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One of my all time favorite Neil Young tracks.

Simply put, Spotify RULES!!!  Watch the video and see why.  Spotify is an online web service where you can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of songs from their servers (with 10,000 more added each day), listen to your songs locally (similar to iTunes), star your favorite music, share on FB & Twitter, connect with your friends by dragging and dropping songs into their inbox & even collaborating on virtual mix tapes and these are just off the top of my head.  I love it but I have heard mixed reviews from different people, saying

“why do I need this service? I’ve got this and that etc…”

I would answer that with this

“Spotify is a ton of music all in one place, available anywhere, all while being socially integrated, making listening to music from just about any artist virtually effortless and sharing all of that with your friends even more so, basically it’s the best of all services rolled up into one.”

I would also say,

“stop resisting change and embrace new technology/web services and enjoy the music.  While your at it, connect with me and share what you are listening to & while you are at that drop your archaic Yahoo or Hotmail account, and get with Gmail already.”

With every new online web service or application, there is always a resistance from the public (with criticism surely to follow) and I understand that not everyone is an early adopter or excited by new technology and developments on the web.  If that were the case, everyone would have that Gmail account, but I digress.  The creativity and technology out there on the web is amazing, with new apps and services popping up daily and it is a shame to not take advantage.

Spotify is in Beta and you have to request an invite here,  but it only took them a few hours to respond to my request and I was up and running in a matter of minutes.  Another option is to give a shout out to your friends asking if they have invites to spare.  Premiums services offer no advertising and mobile features, allowing you to take it anywhere.

Spotify creds:

Seth Hall

@middle8media

Brian Eno is another legend at M8M Studios.  I listen to his albums “Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks” & “Ambient 1 Music for Airports” every day while I work.  Literally everyday, for the past 5 years!!!  They are that good!!  These albums contain amazingly creative music that disappears in the background when you need it to.  Unobtrusive and inspiring.  I stumbled upon this video a few days ago.  I love Eno’s music philosophy…imagine custom music everywhere you went, designed for that particular experience, instead of hearing the same songs over and over again, or someone’s personal music collection, that 9 times out of 10, is not to your liking or taste.  That would be cool.  Eno is a true innovator worthy of an audience.  (FYI Brian Eno composed the Window start up sound, 3.8 seconds representing a whole operating system)

“Shuffle Truffle”

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I lived in NYC all of 2004. If I am honest, I’d say that I wish I had thought of this genius idea.

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“Motion Pictures”

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Ari Gold is at it again as Power “The Air Drummer Extraordinaire”, this time giving us a history of Germany as only he can.

For anyone who thought the Bee Gees were just a disco band.  Please Read Me.. (guess the album).  The Bee Gees were Bee Geeing it up before Disco even came along, doing their soul thang, when Robert Stigwood asked them to record a few songs for a little movie he was producing called “Saturday Night Fever”.  Needless to say the movie blew up and the disco label was thrust upon them.  Funny thing, this was a comeback for them, a second phase if you will and they were cranking out hits in their sleep.  (in 1978 they had 5 of the top 10 hits on the charts).  I personally love their “Disco” tunes, (read funk & soul), but I love even more, their tunes prior (check out Bee Gees 1st, Odessa, Cucumber Castle 2 Years On & Trafalgar). They were master craftsmen of music and song and will always remain one of my favorite bands.