Spotify playlist: Timboektoe Beach

Did you know our music researcher Philip conducts the playlists for Timboektoe Beach club?

You can now subscribe and shuffle in Spotify (updated weekly). Hit the link.

Enjoy!

Shanghai Shanghai (featuring TangKing)

Shanghai Shanghai (featuring TangKing) from Massive Music Shanghai on Vimeo.

After the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and the millions and millions of visitors who came and went, the message still lingers on in Shanghai: 'Better City, Better Life'

Film Director Bas Roeterink, music house MassiveMusic Shanghai and rapper TangKing ('TK') sat down, took that message, and spun it around.

The result is a cool and contemporary track with an equally cool and fun video, shot on the streets of buzzing Shanghai.

The message is a pro-active one: 'Make a Better City, Have a Better Life'. A positive message that applies to the Shanghainese, as it does to any world citizen.

Registered WA3 users can download the track for free from here:
http://wa3.cn/info.do?id=10048320&&hid=album

Stevie Wonder Drum Solo

Amazing solo. Pure joy from a musical genius.



(via David Ryan Harris)

MCN Muziekcafé

This afternoon Joep, Cris and Auke will do a workshop/presentation on Music in Commercials and TV at MCN Muziekcafé in Amsterdam. MCN Muziekcafé is an initiative by Muziekcentrum Nederland (Dutch Music Center)

Click here for more info. Starts at 15.00h. Entrance is free.

FOOTBALL EXPERIENCE

VEX - Voetbal (Football) Expercience. The biggest football theme-attraction in the world, opened last month. We got asked by DST Experience Communications to score every audio-visual experience in the venue. Culminating in a 12 minute film about the European Championships in 1988 (the only one we won.), which is displayed on a 3 meter high and 6 meter wide arched multi-screen to really get "on the pitch" with the players. Check the clip to get a piece of one our most important, nee most important events in Dutch history! Thanks to DST and friends at Studio Sport for making this a great experience for us too.

"Apple is to advertising as The Beatles were to pop music"

The word is out! "Selling out" has been taken over by "selling in" while music goes commercial.









"Apple is to advertising as The Beatles were to pop music"
A fun read about how 15 brands, this decade made great use of music in their campaigns.

The 50 best music videos of the decade

First of all, a happy and harmonious 2010!

So it has now been a decade ago since we where all thinking the millennium bug was going to sweep all the computers of their feet. Now, almost ten years later, we can easily say that nor the millennium bug nor anything else was going to stop the digital (music) revolution. With MTV steadily loosing the M, music video's are more and more produced for internet distribution. It also means less budget, being more creative and being different. Is viral the magic word or was it a bug all along? :-)

Anyway, here are the best 50 video clips according to Paste Magazine. Enjoy!

The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the Pentatonic Scale. Simply an amazing sound experiment.

See and hear it for yourself:

How to...create ambient music

Now everybody can make ambient music with the new Ambient Sequencer AS-606! Read all about it here, here and here.