Anyone who uses Myspace (especially remixers) will know it is was a godsend for those who wanted to show off their talents to anyone who would listen.It was a great medium for them to put their efforts online for people to download/listen or even put on their own Myspace page.It was great for all kinds of remixers from those who could create completely unique instrumentals or tracks to those who used existing accapellas and instrumentals to make great mash-ups..........until now!!!
Myspace has aquired technology that will check for copyright infringement before it is loaded onto your Myspace account and ,worse still,if you repeatedly try and upload copyrighted material to your account it will be deleted!!
I wonder how many of us may now shy away from this once great community because of this new direction.Is it because now Mr Murdoch owns Myspace he wishes to eventually make money from peoples efforts?? I think so!!! It is already being discussed that people will be eventually charged for putting up their music and copyright issues will be incorporated into it.
OK this is something that genuinely triggers that unmistakable "fear pain" in the pit of my stomach, ever since I was a kid:
Major to Minor cord progressions under double tracked vocals.
The Beatles, Barry White, Gary Rafferty, Wings & Electric Light Orchestra were pros at employing this musical technique to give their tunes a "psychedelic" sound which was mad popular in the late 60's through the mid 70's
At the same time, unfortunately for me, the Christian holy rollers were all screaming on TV and radio that there were hidden "Satanic messages" in popular music, including works from the artists listed above.
For an impressionable 8-year old kid I totally believed it was true. They just seemed so worked up over it.
This was in spite of the fact that I literally adored the groups mentioned above, especially ELO. After seeing all the album burnings and "backward masking secrets revealed" TV programs,I was scared of the music. I didn't want to go to hell but I didn't want to stop listening to them either.
I eventually chose the music, no matter how scary it sounded. I figured If I was going to hell in a hand basket, I was gonna have a damn good soundtrack to listen to on the way down.
Here's an example of the Major/Minor cord + Double tracked vocal thingy I was talking about. This time from Stevie Wonder:
http://www.dokusentia.com/audio/goldenlady.mp3
Current mood: cranky
1. I wish at least 3 separate people dead per day and mean it.
2. My pshcho ex of over 8 years ago still AIM's me from different screen names, making the dumb dora almost impossible to block. That idiot is usually one of the 3 mentioned above
3. I've hidden subliminal messages in my old school mixtapes, "You like this", "You're happy", "met rocks!".
4. I loathe almost all R&B and Rap made after 1990.
5. When I was a Kid, I'd take razor blades to school and slit the bottom of my classmates back packs just enough at the seams for them to rip open a day or two later.
6. My C average in school and college was because I refused to study or do home work. If I actually applied myself, let's just say the cable would be on as I write this.
7. I Dislike being 6ft6, nothing fits, clothes, cars, shoes, amusement park rides, movie seats, hats, gloves, cell phone buttons are too small to push ect...
8. I hate Rockawear but it's the only clothing line that's regularly in my size.
9. I can recite all the lines from "Hedwig and the angry inch" by heart.
10. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a grown up because I thought my friends were too immature to appreciate my, in their words, "fu*ked up musical tastes." Once I grew up, I realized that none of my audlt friends like my tastes in music either.
