my hour-long cumbia mix for Rob Da Bank’s BBC Radio 1 show went out a couple hours ago and will be streamable for a week. PERFECT THING TO HEAT US UP, mixed in freezing New York. Modesty aside, you’ll be hard pressed to find a hotter hour of free cumbia heat floating around…
Go here then click on ‘Listen to Rob Da Bank & Friends show’ and forward til an hour in.
Or try this direct link to the BBC player. Incidentally, the first tune I play after the intro chat w/ Rob is Pesadilla’s version of La Pava Congona…
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Too much sound? Susan Sontag on The Aesthetics of Silence. via Audio Poverty’s blog , AP being a conference-event happening in Berlin Feb 6-8. I will play music one day and chat with Kodwo Eshun (More Brilliant Than the Neologismachine) & Brian (Awesome Tapes from You Know Where) the next.
also: “According to a new study by Will Page, chief economist of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, who is also the guy behind the economic modelling for Radiohead’s In Rainbows album, more than 10 million of the 13 million music tracks available on the internet failed to find a single buyer last year.”
Looking forward to hearing this!
hold tight dj rapture on the iplayer.
Cumbia on Radio 1 is awesome – Great mix. See you at AP.
nice.
brilliant! bangin’ mix. hot hot hot
hey jace!
thanks a lot for the AP shout.
the cumbia mix is soo good!
If only I had a PA system on the roof…all Canary Islands would be tuned into the mix. Top shotta!
Loved this music ever since hearing ‘Lisandro’s Cumbia’ compilation on cassette as a kid so its great to hear this mix on mainstream radio, excellent work!
on the post scarcity tip, i want musicians to be able to stay musicians forever.
on that note i would be VERY interested to see what you think about this idea”…
it might not be a panacea, but might be a band-aid until business models catch up.
Brutal mix. Totally love it. The sun came out as soon as I tuned in…nice one Jace.
thanks for your input, jace… i replied…
i appreciate the input, jace… we’ll see how it goes.
re: that study supposedly debunking the “long tail” theory, emusic says it’s wrong —
interesting -what a huge difference btwn the various stats! eMusic is subscription-based, which encourages ppl to dwnld mp3s they might not otherwise buy directly from regular sites — folks will get to the end of the month, then realize they’ve got X downloads left and take more chances.
Any chance of this mix becoming available in a higher bitrate, for purchase or otherwise?
another major difference, as noted in the article, is that emusic is selling largely independent music, while the UK-based study was apparently looking at a venue offering music from the “majors.” hope for indie music models?
great!