Written by Herra Paalanen on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
As some of you may have heard, I’ve been working on a solo album this year, and I’m happy to say it is now available for enjoyment by humans. The album is called 800 Memories Per Second and it’s a collection of mostly live improvisations recorded over a period of two years or so.
The album [...]
Written by Älymystö on Monday, March 8th, 2010
The split release with And Then You Die is finally up on Spotify. Took three months, but hopefully it was worth the wait.
Click here to listen. Spread the word far and wide.
Written by Älymystö on Monday, November 9th, 2009
Now it’s finally official: Älymystö / And Then You Die split album titled 19:38:00 will be released in 24th of December as a digital download. The album will be available in iTunes Music Store, Nokia Music Store, Spotify and selected other on-line services right in time to offer you some easy listening for the Christmas [...]
Written by Herra Paalanen on Saturday, November 7th, 2009
An article regarding Spotify payments has been making the rounds in Finland over the past few days. According to the article the Finnish record label Sakara has received a whopping 31,40 euros from 118 119 streamed songs, and they are somewhat understandably upset. 0,027 cents per one streaming of one song isn’t exactly even a micropayment.
Here’s [...]
Written by Älymystö on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
So, we have good news for all of you Spotify fans out there. As of today, our full length album Atomgrad is available in Spotify, so just click here and tune in.
Right now our latest publication, a split vinyl EP, is still in the production line, but things are certainly moving forward. Also, we have [...]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Thursday, August 13th, 2009
From the point of view of the consumers Spotify has been the only music service out there that can really complete with piracy on the ease of use, the amount of music available and of course, the price. There have been some random grumbling especially from the old school artist front, but now a Swedish [...]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Friday, July 24th, 2009
A thing most people – even many artists – don’t know is that when you join a copyright organization such as the Finnish Gramex or Teosto or their counterparts in other countries, you most often lose the right to decide how you can use your own music. Everything has go through the organization, which have [...]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Well, no surprise there that it was too good to last. If you wonder where your favourite music vanished from Spotify, they are implementing region restrictions. So basically in the future you can listen only to music that has been licensed for your country.
This illustrates beautifully one of the current problems with media distribution [...]
Written by Herra Paalanen on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Exhibit B, your honour.
Last year Trent Reznor pulled a coup and released five CD’s worth of material for free under a CC license. The first batch of these was a four CD collection of instrumental material – not radio friendly pop to say the least.
So how’d that gambit work out?
In case you missed the it, [...]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
One of the mantras RIAA, MPAA and other nosy cunts keep bleating is “you can’t compete with free stuff” – meaning what if a consumer can get something for free, he doesn’t have any reason to buy it. Also those who claim that there are people who download things for free and then buy stuff [...]
