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latest email from BPI thugs

14th May 2013

Dear Member,

Over the past years, UK music labels have innovated to build one of the most vibrant digital music sectors in the world. However, the growth of digital music in the UK is held back by a raft of illegal businesses commercially exploiting music without a licence from the copyright holders.

In considering what next steps to take, BPI would like to know if any PPL record company members have, in the UK, licensed their recorded music to the operators of the below websites. If you have licensed any of these sites, please contact BPI directly by emailing legalnotices@bpi.co.uk by 21 May 2013.

• 1337X
• Abmp3
• Beemp3
• Bitsnoop
• Bomb-mp3
• Dilandau
• Emp3world
• Extratorrent
• Filecrop
• Filestube
• Filetram
• Grooveshark
• Isohunt
• Monova
• Mp3juices
• Mp3lemon
• Mp3raid
• Mp3skull
• Newalbumreleases
• Rapidlibrary
• Torrentcrazy
• Torrentdownloads
• Torrenthound
• Torrentreactor
• Torrentz

so i replied:

hi
i am very happy to find our music on these sites.
as you know a download is not a lost sale.
as you also know people who download buy the most music.

please stop wasting everyone’s time, money and freedom by criminalising our best clients and spreading censorship.

but i dare say the last thing you want to do is put yourself out of a job

tom

could have worded it better i suppose and it will have no effect.

New story – Market Forces

27th April 2013

I know this is about music, this site, and i do have lots to put up. so why aren’t I? wasting time with crap stories when it could be crap music. get on with it. all right already. i don’t think i have ever said that before. next week music.

The Peacemen – Dance the Dirt Down

8th April 2013

Peacmen Dance the Dirt DownDance the Dirt Down (157)

i just thought i would bring this track up to the top of the list – just for today.

its timely

Next story: The Birth of Barley-boy.

27th March 2013


NB: yes, sorry still no new music, or gasgiant album, or more Boris. Frantic year so far. I will put up some music after easter and try and get that all up  and running  again. apologies.

March’s story is now up  on Amazon: The Birth of Barley-boy. I sort of remember writing  it. I was 19 and had just read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. The plan had been to write a book, and this was the first chapter. I wrote 9 or 10 chapters in all but stopped as i had lost the plot.

The problem was that after my first story ( a short book , 50,000 words, The Felix Tale) i thought that instead of having  a very fixed plot in  my head, that it would be more fun to write with only a vague idea of what the end should be and that that would  leave me very free with how to get there. The problem was that it just to too out of control: i lost the plot.

I thought for a few days that i could write it backwards – i knew the ending and therefore i could write the last chapter and then the one before. But that was just stupid. So i stopped and wrote the second Felix Tale (also a short book – 50,000 words or so).

So, i then showed this to a cousin, and he said that this first chapter was great and that i should forget the rest. So there you  have it: The Birth of Barley-boy.

Also available at Smashwords .

Video / Advert for : CasioMTB & William Gerard – Help is on the way – The Carp Pond

13th March 2013

So, here is why i have been fairly silent for the past 6 weeks – been making this damn video! Learned a lot about maths for a strat – its weel worth working out that at 2mb a day rendering a film will take 7 years unless you change some things.

Still linux held out and only actually froze (and needing a forced reboot) once. All the other times it chugged along.

The idea still is to try and do a vdeo and music for each of the 12 stories – we will see if i manage to keep to that.

In the mean time the winner of whcih mix of Help is on the way is:

Help in on the way - The Carp pond - Both (183)
Whcih i am glad about.

NEW MP3 No 72: Gasgiant – Track 7

6th February 2013

an uncertainty principle GasgiantTrack 7 (101)

well thats sort of the end of An Uncertainty Principle tracks – there is one more at the end – it kind of goes bruhahahahahah for a few seconds if you  listen very carefully. but that seemed a bit pointless – if you  buy  the album though you  can hear it, and in  marvelous quality.

 

Next up  will be the 3rd Gasgiant album!!

yes the third – new unheard album.

lots to do, well not much really. i am trying  to make a film to go with The Carp Pond / Help is on the way. somewhat experimental (read: crap). if it happens at all.

And second story – ‘Bored’, has to be got up  this month as well. so its all go

NEW MP3 No 71: Gasgiant – Coppafeel

5th February 2013

Gasgiant – Are we all in?Coppafeel (102)

i notice that there is a club night here in  Edinburgh that seems to be called Coppafeel, something  to do with large fake boobs. i am sure gasgiant would be delighted by this if they had had anything to do with it. its tuesday. life goes on.

i have stopped comments as it got too annoying  deleting  thousands of spam comments.

have you  bought m b v yet? i almost did last night but then decided i was quite poor again. will try to buy it next week if my cash improves.

NEW MP3 No 71, 72, 73: CasioMTB & Wiliam Gerard – Help is on the way - The Carp Pond

NEW MP3 No 71, 72, 73: CasioMTB & Wiliam Gerard – Help is on the way – The Carp Pond

1st February 2013

Help is on the way - The Carp Pond - casioMTB William Gerard TWG FraserHelp is on the way - The Carp Pond - casioMTB William Gerard TWG Fraserok so sorry about that. actually just nipping to the kitchen.
ok. so. sorry for disappearing there. turns out january really is a time for corporate new years’ resolutions.
bollocks.
anyway.
so. here are 3 tunes. yes the same, yes sound exactly the same. no difference. but there is. there’s gentle. gentle with bass boost and both together.

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Help in on the way - The Carp pond - Both (183)
and right now i don’t know. commercial or honest. thats what it always boils down to. and maybe thats the answer.
it does actually help to put it in writing.
which takes my breath away.
so smoothly into mentioning my (sorry i had to stop typing there it got so … ) first story. called The Carp Pond . by

TWG Fraser.

 

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NEW MP3 No 70: Troll - Varnink

NEW MP3 No 70: Troll – Varnink

20th December 2012

Troll - VarninkVarnink (142) i think this is our last release of the year.
maybe release is a bit strong? nah i am releasing it into the wild.
feed the troll!
what else? not a lot. big hopes for next year. my 49th?! holy cat how did that happen?
still i think i am getting my second casio keyboard for christmas.
daughter came out of nativity play and on being asked she replied ‘what baby?’ followed by ‘who’s jesus?’ so i guess thats all for the better?
yes i do read jesus and mo every week.
have a good xmas or as a jehovahs witness told me (ebay sale) holiday break…

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