Category Archives: Music

Give your music away: You have nothing to loose but your obscurity

Why don’t you give away your music for free? This is one of the sticking points in independent artist music marketing. People are scared to give access to their work for free but it can be an important tool in gathering the attention you need to make a living from your work in the longer term. Andrew […]

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Mid/Side stereo, a great tool for home recording

Recording at home (yours or someone else’s) as opposed to a commercial studio has many advantages, cost, comfort and available time amongst them, but disadvantages too in terms of recording environment. One of the main disadvantages can be that the rooms performances are captured in are designed for living in rather than recording. This can cause […]

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Pop culture and counter-culture: Mutually antagonistic symbiosis

There is a symbiosis between popular culture and counter-culture. Both camps deride, and seem to feel threatened, by the other but they need each-other and form a dynamic system. That dynamism is vital. Cultural evolution is important whether in the mainstream or not, though perhaps for different reasons, and both camps stimulate evolution in the other. The genesis […]

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