There is one Tenori-On left at BM Soho. Call 0207 439 2403 and ask for Hilit if you want it. £60 deposit, £539.99 on collection. I’d emailed in to enquire about availability and Hilit kindly reserved me one. But I don’t have £600 to splurge right now on amazing looking music gadgetry. Go on. You know you want it!
Check out the official site here if you’re thinking WTF (or watch th video below).
Nice story about the history behind the CD, shared with me by Jess. Always nice to have little human touches behind big “technological” things.
Simon Fox of HMV is quoted all over the place in today’s papers, talking about recent poor performance and his 3 year plan to turn HMV around.
“Waterstone’s and HMV are great brands but have not adapted quickly enough to the way customers are now buying and consuming media.The markets and the way we operate are both challenging and undergoing structural change. We have to address this with urgency”.
Quick reminder - the original Napster launched on June 1st 1999, nearly eight years ago. I can’t believe people are having the same conversations about the future of the music industry and the “urgent” need to address it.
So, a couple of weeks into my blog and I’m starting to realise that it’s pretty tough posting everyday. Well posting something worth reading that is . . . so I’ve decided to try not to worry if I don’t post something everyday. It’s not the end of the world.
Anyway, last week I met up with all the other agencies across Europe that also work with Getty Images. During an evening checking out the latest Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery and having dinner, I asked Martin (a really interesting guy from here) what was hot over in Germany.
We had a chat about all the usual stuff - Second Life, Twitter, YouTube, Berlin techno etc. Then he dropped me a quick mail on Friday with some really interesting links to some good stuff going down in Germany which I thought I would share (including comments by Martin).
Thanks Martin. I’ll return the favour some day soon.
Music:
Deichkind - a band from Hamburg which plays a mixture out of hip hop and electro with a very strange but cool live performance… just watch the videos, eg. the one from the Melt festival 2006
Melt Festival - the best festival in Germany right now…
Voom Voom from Vienna / Berlin (ex Kruder & Dorfmeister and Fauna Flash) You will find them on the label site K7 under artists & catalogue / artist or directly here
International Pony - also from Hamburg. Not really new but still cool
Headbangers
Some currently successful German web communities:
lokalisten.de - community with a strong local focus
nachtagenten.de - club and nightlife portal for some cities in Germany
studivz.de - student network
openbc.de - business network like Linked In
myvideo.de
clipfish.de
I'm a creative/digital consultant that blogs about brands, technology, cats and other things I stumble upon whilst perusing the interwebz.
And I'm also founder and director of Shed, a brand new consultancy specialising in web participation and social media for human brands and beings like BView and Green Thing.
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