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:: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 ::

Ask Dr Kim in shops now

They're here
Originally uploaded by gusset.

Gusset's Ask Dr Kim remix album finally physically exists for people who want to buy it!

Labels: CD, Death$ucker, Electronic Music, Flickr, Gusset

:: Dan 14.11.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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Half vinyl, half CD, all new format

"CD sales are falling. Vinyl sales are rising but not for a mass market. So the music industry has come up with a new format in the fight against dwindling revenues. ...[a] single on a disc that is vinyl on one side and a CD on the other."

I like 5" vinyl as a format. It only really works for punk/hardcore as you can only get 3 mins of music on one side, but I like my Compulsion and Trencher releases. I've always wondered how practical the hybrid would be technically. I wonder whether they are cutting the grove into one side of the CD, and if so how they are avoiding the data layer without making the disk to think for CD players, or if they are fusing two separate disks together as they do with double sided DVDs?

"[Gut records chairman] Mr Holmes says that if the format proves popular his company could use it for other bands. 'The music business desperately, desperately needs to invent new formats; the CD is an antique, it's 20 years old.'"

I disagree there. The constant search for new formats only helps record companies struggling to shift back catalogue. As far as new formats go, they already have one. It's MP3. They don't like it as it's the first time they haven't been in control of it, but it's there and they are going to have to live with it. No novelty hybrid disk is going to make kids rush out to the shops again or make adults reacquire their existing collection.

Labels: CD, Format Wars, MP3, Music, Vinyl

:: Dan 17.10.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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