Mavrix: Music + Data
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Amit Trivedi – Take A Bow
Amit Trivedi is the best thing that has happened to Indian film music in recent times. For music lovers, who have been disillusioned by the sameness that pervades Bollywood, he is not just a breath of fresh air, he is a gale of change. I love the fact that he keeps churning out solid rock…
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Career For The Musically Inclined
We are ramping up our team. If you are musically inclined and just beginning your career (freshers welcome!), you won’t find a more interesting project to work than ours. Check out our Jobs page for our requirements of the Content Analyst role. Get in touch with us or pass this on to anyone who might…
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Official Song of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 – Another Bust
The official song of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL), was released on Dec 31, 2010. In my opinion, it’s another miss, close on the heels of A.R. Rahman’s official song for the Commonwealth Games. It’s easy to explain why you love a song or why you hate one, but really hard…
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Quentin Tarantino songs
I watched Inglourious Basterds last night and, as with other Tarantino movies I have seen, loved the songs as much as the movie itself. There is a certain quality to Tarantino songs – off-beat, melodic, dark, retro – that sounds amazing in the movies but also make for great listening by themselves. My original plan…
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Mavrix Monthly Update Dec-2010
Company registered. We finally registered as Mavrix Infotech Private Limited. The process took 4 weeks after we decided to switch from LLP to company registration. Enrolled into Microsoft’s BizSpark program. It is a fantastic program which makes a whole lot of Microsoft goodies available to startups at NO COST. There is no reason why a…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Dec-31-2010
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The Man Behind Lata and Asha
Lata Mangeshkar (or an obliging relative?) tweeted this today: namaskar,aaj mere pujya pitaji master dinanath mangeshkar ji ka 110 va janam diwas hai,hum sab bhai,beheno’n ko jo suro’n ka vardan mila hai ye unhi ki den hain,meri pujya mataji maai,aur mere baba aaj hamare bich mein nahi hain lekin main un dono ko hamesha apne…
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New Member In The Mavrix Family
In the last (and the first!) Mavrix Monthly Update, I had talked about the first Mavrix employee. Now that he has served out his notice period, I can reveal the identity of the mystery man. Santosh Patil was the first person I interviewed for the Content Manager role and my assessment of his fit with…
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India’s First Backward Narrative Song?
There are many reasons to watch “Manmadhan Ambu”, Kamal Hasan’s movie released yesterday. For me, just one was enough – the backward narrative song “Neela Vaanam”. There is something weirdly compelling about watching a story unfold backwards. It’s jaw dropping how everything in the song moves backwards, except Kamal’s lips which sync perfectly with the…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Dec-24-2010
What? A weekly feature called Freaky Friday Playlist. It will have 10 songs randomly picked from one of our staff’s song libraries. Why? Because we can Random play is the best way of listening to music To impress you with our fantastic taste in music and make you feel lousy about yours It’s an easy…
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