Here`s our new project which is called Playlistvendor. It is a place where people can find good music that are on Spotify. Everyone who visits are encouraged to send in their music, either a song or a whole list, through the mail music@playlistvendor.com.
Now we at Trygoogleme wants to forward this weekly update from Playlistvendor, it is their List Of Da Week. Click on the image and see if you find anything you like!
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Last year there were some rumors about Spotify opening up their service in the USA. Now it looks like it is dragging out a bit. Mostly due to record companies over-there being skeptic over how Spotify is going to make enough money. Most of them demands that every tenth user of Spotify should be a premium customer. Being a premium customer is around 17 bucks a month. If you choose the free version, you get ads between songs. I am a premium user and don`t regret it at all, and I believe that there will be many more than 10 percent of the users as premium users in near future. Being a premium not only gives you ad-free environment, but greater speed, more functions and a better search engine tool as well.
Spotify is, as they say themselves, a new way to enjoy music. It`s online and the quality is very good, the speed is great. You can share songs between users with the help of HTML-links, which works very well with playlists too.
On these sites, Wired and The Venezian Journal you can check out more about ways around how to use Spotify in the USA. And if you need invites, I have some you can have. Just leave a comment under and I will mail you one.
For further reading on this subject, I recommend this article by Wayne Rosso in The Music Void.
Ok, here`s the playlist. I also link to the whole playlist – if you want to listen to it. If you can come up with a better one – and I love it, you get an invite to Spotify! :)
Flat on the floor – Nickelback
I bet that you look good on the dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
I got it from my mama – will.i.am
I see you baby (Fatboy Slim remix) – Groove Armada
Get ur freak on – Missy Elliot
Move ya body (radio edit) – Nina Sky
Because of you – Nickelback
Now i`m free (Dina Vass & Mike Kenny remix) – Dina Vass, Whipped Creem
Slave to the wage – Placebo
Gotta be somebody – Nickeback
The kids aren`t alright – The Offspring
I gotta feeling – Black Eyed Peas
Infinity 2008 (Klaas vocal edit) – Guru Josh Project
Shout – Lulu And The Luvvers
Alright – Supergrass
I also have two more playlists, with slightly different music. They are New Years Eve 09/10 and New Years Eve And So on. These links are directly to Spotify.
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Wow – how about Nickelback`s album, Dark Horse? It is an amazing piece which I came over by complete accident. Now, I don`t even look back.
Yeah, I know Nickelback often has one or two friendly and easy songs on each album which gets played constantly on the radios, so you have it up to here by them. But the other songs are mean, fast and feel-good songs with awesome lyrics.
The album, Dark Horse, opens tough with the song Something In Your Mouth and here`s the first lines. Fabulous!
Got to meet the hottie with the million dollar body
They say it`s over budget but you`d pay her just to touch it – come on!
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I tried the nice search engine Spotify has to offer, where you can f.e. type in “year:1982” and Spotify sends the result back with songs/artists from 1982. Then you may order the list by popularity and you can then see which songs from 1982 are the most popular – today! This is only one of the many advanced searches Spotify has to offer. But, what music from 1982 is popular today you say? Well, some of my favorites and perhaps yours too?
1. Run to the hills – Iron Maiden
2. The number of the beast – Iron Maiden
3. Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton
4. Die mauer – Ebba Grön
5. Thriller – Michael Jackson
Other songs in the top 40 are of course Hot in the city by Billy Idol, Avalon by Roxy Music and off course Bad to the bone by George Thorogood & The Destroyers. If you`re not into this music, maybe it could interest you that “Knight Rider” (tv-series) with The Hoff came out in 1982?
See, the 80`s was not all that bad – and I was born in 1982!!
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After contemplating about Spotify for a good while now ( I had a beta-account) I finally made up my mind about investing in a premium account there. I don`t know why I was sceptical about it. Now I have access to loads and loads of music which I can listen to whenever I want – wherever I want. My biggest problem before was that the music took a lot of space on the harddrive and that when accessing music wireless with my laptop it could be troublesome sometimes. Now I can download the Spotify on whichever computer – log in and find all the music and my playlists.
Now I explore new music more and more – it is very interesting. The premium account at Spotify only makes the ads between songs go away and you get faster streaming. For me it is actually important because I`m not a big fan of advertizers and commercials as well as pop-ups, even if something is for free. And then there is the iPhone app, for you who have the iPhone.
I also set up the Spotify with my Lastfm-profile so my friends can follow what kind of music we listen to at parties or while I am doing homework. It`s easy, you just go to “Edit – Preferences” (Ctrl+P), scroll down to Lastfm and fill in your account name and password at Lastfm.
You may use the Spotify for FREE (with the commercials in between), use a DAY-PASS (24hrs and cost 1/10 of the premium account) or opt for the PREMIUM ACCOUNT (costs $9,99 for a month). I choose the Premium because I wanted to test and see how I may use Spotify and see if it was something I could see as useful for me. I think it is.
The reason for my trip to Paris was the concert held by Simply Red at the Olympia Hall 28th of may 2009. I have been a fan of Simply Red for as long as I can remember. I am 26 years old, and the music of Simply Red has always been around me. Funny to think of that Mick Hucknall (vocalist) has been singing in Simply Red for 23 years now.
A few hours before the concert started people began waiting outside. Me and my girlfriend was sitting at a café nearby when we saw people were lining up. So we walked right over and got in line too.
The concert was held inside a cute hall at Olympia with room for around 2000 people. Behind the stage there were several large screens and in front of them the band. We were right in front of the stage not far away.
If you ever were to go a concert at Olympia Hall in Paris, remember that the floor is constructed with a small slope, so any place offers the same great view of the stage. There`s also a terrace for vip-tickets with chairs. Those who were situated there did not use them, they were all dancing too under the concert! The atmosphere was so great.
The music of Simply Red is very good to begin with, but I was amazed of how great it was live. I had never heard Simply Red live before, and I must say it was fabulous.
Here is a little taste of what it was like to be there, a video I found from youtube:
This concert was a great one to be at, and together with a trip to Paris, I guess it is a long time before I get that kind of “high” again. That is, if not someone knows any great concerts coming up in New York or Toky soon!
As usual I was reading the news, first and foremost the norwegian newspapers. I got to an article about the Oya Festival in Oslo (11th – 15th of aug.) about their earlier few elements from the hip hop and r&b scene. The critics came from a hip hop blog in Norway.
Well, this year they try to make a difference in repsonse to the critisicm with booking an artist from Washington, the rapper Wale. I was curious about him because they mentionded in the article that he had sampled voices, theme-melody and audience from the hit show Seinfeld. The lyrics are inspired various episodes, like the song called The Kramer.
His album, The Mixtape about nothing, is available for you for free, so download it if you like mixed music and r&b and hip hop. This album is chill and has a great flow to it. It is different from the other popular music out there nowadays.
Click the picture to get to the download page. I hope you`ll enjoy it, at least it is worth a try.
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My mother loves to visit the greek island Rhodes during summer. She has been there several times, and as a boy I can remember she had picked up some music from one of her visits there. The music takes you to a place where the sun always shines, where the beaches are as white as the houses nearby.
I am talking about Demis Roussos, born on june 15th in Alexandria, Egypt. He is of greek extraction and influenced by the different cultures that are harmonically living together in Egypt. He now resides in Greece somewhere near the sea¹.
I had a party this saturday and me and my brother, sharing our taste in music, relived some of our favourite moments with Demis, before our guests arrived. I doubt any of our friends would appreciate our appreciation for Demis` music. Even though I know of someone that could.
Below, I want to show you a clip of one of Demis Roussos greatest hits as well as one of my personal favourites from 1973, “My friend the wind“.
¹. Source – DemisRoussos.com
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Nintendo`s old Donkey Kong I played on Game Boy had a great soundtrack. I used to think about the people that sat and made up music and soundtrack for the games. I thought they were great with good beats and flow. Sure, the sound could be crappy, caused by the mono and the fact they were midi-soundlike.
I just came back from reading an article about mashup, putting different songs together to create a new mix of rythm and lyrics. Interesting how technology sparks our creativity this way. Mashup can be made if you have a computer. But you need the creativity.
Listening to the album Donkey Business where the soundtrack to the game Donkey Kong has been mashed up with hits from today, I remember where in the game the different soundtracks are from. And I smile because the mixes are so well done. The man behind it calls himself or the project, Norwegian Recycling¹. You can download two albums² he has made and discover norwegian recycling for yourself.
The album So Far is made using real music like Red Hot Chili Pepper and Mindi Abair, for example.
2. Download Donkey Business, or So Far by Norwegian Recycling.
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