Apr
01
Mastering is preparing a track or album for the general population. Not only cleaning up the track but also preparing it, to be as transparant and juicy as possible on the most soundsystems available on this planet. A mixdown might sound great in studio settings, but the final master still has the final prerogative to …
Jan
03
Open Letter to Minister Van Quickenborne; regarding the growing digital market with glowing possibilities towards a growing culture of indie artists and the ever limiting Auvibel tax getting real on 1 february 2010. All external hdd’s, memory cards, usb sticks, settop boxes and mp3/mp4 players will be taxed with extra by Auvibel; even if used only for own materials. This tax is to support the artist, while the common artist, not connected to a collection-rights agency will get nothing.
Mar
12
We’re almost 10 years in the new millenium, look at the music industry and the Internet. It’s uprising digital distribution market is blooming like it has never before; thanks to new technologies with blazing speeds available to your fingertips. You’ve got to be honest, you have atleast copied one MP3 with this technology available at your desktop, didn’t you? Even if you did, don’t be ashamed; because there are 1001 legal ways to copy a MP3 without hurting the artist one single bit!
Mar
07
Who says music can’t be free while creating value? Think twice, because NiN’s CC-Licensed album, Ghosts I-IV, has been one of the best selling albums of 2008! This while this album could be freely downloaded as Creative Commons release. This is clearly the evidence Creative Commons can cooperate perfectly together with licensing; while NiN fans could have turned to any file sharing network to download the entire CC-BY-SA album legally.
Mar
05
The freedom of any net-citizen might be at stake, because the French and EU president Sarkozy, tries to get his foot inbetween the door of any internaut in Europe by regulating it’s network. This proposal is called the “Telecom Package”, which reforms the EU’s regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services with a view to completing the internal market for electronic communications.
Feb
18
I’ve been DJ, dedicated music collector and producing loops, now for over 15 years; but the real deal started in early 2008, when my studio was finally returned back into fully working production state. I’ve started finishing my older productions and released them as lower quality 128kbit mp3’s with Creative Commons+ license through my website. …
