Radiohead play with BitTorrent
After having experienced the largely unexplored territories of unhindered digital distribution thanks to In Rainbows, after having “shot” the entirely digital video clip from House of Cards, Radiohead continue to seek alternative ways to reach fans and innovate the music market by releasing their latest song on the BitTorrent P2P network.
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
As a long time fan of Kraftwerk band I always feel a particular fondness for electronic music, whether it melt with the gloomy and metropolitan rock of Subsonica or follow the northern though charming pathways of Royksopp. Unfortunately there’s a bit of electronic in any damn pop tune released nowadays, and the value of experimentation with sounds has ended up in the back burner in respect of the overexposure of mean starlets used to feed, unconsciously, a grim showbiz that first swallows and then excretes them when they are digested.
Atlantic Records: digital is more than 50% the worth of our business
While the music industry organizations continue to pretend that the courts decide the path of technology evolution, risking moreover to take unprecedented blows, the recording labels take note of an historic first. Atlantic Records, a label owned by the multinational Warner Music Group, has actually announced that more of the half of music sales in the United States (51%) come from the digital market in its several forms.
House of Cards by Radiohead, the videoclip shot with no cameras
As a post-rock group like it has always been considered, the English band of Yorke & fellows has a strong sense of experimentation toward the discovery of new territories, be they artistic or merely technological. The experiment of In Rainbows, the album offered on-line in digital format with free price or even equal to zero has deeply shaken a recording market embalmed as usual, and now Radiohead return to charge with a new “first time”, the hi-tech videoclip taken from one of the In Rainbows tracks.
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