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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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Coil (band)
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Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his life partner and collaborator Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy. The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best-known industrial music groups. The groups first official release as Coil was a 198412 album titled How to Destroy Angels released on the Belgian Les Disques du Crépuscules sublabel LAYLAH Antirecords. In 1985, the group working on a series of soundtracks, among them music for the first Hellraiser movie based on the novel The Hellbound Heart by their acquaintance at that time. The groups first live performance in 16 years occurred in 1999, following the death of John Balance on 13 November 2004, Christopherson announced via their official record label website Threshold House that Coil as an entity had ceased to exist. Coil was formed in 1982 and became a concern in 1984. Balance and Christopherson began working with John Gosling on the project Zos Kia, which resulted in four live performances, following the underground hit How to Destroy Angels, Coil left L. A. Y. L. A. H. Antirecords for Some Bizzare Records and produced Scatology, released in 1984 as their first full-length studio album, the album was largely based on the sound of industrial music as well as the Post-punk movement. While songs such as Restless Day, Panic and Tainted Love are representative of a mainstream style, the single Panic/Tainted Love became the first AIDS benefit music release, as the profits from sales of the single were donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust. The Tainted Love music video, directed by Christopherson, is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Horse Rotorvator followed in 1986 as the next full-length release. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse killed their horses and use their jawbones to make this huge earth-moving machine, the artwork features a photograph of the location of a notorious IRA bombing, in which a bomb was detonated on a military orchestra pavilion. Horse Rotorvator was in part influenced by the AIDS related deaths of some of their friends. Furthermore, the song Ostia, is about the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as what Balance described as the number one suicide spot in the world. After the release of Horse Rotorvator, Coil left Some Bizzare Records, the 13-track Unnatural History compilation was then released on Threshold House in 1990. The first three songs on the album were first released as one half of the Nightmare Culture mini-album, loves Secret Domain followed in 1991 as the next proper Coil album, although a few minor releases had been produced since Horse Rotorvator. LSD represents a progression in Coils style and became a template for what would be representative of newer waves of post-industrial music, blended with their own style of acid house. Although the album was upbeat, it was not intended as a dance record, as Christopherson explained I wouldnt say its a party atmosphere. Windowpane and a Jack Dangers remix of The Snow were released as singles, the video for Windowpane was shot in the Golden Triangle, where, Balance claimed, the original Thai and Burmese drug barons used to exchange opium for gold bars with the CIA
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Love's Secret Domain
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Loves Secret Domain is the third album by Coil and was released in 1991. The album marked a departure from the brooding synthesizers and melodies of their first two albums, focusing more on acid house sampling, the singles released from the album were Windowpane and The Snow. Guest vocalists include Marc Almond on Titan Arch and Annie Anxiety on Things Happen, a working title for the album was The Side Effects of Life. Loves Secret Domain was later remastered by Thighpaulsandra with slightly different track lengths, the album is currently available for purchasing in AAC, MP3, and FLAC formats at Coils official website. The song Disco Hospital was covered by Matmos on their EP California Rhinoplasty, lyrics of the song Loves Secret Domain borrow from the song In Dreams, In dreams I walk with you / In dreams I talk to you / In dreams youre mine / All the time. Lyrics are also culled from The Sick Rose by William Blake, specifically, O rose, the cover features a painting by Steven Stapleton originally created on an outhouse door
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Experimental music
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The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental musics primary innovators, utilizing indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. Also, in America, a distinct sense of the term was used in the late 1950s to describe computer-controlled composition associated with composers such as Lejaren Hiller. Harry Partch as well as Ivor Darreg worked with other tuning scales based on the laws for harmonic music. For this music they developed a group of experimental musical instruments. Musique concrète, is a form of music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Elements of experimental music include indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète, under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer, publication of Schaeffers manifesto was delayed by four years, by which time Schaeffer was favoring the term recherche musicale, though he never wholly abandoned musique expérimentale. John Cage was also using the term as early as 1955, according to Cages definition, an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen, and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an unpredictable action. Rebners lecture extended the concept back in time to include Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, nyman opposes experimental music to the European avant-garde of the time, for whom The identity of a composition is of paramount importance. David Cope also distinguishes between experimental and avant garde, describing music as that which represents a refusal to accept the status quo. That is, for the most part, experimental music studies describes a category without really explaining it and this was an attempt to marginalize, and thereby dismiss various kinds of music that did not conform to established conventions. In 1955, Pierre Boulez identified it as a new definition makes it possible to restrict to a laboratory. He concludes, There is no such thing as experimental music … and it is therefore not a genre, but an open category, because any attempt to classify a phenomenon as unclassifiable and elusive as experimental music must be partial. Furthermore, the indeterminacy in performance guarantees that two versions of the same piece will have virtually no perceptible musical facts in common. The term experimental music was used contemporaneously for electronic music, particularly in the early musique concrète work of Schaeffer, a number of early 20th-century American composers, seen as precedents to and influences on John Cage, are sometimes referred to as the American Experimental School. These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, for this music they both developed custom-built musical instruments often characterized as experimental instruments. La Monte Young is known for using this technique when he began working on his minimal drone pieces which consisted of layers of sounds in different pitches
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Threshold House
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Threshold House is one of several record labels created by Coil to release their own work and that of affiliated projects. Associated labels include Eskaton and Chalice and it is also the name for the official Coil website. The label was initially a vanity label of sorts, as all releases were manufactured and distributed by other labels, following the bankruptcy of World Serpent, the label continued independently. The logo for Threshold House is a building, possibly what Coil have referred to as The East Tower in past interviews. It is also similar to artist recreations of the buildings at Catalhoyuk. After the death of John Balance and the disbanding of Coil, Peter Christopherson started an effort, The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. The series of LOCI were released when Coil resided in England, the THRESH and THBKK series began with Peter Christophersons relocation to Bangkok, Thailand. List of record labels List of electronic music record labels Threshold House
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Wax Trax! Records
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Records is an American independent record label. It began as a shop in Denver, Colorado opened by Jim Nash. They sold the store in 1978 and, in November of that year, opened a new one under the name at 2449 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. This store would become the center of the new wave, punk rock, as important as Chess Records was to blues and soul music, Chicago’s Wax Trax imprint was just as significant to the punk rock, new wave and industrial genres. The original label was purchased in 1992 by TVT Records, in 2014, it was re-established by Julia Nash. The record store became a record label slowly at first, initially releasing limited edition records such as Brian Enos Wimoweh/Deadly Seven Finns seven inch, release was Strike Unders Immediate Action twelve inch EP in 1980, followed by Divines Born To Be Cheap seven inch. Among the most noteworthy artists released by Wax Trax, the label also released a bevy of side projects by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry, including Revolting Cocks, Acid Horse, Pailhead, PTP, Lead into Gold, and 1000 Homo DJs. Nash and Flesher licensed a number of recordings from Play It Again Sam of Belgium, Play It Again Sam, in turn, oversaw the operation of Wax Trax. Europe, although it closed abruptly when the relationship between the labels ended acrimoniously in the early 1990s, Play It Again Sam U. S. A. was subsequently absorbed by Caroline Records. Following a bankruptcy filing, Wax Trax. was bought by New York-based TVT Records in 1992, with Nash, TVT continued to use the Wax Trax. imprint for years, even after Nashs death from AIDS-related complications on October 10,1995. In 1994 TVT released Black Box - Wax Trax, Records, The First 13 Years under the Wax Trax. label. It was a 3-CD box set compilation of the labels biggest hits, mr. Nash is survived by his two children, Julia and Aaron Nash. Julia Nash owns and maintains the website titled WaxTraxChicago. com, The Official Family Site dedicated to the memory of Jim Nash / Dannie Flesher, on January 10,2011 WaxTraxChicago. com announced “Wax Trax. The Retrospectacle was the 33 & 1/3 year Wax Trax, however, while we are both in no way associated with this event, we want to make it clear that we do support the good works of the charity involved and honor the memory of Wax Trax. Founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, in mid-June 2014, Jim Nashs daughter Julia Nash reopened Wax Trax. Records with the release of a 12-inch single from Cocksure and this was followed shortly afterward with the release of a 7-inch single for Front 242. This was accompanied by a store in Chicagos Cabaret Metro music venue on June 15. Historical site by Julia Nash Wax Trax, Records, the original Denver record store Wax Trax
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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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John Balance
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He was responsible for vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices. Outside of Coil he collaborated with Nurse with Wound, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Thighpaulsandra and his early work and wide-ranging collaborations made him one of the most influential figures in the industrial, experimental minimalist and neofolk music scenes. Balance first recorded using the alias Merderwerkers, the Merderwerkers track, Blue Funk, was included on the Sterile Records cassette compilation Standard Response. Balance also published a zine, Stabmental, and released a track, A Thin Veil of Blood. A Thin Veil of Blood was included on the cassette compilation Deleted Funtime – Various Tunes for Various Loons, Balance then joined up with Peter Christopherson and Boyd Rice to record Nightmare Culture under the moniker The Sickness of Snakes. Balance subsequently joined Psychic TV and performed alongside Christopherson, however in 1984, Balance, a short collaboration with Zos Kia produced the split tape Transparent. Credit for the album was shared, and marked Coils first release, the original Coil / Zos Kia tape, Transparent, was released as a His-Storical CD reissue in 1997. Dreams Less Sweet Just Drifting Berlin Atonal Vol.2 N. Y, scum Thee City ov Tokyo/Thee City ov New York Mein-Goett-In-Gen Merderwerkers, Blue Funk on Sterile Records compilation Standard Response. Stabmental, A Thin Veil of Blood on compilation Deleted Funtime - Various Tunes for Various Loons, Sickness of Snakes, Nightmare Culture Rosa Mundi, The Snow Man on compilations The Final Solstice, The Final Solstice II and split album Grief. Balance died on 13 November 2004, after falling from a balcony at his home. Peter Christopherson announced Balances death on the Threshold House website, Balances memorial service was held near Bristol on 23 November, and was attended by approximately 100 people. November 2014 saw the publication of a volume of his art called Bright Lights and Cats with no Mouths by Edition Timeless
