Appearing in the western parts of London, the genre is also referred to as West London, mainly because Goya Music’s offices were in
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28Feb
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25Feb
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Have you heard that music is used for therapy? Yup, you heard it right. It is currently an established health service comparable to physical therapy. And not only does it raise IQ of kids and keeps the party spirit going, but it also develops motor, social and cognitive skills, self-awareness, and spirituality as well! And oh…it is also used for pain relief and stress reduction and produces good ‘vibes’ and warm, fuzzy feelings.
Music therapy is a nice thing, it is used in developmental work with individuals with special needs, songwriting and listening in reminiscence/orientation work with the elderly, processing and relaxation work, and rhythmic entrainment for physical rehabilitation in stroke victims. Next time you turn on your mp3s, you can be sure you’re already having a new kind of therapy.
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23Feb
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The internet has birthed to great changes in music experience, because of increase choice and access to songs. YouTube has provided an opportunity for amateur and professional musicians to post their music videos for the public to enjoy. MySpace has bridged the gap between musician to fellow musician, facilitating the distribution of songs among many. Also, there are sites that allow download of songs at a fee, or sometimes even for free. Which is good for listeners but very bad for the producers! For me, I think that they would have to revise a lot of things to keep up with the changes, or else, music would be entangled in a net spawned by the internet.
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20Feb
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Prime minister Tony Blair has championed e-government and launched several multimillion-pound IT projects. The ID card bill, whose essential element relies on disparate technologies such as biometrics and databases working perfectly together, has absorbed much of this parliament’s time Understanding technology - information technology at least - would be close to MPs’ hearts
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11Feb
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Initially, a contraction of the term discotheque, discos sprung up as a movement in the mid-70’s in response to a number of factors. And as discos grew in popularity, the DJs began to exert more influence in the shaping of popular taste.
Disco was the pop music of the mid-1970s.
Reference:
Keyboard Magazine Vol. 21, No.7 (issue #231, July 1995.)
Gregory, Hugh. A Century of Pop: A hundred years of music that changed the world. London: Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., 2006. -
10Feb
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In 2005, the duo teamed up and assembled a group of musicians as diverse as their musical backgrounds — members hail from
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08Feb
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Jungle was England’s answer to House. It sprang out of the warehouse, acid-house and rave scenes of the late 1980s, and the melting pot of ecstasy-fuelled parties in Ibiza. In Jungle, a rhythmic patter or breakbeat is created by stretching two short musical passages, or breaks, by playing the same record on two decks and switching back and forth between them to create an infinitely extendible passage. The same effect can be produced by digitally encoding the break with a sampler and repeating it continually in a loop. A combination of time-stretched breakbeats are played around 160 beats per minute over a reggae baseline, with the / bass drum removed, at 80 beats per minute. The result, since co-opted by mainstream figures such as Everything But The Girl, David Bowie and Rickie Lee Jones, is hypnotic.
The term Jungle was quickly denounced as racist. Although the music had a strong black flavor, it was generally conceded that ‘jungle’ referred to ‘the urban jungle’ where disaffected youth, both black and white, found themselves.
Reference:
Keyboard Magazine Vol. 21, No.7 (issue #231, July 1995.)
Gregory, Hugh. A Century of Pop: A hundred years of music that changed the world. London: Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., 2006.
