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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45
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Moby
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Richard Melville Hall, better known by his stage name Moby, is an American DJ, singer, songwriter, musician, photographer and animal rights activist. He is well known for his music, veganism. Moby has sold over 20 million records worldwide, allMusic considers him one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America. Moby gained attention in the early 1990s with his dance music work. With his fifth album, the electronica and house music-influenced Play. His next major release, 2005s mostly upbeat Hotel was a departure, incorporating more alternative rock elements than previous albums. It sold around 2 million copies worldwide, Moby released Innocents on October 1,2013 to positive reviews. Following the release of Innocents, Moby released the ambient album, Long Ambients 1, the album was given away for free on his website. Mobys most recent album These Systems Are Failing was released on October 14,2016, the album has received mostly positive reviews. He was raised by his mother in Darien, Connecticut and he has also released music under the names Voodoo Child and Schaumgummi. During the 1980s, Hall played guitar for the punk band Vatican Commandos. Later in the decade, he was a guitarist for the rock group Ultra Vivid Scene. It left me very intrigued and impressed in a strange way, Moby released his first singles for Instinct under several different names, such as Barracuda, Brainstorm, and UHF. His first single was a commercial failure—a rap record with vocalist Jimmy Mack, titled Times Up, featuring several remixes, very few copies were ever sold. His first single under the pseudonym Moby was Mobility, but it was his remix of Mobilitys b-side, Go and he released his eponymous debut in 1992. Some of his singles in 1992 and 1993 were Next Is the E, Thousand. In 1991 and 1992 he remixed The B-52s, The Prodigy, Orbital, Bob Taggett - Mind Metal, Erasure, Michael Jackson and he also provided a rap for a Recoil track called Curse. In 1993, Moby signed with Mute Records and released an EP titled Move and this became his second appearance on Top of the Pops
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Moby in 2009
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Moby performs a DJ set at NASA Rewind March 4, 2004, in New York City
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Moby's success in the late 1990s led him to launch the
Area One festival; he is seen here performing in 2001
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Moby performing at the David Lynch Weekend, Maharishi University of Management in
Fairfield, Iowa, April 26, 08.
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Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. During the bands hiatus, Stefani embarked on a pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was met both critical and commercial success. It spawned three successful singles, What You Waiting For. Rich Girl, and Hollaback Girl, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies. In 2006 Stefani released her studio album The Sweet Escape. The album produced two singles, Wind It Up and the albums title track The Sweet Escape. Her third solo album This Is What the Truth Feels Like was released in March 2016, Stefani has won three Grammy Awards. As a solo artist she has received accolades, including an American Music Award, Brit Award, World Music Award. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L. A. M. B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls. She was married to British musician Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2015, Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade. VH1 ranked her 13th on their 100 Greatest Women in Music list in 2012, including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Stefani was born on October 3,1969, in Fullerton, California and she was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel Airport, and her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops 1968 cover of The Left Bankes 1966 song Walk Away Renée. Her father, Dennis Stefani, is Italian American and worked as a Yamaha marketing executive and her mother, Patti, worked as an accountant before becoming a housewife. Gwens parents were fans of music and exposed her to music by artists like Bob Dylan. She has two siblings, Jill and Todd, and an older brother named Eric. Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt before leaving the band to pursue a career in animation on The Simpsons. Her brother Eric introduced Gwen to 2 Tone music by Madness and The Selecter and, in 1986, he invited her to provide vocals for No Doubt, finally, in 1991, the band was signed to Interscope Records
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Stefani at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival
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Stefani performing with No Doubt at
Voodoo 2002
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Stefani performing during the
Harajuku Lovers Tour in 2005
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Stefani performing during
The Sweet Escape Tour in 2007
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Play (Moby album)
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Play is the fifth studio album by American electronica musician Moby. It was first released on May 17,1999 by Mute, Recording of the album began in 1998, following the release of his fourth album, Animal Rights, which deviated from Mobys electronica style, his goal for Play was to return to this style of music. Originally intended to be his record, the recording of the album took place at Mobys home studio in Manhattan. While some of Mobys earlier work garnered critical and commercial success within the dance music scene. It eventually became the biggest-selling electronica album of all-time, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide, in 2003 and 2012, the album was ranked number 341 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was nominated for both a Grammy Award and Brit Award, was the UKs biggest-selling independent album of 2000, the second half of the 1990s saw Moby in career turmoil after years of being a successful techno wunderkind. He explained, I was opening for Soundgarden and getting shit thrown at me every night onstage, I did my own tour and was playing to roughly fifty people a night. However, he claimed, I got one piece of fan mail from Terence Trent DArby, bono told me he loved Animal Rights. So if youre gonna have three pieces of fan mail, thats the fan mail to get, the recording of its follow up, Play, took place during 1998 in Mobys Mott Street home studio in Manhattan, New York. At the time, Moby planned on making the album his last before ending his career, when he finished recording, there was no sign that the album would perform any differently than Animal Rights. According to Moby, he shopped the record to every major label and was rejected every time, after V2 finally picked it up, his publicist sent the record to journalists, and many of them made a huge production of saying they werent even going to listen to it. Moby was introduced to this collection through a friend who loaned the CDs to him. Most of the samples were short and constantly repeated throughout the songs, for example, Honey used a sample from Bessie Jones that consisted of a conjunction of four verses that was repeated over twenty times. In the liner notes for the album, Moby gave special thanks to the Lomaxes and all of the archivists, when Play was released on May 17,1999, it underperformed commercially at first. Moby stated, First show that I did on the tour for Play was in the basement of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, literally playing music while people were waiting in line buying CDs. First sales of Play were poor, in the UK, it debuted at number 33 on the UK Albums Chart on May 29,1999, but during the rest of the year only spent five further weeks inside the charts. It was on January 15,2000 that the album re-entered the UK charts, slowly climbing positions, according to Moby, almost a year after it came out in 2000 I was opening up for Bush on an MTV Campus Invasion Tour. It was degrading for the most part and their audience had less than no interest in me
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Play
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Play: The B Sides
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Victor 17929A and 17929B.
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Compact disc
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Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data. The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan, standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres and can hold up to about 80 minutes of uncompressed audio or about 700 MiB of data. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 millimetres, they are used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio. At the time of the introduction in 1982, a CD could store much more data than a personal computer hard drive. By 2010, hard drives commonly offered as much space as a thousand CDs. In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs, by 2007,200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. In 2014, revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time. American inventor James T. Russell has been credited with inventing the first system to record information on an optical transparent foil that is lit from behind by a high-power halogen lamp. Russells patent application was first filed in 1966, and he was granted a patent in 1970, following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russells patents in the 1980s. The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s, although originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980, after their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984, by 1988 CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and by 1992 CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music cassette tapes. The success of the disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, who came together to agree upon and develop compatible hardware. The unified design of the disc allowed consumers to purchase any disc or player from any company. In 1974, L. However, due to the performance of the analog format
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The pits in a CD are 500
nm wide, between 830 nm and 3,000 nm long and 150 nm deep
Compact disc
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700
MiB CD-R next to a
mechanical pencil
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Mute Records
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Mute Records is a British record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. It featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Inspiral Carpets, Moby, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Wire, Yeasayer, and Yazoo. During 1978, Daniel Miller began recording music using synthesisers under the name The Normal and he recorded the tracks T. V. O. D. and Warm Leatherette, and distributed them through Rough Trade Shops under the label name Mute Records. The label was formed initially just to release the one single, T. V. O. D. /Warm Leatherette became a cult hit ensuring the future of the label. Warm Leatherette was later covered by Grace Jones and Chicks on Speed, after meeting Robert Rental, Miller began recording and playing live as Robert Rental & The Normal. In 1979 the band went on tour supporting the punk band Stiff Little Fingers, in 1980, Miller released the single, Kebab-Träume, by the German band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, who had recently moved to London. The bands 1980 album, Die Kleinen und die Bösen, was the first album released by the new label, the album had the catalogue prefix STUMM, a play on the record labels name, meaning mute in German. This prefix would continue to be used through most of the labels album catalogue, also in 1980, Miller recorded and released the cover single, Memphis Tennessee, under the name Silicon Teens. The band was Miller’s realisation of a dream Mute Records group, in mid-1980, Mute Records released the Silicon Teens album, titled Music For Parties. Around this time the artist Fad Gadget had begun recording new demos and this was released as a single in 1980, followed by the next single Rickys Hand and the album Fireside Favourites recorded at Blackwing Studios. September 1980 saw the release of the double-holed, multi-speed 7 single by Non & Smegma, Boyd Rice went on to release several more recordings with Mute Records. After touring with Daniel Miller as Robert Rental & The Normal, Robert Rental released his only Mute Records single, Double Heart, a rare, remaining trace of this late electronic music pioneer. Miller approached Depeche Mode in 1980, after seeing them perform in London, wanting them to record a single for his label and their loyalty to Mute was reciprocated by the label’s rapid expansion to cope with their success. In defiance of the recording labels predictions of failure, Depeche Mode became a successful charting band worldwide. The bands consistency was unbroken even by the departure of principal songwriter Vince Clarke, Martin Gore took over the main songwriting role, opening the band up to different influences and sustaining their creativity as a band. Mute continued to other experimental artists, such as NON, releasing an album of Boyd Rices pre-NON recordings. 1982 began with the release of the 12-inch single, Rise, by Boyd Rice, Fad Gadget released his third album for the label, titled Under the Flag, influenced by the current Falklands War and the feeling of being British in the most unseemly of times. The album spawned the singles For Whom the Bells Toll and Life on the Line, Mute Records big commercial success of 1982 was the band Yazoo, the duo of Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet
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Mute Records
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V2 Records
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V2 Records is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, and then by PIAS Entertainment Group in 2013. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI, the label was owned 95% by Morgan Stanley, the chief financier of the company, and 5% by Branson. Over the years V2 acquired Gee Street Records, Junior Boys Own, Blue Dog Records, the label also distributed many labels, such as WichitaWichita, Luaka Bop, City Slang and Modular. Stereophonics were the first band to sign to the label, V2 now operates in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It was distributed in the US by BMG, however it left for WEA shortly after the formation of Sony BMG. Its headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the former US home of Island Records, in 2006 Branson sold V2 North America to Sheridan Square Entertainment LLC for $15 million. SSE then merged its label Artemis Records into V2 North America, the new label was effectively divested from the Virgin Group. On 12 January 2007, V2 North America announced that it was undergoing restructuring to focus on its back catalogue, as a result, their employees were let go and their roster of artists left as free agents. V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a management buy out together with their distributor. In August 2007, V2 Music Group was sold for £7 million to Universal Music Group, Cooperative Music has had significant success with various acts such as Fleet Foxes, Phoenix and The Black Keys. In 2009, the newly formed IndieBlu Music Holdings LLC acquired SSEs business, including V2 North America, IndieBlu was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. In early 2013, PIAS acquired Cooperative Music from Universal Music Group, since its formation, PIAS Cooperative has had success with albums from Factory Floor, Temples, Maximo Park, John Grant, The Eels, and Midlake. Acoustic 07, an album released by V2 List of record labels Official website Cooperative Music
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Songwriter and singer
Chris de Burgh.
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alan Parsons in an
ESO 50th anniversary video.
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A
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Mixing Console
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Honey (Moby song)
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Honey is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the first single from his studio album Play on August 31,1998. Moby discovered the Sometimes sample while listening to albums of music recordings compiled by field collector Alan Lomax. He subsequently composed Honey, along several other songs from Play. Honey was generally received by music critics, who praised the songs sampling of Sometimes. Upon release, it peaked at number thirty-three on the UK Singles Chart and also charted in other countries, including Austria. The songs music video, directed by Roman Coppola, depicts three duplicates of Moby venturing through various locations, Honey was later remixed to feature vocals from American R&B singer Kelis. Moby composed Honey for his studio album Play after listening to a box set of folk music songs compiled by field collector Alan Lomax. He developed an interest in the a cappella songs recorded by Lomax, Lomax recordings were also used as the basis for several other songs from Play, including Find My Baby and Natural Blues. After producing Honey, Moby commissioned Brazilian record producer Mario Caldato, at this time the Beasties had Hello Nasty, which was doing incredibly well, and I just couldnt believe that Mario Caldato, Jr. was willing to work with me. Honey features a beat and additional instrumentation performed by Moby himself. The song is built around samples of American blues singer Bessie Jones 1960 song Sometimes, Moby has said that the vocals are meant to convey female sex. Other musical elements incorporated in Honey include hand claps, vinyl record scratches, john Bush of AllMusic notes the songs mixture of sampled blues music with breakbeat techno. Honey received generally positive reviews music critics. Frank Owen of The Village Voice called the song a mesmerizing floor-filler, alexandra Marshall of MTV wrote that its samples of Sometimes work both as ingredients in a sonic collage and stay totally recognizable at the same time. A writer for The Guardian praised Honey as joyous, hypnotic, romping blues, while reviews from NME described the song as a sparkling diamond and a natural born dancefloor groove. In his book I Hear America Singing, An Introduction to Popular Music, jim Sullivan of The Boston Globe cited Honey as a highlight song from Play, while Gene Stout of Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it one of the albums most riveting tracks. The song ranked at number twenty-four on The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, on their year-end list, Spin named Honey the tenth best single of 1999
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"Honey"
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American R&B singer
Kelis performed vocals on a remix of "Honey".
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Let Me Blow Ya Mind
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Let Me Blow Ya Mind is a song by American rapper Eve, featuring American singer Gwen Stefani. It was released on March 15,2001 as the second and final single from Eves second album and it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, it also peaked at number 29 in Canada, and number four in the United Kingdom. The song was listed at number seven on the 2001 Pazz & Jop list and it won a Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, which was a brand new category at the time. The music video won the 2001 MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, in the music video, Gwen Stefani and Eve are shown stopping at a red light. Eve brings in a gang of party crashers, and she tells Gwen to tag along, Gwen gets out of her car and gets into the all-terrain vehicle. They arrive at the party where to crash it after parking their ATV, then, they are arrested for disrupting a formal party with their loud music and rowdiness. An older woman appears in the video, the woman shares a resemblance to Leona Helmsley. She tells police officers about the disturbance as Stefani and Eve disrupt the party, dr. Dre also makes an appearance at the end of the video when he comes to jail and pays the bail for Eve and Stefani. Fellow Ruff Ryders Jadakiss and Styles P make a cameo in a scene where Eve acts as a bartender. The song was one of the biggest selling singles of Summer 2001 in both the United States and the United Kingdom, in the latter country, it became Eves second top ten hit single. CD,1 Let Me Blow Ya Mind Whos That Girl, aint Got No Dough Let Me Blow Ya Mind CD,2 Let Me Blow Ya Mind Whos That Girl Gotta Man Let Me Blow Ya Mind Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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AllMusic's
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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The Billboard logo
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film)
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Thor Freudenthal and based on Jeff Kinneys book of the same name. The film stars Zachary Gordon and Devon Bostick, robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn, and Chloë Grace Moretz also have prominent roles. The film earned $75.7 million on a $15 million budget and it is the only film in the series to be directed by Freudenthal, who was replaced by David Bowers for the rest of the installments. The film was released on March 19,2010 in the United States by 20th Century Fox. As a prank, Rodrick wakes up Greg claiming that it was time for school and it is found that Rodrick tricked Greg and the title sequence begins. This is also when Greg meets Angie, a girl who isolates herself from the girls to survive. At the end of the day, Rowley unintentionally embarrasses both boys by asking Greg if he wants to come over and play, Greg looks through Rodricks yearbook at home and Rodrick catches them, intending to kill Greg. On Halloween, the two boys encounter teenagers while trick or treating, and they are drenched with water, Rowleys shield blocks assumed 95% of the water. Nevertheless, Greg says he will call the cops and this causes the teenagers to chase them to his Grandmas house. The teens further chase them to the Devil Worshipper Woods, which Rodrick warned them about before the duo left to trick or treat. Some time later on, Greg makes it an effort to make Rowley popular by changing his style of clothing and looks, and how he wears a backpack. The boys join Safety Patrol in an effort to become popular, Rowley fractures his arm during winter due to a game the boys played, and Rowley gets extremely popular, and wins the contest, causing Greg to become more jealous. At Safety Patrol, Rowley is unable to due to his injury. In a panic, he hides the kids in a zone and the neighbor spots Greg, mistaking him as Rowley due to the coat Gregs wearing. One of the told the whole story, further parting Greg. Greg decides to pursue popularity without Rowley by joining the school play, at tryouts, Greg uses a wonderful soprano, prompting the music teacher to cast him as Dorothy, however, Patty threatens the teacher into casting her as Dorothy. Chirag, tells him he could sign up as a tree to bean Patty with apples, during rehearsal, Greg is told he doesnt throw apples and sings instead. He doesnt sing due to Rodrick videotaping him, and Greg throws apples at Patty, getting upset about the circumstances the year has become for Greg, he gets his brother Rodrick grounded, but fails to reconcile with Rowley
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Theatrical release poster
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Chicago, the
Chicago Theatre, the
'L',
Navy Pier,
Millennium Park, the
Field Museum, and the
Willis Tower.
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Traditional
Potawatomi costume on display at the
Field Museum
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A 1903 painting of Chicago in 1833
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An artist's rendering of the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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House music
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House music is a genre of electronic music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s. Early house music was characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms mainly provided by drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals. While house displayed several characteristics similar to music, it was more electronic and minimalistic. House music became popular in Chicago clubs in 1984 and it was pioneered by figures such as Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Kym Mazelle, and Mr. Fingers, and was associated with African-American and gay subcultures. House music quickly spread to other American cities such as Detroit, New York City, Baltimore, in the mid-to-late 1980s, house music became popular in Europe as well as major cities in South America, and Australia. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop, in the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. House music has also fused with other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as euro house, tech house, electro house. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the wave of progressive house. The genre has remained popular and fused into other subgenres, for example, ghetto house, deep house. As of 2016, house music popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe. The song structure of music songs typically involves an intro, a chorus, various verse sections, a midsection. Some songs do not have a verse, taking a part from the chorus. The drum beat is one of the important elements within the genre and is almost always provided by an electronic drum machine rather than by a human drummer playing drumkit. The drum beats of house are four on the floor, with bass drums played on every beat, House music is often based on bass-heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and/or from samples of disco or funk songs. The tempo of most house songs is between 118 and 135 beats per minute, soul music and disco influenced house music. These artists produced longer, more repetitive, and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings, early house producers such as Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Rachel Cain, co-founder of an influential Trax Records, was involved in the burgeoning punk scene and cites industrial
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An honorary
street name sign in
Chicago for house music and
Frankie Knuckles.
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Building in New York City where the
Paradise Garage nightclub was located
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Swedish House Mafia performing in 2011.
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Cee Lo Green,
Adam Levine,
Christina Aguilera, and
Blake Shelton, on the cover of the February 1, 2012, issue of Rolling Stone
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Joseph Kahn
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Ahn Jun-hee, known professionally as Joseph Kahn, is a Korean American film and music video director. Kahn was born Ahn Jun-hee in Busan, South Korea and his family moved to Jersey Village, Texas, a suburb of Houston, when Joseph was three. After graduating from Jersey Village High School in 1990, Kahn went to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts and he later dropped out after one year to direct music videos. In 1999, Kahn started his own company with Chris Lee, SuperMega Media. Kahn has worked with artists such as Lady Gaga, Shakira, Aaliyah. In 2002, Kahn won his first Grammy for Eminems Without Me video which won the MTV VMAs Best Video of the Year. His video for Katy Perry Waking Up In Vegas won the MVPA2009 Best Video of the Year, kahns usage of Japanese pop culture in music videos first began with Janet Jacksons Doesnt Really Matter video. The video was also the most expensive video Kahn has directed and is among the most expensive of all time, in 2014, Kahn was given The Icon Award by the UK Music Video Awards. In 2015, Kahn directed MTVs choices for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Female Video and he won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video of 2015 for Taylor Swifts Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar. Kahn also directed the 2004 action film Torque starring Ice Cube, in May 2007 it was announced that he would direct an adaptation of William Gibsons science fiction classic, Neuromancer for producer Peter Hoffman. On May 7,2010 Fangoria reported that Vincenzo Natali, the director of Cube and Splice, had taken over directing duties, in 2010 Kahn directed the low-budget, self-financed horror comedy Detention. After winning a number of audience favorite awards on the festival circuit
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Joseph Kahn at a screening of
Detention at the
Los Angeles Film School, April 2012
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Parody
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A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, parody … is imitation, another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice. Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, animation, gaming, the writer and critic John Gross observes in his Oxford Book of Parodies, that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche and burlesque. According to Aristotle, Hegemon of Thasos was the inventor of a kind of parody, in ancient Greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics but treating light, satirical or mock-heroic subjects. Indeed, the components of the Greek word are παρά para beside, counter, against, Thus, the original Greek word παρῳδία parodia has sometimes been taken to mean counter-song, an imitation that is set against the original. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, defines parody as imitation turned as to produce a ridiculous effect, because par- also has the non-antagonistic meaning of beside, there is nothing in parodia to necessitate the inclusion of a concept of ridicule. Old Comedy contained parody, even the gods could be made fun of, the Frogs portrays the hero-turned-god Heracles as a Glutton and the God of Drama Dionysus as cowardly and unintelligent. The traditional trip to the Underworld story is parodied as Dionysus dresses as Heracles to go to the Underworld, roman writers explained parody as an imitation of one poet by another for humorous effect. In French Neoclassical literature, parody was also a type of poem where one work imitates the style of another to produce a humorous effect, the Ancient Greeks created satyr plays which parodied tragic plays, often with performers dressed like satyrs. In classical music, as a term, parody refers to a reworking of one kind of composition into another. The term is sometimes applied to procedures common in the Baroque period. The musicological definition of the parody has now generally been supplanted by a more general meaning of the word. In its more contemporary usage, musical parody usually has humorous, even satirical intent, in which familiar musical ideas or lyrics are lifted into a different, often incongruous, context. Musical parodies may imitate or refer to the style of a composer or artist. For example, The Ritz Roll and Rock, a song and dance performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Silk Stockings, parodies the Rock. Conversely, while the work of Weird Al Yankovic is based on particular popular songs. The first usage of the parody in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is in Ben Jonson, in Every Man in His Humour in 1598, A Parodie. The next citation comes from John Dryden in 1693, who also appended an explanation, suggesting that the word was in common use, in the 20th century, parody has been heightened as the central and most representative artistic device, the catalysing agent of artistic creation and innovation
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Comedian
Charlie Chaplin impersonating
Hitler for comic effect in the satirical film
The Great Dictator (1940)
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Screenshot of a scene in
Jurassic Park (1993) featuring a
Tyrannosaurus rex (left), parodied by Rex the Dinosaur in
Toy Story 2 (1999).
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Satirical political cartoon that appeared in
Puck magazine, October 9, 1915. Caption "I did not raise my girl to be a voter" parodies the anti-
World War I song "
I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier ". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman.
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Reggie Brown, a voice actor and
Barack Obama impersonator
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Best Male Video
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The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video is one of four original general awards that have been handed out every year since the very first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. In 2007, though, the award was briefly renamed Male Artist of the Year, however, the award returned to its original name the following year. With three victories, Eminem is the artist with most wins in this category, and also has the most nominations with nine. Meanwhile, Tom Petty, Beck, Will Smith, Justin Timberlake and Chris Brown, all have won this twice, with the first three being the only artists to win the award for two consecutive years. Justin Timberlake, Will Smith, Beck, Tom Petty, Chris Brown,2 wins Despite as a female act, most Nominated Artist, as of 2016 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Male
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Inaugural winner
David Bowie
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Eminem is the artist with most wins (3) and nominatons (9)
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Justin Timberlake has won the award twice
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Two-time winner
Chris Brown
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No Doubt
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No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, that formed in 1986. Since 1994, the group has consisted of vocalist Gwen Stefani, bassist and keyboardist Tony Kanal, guitarist and keyboardist Tom Dumont, since the mid-1990s in live performances and the studio, they have been supported by keyboardist and trombonist Gabrial McNair and keyboardist and trumpeter Stephen Bradley. The ska sound of their song Trapped in a Box that was featured on their first album No Doubt failed to make an impact. The Beacon Street Collection is a raw expression of their sound, inspired by ska punk, the album sold over 100,000 copies in 1995, over three times as many as their first album sold. Fifteen months later, the band reappeared with Rock Steady, which incorporated reggae, the album was primarily recorded in Jamaica and featured collaborations with Jamaican artists Bounty Killer, Sly and Robbie, and Lady Saw. The album produced two Grammy-winning singles, Hey Baby and Underneath It All, as well as Hella Good, after a 2004 tour the band embarked on solo projects, with Stefani releasing two successful solo albums Love. Baby. and The Sweet Escape while Tom Dumont released his own music project. In 2008, the band resumed working slowly on their effort, titled Push and Shove. They have sold over 33 million records worldwide, Eric Stefani and John Spence met at a Dairy Queen and had talked about getting a group together to play music. Eric got a keyboard and gathered some players together to practice, the practice included Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani, John Spence, Jerry McMahon, Chris Leal, Chris Webb, Gabriel Gonzalez & Alan Meade and Tony Meade. They practiced in Erics parents garage, Tony Kanal went to one of the bands early shows and soon joined the band as its bassist. After initially rejecting her advances, he began dating Gwen, but they kept their secret for a year. Paul Caseley also joined the band in 1987, Eric Carpenter joined the horn section soon after. In December 1987, Spence committed suicide days before the band was to play a gig at The Roxy Theatre for record industry employees. No Doubt disbanded but decided to regroup after several weeks with Alan Meade taking over vocals, when Meade left the band, Gwen replaced him as lead singer, and No Doubt continued to develop a live following in California. He joined No Doubt and replaced Jerry McMahon as the bands guitarist, Adrian Young replaced Chris Webb as the drummer the following year. Caseley left No Doubt in July 1989 for the US Navy Band, No Doubts self-titled debut album was finally released in 1992, but it featured no radio singles, although a video was made for Trapped in a Box. The albums distinctly upbeat pop/cartoon sound sharply contrasted with the then-dominant grunge movement, because the music worlds focus was redirected squarely at Seattle, No Doubts album was not supported by the record label and considered a commercial failure for selling only 30,000 copies
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No Doubt in 2009
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Go: The Very Best of Moby
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Go – The Very Best of Moby is a compilation album by Moby, including one disc of hits and a second disc of remixes. The previously unreleased New York, New York featuring vocals by Debbie Harry, is included in the release. A remix album, Go – The Very Best of Moby, all of the tracks are remixes of Mobys work by other producers and remixers, apart from track 17, which is a remix Moby himself produced. The tracks are not mixed into other, but most of them are edits of the original remixes. Editing is credited to RJ, James Aparicio, David Loudoun, the digital download version omits tracks 16 and 17. Five different versions of Go – The Very Best of Moby were released in different regions of the world, each version contains different songs, based on the singles and their popularity in that region. All songs are edited versions of the mixes, unless noted. Single-disc editions A single-disc version of the album was released in the United Kingdom, France, the Danish single-disc version is similar to the South American one except it does not include Bodyrock and Beautiful. The two-disc international deluxe edition was available for sale in these regions for an additional price. Two-disc deluxe editions Two different versions of two-disc deluxe editions were made — one for the United States, in the United Kingdom, France, and South America, the deluxe international version was sold in addition to the single-disc versions listed above. DVD The DVD features 27 music titles by Moby, chronologically ordered, one of the notable omissions was the music video for South Side, featuring Gwen Stefani
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Go – The Very Best of Moby
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Go – The Very Best of Moby: Remixed
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Hybrid (Welsh band)
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Hybrid are a British electronic music group previously based in Swansea, Wales, now based in Worcestershire, comprising Mike Truman and Charlotte James. Beginning in 1995, Mike Truman and previous band member Chris Healings were primarily known as a collective, although they overlapped considerably with progressive house. Hybrid are considered pioneers of the genre, and have produced four studio albums. Also over their career, they have produced over 100 remixes for over 40 artists including U2, Moby, Rob Dougan, in 2015, Chris Healings left the group to concentrate on a solo career in sound design and DJing. Hybrid released their first album, Wide Angle, in 1999 – a combination of house and nu skool breaks with vocals. They hired the Russian Federal Orchestra for the string sections, julee Cruise supplied many of the vocals for Wide Angle. The album was produced and written by the duo along with the original band member. The musics cinematic feel and scope have led to comparisons with Massive Attack, Hybrid also supported Moby during a live tour in 2000. Hybrid released their album, Morning Sci-Fi, in 2003. They added semi-permanent vocalists and guitarists, Adam Taylor and Tim Hutton with a guest appearance from New Order alumnus Peter Hook and this album had a generally darker theme than Wide Angle, though still retaining the cinematic undertones for which Hybrid are known. I suppose that is because music is so ingrained into what we do naturally. Weve been listening to stuff like Doves, Radiohead, Soulwax, New Order and lots of jangly indie bands and classical music, particularly the work of Arvo Pärt. In 2004, Hybrid were invited by noted Hollywood film composer Harry Gregson-Williams and this also marked the first collaboration with the late film director Tony Scott. A collaboration which continued throughout the remainder of his career, until his death in 2012, on April 2006, Hybrid played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 29 April 2006. Later, the year, Hybrid released their third studio album. The album featured the return of the symphonic sound and grand orchestral scope of Wide Angle. It featured Perry Farrell, John Graham, Judie Tzuke and Kirsty Hawkshaw, Harry Gregson-Williams also appeared on the album, composing most of the albums string sections. Film composer Stephen Barton was also involved with the production of the album, the album didnt spawn any singles, however many of the tracks would later go on to be heavily played by DJs, as well as heavily featured in advertisements
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Hybrid
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Dance Club Songs
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The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U. S. dance clubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply, the current number-one song on the Dance Club Songs chart for the issue dated April 15,2017, is Lick Me Up by Tony Moran and Dani Toro featuring Zhana Roiya. Dance Club Songs has undergone several incarnations since its inception in 1974, originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26,1974 under the title Disco Action. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week, Billboard continued to run regional and city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976 until the issue dated August 28,1976, when a thirty-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered. During the first half of the 1980s the chart maintained eighty slots until March 16,1985 when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed, two charts appeared, Hot Dance/Disco, which ranked club play, and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, which ranked 12-inch single sales. Only Hot Dance Club Songs still exists today and these stations are also a part of the electronically monitored panel that encompasses the Hot 100. Radio airplay is not limited to that counted on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, during this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since adopted Record Worlds chart data from the weeks between March 29,1975 and August 21,1976 into Billboards club play history. For the sake of continuity, Record Worlds national chart is incorporated into both Whitburns Dance/Disco publication as well as the 1975 and 1976 number-ones lists, with the issue dated August 28,1976, Billboard premiered its own national chart and their data is used from this date forward. For the full list of all 100 All Time Top Dance Club Artists, both Enrique Iglesias and Dave Aude are tied with 14 number-ones on the chart, the most among male artists. Iglesias, however, is the male vocalist to accomplish this feat, while Aude is the only producer to achieve this milestone. Four acts have attained thirteen number-one songs, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Yoko Ono, Kylie Minogue became the first act to have two songs in the top three on March 5,2011. Her song Better than Today was number-one while Higher, a song by Taio Cruz on which Minogue features, was number three, the first 12-inch single made commercially available to the public was Ten Percent by Double Exposure in 1976. The first number one on Billboards Disco Action chart was Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor in 1974, the first number one on Billboards National Disco Action Top 30 was You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees in 1976. Beginning with the February 23,1991 issue, the dance chart became song specific, in all scenarios this was due to the tracks being included in film soundtrack albums. In 1978, four tracks from Thank God Its Friday, in 1980, madonna holds the record for the most chart hits, the most top-twenty hits, the most top-ten hits and the most total weeks at number one. The Trammps are the act to replace themselves at number one. The longest running number-ones on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart are Bad Luck by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes2 in 1975, both entries spent eleven weeks in the top spot
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Madonna holds the record for the most number-ones since its inception with 46, and as of 2015 is the only living and active artist to have charted continuously since 1982. "
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Lucky Star " (1983) marked her first number-one on the chart, with "
Bitch I'm Madonna " (2015) being her most recent.
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Mainstream Top 40
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Mainstream Top 40 is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, arbitron refers to the format as contemporary hit radio. The chart debuted in Billboard Magazine in its issued date October 3,1992, both Top 40 charts measured actual monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems. Both charts were born of then-new BDS electronic monitoring technology as a more objective and this data was also used as the airplay component for Hot 100 tabulations. They returned to the print edition in the August 2,2003, songs on the chart are ranked by the total number of spins detected per week. Songs which gain plays or remain flat from the week will receive a bullet. A song will also receive a bullet if its loss in plays does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the increase in plays is placed first. Since the introduction of the chart until 2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 26 weeks on the chart, in the chart week of December 3,2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Since the issue dated December 4,2010, songs older than 20 weeks on the chart are moved to recurrent after they drop below No.15 and this chart was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart. 12, Mariah Carey - Dreamlover, Taylor Swift - Shake It Off No,13, Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood No. 14, Lady Gaga - Born This Way, Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z - Suit & Tie No,16, Madonna - Frozen, Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me No. I. The panel is regularly updated, with stations being added or removed sometimes even weekly, as of 2011, Britney Spears holds the record for the longest span between No. 1s at 12 years, seven months and four days between her first No.1 and her latest, katy Perrys Teenage Dream is the first and only album to have 6 singles top the chart. JoJo at age 13, became the youngest solo artist to have a single on the chart with Leave. Three acts have replaced themselves at No,1, Mariah Carey, OutKast and Iggy Azalea - with Azalea being the only one to do so with her first two chart entries. com BDS Top 40/CHR chart
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Mariah Carey shares the record with Taylor Swift for the highest debut with "Dreamlover" at #12
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Taylor Swift shares the record with Mariah Carey for the highest debut with "Shake It Off" at #12
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Rihanna shares the record with
Katy Perry for the most number-one singles (with 11) and holds the record for the most top ten singles (with 24), and the most overall appearances on the chart since her debut (38).
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Katy Perry also shares the record with
Rihanna for the most number-one singles (with 11). Katy holds the record for most cumulative weeks at number one for Pop Songs.
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Moby (album)
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Moby is the debut studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in July 1992 by record label Instinct. The song Go samples Laura Palmers Theme from Twin Peaks, as well as the vocal from the song Go. by Tones on Tail. The albums song Thousand also holds the Guinness World Record for having the fastest beats-per-minute tempo, clocking in at approximately 1,000 BPM, Moby was released by the New York-based independent label Instinct Records on July 27,1992. The album was issued without Mobys cooperation, in the book by Martin James titled Moby < Replay - The Life and Times, Moby said that he was so angry about the release of the album that he actively spoke out against it in any promotional work. It is one of the times in the history of pop music that an artist has asked his audience to not place value on his own debut album. He went on to say that The basic problem was that I had never wanted to put an album like this out and it was just a compilation with a few unreleased demos. Dance albums had always failed, I thought, because they didnt work over the length of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didnt want to do, at the time, the first Prodigy album impressed me because theyd managed to create a full listening experience which encompassed various styles. This was the kind of vision I had for my debut album, but Instinct insisted on putting Moby out. Which kind of upset me a lot, Moby also stated in his interview with Billboard that all the songs are at least a year old. However, Moby would later describe the album as an interesting artifact, by December 2000, the album has sold in excess of 72,000 units in the US alone. The album was released in 1993 in UK as The Story So Far, with a different track lineup and slightly different cover art, US version All tracks written by Moby
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Ambient (album)
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Ambient is the second studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in August 1993 by record label Instinct. It received a critical reception. Ambient, unlike most other Moby studio albums, has never been re-released in a special-edition or a remastered issue, the album is composed of electronic ambient pieces, similar to Aphex Twins Selected Ambient Works releases. Like the Aphex Twin releases, the work is mainly instrumental, many of the tracks are beat-driven, except J Breas and Piano and String, which both use pianos and synthesizers. Bad Days uses a sweeping synth effect, and Sound is a high pitched loop playing and fading out,80 uses synths mimicking an acoustic guitar. The album has an experimental, moody style, many of the tracks are dark and unearthly. There are also some more uplifting numbers, like Heaven, Tongues and Dog, the track Myopia uses a bubbling synth-bass style. House of Blue Leaves and My Beautiful Blue Sky are more experimental beat songs, Moby – main performer, producer Wendi Horowitz – design Bob Ward – digital editing Jill Greenberg – photography Ambient at MusicBrainz
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Animal Rights (album)
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Animal Rights is the fourth studio album by American musician Moby, released on September 23,1996. The album was a critical and commercial failure, Moby had previous experience performing rock music, having been a member of the groups Vatican Commandos and Ultra Vivid Scene in the 1980s. The album was recorded between the summer of 1995 and spring of 1996 in Manhattan, New York, Moby worked alongside Alan Moulder in the making of the album. Ironically, just as Moby decided to change direction, the music he moved away from started to gain recognition and popularity through artists like The Chemical Brothers. Animal Rights was released on September 23,1996 in the United Kingdom, the album was not released in Mobys native United States until five months later on February 11,1997. The album failed to chart on the Billboard 200, but reached number 31 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, the albums first single, released on August 26,1996, was a cover of Mission of Burmas 1981 song Thats When I Reach for My Revolver. The release was subject to controversy as both the BBC and MTV asked Moby to change the lyrics of the songs title line. Moby acquiesced and rerecorded a version of song titled Thats When I Realize Its Over so its video could air on the networks. Mission of Burma fans were outraged, Moby defended himself. One of the albums last minute maxims is freedom of speech is absolute and inviolate, the single peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart. The albums second single, Come on Baby, was released in early November 1996, Moby toured the record as the opening act for Soundgarden on their Down on the Upside tour. However, he chose to continue his career after other artists, including Terence Trent DArby, Axl Rose and Bono, Animal Rights was poorly received upon its first release, however, in later years, it garnered generally positive reviews. Moby had earlier made his reputation with electronic music, but Animal Rights found him embracing punk rock, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Animal Rights ranks as one of the classic failed albums, right alongside Sinéad OConnors big-band Am I Not Your Girl. Seeming to expect its critical reception, Moby added the following entreaty to the bottom of the credits page, in a 2016 installment of Noiseys Rate Your Records feature, Moby named Animal Rights as his personal favorite of his studio albums. All tracks written by Moby, except where noted, fans in the UK who were early enough to the record shops were treated to a 49-minute bonus CD called Little Idiot. Consisting entirely of ambient tracks, it was the second in a line of ambient bonus CDs. Little Idiot included reworkings of tracks from Animal Rights – it also features a drawing of Mobys character Little Idiot, who would later appear on various music videos and single and album covers
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18 (Moby album)
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18 is the sixth studio album by American electronica musician Moby released in 2002. The most successful single from the album was We Are All Made of Stars, another notable single from the album is Extreme Ways, which is played to introduce the credits in all five Bourne movies from The Bourne Identity on. The album features guest appearances by Azure Ray, MC Lyte, Angie Stone, a collection of the albums B-sides and video footage was released a year later on 18 B Sides + DVD. Critical response to the album was positive to mixed, with critics feeling it was too much of a retread of his previous releases. The album debuted at number 1 in the UK and many other European countries and it also peaked at number 4 in the Billboard 200. 18 B-Sides + DVD disc two DVD A two-disc CD and DVD compilation was released in 2003 titled 18 B-Sides + DVD, the first disc is a CD featuring nine B-sides from 18 as well as four new songs. The compilation was released in the United States in a CD-style case, the song Extreme Ways was used at the end of every Bourne movie. The song Signs Of Love was used in a episode of Smallville. 18 at MusicBrainz 18 at Metacritic 18 at Discogs
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Hotel (album)
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Hotel is the seventh studio album by American electronica musician Moby, first released internationally on March 14,2005 and then on March 22,2005 in the United States. Hotel was recorded under the Pacha label and mixed at Mobys apartment, Electric Lady Studios, initial quantities of the album came with a second CD of ambient music entitled Hotel, Ambient. The album received a critical reception. On December 16,2014, Hotel, Ambient was reissued as a release with additional tracks. The album name Hotel was explained in one of Mobys journal entries, the artist was fascinated by the nature of hotels, where humans spend often significant portions of their lives, but have all traces of their tenancy removed for the next guests. Moby is responsible for playing the instruments on all the tracks, the first UK single was Lift Me Up, released on February 28,2005. The second UK single, Spiders, was released on May 23,2005 to coincide with Mobys UK tour, the album includes a ballad cover of New Orders Temptation. Worldwide, the album has sold over 2 million copies, in recent years, Moby has stated in several interviews that Hotel is his least favourite of all of the albums he has made. In his interview on Q, Moby said that although the production was very slick and very professional, I like some of the songs, but I produce it in such a generic way, that I was really kinda disappointed with myself as a producer and as a musician. Its the only time in my life Ive ever done that, I recorded it in a big studio with a really successful engineer and ended up with a very slick, polished anodyne record that I just dont like very much. Some of the songs are nice but Im disappointed I made such a generic record
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Last Night (Moby album)
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Last Night is the eighth album by American electronica musician Moby, released in March 2008 by record label Mute. It is a more dance-oriented affair than Mobys previous few albums, on his official website, Moby stated that this album is a lot more dance-oriented and electronic than my last few albums, probably as a result of all of the DJing Ive been doing lately. He also wrote that, Last Night is basically a love letter to music in New York City. What I love about the New York approach to music is the eclecticism and the open minded-ness on the part of the musicians, the DJs. In making Last Night, I essentially tried to take a long 8 hour night out in New York City, disco Lies was released as a single on January 21,2008. The second single, Alice, was released on March 10, Last Night was released on March 29 by record label Mute. Last Night sold a mere 200,000 copies worldwide during its first month and it disappeared from the worldwide charts very quickly. Its total sales stand at 500000 copies worldwide, the low sales might also be attributed to Mobys US label, V2, getting out of the record making business. This forced Last Night to rely only on UK label Mutes limited distribution and promotion, I Love to Move in Here was released on July 1, and the albums final single, Ooh Yeah, was released on November 28. On November 3,2008 in the UK and November 25,2008 in the U. S. a remix album of Last Night entitled Last Night Remixed was released, Moby said of the album, All tracks written by Moby, except where noted
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Wait for Me (Moby album)
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Wait for Me is the ninth studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released on 29 June 2009. Moby announced the title, track listing, and release date of the album on his website on 14 April 2009, the first single from the album was Shot in the Back of the Head. The songs accompanying video was directed by David Lynch. The videos to Pale Horses and Mistake feature the alien shown on the cover, the alien is a new design of Little Idiot who appeared in earlier videos and is also the name of Mobys own label, on which the album was released. Moby has stated about the recording of the album, I recorded the album here in my studio on the lower east side, David was talking about creativity, and to paraphrase, about how creativity in and of itself, and without market pressures, is fine and good. In making this record I wanted to focus on making something that I loved, as a result its a quieter and more melodic and more mournful and more personal record than some of the records Ive made in the past. Moby and David Lynch discussed the process of the album on Lynchs online channel. Lynch also directed the video for Shot in the Back of the Head. Ken Thomas mixed Wait for Me, according to Moby, mixing the record with him was really nice, as hes creatively open to trying anything. For example, Moby and Ken Thomas recorded an old broken bakelite radio through some broken old effects pedals, a deluxe Edition with two CDs and a DVD was released on 23 November 2009. It featured 2 bonus tracks, One Time We Lived and Stay Down and it also included Mobys download only album, Wait for Me – Ambient, which was released on 2 November 2009. One Time We Lived was the supporting the album. Wait for Me, Ambient is the album Wait for Me re-recorded by Moby in an ambient manner and it was released as a digital download on 2 November 2009. It was also included in the edition of Wait for Me. Remixes. is a album by American electronica musician Moby. It accompanies the release of Wait for Me and its companion, Wait for Me, the album contains reworked versions of the songs, as well as remixes by Moby himself. It was announced on his website on March 23,2010. Moby toured for the album with a band, something that occurred rarely during Mobys Last Night promotion
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Destroyed (Moby album)
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Destroyed is the tenth studio album by American electronic musician Moby, released in May 2011 by record labels Little Idiot and Mute. A photography book of the name was released in conjunction with the album. The majority of the recording was done while Moby was touring, hed stay up in his hotel room because of his insomnia and work on music during the late night. He said it seemed as if everyone else in the world is sleeping and he would take any incomplete tracks back to his apartment, where, using his collection of unique instruments, he would finish them. His friends Emily Zuzik, Inyang Bassey, and Joy Malcom, as well as Moby himself, musically, Moby summed it up as broken-down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 am. He says the title of the album makes sense when he listens to the music, the song Rockets was previously released in 2008 as track 13 on A Night in NYC. That version and the Destroyed version are different, the artwork for the album was shot at LaGuardia Airport. Mobys flight was delayed, so he decided to explore the airport. He came across a sign that said, “All unattended luggage will be destroyed. ”Since the sign could only fit one word at a time. It was used as the art for the album and also for the corresponding photography book because it made sense to him when he listened to the contents of the album. Moby announced the title, track listing, and release date of the album on his Web site on February 15,2011 and it was revealed on Mobys official web site that the first single would be The Day. It was available in advance on iTunes from April 2 and was released on May 9. For the next single, Moby put a poll on his web site for fans to vote for which song should be released next. After the voting ended, the single was Lie Down in Darkness, even though it came in third. On 30 August, Moby posted on his web site journal another request for the official single. This time the fans could only suggest the titles of the songs without a poll, the release was a double single. On May 1,2012 The Poison Tree was released as the single from the album. Destroyed was released on May 13,2011 by record labels Little Idiot, the album debuted at number 69 in the United States, becoming Mobys lowest-charting album to date
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Innocents (Moby album)
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Innocents is the eleventh studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in October 2013 by record labels Little Idiot and Mute. The album features collaborations on seven of the twelve tracks. For Record Store Day 2013, Moby released a 7-inch record called The Lonely Night, the track was subsequently released as a download with remixes by Photek, Gregor Tresher, Freescha and Moby himself. In July, Moby announced that he would be releasing a new album titled Innocents. Moby recorded Innocents from between January 2012 and June 2013 in his apartment, the album was produced by Grammy-winner Mark Spike Stent. The album features several guest performers and vocalists, including Cold Speckss Al Spx, Wayne Coyne, Mark Lanegan, Damien Jurado, Skylar Grey and Inyang Bassey. On working with Coyne, Moby stated that Wayne and I first met in 1995 and we became friends, shared a dressing room and the same bad craft services, and watched the Chili Peppers from the side of the stage. Of the collaboration with Al Spx, Spx explained that Moby approached her to sing on the new album, He had heard about me because Im on Mute in America and he heard about the record and asked if I wanted to sing. It was a free, collaborative, creative environment. He was really open to what I was doing and, luckily, he liked what I was doing, I was quite happy to do it and I would probably do it again some day if he asked me. As with Destroyed, the photographs comprising the albums artwork were all shot by Moby, the first official single from the album, A Case for Shame, was released on July 1,2013. A video was released to promote the single, a quieter remix of the song by Moby himself was made available for free download from his official Web site. The previously released track The Lonely Night was announced to appear on Innocents, the third single, Almost Home, featuring Damien Jurado, was announced through a music video competition. The winner, which was revealed on January 6, would receive $6,000, in the meantime, he filmed a lyric video for the track at the Best Friends Animal Society in Los Angeles. On February 4, the video for the song, which reportedly cost only $10 to make. With this occasion, Moby took time to answer a multitude of questions from fans, Innocents was released on October 10,2013 by record labels Little Idiot and Mute. The official Innocents tour consisted of three shows to be held at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on October 2,3 and 4. Billed as Moby live + special guests, the show was separated in two parts, the first consisting of material from Innocents, while the second was a greatest-hits set, each concert was expected to last for three hours
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Move (Moby song)
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Move is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was his first release on Mute Records in the UK, released in September 1993, it hit number 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. All That I Need Is to Be Loved was released as a single, remixes of Move was featured on the Everything Is Wrong remix album. It was released as a non-album EP and served as Mobys sixth single release overall, Move was engineered by Curt Frasca. P. at Discogs
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Go (Moby song)
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Go is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released in November 1990 by record label Instinct as the first single from his self-titled album. The single was a success in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, Go samples Laura Palmers Theme from the television series Twin Peaks and the titular vocal from Tones on Tails song Go. The yeah vocal which features prominently in the track is actually a sample from soul singer Jocelyn Brown, taken from her 1985 single Loves Gonna Get You, Go was originally the B-side to my first single, Mobility, Moby recalled. After that came out, I watched the first episode of Twin Peaks and was inspired by the theme, so went back, when it was released, my dream was for it to sell 4,000 copies. It did a couple of million, including compilations, and I really thought that when DJs played Go, it was because they were taking pity on me for making such a mediocre song. I guess its a good thing Im not a company executive. The songs music video was directed by Ondrej Rudavsky, Go was released on 30 November 1990 by record label Instinct. It peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, fourteen different remixes of the song were collected and combined into an entire continuous CD as a bonus disc for Mobys album Rare, The Collected B-Sides 1989–1993. A remix of the featured on Mobys 2006 compilation Go – The Very Best of Moby. On the UK version, the version from Mobys 1997 compilation I Like to Score appears instead, in 2010, Go was ranked number 134 in Pitchforks Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s list. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Go music video on YouTube
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I Feel It/Thousand
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I Feel It and Thousand are two songs by the American electronica musician Moby, released as a double A-side single from his first album, Moby. Thousand has the Guinness world record for the fastest tempo in beats-per-minute of any released single and it clocks in at approximately 1,000 BPM, hence the title of the recording. The single peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart
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All That I Need Is to Be Loved
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All That I Need Is to Be Loved is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was first featured on the 1993 EP Move as All That I Need Is to Be Loved and was released as a 12 vinyl single. The song Where You End from Hotel contains a sample from this and it was only released on vinyl, and there was no music video made for the song. In the UK it was released as a promotional 12 single. A much shorter version, a thrash metal-techno hybrid sometimes called the House of Suffering or H. O. S mix, was featured on his 1995 studio album Everything Is Wrong. All That I Need Is To Be Loved is the only Moby single which is released another single or EP. All That I Need Is to Be Loved –7,09 B, morning Dove –5,43 U. S.12 A1. All That I Need Is to Be Loved –4,29 A2, All That I Need Is to Be Loved –5,33 B1. All That I Need Is to Be Loved –7,45 B2, All That I Need Is to Be Loved –5,28 The U. S. vinyl was re-released in 2006 in digital form on Amazon. com and iTunes. All That I Need Is to Be Loved –7,25 A2, All That I Need Is to Be Loved –2,45 AA1. All That I Need Is to Be Loved –4,39 AA2, All That I Need Is to Be Loved –5,33 U. S. clear vinyl 7 A. All That I Need Is To Be Loved –2,45 B, new Dawn Fades –5,30 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Feeling So Real
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Feeling So Real is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released in 1994 as the second single from his renowned studio album Everything Is Wrong. The single peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart, the song features the phrases sound system rocking and set it up DJ spoken by Kochie Banton, who also appears in Mobys following single, Everytime You Touch Me. The guest vocalist for the song is Rozz Morehead, the B-side is Mobys take on the Joy Division song New Dawn Fades. It would later be included on the Joy Division tribute album, the remix CD contains all the separate parts for Everytime You Touch Me. Mute and Elektra held a competition where one had to use the parts to create a remix in any style you want, the winning remixes were included on later singles
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