JackPhantom
On the Rise
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1/9/2018 | FREE | 1 | 22 | 0 | 54 | 0 |
I once went walking in a forest at 1am after watching all four (at the time) Friday the 13th movies in succession at 13 or 14. I was heading home from the friend's house where we watched em all. I was also living in an area with exactly the same flora and fauna as the New Jersey location where they filmed them. Suddenly I freaked completely out and took off. I find out later, that I probably walked by a corpse. Turns out some criminal types found out some woman was an informant, and took her apart with a chainsaw right about where I was walking, that same night. If we had started the movie a half to an hour earlier, I'd have walked in on them doing that, and been removed as a possible witness.
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No "Night on Bald Mountain" by Mussorgsky? Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz? Libera Me, from the soundtrack of Interview with the Vampire?
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Funnily enough, we're opening for a bunch of shoegaze bands. Dark jazz + shoegaze - we'll see where that goes!
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By effectively refusing to pay smaller artists, Spotify will become "Where you hear TayTay, but nobody else." If Pandora could ramp up curation and easy sharing of tracks and albums, they'd absolutely own the "discover new music here" space. All because the guy who runs Spotify wants to pay Joe Rogan blasphemous amounts of money - to still lose money.
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As an artist - let me just say Pandora has produced a better listening experience for people who are fans of what I do. I've also had the tremendous pleasure of meeting some of the Pandora crew in person, and they'll bend over backwards for their customers. I will send as many people to listen to stuff on Pandora as I can. When someone assumes I'm about to suggest Spotify they snarl a bit, and then are truly happy when I pull out the Pandora link. We have a subscription in the family and one of my best friends does as well. They may not be as famous as some of the other options, but I'm truly happy this ecosystem exists and I'm happy to help it get bigger and better.
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Similar story: I went from punk into electronic music in my 20s, and during the 1990s ended up working in the US with a mall with an amazing record store. Their selection included a lot of music on the Ninja Tune label: 9 Lazy 9, Funki Porcini, Neotropic, etc. and I found myself really really digging their acid jazz stuff. That led me to start listening to some jazz, and as my father was a trumpeter, he had Kind of Blue which he listened to on a regular basis. Between that and Brubeck's Time Out, Time Further Out, etc. I really started getting into the sounds, but jazz for the most part was too "happy". But by that time I was heavy into Monk, Brubeck, Rich, etc. and loving it the more I heard it. It's why I personally ended up doing a darker, doomlike jazz.
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Not an employee of Pandora, but I am an engineer. I'm guessing that on 5/23, some reporting engine or daily job fell over and they're still trying to play catch up on its stability and/or catch up the data that it was trying to process. Considering that there are 120,000 songs released a day, there's hundreds of thousands if not millions using Pandora, and therefore countless bits of data (who was listened to, when, etc) to sift through to get accurate counts, they're taking their time to get it right. Not dawdling, but not wanting to throw out some numbers without checking them first. This is a real BIG data problem. That's why I am absolutely not giving them any grief, I sympathize UTTERLY with the staff even though I personally REALLY want to know these numbers.
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Does that mean 1) For a release less than X months old 2) Create a social media post, tag with the provided tag 3) Pandora listening crew will listen? On it.
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Thank you! A fan of mine (while listening to the new album no less) noticed the bio was wrong. If you'd like a correct one I can submit it. Where to?
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Could either @ErickPandora or @AdamPandora let me know how to correct an incorrect bio attributed to my artist page?
Right now it reads:
"Begun by Robert Heynen in 1993 as a side project from the ambience of Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia , Exquisite Corpse soon became his full-time occupation with the release of several EPs and the 1994 full-length Inner Light. The seeds of the group were sown in 1993 when Heynen and producer Tim Freeman came together on a Psychick Warriors remix project, for which they called themselves the Disciples Ov Gaia. Much more minimalistic and tribal than the Psychick Warriors material, the remix gave Heynen a taste of independence, and he left soon after to form Exquisite Corpse. After two EPs were released during 1993-1994, the act released a full-length, Inner Light, on Restless in 1994. ~ John Bush"
None of that is even REMOTELY true.
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There are entire bands whose output is X covers of Y. Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave" in French) does bossa nova covers (and the singer's voice is really pretty) with classical guitar of old "New Wave" 80s songs. The Bad Plus are a band who do covers of rock songs in a jazz idiom.
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I truly hate to promote my own stuff as such, but I am happy with how this worked out. I took the photo myself in the Paris Catacombs. A bit of photoshoppery and voila. EDIT: well I tried to post the image. You'll have to see it at jackphantomandtheexquisitecorpsecabaret.hearnow.com
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"Ghosts" is not only complete, written, recorded, mixed, and mastered but Pandora has it, with a release date of May 26. For anyone who wants to hear some teaser clips before the full tracks are available online, jackphantomandtheexquisitecorpsecabaret.hearnow.com. Dark jazz, as if Dave Brubeck decided to have a Goth phase. All the songs are about or related to death, save one. Only sharing because when I was actively posting here earlier I mentioned it was in progress and people said they wanted to hear about progress on same.
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As someone who was alive, as a teenager in the 1980s: The top 40 had some right bangers. A Flock of Seagulls "I ran", Gary Numan "Cars", Eurhythmics, Culture Club, etc. Second wave punk was churning through the suburbs: The Exploited, Discharge, Chaos UK, etc. There was a ska mania as well: The English Beat, Madness, The Specials.... Goth had its first true wave: Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, Alien Sex Field, Specimen. Goth was paired with Deathrock, as opposed to Industrial, so you had a lot different music coming out of that scene. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal gave us Iron Maiden and Judas Priest as well as some hidden gems like the Tygers of Pan Tang. As for metal, it would come to dominate the decade, with bands like Anthrax, Metallica, and Megadeth redefining the genre. Guitar heroes like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen turned up the speed and the scorch making the pyrotechnics of early Van Halen look slow and tame, almost. And then of course there was the 2nd wave of rap. From Brooklyn parties and Blondie came groups like Whodini, the Beastie Boys, Run DMC and so forth. A breakdancing craze in the early 80s kicked off a lot of interest in Electro. Speaking of weird electronic music, bands like the Legendary Pink Dots, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy and so forth were starting this odd new genre that came to be known as "Industrial".
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ANYTHING by Sarah McLachlan. Her story including her takeover and revamping of Nettwerk records is astounding.
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The irony is that the label won't look at you until you have done the hard work of grinding out a following and regular touring and such. They want to see you as a success before you get taken on, and even then most artists signed to labels fail anyway. The old 50s movie thing of some kid singing in an alleyway and a cigar-chomping guy in a big car driving by, screeching on the brakes and going "SIGN THAT KID!" doesn't really happen. Scooter Braun made Justin Bieber into who he turned into, but that is absolutely the exception.
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