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General Discussion / SA HIP HOP IN schools

« on: October 10, 2008, 08:03:58 PM »

I had 2 share this,i just got to my mom's place a few minutes ago.(it's sumwhere in n isolated area in the eden of AFRICA;LIMPOPO ),bored thinkin abt otha stuf i need 2 do once i get back 2 pta,then i picked up my little sister's school file filled with tests in it(grade 5/standard 3 for de old school)one of the tests got  a question askin about a well known sa hip hop group,the answer been black noise,n she got it ryt,mo hip hop questions n she got 84%

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General Discussion / OurmusicChart.com beta mode is out

« on: September 19, 2008, 05:51:27 PM »

Sup people

Just letting you know that OurMusicChart.com Beta mode is finally out, feel free to browse around to get familiar with the place. http://www.ourmusicchart.com/about.php
At the moment we only have basic features and capabilities in place, we are currently working on some of the features and updating this site almost daily. We still working on the layout as well, but it's browseable if there's such a word.
And the OurMusicChart.com Mobile Application will be released by the end of September (or in 2 weeks time), so lookout for that. So in the meantime, do signup and expect a lot of great things to follow...It's FREE to signup.

For those who've never heard what the whole initiative is about, well
OurMusicChart.com is based on a study of the music industry's lows and highs, and the imbalances that exist (that is imbalances in the followed regulations governing music, and imbalances in between getting the music from the artists to the consumers; with some existing music delivery methods been unaccomodating/unfair to artists while some are unfair to the consumers or whoever is responsible for the delivery method) These imbalances have kept world wide music sales about $36.9 Billion lower than the 1996 sales.
Therefore Ourmusicchart.com is about finding a balance, satisfying the artists, those involved in working music delivery methods and the consumers.

OurMusicChart.com is a combination of All the music delivery methods that are in someway currrently satisfactory (radio/tv music chart shows, etc) with some practices that work in other industries (loyalty/affiliate programs, etc)
In other words, OurMusicChart.com is about finding everyway possible (includes Cool Stuff,Gigs Around and My Account) to bring about a balance that FORCES music sales while satisfying the most people in the process.

I could go on and on, but most of the features have not been updated yet so this is where i'll stop. But one feature to lookout for is the loyalty program (ours is a multilevel program without any meetings or joining fee), meaning when people download some stuff, it's not only the artist that will get paid, but the person downloading will also earn some cash.That is coming soon

At the moment it's still a lot of work in progress but we should soon be bringing you the final product.

I am now tired but need to keep working so people, dont forget to checkout http://www.ourmusicchart.com

Later

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General Discussion / Survey

« on: July 01, 2008, 05:54:25 PM »

Sup ppl

Man aint been here for a very long time been finishing up a 4 year old project...just putting final touches to it glad i'm done

For those who down with stats; you know that world wide music sales are still down 8% (that's from about US$39 billion to US$2.9 billion), Although SA is up 2%, at the time we are at, and the level of quality of our music we should have been doing much more better (comparing the music to before 1996). Partly to blame was the big recording companies because of slow reaction to consumers' preference of digital music to CDs. Now that the Big 4 are awake, we've seen a lot of new experimental music delivery methods emerge since 2006. e.g BEBO, eMusic, Spiralfrog, Omnifone, etc...
We've built a delivery method that we believe should work to force sales and music promotion to go up (took about a year of research and 7 months coding/programming).

When i personally started putting the project together officially in 2005, it was just about getting SA music (mainly hip hop) to other continents but soon had to shut the project down (after getting contacts in Japan, all over Europe, US and Africa) because i realized there was more to the problem and i've been working on a music delivery system/method that i believe should be fair to consumers, artists, and broadcasting stations and we've finally put together something that will work for all under the music control Laws we currently have in place (Was difficult cause the old model laws do not work so much anymore, slowing growth down). There are a couple of imbalance(s) in the whole industry that we've been addressing with the project.

Anywho...I'm currently busy with a survey, just trying to find out from artists, recording companies, consumers and broadcasting station managers if they think the project is something they will support and if there are improvements that we'll have to be done immediately.

So please be kind enough to send me PM so i can send you a summary of the project for you to go through and let me know what you think of it.

Please indicate:
Your Name
Country and City
Email address

Please indicate If your are:

1. Artist (which will include the singer/rapper, producer and anyone else involved in song recording).

2. Indie or Signed?

3. Just a Recording company or Working at a broadcasting station (radio/tv)

Thanks in advance to those that will be kind enough to hit me up.

Almost forgot, Checkout www.ifpi.org for the stats.

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Producers - Production Showcase / Back with more hot beats

« on: August 24, 2007, 07:32:08 PM »

Sup all

Back again, jus bn a lil busy trying to survive dis lyf and got a lil sidetracked while doin dat.

Back with some new beats for you to check out.got a nice playlist for yal on my site.

Got a dancehal track that i did for de wicked dancers and your gf.it's cald "my jamaica"

Also got a lil colab i did with Dali Lama(which he dont know abt) usin a plugin i got from somewher,hot track...check dat out

Finaly got a midi keyboard controller and still not good with dem keys but getn there,chk out a track calld "hitin dem keys" for de piano ppl.

I 4got what else i put there, you'll tel me about it...and for those busy with mixtapes anytime soon or know of someone dat is,let me know what you think of the beats...

Critics are very welcome s wel...even haters cos i'll jus brush it of and keep building de craft


De site is: http://rnrmaniacs.sitesled.com/

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Producers - Discussion / whatever type of production you into

« on: April 21, 2007, 05:33:10 PM »

if you dont know this site already well then here it is

Mr. Pretoria once put a link to vids featuring a vid by this guy, much more nice stuf.all those production stuff made too easy :idea:  for fl,Reason and whole buch of other production ways

enjoy at: http://www.warbeats.com

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Producers - Discussion / much improved sound (tested fully working site)

« on: March 06, 2007, 07:11:39 PM »

I just fixed the controlls on the website...works beautifully so please check this beat out and let me know what you think.


Play http://rnrmaniacs.sitesled.com/

I've never been so irritated by codes in my life and dont get me wrong i love writing codes.I had to switch to flash,you'll be promted to download the player.

Click play or directly on the song

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Producers - Discussion / much improved sound

« on: March 03, 2007, 11:57:55 PM »

Sup people, thanks for your feedback from last time.lot of thanks to Bondizzo, just downloaded your beats, looking forward to checking them out, i took your advice and got my self some new drumkits plus fl7 has new hot plugings.

So anyone please tell me what you think of this sound, it's my first beat in a long time, focus a bit more on the kicks which were weak before.

I just cooked this beat today so i'm still loving it, you think i got good reason to?

play the sound here
http://rnrmaniacs.sitesled.com/

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Producers - Production Showcase / checkout dis hotbeats...and dance

« on: January 06, 2007, 01:25:02 PM »

Wat up yal

Check these out

Finaly got my 1st playlist of beats up
Please check them out....let me know what you think.

Sorry it took me so long to put these up to all those i promised to put these up for earlier .

Check the beats out here: http://rnrmaniacs.sitesled.com/
if you havin problems playin..just press play till you get through.BEST if you Maximise da window

My ppl dat showd me love from home PLK... wat up
Guys in PTA, Mojarara, Syc (he da 1 da told me bout dis site bout 6 months back)... Wat up

Please Feel free to comment on da beats, if you want 1...email me from my site and i might just hook you up....