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SE:SA Like It Like This ft Sharon Phillips

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Not only is this song killer, but the dancing is amazing. You can just make out the roots of Dee-Lite’s classic ’Groove is in The Heart’ underneath the new melody they’ve got going on here. It’s a perfect post-summer, winter warmer type of song that you need when you get to a club and want something to come on that isn’t a Britney Spears remix or some hard-house vibe that actually rumbles your whole body. It’s also not trying to be some sort of Eric Prydz rip-off with lots of girls in short bikinis wearing skirts, but truely has an interesting range of characters doing some great moves. Plus, fantastic video editing. Inexpensively, but well done.

From the Get Weird Turn Pro blog:

This track by Hamburg’s Se:Sa (aka Skye ’n’ Sugastarr), in collaboration with Mousse T, is going to be huge and features an excellent vocal contribution from Sharon Phillips, who you might have last heard on the Trentemoller track ‘Want 2 Need 2′.

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iTunes’s UK competitors pay artists 1/2 penny per track

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“For everything sold on iTunes, we get the majority of the 70-79p per unit sale price,” [one independent label owner] said, then added: “But for everything sold on the Ruckus Network we receive the princely sum of £0.005 per unit. That’s half a pence. My distributor then takes their 25 per cent off of that, leaving myself and the artists to dish up the remaining fractions of a penny between us.”

It’s not much better through Real Networks, he informed – for sales through that service, his label receives a penny per track, he claimed. The thousand tracks sold so far have accrued £10 to the label (to share with the artists) rather than, “the £790 or so we’d have got for the same amount of sales through iTunes.”
MacWorld: iTunes income substantial for music partners

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Days and Nights

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I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything substantive on here, so I thought I’d share a photo from last Thursday night with the world in place of interesting content. I hope It’s alright with Laura, featured below, that I’m posting a photo that I took with (beautiful, new) camera on the night in question. Club SOHO or SOHO club, I don’t know which, is an Erasmus-society event every Thursday. It’s a hot and sweaty, overpacked, techno filled collection of Spanish people with the occasional injection of anything-else thrown in. Lots of cheesy Shakira when the night gets late, lots of people dancing too much, sweating too much and drinking too much. It’s also just about the smallest club I’ve ever seen. Funny still though. Where else but Belgium would you have someone actually charge to use bathrooms in a club? You’ve already paid to get in, next time will we also have to pay just to get out?

boy and girl at boit du nuit

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‘Dangerous Muse’: not GAY, but ‘Supersexual’

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The boys of ‘Dangerous Muse’, a US based electronica/dance band whose two members, Mike (left) and Tom (right) hail from New York City. Tom is still at the Jesuit College Fordham University and is set on finishing his degree before focusing his attention on the music career the pair are currently carving out for themselves:

“I’m not going to give up school because Mike is two years older than me”

The pair talked to The Advocate magazine about their music and their style. With their raunchy and risque photos and ambigous lyrics to their most popular songs, the pair are an advert for new ‘modern’ sexual freedom. When the liberation movement of the 60s was all about empowering people to break free of society’s pre-determined roles for their lives, the current revolution appears to be pushing for the ability to attract, outrage and be whoever they want to be.

“There’s no such thing as ‘out’ anymore,” Mike interjects. “It’s like, everybody’s out. People are always trying to attribute behaviors to labels, and a lot of these behaviors are being stripped from genders. Even though you look like a man, you don’t have to act ‘like a man.’

Their music can be found at online distributors like iTunes, but can also be listened to via their MySpace profile.

Dangerous Muse: Official Website
MySpace: Dangerous Muse
The Advocate: Rhythm and muse sample
Looksmart: Rhythm and Muse full article

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