Mavrix: Music + Data
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Raghu Dixit’s Folk-Bhaavageethe-Rock Fusion
The recent trend of stylising Bhaavageethe with contemporary music is becoming very popular. A great and effective contributor to this style is none other than Raghu Dixit, who has significantly recreated most of the Sant Shishunal Sharif’s songs. This new genre is well-received and asking- for-more kind of stuff. Bhaavageethe – ‘Songs with Emotion’ (Bhaava…
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Genre Classifications – Result of Innovation or Exercise In Waste?
Wikipedia lists 259 electronic music genres 212 rock music genres 67 hip hop music genres 29 blues music genres 26 pop music genres How did this happen? Did experimentation and innovation result in so many different musical styles? Is it due to the bands’ quest to package and market themselves as “different” from others? Are…
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How Musical Are You?
BBC Lab UK has come up with a fascinating test of people’s musicality. It involves a series of questions about people’s interest and skills in music and takes about half an hour to answer. The most interesting part of the test is four sets of questions that involve clips of music: Group the Music –…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16
You don't really need to understand how WordPress works to use it but this is still pretty darn interesting – http://bit.ly/hFC8iq # Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross to score The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Another reason why the movie should rock. http://t.co/KsgSJga # Awesome music from Rajasthan featured in NY Times. http://nyti.ms/eEUNVR # Apple iPhone 4…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Jan-14-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Auto-tune For The Common Man
It all started with Cher’s hit song, Believe. Actually, it started before, but the producers of Believe overdid it (deliberately) and made people sit up and go “What the heck was that?”. I am talking about auto-tune, of course. The instrument that magically polishes off vocal blemishes and even adds embellishments that are not humanly…
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Startups – Be Prepared For Spam After Registration
Since we registered, we have been hit by spam from various national banks congratulating us on the registration and imploring us to open an account with them. (Oh, the gap between aggressive sales and lazy servicing!) But the latest spam we received was outrageous and, I would contend, unethical. It was a package of books…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09
LA Times review of AR Rahman’s 127 Hours OST. 127 Hours OST better than SDMs but the competition is stronger this time. http://lat.ms/ifiDXf # Therapeutic benefits of listening to music from lifeMojo. http://bit.ly/feFiiE # Cool! Wonder if any Indian entry made it to the final cut of the Ridley Scott produced, crowd-sourced Youtube doc. http://on.mash.to/fM2mtw…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Jan-07-2011
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Does Book Publishing Have A Better Future Than Music?
Paul Carr of TechCrunch thinks book publishing has a better future than music because there is no assumption amongst buyers that digital books will be free. He also implies that people don’t associate any value with music. He is wrong and his argument is ridiculous: People expect to pay for e-books – It is only…
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