gogoyoko is a new platform and a social music marketplace, where music fans can purchase music directly from the artists. It offers artists and record labels the possibility to market, distribute and sell music directly to the consumer – without the need for a middleman. Sign up HERE.

EDIT: At the moment Gogoyoko is only available for the Nordic countries. (Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland).

Monday Kick.
A happy, positive craziness which helps to start an another week.

cows produce more milk when listening music
this is antually true
so listen more music this week
and the working hours will fly and you will be more productive
your APC will be here all week long to supply you with the right choons ;)

[via LEARN SOMETHING EVERYDAY and 2creativo]

Monday Kick.
A happy, positive craziness which helps to start an another week.

so, tell us
how many bands you see in this picture
and which ones?

Why do some rhythms get our toes tapping, while others make us feel mellow?
How does a love song bring tears to our eyes?
What links African drumming to J S Bach?

Watch this amazing 180 min documentary by Channel 4 to find out the answers. Part 1 - Melody is above, Part 2 – Rhythm, Part 3 – Harmony and Part 4 – Bass are after the jump.

Bring some popcorn for us too.

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yepp for real
as we said few hours ago
the music industry is killing itself
now it made a huge step

Google Inc’s online video site YouTube said on Monday it will block all music videos to British users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with the main songwriters’ collection society. [read more on Reuters]

Vanilla Ice says “Sorry” .
It’s about time.
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Twittering is a must nowadays if you wanna catch up with the world and more and more artists are using the No1. microblogging system. Gabriel N. made a very useful list of artists / bands / musicians on Twitter . Check it out, help him to add new ones or add yourselves if you are a musician, DJ or you do a music related thing.

The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a MIDI file.

Here is a quick demo

This piece was generated from the following text :
- AudioPorn Central your daily dose of hot sweaty juicy sounds and toys -
Instrument: Acoustic Grand Piano
BPM: 130

When you finished your composition, you can print it or save it as a MIDI file, then you can play with it n any music editor or generate an mp3 from the MIDI file with a software like Direct MIDI to MP3 Converter . FUN!!!!

upload your creations to our dropbox!!
send the music in mp3 and the source text as well
we will post the best pieces ;)

Band members:
- Korg Kaossilator Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer
– iPod Touch with Mokugyo (JP only)
– iPhone with Bloom
- Nintendo DS Lite with Electroplankton
– Nintendo DSi with KORG DS-10
- Belkin Rockstar

Conductor: Jetdaisuke

If you haven’t seen it yet, you should also check out his Straw TalkBox with DSi demo as well

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