Producer Masterclass participants and Wales’ most dangerous hi-hoppers Goldie Lookin’ Chain are asking for your assistance in aiding some of their homeland’s most vulnerable people.
If you visit www.everybodyisadj.com you can remix their single “Everybody Is a DJ” via the downloadable Musicshake application.
The best remixes will be available to purchase via the site and all proceeds will go to Shelter Cymru. Celebrity participants so far include Ed Harcourt, Oxide of Oxide & Neutrino fame, and James Ruskin. The best remix as picked by the band will win a GLC performance at the winner's Christmas party - see the site for more details.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got a pressing engagement at Bristol Zoo.
Wednesday November 11, 2009 Remix Goldie Lookin’ Chain and help the homeless!
Music legend Midge Ure to launch Tunited, "the new music industry"
Ultravox legend Midge Ure is to launch a website, Tunited, aimed at promoting up-and-coming artists. Midge says of the site, "With Tunited, we’re not just opening doors for new artists – we’re blowing the doors right off, Italian Job-style! Tunited will be the new music industry." Bold words indeed!
Tunited will go live on January 10th 2010, and is described thus:
"Tunited is a groundbreaking new independent music website which will assist new and independent artists and labels gain increased exposure, challenging the flagging music business’ growing reluctance to invest in this exciting area.
Tunited will be a great exponent of new music at all levels from new student musicians right the way through to independent artists and labels with, almost uniquely, all download payments being passed on to the artist. The four cornerstones of Tunited are: Create, Collaborate, Promote and Enjoy.
Create is the music and design creation software, that comes free with Tunited that can help artists to construct their music from scratch, or they can
simply upload their existing catalogue.
Collaborate is the community element of the site, where artists can share work, ideas and network, gig-swap and exchange skills to create virtual bands.
Promote covers news, interviews, online concerts, and opportunities for advice and feedback from industry experts, A&Rs and producers.
Enjoy is where you can listen to all the music that Tunited offers its audience, with charts to show which artists are most popular within each musical genre from indie to classical, from wonk to dub-step"
We at CM are particularly interested in the 'Create' aspect of Tunited, and we hope to have more solid details on the abovementioned software before too long.
In the run up to its launch, the Tunited site is hosting a competition: entrants submit their work, with the top 100 becoming featured profile artists upon the site's launch. See www.tunited.com for details.
WIN FL Studio 9 with CM145's competition!
Computer Music 145, November issue, gives readers the chance to win one of five copies of FL Studio 9 Signature Bundle. This is the biggest, baddest FL Studio bundle available, containing FL Studio 9 and goodies such as the Vocodex vocoder, SynthMaker graphical programming environment, and some premium plug-ins that you'd normally have to pay extra for, eg, the DirectWave sampler, Maximus multiband dynamics tool, and Sytrus FM synth.
Turn to p87 in the current issue (CM144) to read the full details of the competition and find out how to enter.
Be sure to check out flstudio.image-line.com for more info on FL Studio!
