1) Go to Google Translate

2) Set the translator to translate German to German

3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

4) Click “listen”

5) Be amazed

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Extract from documentary ‘Roots Rock Reggae Inside The Jamaican Music Scene’ in which we can see Lee Scratch Perry and his Upsetters recording at Perry’s studio, in Jamaica.

[via Manolo Remiddi]

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Applying Strategy and Planning to Improve Value by the Music Enterprise

Peter Drucker stated, “Long-range planning is necessary precisely because we cannot forecast.” According to this statement, planning is essential to any enterprise so that the right decisions can be made when the environment changes. Music enterprises must be able to strategize and plan in order to create value for its customers. Strategizing and planning allows the enterprise to create its goals in its mission and vision for all levels of the hierarchy to strive for.

For example, Motown Records’ mission statement was, when it was first created, to “unite and bring people together through music.” A mission statement, as being part of planning, was created for Motown Records so that all artists, publishers, employees, and presidents of Motown Records would make decisions based on “uniting and bringing people together.” Knowledge of the goals and direction of the enterprise are necessary to know throughout the entire enterprise so that everyone knows what decisions are to be made and which are the right ones.  Motown Records brought value to its customers that shared the same ideal in music: the desire to unite people. Planning the mission and vision statement encompasses all decision-making for music enterprises. After knowing the enterprise’s plan, any employee or superior would have to ask, “Does this decision align with our core values and work towards our vision as a music enterprise?” Customers will value an enterprise that is consistent with its plan to create that value for its customers.

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Upcoming Djay App for iPad

These iOS 4.2-specific features coming in djay for iPad include:

- Full access to iPod library
- Multi-tasking: you can run djay in Automix mode and listen to a continuous, seamless mix running in the background while you surf the web, play games, etc.
- AirPlay: you can wirelessly stream your mix to your Apple TV or AirPort Express station in real-time.
- Fully leverages accelerated CPU extensions (SSE-like) for high-quality audio processing and analysis
- Very low latency (< 3 msec)
- Background audio playback (multi-tasking support)
- Pre-Cueing (via mono/stereo adapter)

more info on macrumors.com
More Djay apps for iPod and Mac

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Beatport has announced their debut product, Elements, since purchasing Sounds To Sample.

Elements claims to be a cutting-edge, copyright-free loop package featureing drum loops and musical phrases created by quality producers.

Each pack consists of 10 loop elements assured to instantly inspire and add spice to your productions. All loops are recorded as WAV files at 24bit/44.1khz, are 100% royalty free

Each Elements package costs $1.99 and is available now. More information on the Beatport Sounds To Sample Elements Loop Library.

[via futuremusic]

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Features:
» XLR (x2) & RCA(mono x4) output
» 2 band EQ control (Hi / Low)
» LED input/output level indicator
» Selectable headphone monitor output (ch1-2 or ch3-4)
» Headphone output, MIC (Phono) input
» USB spec version 1.1 Lame!
» A/D Converter: Resolution : 16bit, Dynamic range : 103dB, Frequency response: 20~20kHz (@ fs=44.1kHz)
» D/A Converter: Resolution : 16bit, Dynamic range : 106dB, Frequency response: 20~20kHz (@ fs=44.1kHz)

Vestax’s The Tank costs a substantial $430 / €290 and is available worldwide, although you wouldn’t know that from their non-existant marketing materials. More information on the Vestax Tank.

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How about a quality valve amp that sounds great, with neither bells nor whistles, at an affordable price for everyday musicians?

Founded in 2009 in Seattle, Washington, that’s exactly what Jet City is all about. The company is headed up by ex-Loud Technologies/Blackheart colleagues Dan Gallagher and Doug White, plus, wait for it… Mike Soldano. Now you’re listening.

“This ain’t an amp for players who like to program a bunch of different sounds and then select them with several footswitches.”

Soldano, of course, is a legend in guitar amplification. His were the hand-built, no-compromise heads that stood behind Clapton, Knopfler, Lukather, Gary Moore and countless other heroes in the eighties and nineties: he still makes them and they still cost limbs. Now, however, his design nous is available to all via Jet City, so just how do you compromise on no-compromise?

You start by designing your amps in the US and building them under strict quality control in China. Jet City makes much of the fact that the three key parties – Gallagher, White and Soldano – are free of penny-pinching corporate pressure, and that Soldano has carte blanche with design.

Nevertheless, offshore build is essential if you want to hit these price points. “We chose our contract manufacturers carefully and we’re really happy with the processes of development,” comments Gallagher.

Read more on musicradar.com

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It is time to bring your commerce to the world of social. CommerceSocial is a new tool that is extremely easy to setup and lets your CD spread virally through the social networks.

Here is how it works: Imagine that the next time you post a product on your Facebook Wall that instead of it just being a image that links off to your website where you need to get your fan through the entire conversion process to complete a purchase that now when they click on the product image a small window actually expands right inside Facebook with a mini shopping cart embedded,. This mini shopping cart allows the fan to instantly make a purchase right in the Facebook Wall… while they are still the most excited and interested in the product. Now what if your fans could become your sales force, they are your biggest supporters. There is a Share button right in the cart that allows the fan to further Share the product on their Facebook Wall. All of a sudden your Wall post is being spread across Facebook by all your fans, and every one of those Wall posts is a online store.

A major shift is happening in online commerce and advertising, consumers in ALL social networks and communities are relying heavily on peer word-of-mouth recommendations for their purchases as they chat about brands and products – it’s happening every minute of every day.

90% of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust opinions of unknown users. 67% of shoppers spend more online after recommendations from their online community of friends. A product posted on a Facebook Wall or shared in a user’s blog is a recommendation of trust.

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Big Deal: Open a Facebook store

Bigger Deal: Open unlimited stores anywhere

Why limit yourself to a store in one social network? CommerceSocial let’s you place stores in all of them, including Facebook.

[via hypebot]

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