Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Global Freezing....?!
What happened to global warming? It's minus 6 here today. They'll soon rename it Global shifting... the icebergs are headed south they say....
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
15 Years of Deluxe FM
Hosted by Matthias Volta on Ems Vechte Welle radio ( Germany)
This special anniversary show will be aired on 24th November
It will feature one of my tracks ( The last Dawn I think ) and also a musical anniversary greeting for the show written by myself.
The show is normally broadcast on regional FM and also streamed online but as a one off treat it will also be broadcast on the following frequencies / times:
You may be able to pick it up with good weather in the uk, particularly on the shortwave so dig out your old radio and give it a go!
UK times: (on 24th November)
14:00 - 15:00 MW 1.593 khz
15:00 - 16:00 KW 6.085 khz (49m)
14:00 - 17:00 KW 6.005 khz (49m)
17:00 - 18:00 KW 3.955 khz (75m)
17:03 - 20:00 FM 95.2 / 95.6 mhz / 99.3 mhz
If you can't pick it up, don't panic! It will be streamed online 17:03 - 20:00 at:
http://www.emsvechtewelle.de/
Enjoy the show!
-Ant / DV
Hosted by Matthias Volta on Ems Vechte Welle radio ( Germany)
This special anniversary show will be aired on 24th November
It will feature one of my tracks ( The last Dawn I think ) and also a musical anniversary greeting for the show written by myself.
The show is normally broadcast on regional FM and also streamed online but as a one off treat it will also be broadcast on the following frequencies / times:
You may be able to pick it up with good weather in the uk, particularly on the shortwave so dig out your old radio and give it a go!
UK times: (on 24th November)
14:00 - 15:00 MW 1.593 khz
15:00 - 16:00 KW 6.085 khz (49m)
14:00 - 17:00 KW 6.005 khz (49m)
17:00 - 18:00 KW 3.955 khz (75m)
17:03 - 20:00 FM 95.2 / 95.6 mhz / 99.3 mhz
If you can't pick it up, don't panic! It will be streamed online 17:03 - 20:00 at:
http://www.emsvechtewelle.de/
Enjoy the show!
-Ant / DV
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
A You Tube Tale
A You Tube Tale
Oh dear oh dear, what a musical mess I made
I totally stuck a spanner in the digital works
How to confuse 4 parties at the same time when nothing was wrong in the first place
(sounds just like something I'd do......,oh wait, I just did)
This may be of use to know for anyone who releases music through any form of digital media management / royalty collection agency:
(so that you don't make a mess of it like I just did!)
Today, I noticed on my 'folk/instrumental' you tube page :
Ant Nottingham You Tube Page
that 'Hereward the wake' had been marked as a copyright infringement and own by someone else.
Obviously I was a bit annoyed at this as I wrote , played and filmed everything myself so I filed a dispute.
A bit later I logged into my pop / electronic you tube page :
Dark Villager - You Tube Page
and to my horror noticed that over 20 of my original videos there were also under dispute of ownership / copyright.
I was not pleased! I was livid! I was distraught ! ( ok exageration, I was mildly annoyed )
Apart from 'pride' and honesty of having made 100% of all the disputed videos myself, It also meant that any ( very little ) revenue generated from video plays (literally a few pence a month , but still it's mine! ) would not go to me but to you tube or to the claimant.
So I got to work filing 20 more claims to get ownership of my own work back!
I then wrote to the two companies that were making claim on them (cdbaby and rumblefish) and asked them to give me my videos back!
With Cdbaby I could understand how there could be a link as I release through them, but rumblefish meant little to me so was confused by that one....
Basically I assumed someone had detected the track / video with the same name /title as ones owned by me and released through them but had not realised I was one and the same person as the one uploading on the YouTube channel ( or the computer system did not realise this) , especially as I have 2 YouTube pages.
CDBaby wrote fairly swiftly back in their usual apologetic and humerous and helpful style.... and I went DOH!!!!!! PLONKER!!!! and bashed my head on the mouse several times.
What had happened was this:
Basically, at some point, I had chosen to opt in (or not opt out of) having my youtube revenue (if any) collected through cdbaby, via rumblefish. They mark them as their ownership, and collect the revenue (if any) and pass it back to me.
So I now have 20+ youtube videos marked for contesting ownership when there was nothing wrong! and of course youtube are impossible to contact and you can't withdraw a contension of rights claim!!
ak well, serves me right for not investigation further 1st and jumping to false conclusions.
I guess one of the following will happen:
a) nothing
b) youtube will follow up all my claims (unlikely) only to find out that there is nothing to contest and be very confused.
c) youtube will actually read my 'legal dept' email and cancel the claims (very unlikely!)
d) you tube will be annoyed at 20+ claims and close my account just for hasstling them and wasting their time (possible!)
e) you tube will give the rights back to me
f) you tube will write a nice reply and immediately sort it out (impossible)
g) rumblefish will get confused and send the police after me (joke, i hope)
h) I will get a massive surge in views as agents from 101 departments chase after the copyright thief
i) I get hit on the head by a piece of mouldy cheese
j) all my videos go viral and I get rich overnight and retire (yeah, sure space boy)
there, all sorted (maybe)
If you tube now confuse things further, I'll post a continuation of the story here... hopefully it will all be fine!
Ant
continuation!...
a reply from You tube (in itself a miracle)
however they did not read my problem correctly and gave me how to proceed in solving a different problem to the one I asked about!
I guess that's nearest to situation b) !
I have replied and explained again....
tbc.....
Oh dear oh dear, what a musical mess I made
I totally stuck a spanner in the digital works
How to confuse 4 parties at the same time when nothing was wrong in the first place
(sounds just like something I'd do......,oh wait, I just did)
This may be of use to know for anyone who releases music through any form of digital media management / royalty collection agency:
(so that you don't make a mess of it like I just did!)
Today, I noticed on my 'folk/instrumental' you tube page :
Ant Nottingham You Tube Page
that 'Hereward the wake' had been marked as a copyright infringement and own by someone else.
Obviously I was a bit annoyed at this as I wrote , played and filmed everything myself so I filed a dispute.
A bit later I logged into my pop / electronic you tube page :
Dark Villager - You Tube Page
and to my horror noticed that over 20 of my original videos there were also under dispute of ownership / copyright.
I was not pleased! I was livid! I was distraught ! ( ok exageration, I was mildly annoyed )
Apart from 'pride' and honesty of having made 100% of all the disputed videos myself, It also meant that any ( very little ) revenue generated from video plays (literally a few pence a month , but still it's mine! ) would not go to me but to you tube or to the claimant.
So I got to work filing 20 more claims to get ownership of my own work back!
I then wrote to the two companies that were making claim on them (cdbaby and rumblefish) and asked them to give me my videos back!
With Cdbaby I could understand how there could be a link as I release through them, but rumblefish meant little to me so was confused by that one....
Basically I assumed someone had detected the track / video with the same name /title as ones owned by me and released through them but had not realised I was one and the same person as the one uploading on the YouTube channel ( or the computer system did not realise this) , especially as I have 2 YouTube pages.
CDBaby wrote fairly swiftly back in their usual apologetic and humerous and helpful style.... and I went DOH!!!!!! PLONKER!!!! and bashed my head on the mouse several times.
What had happened was this:
Basically, at some point, I had chosen to opt in (or not opt out of) having my youtube revenue (if any) collected through cdbaby, via rumblefish. They mark them as their ownership, and collect the revenue (if any) and pass it back to me.
So I now have 20+ youtube videos marked for contesting ownership when there was nothing wrong! and of course youtube are impossible to contact and you can't withdraw a contension of rights claim!!
ak well, serves me right for not investigation further 1st and jumping to false conclusions.
I guess one of the following will happen:
a) nothing
b) youtube will follow up all my claims (unlikely) only to find out that there is nothing to contest and be very confused.
c) youtube will actually read my 'legal dept' email and cancel the claims (very unlikely!)
d) you tube will be annoyed at 20+ claims and close my account just for hasstling them and wasting their time (possible!)
e) you tube will give the rights back to me
f) you tube will write a nice reply and immediately sort it out (impossible)
g) rumblefish will get confused and send the police after me (joke, i hope)
h) I will get a massive surge in views as agents from 101 departments chase after the copyright thief
i) I get hit on the head by a piece of mouldy cheese
j) all my videos go viral and I get rich overnight and retire (yeah, sure space boy)
there, all sorted (maybe)
If you tube now confuse things further, I'll post a continuation of the story here... hopefully it will all be fine!
Ant
continuation!...
a reply from You tube (in itself a miracle)
however they did not read my problem correctly and gave me how to proceed in solving a different problem to the one I asked about!
I guess that's nearest to situation b) !
I have replied and explained again....
tbc.....
Monday, 23 July 2012
Tragedy for the music world
Tragedy for the music world
Tragedy has struck the music world today. There has been dismay
and utter disbelief at the headlines this morning.
The music world is in
total shock after discovering today that the kind is dead. Yes, Elvis has been
found dead. I know it’s hard to believe; a man at the peak of his career and physical
fitness. His healthy diet and strict fitness regime kept him is perfect shape
as he danced like wind over a desert across the stage. The cause of death is as of yet unknown but
police have released a statement saying there was a suspicious sausage protruding
from his left ear.
What is even more unbelievable is that on this terrible day,
his son was also found dead. Michael Jackson, the son of Elvis was found in his
kitchen later this afternoon. It is believed that upon hearing the news of his father’s
death, he shed a large tear and his face exploded.
The latest news is that this has now become a triple tragedy
of terrible termoil. We have just heard that Elvis’s illegitimate love child,
Jimmi Hendrix upon hearing the terrible news, just had a fit of rage on stage,
spun his guitar around his head with such force that it chopped it off. Police
are still searching for his head. It was last seen being carried away in the
direction of the buffet.
James Cameron, British loser and leader called President
Obama, leader of the world a few minutes ago. Cameron reportedly said ‘ Yo Obama
my man, we finally dumped those spawn of Satan, we can now focus on taking over
the galaxy whilst destroying humanity with no interruption’. Obama apparently
replied, ‘not yet my arrogant idiot friend, that is just the tip of the iceberg,
we still have Elton, Cliff and Paul to kill off…. Bwahahahahaha’.
He is currently not available to make comment as he is still
chuckling evil laughter around the pentagon, where he has almost completed his
green laser xray death ray as started by Reagan and his wife, Maggie Thatcher
in the 80’s.
Late news just in; Roy Orbison has just formed a gangster
rap group. With his blood in the hood – Bob Dylan. They are planning on fighting the oppression with
depression. 16 people have already
jumped out of their windows and they haven’t even made a track yet. Madonna reacted to this by saying ‘ I think I’ll
take ALL my clothes of in the next video, Granny power to the max’. Nearby press blew chunks and several bits of Madonna
melted.
Kraftwerk have boarded Thunderbird 2 and are on their way to
the batcave to prevent any further
substandard films being made that attempt
to mash up marvel and dc comic heroes. They are armed with phasers made from
tin foil and knitting needles. In a statement made to CNN they explained their
plan saying ‘ist nacht van death bosh audi vw zat ist de master plan bmw clop
sis ist nein van Beethoven!’ No one in Germany was able to translate.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
This is looking to be a great electronic music label
Keep your eyes on them
Their site is due to go live very soon
European Electronic Record Label
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Our ethics is to run an honest and transparent label that puts artists first.
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