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[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

If you're perfectly content just building and experimenting, that's wonderful. But I think it would also be great to enlist the participation of trained and untrained musicians to play and compose for your creations, if you derive satisfaction from that kind of socializing of course. However, it's so nice to see someone so self-motivated by the pursuit itself.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

If it's still not working for you, then I'd add that Matrix has been buggy in my experience. It's a great project but feels like a beta. I'll be using the call feature later today, so I will get back to you with my experience.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wow! You're building your own DIY orchestra. Do you build for others, or are these for personal use? It would be amazing to be in an ensemble of DIY instruments.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Very cool! I've found open source music and diy music comms but they're empty and/or neglected. Hope to see more projects and posts like yours around the Fediverse.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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Promo for some sweet Hellraiser merch including a windbreaker and thermos, all told to us through a sweet old lady and her dead cat.

 
  1. Richard Bone–Vox 2.5_4:10
  2. Bad Data–What's In The Box?_5:02
  3. 8m² Stereo–Unc_8:56
  4. Woob–Giant Stroke_8:43
  5. Gas (2)–Oxygen_7:56
  6. International Peoples Gang–Imagination Satellite_5:31
  7. Dallas Simpson–Aquapump_12:09
  8. Miasma–Dead Eye_5:52
  9. Hywel Davies–Apus Apus_8:08

Em:t Records (Emit Records) was a British record label, based in Nottingham, which specialized in ambient electronic music. They were active from 1994 to 1998.

All of the 94-98 em:t releases were processed using the Roland Sound Space RSS 3D sound imaging system, giving the music an extra "spacious" quality.

em:t was born as a division of the t:me Recordings label in 1994. t:me released mostly vinyl records falling under the broad category of house music, and sought to create a new sublabel for more forward-thinking ambient material. Over the next four years, they released a series of eighteen albums and compilations, packaged as a collector's series. Though em:t never enjoyed widespread commercial success, their releases were highly regarded and influential in ambient circles, and the label attracted a cult following - encouraged, no doubt, by the collectible nature of the releases.

em:t releases had strict rules governing their design aesthetic. Individual album titles were always the sequential four-digit catalogue number of the disc; the album's cover was always a full-colour picture of a wild animal; all albums were released on CD only; all CDs were packaged in digipacks; all CDs themselves bore the same Chinese character in black on the non-playing face of the disc.

The label garnered praise from music journalists at the time. Coda magazine wrote that "The Em:t series will surely go down in history for being as important in the 90s as the albums of Brian Eno were in the 70s", and specialist music magazine The Wire noted that the em:t catalogue represented "The vanguard of post-dance technological music". Em:t produced promo postcards for the label on which these quotes, and others, were duly displayed. A Q&A in DJ Magazine in 1995 also stated the label's unofficial credo: "Never presume your audience is any less clever than you are".

 

Taken from 'The Sword & The Soaring', new album out 11/11

https://navybluethetruest.bandcamp.com/album/the-sword-the-soaring

 

Taken off their second full length ‘File Under: Easy Listening’, the official music video for the Sugar track ‘Your Favorite Thing’ released in 1994.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's recently stepped down as CEO but apparently still remains heavily involved in the business.

Spotify’s stock price has taken a bit of a tumble since Ek’s announcement on September 30, dropping around 7.5% as of mid-day trading on the NYSE on October 9. That may be a reflection of the confidence that investors have in Ek as the driving force behind Spotify, and why Ek has gone to pains to stress that he is not leaving the company, and will continue to have an active hand in the business as a “European”-style Executive Chairman.

“Most investors may come at it from a US perspective, where [Chairman is] mostly a ceremonial role. In Europe, it isn’t. In fact, a Chairman is someone who’s quite active in the business, sometimes even represents the business externally to different stakeholders, like, for instance, governments or key partners,” Ek said on a recent investor call.

Ek walks away from the CEO role as one of the 10 richest people in Sweden, with Forbes estimating his fortune at $9.6 billion. Amid a massive run-up in Spotify’s stock over the past few years (at around $673 per share, it’s gone up about 8.5-fold since a bottom below $80 in late 2022), Ek has cashed in a significant amount of Spotify shares. By MBW’s estimates, he had sold nearly $808 million in Spotify stock as of this past May.

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But some of Ek’s investments have proven controversial, most notably Prima Materia’s leading role in a €600 million ($700 million) Series D funding round into German defense firm Helsing. The company has sparked concerns over its joint project with Swedish aerospace company Saab to build an AI “combat agent” that can operate fighter jets.

That left a bitter taste in the mouths of many artists on Spotify, especially those who already considered the streaming service to be paying out what they see as low royalty rates on streams, cutting corners on mechanical royalties in the US, and (particularly irksome for some) paying Joe Rogan a huge sum for his podcast.

For some artists, it was the last straw. A number of them, including Sylvan Esso, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Deerhoof and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced they’re pulling their music from Spotify.

...Spotify’s Chief Executive Daniel Ek announced that he’d led a funding round of nearly $700 million (through his personal investment firm, Prima Materia) into the European defense firm Helsing. That company, which Ek now chairs, specializes in AI software integrated into fighter aircraft like its HX-2 AI Strike Drone. “Helsing is uniquely positioned with its AI leadership to deliver these critical capabilities in all-domain defence innovation,” Ek said in a statement about the funding round.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🤦‍♀️ dumb brain fart 🥴

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Nice that y'all are on the same page for many issues. Most shocking thing for me is hearing folks are still using ~~Twitter~~ Tinder for serious dating in 2025! It's not just for nsa hooking up? 😄

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

How'd it go on your end? Do you like him? Going on a second?

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, had a brain fart. I mean your second case. This seems trivial when typing short comments as you've done, but it's incredible tedious when copying and pasting long lists and articles.

[–] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That's an entirely different issue. I think what you're talking about is just a shortcut for typing quickly. Even then a double space is replaced with a period and single space.

~~I'm talking about two paragraphs with two linefeeds in between will be displayed as a single paragraph unless there are two spaces before the linefeeds.~~

 

I know there's probably a good technical or historical explanation, but it's very irritating to copy/paste text into Lemmy to have it looking like poo after posting. Is there an Android editor that will add double spaces to ends of lines so it's wysiwyg? Bonus if it will also insert "> " at the beginning of lines for quoting selected blocks of text. Maybe this can be done with a JavaScript webpage?

 

00:00 skrillex, aluna, kito - inhale/exhale (nanode rmx)
01:44 antagonist - tmsv
03:16 ariana grande - positions (jukaa bootleg)
05:27 playboi carti - ur the moon (ferumi remix)
07:27 2hollis - jeans
08:48 quickly, quickly - k hole
10:15 vanda - closer
13:01 osamason - pop
14:08 2hollis - sidekick
15:50 charli xcx - everything is romantic
18:17 killmatter - bleed different
20:37 camoufly - llamando (ethanplus edit)
22:01 campeon (rize remix)
23:09 hamdi - skanka (blurrd vzn remix)
24:34 arya - ja man!
26:08 john liwag - killa
27:56 yaeji - raingurl
29:05 skrillex, dj smokey - andy (killmatter remix)
31:20 dog blood - break law
34:34 chase & status - selecta (super future flip)

 

Punjabi Disco: The lost masterpiece which birthed British-Asian dance music

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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra was one such person who recognised the importance of that escapism. Having moved to the UK from India back in 1961, Bhamra was among the growing South Asian population in Britain at that time, and she came face to face with the extent of the nation’s widespread racist attitudes as a result. Nevertheless, she always maintained her cultural roots through music and encouraged countless others to follow suit.

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Hang on, you might be saying, ‘What does this have to do with disco?’ Well, through her performances, often accompanied by her son Kuljit, Bhamra essentially laid the foundations for all future British-Asian dance music, and her 1982 record Punjabi Disco was a particular revelation, without which Bhangra daytimers might never have existed.

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Despite its endlessly obscure nature, though, Punjabi Disco amassed something of a cult following in the years following its release, rightly hailed as being the origins of Asian dance music, as well as being a key cultural landmark in the story of the British-Asian community as a whole. Perhaps more so than any other record, Punjabi Disco told the liberating story of Asian people in the UK, enmeshing those traditional wedding-song sounds with a distinctly westernised form of dance music.

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Now, at long last, the prayers of those crate diggers have been answered by the higher power, which is Los Angeles’ Naya Beat Records, who have announced a full reissue of the album for the very first time. What’s more, the long-awaited reissue comes complete with a previously unreleased track and a collection of dance-heavy remixes, which help to capture the impact which this album had on Asian dance music upon its release.

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