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Tuesday, 2 June 2009

The International Music Summit 2009: Music Lovers Prepare to Converge on Ibiza

Music-loving sun-worshippers can get the best of both worlds at the International Music Summit 2009 on Ibiza this spring. The festival celebrating dance and electronic-style music (synthpop) takes place May 27-29.

The International Music Summit (IMS) isn't just your average rock concert. It's a chance for musicians, producers, manufacturers, promoters and others in the music industry to network. It's also a chance to learn about what's new in the industry.

The first International Music Summit was held in Ibiza in 2008. The IMS was founded by the legendary British DJ Pete Tong. His ideal in creating the conference was to combine good music with opportunities for networking and to provide a "back to business ethos."

The 2009 International Music Summit has space for 400 delegates, up from 300 in its first year. The number of spaces has been increased due to demand. It appears that the IMS may continue to grow in popularity over the next several years. This is due in part to Tong's influence and his hard work in attracting quality musicians and speakers.

The fact that the conference is being held in Ibiza is not coincidental. The summit has been strategically scheduled to immediately precede Ibiza's summer tourist season kick-off.

The Mediterranean island is well-known for its party atmosphere and numerous dance clubs. Tourism officials on Ibiza have been trying to shed its party image for a few years. Petty crime, public drunkenness and bad drug trips associated with the party life has given some a bad taste for the island.

Despite the efforts of tourism promoters, party-goers still flock to Ibiza by the thousands every year. This makes it the prime location for the International Music Summit, which caters to European/UK music lovers. Musician-tourists will be able to cavort with some of Europe and the UK's most prominent businessmen and women. During the off times, they can enjoy Ibiza's sunshine and waterfront life.

Of course, participants will also be able to enjoy concerts by some up-and-coming bands and artists. Concerts are open to all 400 delegates. Seven hundred tickets will also be available to the general public for the concert portions of the International Music Summit. Basement Jaxx and Filthy Dukes will be headlining.

Basement Jaxx, a duo consisting of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, have been around since the mid 1990s. The group went from headlining at the South London club Rooty to releasing their first album in 1999. Since then, their music has been featured in a number of movies and commercials. The band has even had a number four UK chart entry.

Filthy Dukes is relatively new to the music scene. The three-member synthpop group also hails from London. The band released singles and played clubs for several years until finally releasing its first full-length album in March of 2009.

The International Music Summit will also feature the DJ stylings of Pete Tong. Tong continues to draw fans, both to his radio programs and to his live performances at clubs across the UK and the world.

Tong, who carries a considerable amount of clout in his field, undoubtedly hopes to use his popularity to promote the International Music Summit. The success of the first IMS in 2008 promises to lend itself to this year's version. The conference takes place at the world-renowned Ibiza Gran Hotel.

The concert series will be performed in Dalt Vila, Ibiza's "Old Town." Dalt Vila rests inside an ancient walled castle. The location draws millions of tourists and locals every year. It's a spectacular location for any event, and Basement Jaxx is reportedly "delighted" to be playing in such a famous historical venue. They look forward to wrapping up the 2009 International Music Summit in such a manner.

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Dave Barnes Chasing Mississippi

Year: 2006
Genre: acoustic

MP3 track list:

1. Dave Barnes - A Lot Like Me
2. Dave Barnes - Everbody but You
3. Dave Barnes - Butterflies
4. Dave Barnes - Someday Sarah
5. Dave Barnes - Jackson
6. Dave Barnes - Miles to Go
7. Dave Barnes - All that Noise
8. Dave Barnes - More than A Man
9. Dave Barnes - Greyhound
10. Dave Barnes - Stay Away
11. Dave Barnes - I Have and Always Will

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Monday, 1 June 2009

The Fascinating History of Record Collecting

Record Collecting has been around for about as long as recorded sound. In the beginning phonographs and the records, which were played (first wax cylinders and later flat shellac discs) were mostly reserved for the rich people. However, by 1920 the manufacturing process for both records and players was improved, which lead to a drop in the price for the players and purchasing music became a possibility for a broader range of people.

After the phonograph cylinder was given up the record became the uncontested medium for decades. The number of available recordings exploded and the number of companies, which pressed records also increased incredibly. The records, which were pressed, were 78 rpm, double-sided, ten-inch shellac discs, with about four minutes of recording time on each side.

While the recorded sound industry grew at an extreme high pace the growth eventually slowed down by the Great Depression and World War II, since countries were lacking raw materials. When World War II ended, the economy in these countries started to grow again and what happened was that Classical music (which accounted for a significant portion of the 78rpm releases) was slowly pushed into minority status by the influx of popular and new music.

An important point in the history of record collecting was when the 33 1/3 rpm, 12-inch LP record and the 45 rpm, 7-inch record became available on the market around 1949/1950. These formats provided advances in both storage and quality and these records were made of vinyl, which then came to replace shellac as manufacturing material. Also, groups of small record labels were formed with the beginning of the rock and roll era in the early to middle 1950s, and the growth of a market among post-war teenagers with disposable income to spend on 45 rpm singles was important.

Record Collecting as a hobby most likely did not take shape as it is know today before until the 1960s. With the folk music boom in the late 1950s to early 1960s, there was suddenly a demand for archival material. In some countries record collectors started to search small and remote towns for older discs. In the beginning the most wanted items were pre-World War II shellac discs containing records, which mostly were what is considered the precursors to then current rock and roll and country styles. Later generations of record collectors found their passion in digging up obscure 45s for genres such as doo-wop, or LPs from the late 1960s garage rock and psychedelic genres.

In January 1964 the pop music scene changed forever with the arrival of The Beatles in the United States. Following The Beatles was a wave of thousands of bands inspired by their fresh; lively take on rock music with a sharp British sensibility, picked up guitars and many released records. Many of these acolytes released 45 rpm records in small batches to sell at local concerts and to their friends and families. Because of their relatively small pressings, these obscure local records became highly priced and valuable.

The collectors item with the most notoriety in record collecting is not a record at all, but merely an album cover. The Beatles themselves accidentally contributed what s probably the most well known and valuable collectors piece of the rock and roll era: The Butcher Cover. This title is an informal one for the cover of the Yesterday and Today album, which was released in 1967. Until this date LP releases in the US by The Beatles were different from those released released in the United Kingdom. The ones released in the US were shorter, had different songs, album titles and artwork.

Another Holy Grail of some collectors is Bob Dylans The Freewheelin Bob Dylan released in 1963, and has four songs that were deleted from subsequent pressings. For example the price of this record is known to be around $35,000 for the stereo version and $16,500 for the mono version, when in excellent condition.

One collectible record format is known as test pressing. A test pressing is what the name implied; 5-10 copies of a record pressed for the purpose of checking the mix or levels on a record, or to ensure that the die is cutting properly. Although the test pressing is naturally meant for the band, producer, pressing plant or record label to keep as reference, they are often placed in special packaging and given out to friends or devoted fans.

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