| March 2006 news
March 25, 2006
CREATIVE COMMONS HEADLINES
a)
Oh yes.
It's all over international news. A Dutch gossip magazine published some photos which were licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons (CC) license, without permission from the copyright holder.
And guess what: They lost the case in a court of law.
The owner of the photos was none other than Adam Curry. Mr. Podcast himself.
Read more about this here.
b)
CC based labels continue to multiply themselves like rabbits. Now it was time for Beatpick - a british online label (netlabel, yeah.) - to enter the scene. They sell CC licensed music from an eclectic roster of new uprising artists. All under Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs licenses. Which means: Buy it, share it, play it, modify it, do whatever you like with it.
This is great news for the music community worldwide. CC are here to stay. Power to the people!
By the way, we use Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs licenses too.
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March 17, 2006
OLD SCHOOL CLASSICS
• tube'|038 - irish - The Pretty Album
«Maybe you remember irish from one of our first releases, tube008. More than a year ago, we wrote: «irish’s Understandings is a beautiful EP that sets the melancholic tone right from the beginning». Well, we can easily pick up where we left. irish's tone is still sad and melancholic much like it was months ago, but he has developed his style since then. He has cleaned up his sound a little and invited two of his friends to sing for this release.
'The Man of Dead Letters', featuring singer Mississippi Sunburst, is a childish-like song, with english male lyrics over a slow and heavy bass beat, soft keyboard drones and an insistent, deliberately untuned guitar. A mellow start for a 'Pretty Album'.
'Rave at Mt. Eboshi' is the first of the two instrumental pieces. Its strong IDM architecture pushes up the beat some notches and adds some cut-and-paste voice sampling for a great Sheffield feel. Did you mentioned 'Old School' and 'Warp' in the same sentence? Yep, rightly so.
'Theme of Emi', featuring japanese artist Tsurutin, is a beautiful little jewell to keep next to the heart. It balances some sweet girly lyrics - spoken in japanese - adorned by some really sad keyboards with more classic, dissonant and round IDM beats, to create a distant nostalgic effect. really special, this one.
'Curtain call for The Man', the last instrumental piece, closes this release with a nice touch: A kind of a lo-fi hip hop tune, with bubbling effects, lots of vinyl scratchin' and a weeping cello. Priceless stuff.» - Pedro Leitão
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March 01, 2006
ROCK 'N' ROLL!
• tube'|037 - The Union Freego - Greetings from the NE
«And now for something completely different!
The Union Freego (TUF) is a classic pop/rock band from the North-East of Italy - hence the title 'Greetings from the NE' - that plays classic indie-rock, north-american style.
We usually don't release rather obvious music genres or styles, but TUF seemed a nice twist to a somewhat linear catalogue, and after some listening we decided to go forward with it. Another recent motive for releasing this EP comes related with the band leaving electric instruments behind and focusing on acoustic ones, and also because one of the original members left the band and was replaced by a new guy.
Fans of Luna will find TUF their cup-of-tea right after the first song 'Something's Wrong'. R's vocals have that kind of bittersweet sounding that goes perfectly with the guitar and drums.
'Judo' is my favorite song. It has a delicious rhythmic section right from the start, and the lyrics are quite nice too.
There's not much more to be said: Well sung indie-rock played by alpine italians with a knack for basslines and nice guitar riffs.
18 minutes worth listening to.
Visit TUF's website for more info on the band.» - Pedro Leitão
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