Mavrix: Music + Data
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Freaky Friday Playlist Feb-25-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Solar Punch – NY based Eco-Rock Band Live in Bangalore
I’m writing this post about the band Solar Punch just because I loved their attempt of rendering Yun Hi Chala from Swades. Solar Punch is a solar-powered band that uses music to educate people about the environment and climate change. Their sound system is powered by a small PV array mounted atop band mate Alan…
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Bollywood Musicians Bare Claws
Is there something off in the Bollywood music industry? Consider this: Shaan on Twitter about Rahat getting off easy – Rahatbhai found rahat pretty easily with DRI and FERA. A Fine and he’s fine to carry on. Wonder if we were in Another Country in similar situation, would it be as easy ??!! My take:…
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Update Feb-21-2011
We finally have a professionally created logo. Hope you like it. We need help with some data entry work. Please check out the jobs page and share with anyone who may be interested.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20
Akon to audition Indian artistes with hit-predicting software. Why do we need musicians? Let the software create hits. http://bit.ly/euQZVt # Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's obituary in New York Times http://nyti.ms/gDk5Vp # The music behind Gandu, the movie. http://bit.ly/hBzwRn # Music library. An interesting concept. http://bit.ly/foQICC # Now Indian Ocean announces a song for ICC Cricket World…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Feb-18-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Startups and Serendipity
The startup landscape is replete with stories of serendipity. We got a taste of it recently. It is sweet and delicious. We have been struggling to get a Technical Architect on board for some time now. A lot of interviews. Many no-shows. I was beginning to get worried. (A friend/advisor jokingly reassured me – “You…
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Objective Fans – An Oxymoron
In the last couple of days, our blog got a nice spike in traffic. A quick peek at Google Analytics showed that most of the new hits were for a recent post regarding A.R. Rahman. Almost all the hits for this post came from a Yahoo Group and good ol’ Google helped me figure out…
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Meet The New Mavericks
Over the last few days, three Content Analysts – Gururaj, Rakshith and Fidel – joined us. Suddenly, there is a special buzz at work that comes with a new team coming together. We love it! Check our our team page to find out more about our new team members. Despite our small number of followers,…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Feb-11-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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