Thanks to Serato Scratch, digital material was able to feel old school, and thanks to Ableton Live, the possibilities of making something different in live shows grew widely. But now, the great qualities of each product are joined, since the companies announced a "creative partnership" between their most famous products. DJing evolution is unstoppable.
All the music is already on YouTube. Under this premise, the first great successor of
Muxtape was created from the open source platform
Opentape. Its name is
Mixtube and it consists in a tool to create and listen to playlists from the million videos stored in the biggest online clip collection. Create yours!
This year, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Prince, three of the biggest pop icons, turned 50 years old. In order to celebrate their birthdays, the website Hypeful assembled the 50 most famous cover songs for each artist. By the time you finish listening to all 150 covers, we might be celebrating Britney, Justin and Christina Aguilera's 50th birthdays. For that reason, Flowmi picked the best 5 covers of each one. Check them out.
In order to promote their latest releases, Wichita Records is giving away a compilation including tracks of some of the best artists of the indie label. In exchange for your e-mail address, you can download 15 tracks of the renown artists Peter Bjorn and John, Bloc Party, Conor Oberst, Les Savy Fav, Los Campesinos!, among others.
After
Graduation, the album that contains the greatest number of hits, Kanye West has already finished his next album. It is rumored that the name will be
Good Ass Job and that
the release date is set in December. The most sensitive rapper, that will be touring across Latin America in October,
has started to present some tracks in his live performances. Check them out!
As they did with their latest release, when
they gave away free tracks of
End Titles… Stories for Film, UNKLE
now gives away some tracks of their next album Remix Stories (Volume One), an EP including remixes of their latest album and the prior one
War Stories.
An orchestral version of the minimal techno track "Hold My Hand." Check it out!
Good covers can be amazing, since any existing song can achieve its highest potential in each reinterpretation. But this is not always the case. The hardened synth riffs of "Kids", just one of the undeniable singles by MGMT, disappear in the acoustic guitar cover by The Kooks. However, the harmonica sounds great in combination with the chorus. Listen to this and other covers by the English band.
Thanks to their passion for turning music history in new songs, Les Mentettes' first album Let's Mentettes is ready. 14 tracks that range from elegant pop to new wave and glam. The album will be presented on August 28 in Buenos Aires and, before the show, Pablo Font –keyboard player – picked exclusively for Flowmi the best covers ever: "A homage to the universe of songs that inspired us to do our own tracks."
After
In Rainbows by Radiohead, many artists decided to promote their new material through the Web. The growing tendency is
Mp3 dropping,
which consists in launching a free track through their own site or through the specialized music press sites, as a preview of their imminent album. The Pretenders, Dylan and The Streets are among the new followers.