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) [lulfstedt@amadeus.net] Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) [Jon Drukman ] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V5 #263 [Kathleen Presser ] Alloy: Beatnik in the news [Robin Thurlow ] Alloy: Happy Holiday! [Russell Milliner ] Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) [Jon Drukman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:05:17 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) Would this also be the Jon Drukman of LoveHounds fame? Welcome aboard! BC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:36:29 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) Welcome aboard, Jon! (and a big hello to any of the other newbies! Sorry - I haven't been keeping up with my mail!) Lissu - overworked & mailbox overflowing :-) (France) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:33:49 -0800 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) At 11:05 PM 10/30/2000 -0800, you wrote: >Would this also be the Jon Drukman of LoveHounds fame? guilty as charged, m'lud. (and amazed anyone remembers... that was > 10 years ago now) >Welcome aboard! thanks! - -jsd- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:11:37 -0800 From: Kathleen Presser Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V5 #263 To Everyone, Happy Halloween!!!!! May you all feel a wee bit of magic today and tonight. Kate;-) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:17:08 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) - --- Jon Drukman wrote: > Several years later, I got to see the Lost Toy > People at the Ritz in NYC, > and wow - what a contrast! The place was going off > like a bomb had been > dropped. The floor was literally pumping up and > down from the weight of > all the people shaking their butts! I guess to > those who were expecting > more introspective English music like GAoW and Flat > Earth, Aliens Ate My > Buick must have seemed like a big upraised middle > finger, but I have always > had really far-reaching taste, so I loved it. The > live version really > showed what the Lost Toy People were all about > though. I wish there was a > live album from that period. Jon, I cracked up when I read your interpretation of the impression AAMB must have made! I remember very clearly when this album was released - I'd been classically trained on bass while growing up, and really had a better feel for basslines that rumble menacingly below the surface, growing up from the depths, that kind of thing. It was at first very hard for me to adjust to that slick, sinewy, rapid-fire slap-bass careening across the top of many of the songs on this album, and the fact that the bass was louder even than the horns was even more bizarre for someone more accustomed to orchestra I guess. Every previously held instinct I'd had for sound was turned upside down & backward by the arrangements in this album & I just couldn't figure it out. In the end though, I made up my mind to abandon everything I'd been used to previously & trust in Thomas' musical expertise to lead me along through his work. AAMB is fantastic & is probably the single most powerful album I've ever heard, as it has completely changed the way I've thought about music ever since. Hearing your description of the show makes me also wish there were a live release - or better yet, film footage - from this tour. Robin T __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:14:55 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: Beatnik in the news Elektra, Interscope, Pookie Records/Beyond Music, V2, Virgin and Zomba Embrace Beatnik Mixman Technology Remixed By Millions of Users SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik Inc., a leader in interactive audio technologies and content for the Web and digital devices, today announced several long-term deals and alliances with major recording labels and artists to produce an ambitious slate of new Mixman eMixes(TM) and Mixman Singles(TM). The deals and alliances represent widespread acceptance of Beatnik's Mixman product line to promote the most popular music artists to an audience of millions of eager fans around the world. Mixman eMixes, remixed by millions of users online, allow fans to interact with songs from their favorite artists on a personal level, remixing a song's individual elements, such as guitars, drums, vocals, keyboards and bass simply by pointing and clicking. Fans can send their personalized eMixes to friends via email and enter them in contests. Mixman Singles are remixable versions of popular songs, specially designed to work with Mixman software enabling users to create their own custom remixes to download offline onto CDs and other formats or upload them to Mixman Radio. Beatnik works closely with artists and record labels to bring music fans these special interactive versions of music from some of the world's top producers and underground musicians. Beatnik has signed a multi-year contract with Zomba Group of Companies, the world's largest independent music company, to produce a steady stream of Mixman eMixes based on content from the Zomba group of music labels. Songs featured in the Beatnik offering include *NSYNC and Britney Spears from the Jive Record label and are featured on byebyebye.com and britney.com respectively. The far-ranging deal strengthens the momentum of the already successful Britney Spears "Crazy" Mixman eMix that debuted last spring on Yahoo! Music. "We have received incredible support from record labels and artists who view Mixman eMixes and Mixman Singles as secure and engaging vehicles to deliver their music to millions of fans online, in recording studios and dance clubs around the world," said Thomas Dolby Robertson, founder and chief Beatnik, Beatnik, Inc. "Mixman eMixes allow music fans to legally trade their own personalized version of songs -- creating a much more vested and powerful community of fans. There is no better way to connect with loyal fans, or keep visitors glued to a Web site for long periods of time." Labels and Artists Embrace Beatnik as Top Web Promotional Partner Many other top labels have joined Zomba and Jive in creating Beatnik Mixman eMixes and Mixman Singles to use as Web promotions for their top acts. Following the successful release of the first Mixman eMix from critically acclaimed artist, Moby, Beatnik and V2 have produced a second Moby eMix with his hit "Natural Blues" which is showcased on MTV.com. Additional Mixman eMixes debuted this spring from top artists including Aphrodite and Touch N Go. V2 plans to use Beatnik's Mixman software to enhance future DVD projects and will offer several Mixman Singles for sale this fall. Beatnik and Interscope, which first released a Mixman eMix from award-winning group Smash Mouth, are extending the relationship to produce a new lineup of eMixes from a select number of artists including Hoku, Samantha Mumba and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Beatnik and Virgin Records America launched a Mixman eMix in conjunction with Lycra.com to promote hot up-and-coming artist Kelis. Virgin Mexico recently launched the first Spanish translated eMix with Latin group Plastilina Mosh. Elektra and Beatnik have produced eMixes for Busta Rhymes, Take 5 and VAST this year. Beatnik and Pookie Records/Beyond Music collaborated on the first-ever "Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest" hosted exclusively by MTV.com. Participating fans mixed the cutting-edge R&B super-group Lucy Pearl's Mixman eMix, featuring their now chart-topping song "La La." About Beatnik, Inc. Beatnik brings interactive music and sound to the Web through its combination of technology, content and services. Beatnik's solution includes a line of applications, production music, sound content and the Mixman software product line, enabling the integration of interactive audio content into the Web experience. Beatnik develops, markets and sells its interactive audio solution to a community of creative professionals, potential licensees of its technology and consumers enabling them to build and interact with music and sound over the Web, on computers and other digital devices. Mixman Technologies, Inc. became a subsidiary of Beatnik in December 1999. Incorporated in 1996, Beatnik was founded by musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. QUOTE ADDENDUM "Elektra continues to embrace the online movement through its content relationship with Beatnik," said Camille Hackney, VP of Multimedia, Marketing and Business Development of Elektra. "We have chosen Beatnik's Mixman eMixes as a premiere vehicle for marketing and selling our artists' content via the Web. We think Beatnik's remixing tool is a creative feature in the evolution of today's complicated music and online worlds." "Beatnik's Mixman eMixes provide nothing artists with a compelling and unique way to interact with their fans," said Susan Celia Swan, Senior VP, Publicity and New Media, nothing records. "We look forward to providing eMixes by our top artists on an ongoing basis." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:30:22 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Alloy: Happy Holiday! Happy Halloween, Samhain, New Years, and Day of the Dead eve! - -------------------------------------- - -Russell Milliner (milliner@pobox.com) http://www.pobox.com/~milliner/ - -------------------------------------- The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it. - -Neal Stephenson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:35:23 -0800 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) At 03:17 PM 10/31/2000 -0800, Robin Thurlow wrote: >AAMB is >fantastic & is probably the single most powerful album >I've ever heard, as it has completely changed the way >I've thought about music ever since. i didn't find it nearly that affecting, probably because i was familiar with the antecedents going in (george clinton, parliament/funkadelic, kool & the gang, count basie) to me, AAMB is a great fun party album. (well, modulo the slower tracks). GAoW probably changed the way i thought about music a lot. what really did it to me back in those salad days though was Art of Noise. imagine a child of 13 seeing the video for "close to the edit". damn, MTV was so cool then. > Hearing your >description of the show makes me also wish there were >a live release - or better yet, film footage - from >this tour. yes! for the song "airhead" there was some very "stagey" stuff going on involving Laura the percussionist tying up TMDR and then threatening him with a very large set of pruning shears! i believe at the end he gets "rescued" by the bass player. - -jsd- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #264 ***************************