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Dancing Alone.

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#fuckhate

A Meat Poetry Tabloid. 1960. Santa Monica, California. Paintings & Poetry by Charles Bukowski, Steve Richmond, John Buckner.

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Bandcamp

1. Bandcamp pays musicians 85% of what you spend. On Bandcamp Friday, it pays 100%.

Yes, that’s correct. Bandcamp typically takes a 15% commission on digital sales, allowing artists to receive 85% of the revenue. On Bandcamp Fridays, which started in March 2020, Bandcamp waives its revenue share, so artists receive 100% of the sales.  

2. You can download as many times as needed and stream the songs in your collection forever.

Yes, once you’ve purchased music on Bandcamp, you can stream it indefinitely from your collection and download it multiple times in various formats. 

3. The major DJ stores only pay 60%.

This varies by platform. For example, iTunes takes a 30% commission on sales, meaning artists receive 70%.  Specific figures for other DJ platforms aren’t provided in the available sources, so the 60% figure may not apply universally.

4. Major streaming doesn’t pay underground musicians at all.

Major streaming services do pay artists, but the amounts are often minimal. For instance, Spotify pays between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream, which can be challenging for underground or independent musicians to earn substantial revenue without a large number of streams. 

5. Bandcamp has paid independent musicians $1.45 billion.

As of the latest available data, fans have paid artists and their labels $1.46 billion using Bandcamp. 

In summary, Bandcamp offers a more artist-friendly revenue model compared to many other platforms, especially during Bandcamp Fridays. It also provides flexible streaming and downloading options for fans. However, revenue shares on other platforms vary, and while major streaming services do compensate artists, the per-stream payments are typically low.

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A Meat Poetry Tabloid. 1960. Santa Monica, California. Paintings & Poetry by Charles Bukowski, Steve Richmond, John Buckner.

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“Restrictions do not apply” have a pleasant journey! https://www.juno.co.uk/products/mark-hand-neil-holiday-in-beta-centauri/842619-01/

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TH Pressing’s new EP “Wishes & Memories Vol3” 😊 4 tracks of deepness by Tominori Hosoya, Trinidadian Deep, Shaka and myself. Available in the UK from Juno Records soon. It took a while for this to come together but I’d like to say a huge thanks to Tominori for making this happen. Thanks for the support. X ✌🏼❤️ #deephouse #housemusic #techhouse https://www.instagram.com/p/CReTE1yBwUh/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Working on it... https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_lqU1ggAG/?igshid=165ojr63a6u5p

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Prior to the 20th century, and the emergent dominance of equal temperament, the association of emotions with particular musical keys was common practice.

The Black Glass Ensemble recently revisited this historical alignment of sound and emotion to offer a brief ‘embrace’ in B Minor - the key associated with patience.

The initial embrace, featuring the 8 musicians of the Black Glass Ensemble and guest Colin Potter, with whom they had been due to perform prior to the Covid19 lockdown, was well received. Consequently, Black Glass sought to widen the reach of their embrace to other musicians to make a more comprehensive piece of work.

The response was unprecedented. 104 musicians returned 247 individual musical tracks to be mixed into this present arrangement.

The full 38’ 50” minute work, “Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor” is made freely available in the hope that this extended embrace may help in some small way to nurture strength, fortitude and comfort.

credits

released June 15, 2020

Black Glass Ensemble and Friends

Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor

Arranged and produced by Michael Begg

Cover Image by Ben Ponton, used by permission of Sue Cannon

The Black Glass Ensemble:

Michael Begg

Douglas Caskie

Jen Cuthbertson

Neil Cuthbertson

Clea Friend

Julia Lungu

Aisling O'Dea

Ben Ponton

Contributors:

Tommy Aashildrød

The Alaska None

David Allison

Christopher Alvarado

Mkl Anderson

Carsten Aniksdal

Artificial Memory Trace

Matt Atkins

Nigel Ayers

Simon Balestrazzi

Stephen Bishop

Sergey Bulychev

Matt Burnett

Dave Burraston

Ed Carter

Kim Cascone

Don Clemenza

cl0v3n

Chris Connelly

Dane Law

Thomas Dimuzio

Pablo Diserens

Anthony Donovan

John Duncan

Kate Ellis

Steve Fors

Clive Graham

Scot Jenerik

Jean Johnson

Dan Joseph

Evan Henderson

Robert Henke

May Haliburton

Mark Hand

Jim Haynes

Liz Helman

Jack Hertz

Kathy Hinde

Marc Hurtado

France Jobin

Andreas Karperyd

Katpis Tapes

Fergus Kelly

Julia Kent

Jon Lee

Edvard Graham Lewis

Andrew Liles

Malcolm Lindsay

Marco Lucchi

Patrick Tubin McGinley

Grey Malkin

Robert Mazrim

Radboud Mens

Emmanuel Mieville

Abul Mogard

James Murray

Philippe Neau

Adi Newton

B J Nilsen

Mike Nolan

nula,cc

Aisling O’Dea

Orphax

Mike Orr

Chris Osborne

Daniel O’Sullivan

Ivy O’Sullivan

p_fish_mani

Filippo Panichi

Lee Paterson

PBK

Ben Ponton

Colin Potter

Nicola Quiriconi

Audrey Redpath

Ivan Ristić

Carla Santana

Paul sawford

Janek Schaefer

Second Harmonic Generation

Simon Šerc

Tim Shaw

Chandra Shukla

Clodagh Simonds

Steven R. Smith

Jos Smolders

sp3ct3rs

Julia Spooner

Mayor Stubbs

Bill Thompson

VIVIB

Frans de Waard

Warm Digits

Simon Whetham

Gary Wilkinson

Pete Woodhead

James Wyness

Zach Zinn

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Take My Heart. A rework I’ve recently done for @portableakabodycode with good company. Out now #house #deephouse #markhandsound #electronicmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CAupkRuAmha/?igshid=ovytu8mjln5

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Some good news for the good people who are still buying vinyl. Mine & @steven_legget EP with @mrgregblackman is now in stock and on the shelves. Thanks very much for any support ✌🏼x #house #apollorecords #vinyl https://www.instagram.com/p/B-h2Q-DgDIK/?igshid=1dryc78541251

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Hello everyone! Some good news in these peculiar times. New release on @apollorecords with @steven_legget & @mrgregblackman is available now. Vinyl drops March 27th, digital available now. Thanks so much for supporting in advance. Take care, stay safe. Love Mark x #apollorecords #house #electronicmusic #deephouse #markhandsound #stevelegget #gregblackman https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FDf-kgXsC/?igshid=11a8z6mget7o3