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Thanks for the reminder. While you definitely need a little new age edge to your musical appreciation, they do find talented artists and their compilations give easy access to musical exploring. Obviously worth fifteen dollars.
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So here's my quick review from doing the trial.
Selection: From my early searches, I'd say this leans more heavily toward finding solid electronic. For jazz there are some labels from Europe and Clean Feed, for those free jazz folks. Th… -
That summarizes my feelings as well. It's like I'll get karmic backlash for returning to eMu, but with the Wire belly up and Mtracks so limited, I'm not sensing a whole lot of choice. Right now I'm thinking the last annual option plus hitting up Mtr…
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Ouch. I'm still feeling the pain. Now this was about as surprising as having flat pancakes, but it still stings. I'm rather clueless about where I'm going to get my monthly new music fix.
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You know my first impression of Mtracks was the same: the Wire was hard enough to find great downloads, but this is a slimmed down Wire. I'll give it a shot though, but I admit I'm out of options other than going corporate again.
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Some sites let you select the format you want to download, and while eMu is appealing the populist Ipod crowd, they too would get me back (am I really an audiophile that occurs one to 10,000 customers) if they let me choose FLAC. As a customer, I ob…
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Wife? Music? She's cool with me spending a monthly sum on it and doesn't complain when I have my AKGs that bleed sound all over (basically a low level speaker). That would be the total extent to which we share music though.
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Dang. This thread alone has me intrigued by a return to eMu - tons of solid jazz albums in the three dollar range. Way to advertise to me what I had just kicked. Normally, I would consider the year long thing, but not sure eMu will be around or even…
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Felt good spending three bucks on three albums. Limited selection, but I've been excited to jump into the Roots's new one, one of the few mainstream rap groups worth listening to in this middle class white boy's opinion. I got Jack Johnson as well, …
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For those trying to pinch pennies and acquire music - the so-long forgotten initial appeal of eMu - I'd suggest saving up your acquisition list and then combining whatever welcome-back offer with selecting Preferred eMusic Connoisseur where you pay…
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Went a little more electronica last month. Here's my Limey recs after having listened through a few times:
Some great headphone electronica where it's more about musical space than dancing. British band Gold Panda - while not riding the… -
Fun thread. Suddenly remembering driving out New York City, 21, buying a lot of illicit mind altercation in the Park, randomly choosing a jazz concert, and walking into the middle of David S Ware in high form. Brilliant night and way to meet free ja…
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Fink - Sort of Revolution
One of my favorite downloads from this month. Subtle electronics, intimate vocals that fit music, cool but simple rhythms and guitar. -
Kargatron - I checked out mtracks and most of my jazz dls from Limewire weren't present.
jackedUPjazz - I was talking about Steve Lehman. Solid jazz, though not essential by any means. That idea of post bop without the freaky edge is my… -
pipher - I noticed the same thing, but you can use 'em - just only with the songs that come up when you click on the channel. To me that's almost useless.
frog - great advice for Guvera to hear too. If they want to be serious in their e… -
That simply is astounding, and I like to limit my next wave of consumption until I've consumed a grand portion of this Guvera craziness. While I got a few not mentioned here from Society of Sound and my monthly grab from Limewire, here's my Guvera i…
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I'm still in a state of shock. I joined the party a little late, but I now have dled 38 albums for free. I did do a reality check and immediately deleted one, but tons of great stuff from Blue Note, great international music from Real World, and dec…
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I'm feeling some pressure to rearrange my whole life to listen to all this music. If this is really a September promotion - as in everyday this fantasy continues - it may very well be a year before I listen one time through all of these.
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That was way too much fun. Do any of the corporate sponsored channels actually refresh? I didn't get a chance to finish my Jackie McLean, and I can be a patient man for free.
Talk about a high maintenance download though. You have to re… -
Wow... I'm flabbergasted. And I hope this sort of scheme works as I got click friendly to boost their results to corporate world, and I have to say, it works for me as well. If I see a company giving me free music I love, I will move their item to f…
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Thanks for all the recs. Some of my favorite dls recently have been Muhr and Kora Band. Weird that bandcamp seems to jump from free (awesome) to overpriced (not awesome at all).
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Really dig how they did categories of sound for the different CD's. That was my only, and I mean only, gripe with the first edition: you had to be listening in a very open minded mood or the music could get so left field or out of touch with what yo…
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Here's my further take on this, sidestepping the nuclear attacks on old emu accounts, is that a CD is not that different from a book. I stopped buying books almost completely, including new releases. A book is meant to be consumed once for most folk…
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Maybe it was always there and I somehow missed it, but looks like Merge records is now at Limewire.
Thanks goodness they fixed that redirect. It was getting annoying to say no to the darkside with every dl. -
You know, I've only encountered one album that had the ninety nine cent rule (the new Konono Number One) that I wanted. But there isn't a way to see which is which, I'm afraid, until you get credits. No referral program either. No disloyalty credits…
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That's hysterical. Like a five year old, "Well, yeah, then you own me billion gazillion dollars."
That said, I used my LW dls the first day this month, just in case they do owe a billion gazillion. -
I got my disloyal bonus, and it's a pretty site to see that 99 at the top. I admit I plan to use them and cancel again. Then I'll be curious to see if they give you really disloyal bonus.
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kargatron -
That's exactly what I plan to do. It's a solid deal at emu again, but 24 dls a month isn't much new music. Add in 75 from LW at twenty bucks every other month, plus all the freebies from emu, and that should sedate my ears. … -
Yeah, and if you figure the seventy five buy back for a month at twelve bucks, then you upgrade to the annual, you're looking $112 for 487 downloads over 12 or so months. That's about twenty three cents. The only problem is you got to buy most of th…
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Here's my review:
Positives:
1) Unless your style of music traffics in high amounts of tracks per album, you simply can't beat the price. If you traffic in music like post rock, most jazz, and classical indian, you could be making out li…