http://www.pandora.com/
They have a massive database, not a lot of Techno,
probably some house...but with Metal, Punk, Blues,
Rock N Roll, Rap, Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, Motown...and
come to think of it, they did have some interesting
electronic, suprisingly not dominated by trance.
All you need to do is put in an email address and
enter some artist names to start up your personal
"radio station" Model 500 is on there somewhere.
100% NO SPAM makes it nice too.
I start next week as the new director of promotions
next week ;)
Jeff
--- Jussi Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Martin Dust wrote:
> > On 22 Mar 2007, at 09:37, robin wrote:
> >
> >> > We have a culture coming up that don't believe
> they should pay for
> >> > anything, that's the problem.
>
> And it seems that they feel like they should not
> contribute in any way. I
> understand the attitude of not wanting to have
> anything to do with
> money ("I downloaded a record you made, here's a
> record made by me.". But
> I think that in the past, during self-sufficient
> economy (when agriculture
> was the main form of ""industry"), the kind of lazy
> sods only willing to
> leech on other people's effor would have been dealt
> with quite harshly.
>
> > The music culture as we know it has changed so
> much, everything is on tap and
> > instant demand these days - so old methods don't
> and won't work.
>
> I'm looking forward to the Web 2.0. I know it's a
> buzzword (and they
> usually won't live up to their excpectations, or
> blossom gradually), but
> lately I've been having problems finding good music.
> At the moment almost
> all of the webstores have only very narrow (or very
> vague) music
> descriptions, and they use only a couple of
> description tags.
>
> An interesting development towards user friendly
> music search, utilizing
> tags and metafiles, would be to combine for example:
> - active community functions (last.fm, 313-list)
> - personal up-to-date information (discogs'
> collections and wantlists)
> - music rating - system would analyze a piece of
> music according to it's
> metadata and mayhaps even waveform, and the users
> would thet rate it
> according to their taste (even random music rating
> would improve the
> accuracy)
>
> With the previous kind "evocation" of SMART agent,
> I'd probably spend a
> lot more money on records (or music files) than I do
> at the moment.
>
>
> Jussi Lehtonen
>
> "Metaprogram yourself."
>
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