Tuesday, April 21, 2009

ONLINE DUB ARTISTS (20)

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Dubroom Online - April 21 2009


"ONLINE DUB ARTISTS (20)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, April 21 2009 - With the demise of websites that let anyone upload their works without looking to the interest of the listeners and the serious artists, we see the necessity for an OMD who takes serious artists serious and Reggae listeners serious as well.

Of course, we have the Net Labels now, but in the end, artists must get paid and only an OMD like the old MP3.com can do that. To make artists pay donations and not giving them anything back, will obviously create a kind of music that is not what the music should be.

So what we need is someone to stand up and create a workable concept. Create a website, where thousands of independent artists upload their material and where they get paid as well.

One Love, Give Thanks,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

THE MEDITATIONS - ONE OF US (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

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WWW, April 2009 - "They Always Use One Of Us To Bring Us Down": the first lines of what is an Ire tune, with a cool drum and bassline and even a short horns solo.


VARIOUS ARTISTS - DUBWISE.RU VOLUME ONE

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From April 13 to April 28, we will be reviewing each track of the free DUBWISE.RU Volume One compilation and include links to download the tunes, too. Click on the album cover to read more, or read on to download the reviewed track of today.

TRACK 9: YOSEPH ISRAEL - MYRICAL DUB

With the speed of light, Myrical DUB carries a hard hitting steppers drum beat along with a synthesizer bass that was so familiar in the 1980's when Jammy popularized it with the Sleng Teng riddim.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS - DUBWISE.RU VOLUME ONE TRACK 9: YOSEPH ISRAEL - MYRICAL DUB

VARIOUS ARTISTS - DUBWISE.RU VOLUME ONE
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW

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TRACK 9: YOSEPH ISRAEL - MYRICAL DUB

With the speed of light, Myrical DUB carries a hard hitting steppers drum beat along with a synthesizer bass that was so familiar in the 1980's when Jammy popularized it with the Sleng Teng riddim.

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ATTN ONLINE ARTISTS: MAKE SOME MONEY WITH YOUR MUSIC

ATTN ONLINE ARTISTS: MAKE SOME MONEY WITH YOUR MUSIC

Greetings, my collegues Online Artists!

Sure, it's not as much as the old days with MP3.com. However, it might be a start to a better situation for the Online Artist Community, of whatever style you may like to be recognized in. A few days ago I got an e-mail by that same ole MP3.com in which they stated they were going to team up with LAST.FM.

I've heard of that site before, but never bothered to really pay any attention. What drove my attention, though, is the words "Royalty Payback Program". That gave me a vibe of the good old days, and after checking the site out a little bit, I could do nothing but conclude that this was a very positive thing what I saw.

LAST.FM has indeed created the opportunity for artists to upload their music and receive royalties. This is how it works: You get $0.01 per 20 listens to one or more of the tunes you've uploaded. You will not get paid for previews, also not for full-length previews, and you will not get royalties for any free downloads you might want to offer. In fact, you will only get royalties for full-length streams from listeners located in Germany, the UK and the USA.

I will be the first to admit that it is really not that much money, but on the other hand, as far as I know this is the only possibility for us to make a little bit of money as Online Artist.

I don't really know much more than what I wrote above, other than that LAST.FM is a very well-visited website. There was already a Messian Dread page onthere, which I (as far as I remember) not made myself, but it was pretty easy to "claim the name" and I am only humbled to know that people actually like my music so much that they created a page there.

At this moment, I am uploading my music to the website. It will probably take me a couple of weeks before all of that is finished. I will also remove most of my music from the other OMD sites, like Soundclick et cetera, in the coming weeks. The only free downloads of my music will be through the Dubroom Website and Archive.org, which I use to upload the tunes so I can deep-link to them through the Dubroom.

LAST.FM hopefully will be a better place for the serious Online Artists, and I think that this royalty program is a clear indication for that. Hopefully, the royalty program will extend to other countries as well as downloads.

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