“…piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers”

-Henry Jenkins, How Susan Spread and What It Means (2009)

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Shoes II comes out this summer.

This Friday April 24 Portugal’s Buraka Som Sistema will play the Biltmore Cabaret here in Vancouver as part of their North American tour.  They tore’d up Coachella last weekend and will be playing the Biltmore with the same stage setup: 2 DJs, 2 MC’s, 2 timbale players, 2 dancers, and a live drummer!  I don’t know how they’re all going to fit but it doesn’t matter.  This will be a sweaty-as-a-muthafucka currazy craze show. DJ Sega opens.

Get tickets at Zulu or Redcat or online. $15.

Check out the vid below of part of their Coachella set. Can’t wait to see those dancers live. Girl could move.

Yesterday Create Digital Music did a post on an application called Photosounder that blew my mind.  Photosounder allows you to turn a sound file into picture which you can then directly edit in a Photoshop etc.  You can play back the edited picture and hear the changes!  In the video example above it’s being used to isolate an instrument but the possibilities for creative uses are vast.

Currently Photosounder is PC only (boo!) but they’re working on Linux and Mac versions.  As mentioned in the CDM post, MetaSynth is a similar application for Mac which Aphex Twin used to put a picture of himself into the spectrogram of his song “Mathematical Equation”  as evidenced in his Wikipedia entry.

Just discovered the terrific East Van Disco blog via Far Away.  The blog has only been around for a few weeks but there are already a heap of great vinyl rips posted.

Apparently East Van Disco will be a quarterly party as well so keepa eye out.

I like everything the boys of Gucci Soundsystem do.  This mix for FACT magazine is no exception.  Highlights include the “world premeire” of the new Shit Robot single Simple Things and a Steve Koty edit of Gepy & Gepy’s African Love Song from the 1979 album Body to Body.

Fact Mix 39 - Gucci Soundsystem

Wow. Via Techdirt:

We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company’s difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user’s home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder), Beta Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette (requiring the installation of a rentable D-A converter in the phone itself . . . the main chip is about $12).

All accounting for royalty payments, billing to the customer, etc. would be automatic, built into the initial software for the system.

The consumer has the option of subscribing to one or more Interest Categories, charged at a monthly rate, without regard for the quantity of music he or she decides to tape.

Providing material in such quantity at a reduced cost could actually diminish the desire to duplicate and store it, since it would be available any time day or night.

Monthly listings could be provided by catalog, reducing the on-line storage requirements of the computer. The entire service would be accessed by phone, even if the local reception is via TV cable.

The advantage of the TV cable is: on those channels where nothing ever seems to happen (there’s about 70 of them in L.A.), a visualization of the original cover art, including song lyrics, technical data, etc., could be displayed while the transmission is in progress, giving the project an electronic whiff of the original point-of-purchase merchandising built into the album when it was ‘an album’, since there are many consumers who like to fondle & fetish the packaging while the music is being played. In this situation, Fondlement & Fetishism Potential [F.F.P.] is supplied, without the cost of shipping tons of cardboard around.

We require a LARGE quantity of money and the services of a team of mega-hackers to write the software for this system. Most of the hardware devices are, even as you read this, available as off-the-shelf items, just waiting to be plugged into each other so they can put an end to “THE RECORD BUSINESS” as we now know it.

T-t-t-time to jack.  Most fun you’ll have all month.  Promise.

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I’m in love with the look and feel of this video and with Phil Lynott’s style and with Phil Lynott.  What a track.  Picked up the Jailbreak album on vinyl at the Terminal Ave flea market for $3.

I’m sad that Phil has been dead since 1986 but I’m happy that he managed to impregnate a girl shortly before he died so that I could see his illegitimate son at a New Years Eve party.

If you luh dat grab Kaptain Cadillac’s delightfully classic Miami bass mix from Mad Decent.  Hit up the Kap Cad myspace for a bunch of other downloadable mixes.  Yeah, he’s from Paris.