Thursday, July 17, 2008


I now own a limited edition Banksy

Seriously. Bought it at Real Groovy. Numbered 12-inch vinyl. Coolest ish ever (see picture - same graphic on the back cover with different text -"Laugh now, but one day we'll be in charge").

Description from Turntablelab.com - "Limited edition Banksy 12"s are in the building and DJDM is on the wax. Put the needle on the "Keep It Real(1)" side and you'll hear seriously bone crushing breaks causing ruckus underneath a crunchy electro hook and some dude yelling "Make some noiiiiiise!" It's like a surefire formula that ultimately spells collectable.

Studies show that people are already paying ridiculous prices for this on eBay. The "Laugh Now" side features three tracks which are all locked grooves: the raw drum break from the other side, a pitched up Vincent Price laugh, and a normal Vincent Price laugh. I guess the artistic statement here is that this record will keep laughing forever. This one comes in 4 colorways: gold, silver, brown and green. It's a special litho print that doesn't use CMYK, giving the print a superflat feel. Get yours or start bidding."

Go to turntablelab, they might have some more in stock. But don't hold ya breath. They've got some of the beige one, but really, beige is for losers.


How not to engage with blogland
I recently got an email from someone doing publicity for an Auckland MOR rock band, wondering if I'd be interested in doing an article on them - the "angles" the PR person suggested were they've got a new album out which hadn't had a lot of print coverage, they're touring NZ, then going overseas for a tour. It seemed very odd, given that I don't write about rock bands, hardly ever; I don't write articles in print - I write blog posts on the interwebs; and the publicist didn't even bother to introduce themselves in the email. Complete waste of time. I suspect they hadn't read my blog. Mr Dubber had a similar experience too...


From New Music Strategies...

I received a press release from a fairly big record company yesterday afternoon. You’ve heard of them. The release went like this:

"Hi blogging community,

Here at [XXXXX] (name of record label withheld), we’re on a cyber-crusade, and we want you to be part of it. We know that blogging has become a massive part of the music community and an important way of spreading word of our artists, and we want to make sure you’re kept in the loop about what’s going on at our fine label.

To make sure we don’t bother you with stuff you’re not interested in, it’d be great if you could answer a few quick questions and give us a bit of feedback on how you think we should do it. Essentially, we want to know what sort of things interest you, what you would like to be sent, how you want it sending, etc etc. This should all help in that you’ll get the best from us..."

Continue laughing here.

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