Use this to search through many mp3-weblogs. This boobkmarklet is still in beta. Play with it, check if your own mp3 blog is covered and drop a line with your thoughts on this bookmarklet.
Why YAHOO ? Because the size of the query at GOOGLE is very limited, while at YAHOO it is "unlimited".
What this bookmarklet is doing is telling yahoo to search trough approximately 15 weblogs. The query is for example: "XYZ" (site:tofuhut.blogspot OR site:swen.antville.org)
As you can see, the size of the query easely gets realy big. That's why you can't use GOOGLE.
The bookmarklet woud even be better if people used "better" captions for the postings in weblogs. Most weblogs are hosted at blogspot. The caption of a posting at blogspot ist transformed into an URL. For example this one:
sixeyes.blogspot.com...mystical-and-magical.html
This is a very nice link collection of songs by Devendra Banhart. By giving the post a heading like " mystical and magical by Devendra Banhart", it would be much easier to search for songs/tracks of certain artists, because you can tell GOOGLE or YAHOO to look (for the word you are searching) into the URL and the title of the page of the single posting, which would make the search results yahoo/google much better.
But how to name the postings in your weblog is everyone ownes taste. But it would increase also the position at google.
Update #1
The best way to use this bookmarklet is to drag it to the link bo of your browser, so you don't of to come to my site to use it. But ofcourse I on't mind you comming to my site :-) You can change the weblogs covered in the bookmarklet very easily: 1. Drag the bookmarklet to the link bar. 2. Open the properties of the bookmarklet by right-clicking on the link. 3. Copy the URL (firefox browser: "Location") into a text editor. 4. Look for .com (there are ofcourse mans .com endings, just choose one) and paste the following BEHIND it: +OR+site%3XYZ.com 5. Replace XYZ.com with the URL of the blogg you want to add to the bookmarklet. 6. Copy the whole text (it's actually a small java script) back to the properties of the bookmarklet and the press OK. THAT'S IT!
Update #2
Sometimes you get YAHOO deliveres many results from the same webpage. Those results are weblogs running on the great antville software. I guess this is because every blog-entrie is "stored" on the frontpage , has it's own page and it's also stored in a category page. This means the results provided by YAHOO can easily be double. If this happens, go directly to the weblog and use the weblog internal search function. Antville weblogs are having a search function.
The members of Acrassicauda honed their English by singing along to black-market Megadeth and Metallica CDs. They developed their stage moves by copying what they saw on pirated videotapes of American rock concerts. Now they're learning a different lesson: the difficulties of reviving culture and entertainment in a society ripped apart by war.More
King Tubby is to this day synonymous with dub. He was a man who had a passion for fiddling with sound equipment, and turned that passion into a new musical genre and a veritable art form. He may have started his career as a repairman, but before he was done, his name was one of the most respected around the world. He worked with virtually every artist in Jamaica, and his name on a remix was like gold, a seal of quality that was never questioned. More
Download:
King Tubby's Home Town HiFi Sound System 55,9MB a tribute to the Late King Tubby
mixed by Dr. Auratheft
"This is the international copyright holder for at or commercial at: @. You get it by pressing the keys: Alt Gr and Q. This is your 2004 license for Internet and E-Mail online communications. Yearly private use cost you 10 US-Dollar or Euro in licensing fees. Usage and electronic publishing rights for your @ in multiple contexts for Internet and E-Mail use are only granted by transfer with a valid account. With way more than 238 million users: "E-Mail & Internet" are the biggest online services. All rights reserved."
There is even more text, like the bank account you are supposed to transfer the money, but I don't want to clutter my blogg with that.
From the official website of the olympics 2004:
5. Prohibitions and Restrictions
5.1 The following items may not be brought into venues: […] flags of non-participating countries, flags of participating countries that are larger than approximately 2 x 1 meters, […] flag poles, signs, umbrellas, commercial items with obvious logos of competitive companies to sponsors (hats, T-shirts, bags, etc.)
It seems that someone could be kicked out of a stadion by wearing a pepsi t-shit, because Coke is one of the official sponsors.
I guess thats Coke's revange for Coke day 1998, when a 19 year old terrorist was wearing a Pepsi shirt in high school.
A few days ago I posted a link to three files from the new BJörk CD someone ripped from the BBC. A few days later, they are gone allready but Nick Scholl posted "The Pleasure Is All Mine" on his weblog. Get it here
Frigital Records out of Jacksonville, Florida is a small indipendent record label "interested in promoting genre-defying songwriting such as taut post-punk, woozy folk, and damaged pop from the bedroom, basement and beyond".
In other words: brilliant songs, rough and dirty sounding. Full mp3 files and a few excerpts are offered. All CDs are only 6$
Photos from the Christopher Street Day 2004 in Mannheim, Germany.
Mannheim is a small town (around 300000 people) but has a huge gay community (that's what I heard, DON'T know from first hand).
I once read, that the nummber of gay people living in town can be used as an indicator for the capability to integrate all different kind of people.
I think the theory goes like this: if the are many gay peole in town, the town seems to be "tolerant". If gay people are tolerated, all kind of people are tolerated.
I read about that theory in an newspaper article about the efforts of the german government to get indian IT specialists into Germany.
The Morning News talks with the guys behind Mystical Beast, Largehearted Boy, Cocaine Blunts, Said the Gramophone, Soul Sides and Tofu Hut.
Found at tofuhaus.antville.org
Asian Dub Foundation are 21st century MIDI warriors. Their distinctive sound is a combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar- inspired guitars and 'traditional' sounds gleaned from their parents' record collections, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.
They started off in 1993 at London based organisation Community Music where bassist Dr Das taught music technology. He teamed up with one of his students, rapper Deeder Zaman and civil rights worker DJ Pandit G to form a sound system to play at anti-racist gigs. The following year they recruited guitarist Chandrasonic and started moving further afield. With Sun-J joining in 1995 on live technology and 'radical movements,' the line up was complete.More
After years of covering the human body in scrap metal (in the Tetsuo films), bruises, wounds and scars (in Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet) and dirt (in Gemini), Shinya Tsukamoto was finally comfortable enough to expose it in all its naked glory in A Snake of June. Asuka Kurosawa's liberation from emotional and physical repression while masturbating in the pouring rain took Tsukamoto on a new course. But with the skin as a seemingly obvious endpoint, it was a course that begged the question "Where to next?". More
Acording to some of my friends while I was thirteen or fourteen, the most horrifying and most evil movie ever, now availible as a musical:
www.evildeadthemusical.com
There are just to many releases by netaudio artists. I stopped downloading netaudio stuff months ago allready. It's just to much. But there are a few new releases I will have a closer look at.
What I realy like are netaudio mixes. There is a relatively new which I realy like, it's called Netlabelperlen 2, done by bad comfort. Tracklist can be found here. I allready know some of the artists and I while listen to their stuff defenetly.l
I am also happy to see netlabels emerging from more and more different countries. There are new netlabels from "exotic" countries like Philippines (QED records), Mexico (música para espías) and Turkey (domesticlofi.com). I don't want to give an offense here, by calling countries "exotic", but I guess, for someone living in the Philippines, Germany (where I am from) is as excotic to him as the Philippines are to me. I didn't listen to releases from this labels yet, but I am looking forward to and hopefully hear something new. There a people who don't like "mix CDs" with artits from only one country or categorice music by country. I also don't like categorising, but for me countries are just some kind of filters. You can't google for "new music i havn't heard yet", but you can easily google for mp3 files from specific countries go though the songs you found and hopefully you have something new and fresh.
Third thingwhich I am looking forward to listen to is a huge free 3 CD compilation, called ~temp festival. Many yet unreleases artists are apearing on this compilation, but also big shots like Bernd Fleischman. Just in case you don't know him, his first release "pop loops for breakfast", was the first release for every ones darling Morr Music. There is a german review availible at phlow.net, the german number one startpoint for netaudio music.
Asian Dub Foundation are 21st century MIDI warriors. Their distinctive sound is a combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar- inspired guitars and 'traditional' sounds gleaned from their parents' record collections, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.
