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History of Electronic Music
For clarification, Electronic Music is the generation of sounds via the use of electric signals, as opposed to music played through an electrical supply. Therefore, a guitar being played through an amplifier does not count as Electronic Music. Ironically, most electronic instruments today go to great lengths to imitate the “natural” sounds of piano, wind or string instruments and authenticity is a major part of the marketing of keyboards. This enables any reasonable piano player to produce the sounds of a whole orchestra without having to go through the difficult process of learning how to actually play any other instrument. Read more...
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Football Anthems
Some would say that the latter day football anthems started life in the 60’s when youth were getting their legs but in fact they started much earlier. Certainly with the ending of world war two the nation began opening up and the children of the 40’s became the football fans of the sixties. One particular city springs to mind, yes it has to be Liverpool. During the sixties Liverpool rode on a wave of euphoria, with their music out in the forefront of the revolution. The city almost single handed managed to crank up the countries musical awareness by introducing a youth culture that has long been gaining momentum. Read more...
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Hands clapped; feet stomped; beer flowed; mouths whistled, laughed and sang along; energy was high and a merry, ruckus group of fans had gathered at the Cecil Sharp House to listen to one of the greatest Orchestras I’ve ever had the pleasure of bending my ears to—the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Read more...
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History of New Age Music
New Age emerged as a music style in the late 1960’s and in the early 1970’s. Its emergence and ever-increasing popularity seems to have paralleled that of the New Age movement. The New Age movement occurred as a result of worldwide changes pertaining to people’s spiritualistic understandings in the 1960’s. New Age music is often employed by individuals who are attempting to achieve altered states of consciousness, and this New Age music style is even frequently used in meditation practices. Read more...
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Phoenix at Mean Fiddler, 2006
French Indie-Pop band Phoenix has enjoyed a steady growth in popularity since 2003, when Sophia Coppola featured one of their songs in her film, Lost in Translation. A friend introduced me to the band at home in California shortly after they released Alphabetical in 2004—their second album on the Source label—and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see them perform live in London. Phoenix released a new album, It’s Never Been Like That, in May 2006, and they made a stop at the Mean Fiddler in SoHo to promote it. Arriving at the Mean Fiddler on an abnormally sunny evening and with two roommates in tow, I was hoping that the new music would be as infectious as Alphabetical, but, as I hadn’t heard the new record and had never seen Phoenix perform live, I had no idea what was in store. Read more...
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History of Blues
The first singers of the Blues were usually men, however, there also were several female singers who sang and adapted the genre. Additionally, during the late 1800’s, there were few laws prohibiting the maltreatment of prisoners. Thus, the prisoners, too, found solace in the sorrowful tones of the Blues: while working in prison, many prisoners would help pass the time by singing. Finally, in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, Blues was fairly well-known throughout the southern areas of the United States. Read more...
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Madcom
An underground Oslo-based hip hop artist with ground breaking success. Critical and Capricon received top critics for their much anticipated debutalbum “It’s all a Madcon” in all the national dailies and filled the press and media page up and press down. The boys also received a Grammy for best hip hop album. The two friends go way back, and are apart of the Paperboys crew. They have roots in South-Africa and Eritrea. They are soon to release their first single from their second album, and will have a premier with the song “How can I” at the Voice06 Event at Ullevål Aug 25th Read more...
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History of R&B
The blues, as this type of music is sometimes called, is known for its sad topics and expressing of one’s emotions, not only through words and vocal techniques, but also through instruments as well. Read more...
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Outlandish
This Danish hip hop trio were energetic and confident on stage. They pleased the crowd by churning out their most famous tunes such as ‘Guantanamo’ and ‘Aisha’ and further surprised us with a melodic new single named ‘I only ask of God’. The occasional Spanish rap and Arabic music created an unusually diverse feel and the group clearly loved what they were doing. The new single should be a great success. Read more...
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Opal
Opal is a London-based four-piece rock band. They are: Steve Walker on guitar, Nick Williams on bass, Steph Naylor on vocals, keyboards and guitar and Michael Soussan on drums. All four were signed artists at one time, touring and producing records under major labels. But they were unhappy with the corporate world, so they formed their own, unsigned band nearly two years ago. Opal has an edge unlike many bands—they are not striving for stardom. Instead, they focus on their music. “Success tends to make people forget why they started playing. They get dragged into the corporate world, which doesn’t mix—they forget about the music,” said Walker. Read more...
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