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Thåström – Pstereofestivalen 2009
Bilder fra Pstereofestivalen 2009. Jævlig mørkt på den konserten, så
disse bildene er pushet maksimalt i Photoshop, med varierende hell.
Screenshots from the Wimp music software
Norwegian firm Aspiro is working on a Spotify competitor, due to go into beta in the summer of 2009 according to NRKbeta. But a happy few, including me, has had access for a while, and I wanted to share a few annotated screenshots from the Abobe Air-based client.
PS: To get a betatest login, please send your name and mobile phone number to wimp@aspiro.com, and follow @aspiromusic on Twitter
Get personal recommendations based on your last.fm history by authorizing Wimp to access your data. This is what my recommandations look like. A little unusual selection perhaps, but looks interresting.
“It’s friday and I’m in love”, a Spotify collaborative playlist
I am a huge big fan of Spotify, it is basically running 24/7 at work and at home, but yesterday I wanted to test the collaborative playlist feature. I made a Spotify playlist called “It’s friday and I’m in love” and inviting people on Twitter to join in. The result was really interesting. We created a very strange soundtrack indeed, but I feel like people respected the theme set by the playlist name and first song, and without being explicitly asked to do so. The list even got Rick-rolled by someone adding “Never gonna give you up” on every other line (and then regretted and removed them again), which in my opinion is the ultimate honor.
Cute and social experiment, it almost feels like magic when you see the list growing by the minute.
Spotify is still very barren when it comes to social features, the collab lists is basically the only way you can interact with people at this point, but I am sure this will be expanded upon with new releases of the software, or with plugins. It sucks to not be able to see who adds a particular song, or to be able to comment and talk to people, so hopefully it won’t take too long before such features are added.
The list, as of March 21 2009:
Ps: All links open directly in the Spotify application. I you don’t have it installed you are out of luck. Read more about how I put it online at the bottom of this post.
Open the whole playlist: It’s friday and I’m in love
Or click on each track to listen to it:
Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
The Levellers – What A Beautiful Day
Katrina and the Waves – Walking On Sunshine
Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5 – The Love You Save
Bo Kaspers Orkester – Dansa på min grav
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With the Night
The Lionheart Brothers – 50 Souls And A Discobowl
La Bionda – I Wanna Be Your Lover
Walter Wanderley – O Samba Brasileiro
The Thrills – Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?
Neil Young – Out on the Weekend
Stan Getz – Samba De Uma Nota So
Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
Belle and Sebastian – The Boy Done Wrong Again
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Rich Girl
Cab Calloway – Minnie The Moocher (The Ho-De-Ho Song)
Gerard Joling – Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Reggae Version)
The Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes
Waylon Jennings – I’m A Ramblin’ Man
Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes
Todd Rundgren – Can We Still Be Friends
The Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson) – Highwayman
Catherine Feeny – Hurricane Glass
Gösta Jonsson – Samling vid pumpen
Åge Aleksandersen – Dains me dæ
Åge Aleksandersen – Ljus och värme
Åge Aleksandersen – Langt igjæn til Royal Albert Hall
Tom Waits – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
Pet Shop Boys – I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
Eagles Of Death Metal – I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News)
The Smiths – William It Was Really Nothing
Jackie Davis – Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me)
Poor Rich Ones – I Was Made For Loving You
Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
Bryan Ferry – The Way You Look Tonight
The Magnetic Fields – Too Drunk to Dream
Vømmøl Spellmannslag – Auksjonsvisa
Flight Of The Conchords – Business Time
The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry
Flight Of The Conchords – The Prince of Parties
Terence Trent D’Arby – Sign Your Name
Paul Simon – How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
The Cardigans – And Then You Kissed Me
Wyclef Jean featuring Mary J. Blige – 911
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart
Queens Of The Stone Age – Feel Good Hit of the Summer
MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've)
Jojje Wadenius – Kalles Klätterträd
Queens Of The Stone Age – In My Head
Mojinos Escozios – Mi Barrí de Servesa
Prince & The Revolution – Raspberry Beret
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – The Other Side of Summer
The Magnetic Fields – The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
Pixies – Where Is My Mind? (Remastered)
New Kids On The Block – Hangin’ Tough
Jahn Teigen – Det Vakreste Som Fins
Jahn Teigen – Min Første Kjærlighet
Crowded House – Chocolate Cake
Tori Amos – My Favorite Things
I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper – OMG, Techno Chicks!!!
Jerry Reed – East Bound & Down (Jerry Reed)
Billie Holiday – That Ole Devil Called Love
The White Stripes – I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Stooges – Down On The Street
The Killers – When You Were Young
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You
George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag
Liam Lynch – Electrician’s Day
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower
They Might Be Giants – Infinity
The Specials – Our Lips Are Sealed
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again
Morrissey – The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get
MC Júnior E MC Leonardo – Rap Das Armas
Kylie Minogue – The Loco-Motion
Tricky – Hell Is Round the Corner
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy – Derail And Demise
Mitch Hedberg – Mitch in the S’th
Mikael Wiehe och Ebba Forsberg – Allra minst en morgon
Fred Åkerström – Jag ger dig min morgon
Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
Simian – We Are Your Friends (Radio Edit)
Jay-Z – Brooklyn Go Hard [feat. Santogold]
Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin’ Featuring Jill Scott
Arctic Monkeys – Dancing Shoes
Known collaborators (based on conversations on Twitter):
Eterg, lastninja1980, _Rolf_, mariusgenser, johanhal, Barstein, degarden, paljoakim, Markussss, nech
How to publish a Spotify playlist on the web the easy way
You might be wondering how I was able to put all the songs from the playlist in the post? Spotify still hasn’t got an API, so my plan was to actually build it by hand. I first tried to mark all the songs in the playlist and CTRL-C/APPLE-C them, but instead of a lovely list of artist and song names I got the http links to all the tracks, so there went that idea. But to my amasement something magic happened when I posted all the urls into Textedit on my macbook! All the urls got transformed into clickable links automatically! All I had to do was save the Textedit document as html and open it in my browser to test it, and it worked like a charm! Just a view source and a copy paste away from this blog post! (I believe the Spotify software needs to be running when you do this).
If you want to copy the nice Spotify URI direct links instead of the HTTP links you have to select all the songs in your list, the right click and choose “Copy Spotify URI”.
There are alread plenty of sites where you can share your Spotify playlists, and when those can access a proper API I believe great things will happen. Spotify is already a fantastic product. When people can start adding cool stuff it will explode!
Everything that happens will happen today, for free!
David Byrne & Brian Eno publishes their latest collaboration online. You can listen to the entire album and even embed it in your own site for free. The album “Everything that happens will happen today” is only sold though their website http://www.everythingthathappens.com/ and is available in many different digital and physical formats.
I guess David Byrne is following his own preachings, here is the blurb from a panel he participated in last year at SXSW, titled Record Companies: Who Needs Them?:
Rock renaissance man and Talking Head David Byrne explores the state of the music business from an artist’s perspective. With the rapid fall of recording costs and distribution costs, the economics of the music industry have tilted in the favor of the artist. What kinds of business models make the most sense for the artist, what are their ramifications, and most importantly, what should artists be aiming for in the long run?
David Byrne has popped up all over the place lately, but I especially liked his wonderful Playing the building-project, which you can see more from in the boing boing tv video embedded below:
A video piece
Shot on a roadtrip to Amsterdam. The audio is me improvising on a piano.
Mapamp, remix while walking
Artist: Tamas Szaka
I like the idea of triggering different sounds depending where a person is in a space, and especially of this is done in a large outdoor arena, like a park. As you move to different positions in the park, the soundscape changes, and you litereally use your body as a dj would use his hands to remix a track.
Mapamp uses existing structures and systems (architecture of a city, navigation and radio systems) to layer an artificial acoustic space over the original one.
The participant walks the streets wearing a special vest that allows him/her to navigate through different sound data fields. These virtual spaces differ from the geographic city scape. Changing his/her position, the walker can pick up and mix the sounds, which come into connection with the architectural features of the public space: the noise of the surroundings, distant radio stations and abstract sound samples intermingle in the space, depending upon the position, direction and velocity of the visitors.
Indie = don’t dance!
Fantastic blog with fantastic music!
indie don’t dance: “At my first indie music show, my friend Brianna explained to me in a hushed whisper, ‘Remember: indie = don’t dance.’ I’ve been struggling with this rule for a while now, so I thought I could use some company as I listen to amazing independent music and try my hardest not to dance.”
Liz Phair . Somebody’s Miracle
Wow, this is the first podcast i’ve seen delivered by an artist. Good way to give your fans some juicy new bits.
Liz Phair . Somebody’s Miracle: “Listen To The First Liz Phair Podcast!
Liz talks with her brother and also discusses rail travel with support act Cary Brothers. Also features two live performances: Table for One (unreleased) & Baby Got Going (Whitechocolatespaceegg).”
Ugress Feat. Therese Vadem – Makina Fifth
“No plastic animals where harmed during the filming of this video”.
Cute and simple music video from the Norwegian electronica artist Ugress, a former winner of the annual Urørt democontest.
Go to Urørt to download the newest Norwegian under ground artists, for free.