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    Everything Dissensus-y released in 2009?

    Hi All, I'm working on a project which involves compiling Spotify playlists of the dubstep/bass music/"breakbeat continuum"-ish music from 2009, by month, and I'm wondering if there are any resources we're missing that would make the job easier. Some things we've tried: 1) thinking about it...
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    Electroswing.

    Apologies if this has been mentioned before but I found it curious. I've been seeing the genre name Electroswing around here lately. The main monthly has been quietly packing out relatively large venues (300-400 capacity, the equivalent of probably 600-800 in London). Then this weekend Piknic...
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    Contracts.

    A collaboration I did with another Montreal producer recently was "signed" to a label. When I was asked to send over the pre-masters I said "let's take care of the paperwork first". The contract we got was appallingly one-sided, we countered with one I had sitting around from ages ago and the...
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    An article about gov't subsidies for dance music.

    Here's an article I did for the MUTEK magazine. I'm pretty happy with it - hopefully some of you will get something out of it: http://www.mutek.org/en/magazine/364-pennies-from-heaven Enjoy!
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    Scuba's Personality = Sasha's Expander.

    Not a big difference, IMO. http://www.surus.co.uk/hotflush-recordings/personality-16644.aspx Scuba's tracks are thankfully shorter but still, it sounds just like a prog house/prog breaks record from 2002. It could have been released on Bedrock Breaks. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of...
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    SXSW and WMC 2012.

    Anybody going? After the brutal grind of another Montreal winter I'll probably need some sun. I've noticed some pretty decent-looking dj nights at SXSW in the last couple of years. For the seriously rocknroll, one could even do them back-to-back: SXSW March 9-18, WMC March 20-25. You'd pay a...
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    Progressive House.

    As heard on Sasha's Global Underground Ibiza mix: The first step in the prog revival, perhaps?
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    Pirates during the London riots.

    Forum for debate? Indifferent soundtrack? Just curious whether there was much mention of the "disturbances" on air.
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    MUTEK.

    Anyone else go to MUTEK this year? I'm probably biased - I played it for the first time this year - but I think it was one of the better recent ones. That said, I didn't really make any big discoveries like in past years. The Amon Tobin show was amazing, but he's not exactly a fresh...
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    Where are the breaks?

    Does it seem strange to anyone else that we're currently almost completely devoid of that typical breaks rhythm: i.e. kick on the 1 and 3, snare on the 2 and 4? I was never a huge fan, aside from some of the Plumps stuff or maybe Bedrock Breaks around 2001-02, but I'd always just expected it to...
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    Music conferences - any thoughts?

    Winter Music Conference, Amsterdam Dance Event, In The City - do any of you on here that are working in the industry find these kind of things relevant to Dissensus-ish music? I was at ITC about a decade ago and quite liked it, but I was in more of an indie rock mindset at the time. The panels...
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    Hissy Fit - Crosstrainers EP out now as a free dl on Phuturelabs.

    Get more info/dl the 320s here: http://www.phuturelabs.com/word/the_label/pl002-hissy-fit-crosstrainers-ep/ Or download the wavs here: As the press release says: For the second release on our Phuturelabs digital label venture, we’re proud to introduce Hissy Fit from Montreal. An artist who...
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    Rinse and royalties.

    With Rinse now being licensed, how does that work as far as the artists that played getting paid for it? Does Rinse have to submit official playlists to the PRS? Do they now have to pay a certain % of revenues (if there are actually revenues...)? Or does a "community" license mean the artists...
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    Fabric's Elevator Music.

    Perhaps I missed a memo on this, but wasn't this supposed to be a series of cds and club nights? Looks like there's just been the one cd and I guess there was the launch but have there been specifically-branded Elevator Music nights at Fabric since then? The cd was good - more of the same...
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    Breakbeats and hoovers.

    Inspired by the jungle/happy hardcore thread - a treasure trove of lost classics - I'm wondering if anybody has suggestions for good old hoovered-up breakbeat? I'm fond of mentioning that this was my first vinyl purchase, at the tender age of 13: Sadly my knowledge of that sound stops pretty...
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    Of interest to the music/tech/© theorist types?

    Hi all, Some of you might be interested in a piece I just wrote for Music Think Tank, talking about how musicians are paid, technology, "ethics" and a whole bunch of other shit: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/how-are-we-gonna-pay-these-musicians.html I'm writing for a fairly mainstream...
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    Adding an avatar - is this broken?

    Hi all, Sorry for the very boring technical post but is anyone else having trouble uploading a picture to use as an avatar? Every time I try to either upload one or link to one it says "invalid file". I've used that file before tho, so I don't think it's the file's fault. thanks! Matthew
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    Music biz folk: City U London's Cultural Policy and Management Masters program?

    Hi all, Bit of a longshot here but do any of you working in music in London have any thoughts on City Uni's Cultural Policy and Management Masters program? Or City in general for post-graduate stuff? http://www.city.ac.uk/cpm/index.html I just finished a Public Policy degree here in Montreal...
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    Hovatron track profile on the Make Some Bass blog.

    Hi all, The latest post on Make Some Bass is for those of you who've been digging that West Coast electro-crunk (or whatever you call it) that Mary Anne Hobbs' been pushing the last few weeks: http://makesomebass.wordpress.com/ Hovatron talks about his track Young Blood/Bad Blood, forthcoming...
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    Ayia Napa - thoughts?

    I did a search and didn't find a dedicated thread. Has anyone here been to both Ibiza and Ayia Napa and can compare them? Perhaps that's like asking if you've voted both BNP and Green. I was in Ibiza in 2002 and 2003 - it was pretty good. There is definitely a certain "something", provided...
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