By Anonymous
HOLLYWOOD, CA June 4, 2004 -– Chicago Blues Legend Robert Fairweather and ASCAP Songwriter Nico Demonte introduces Blues Flavors, Volume I, a collection of music beds recorded by the finest sound designer, resulting in the best-quality recordings available. Following suit to Nico’s previous collections, Blues Flavors, Volume I combines the best music and sound beds in Blues from an expansive array of genres. Delve into the sensual traditions of an intense era, the great vibrations of sound that typified the oppressive struggle during the Jim Crow laws post-Civil War Reconstruction that epitomized the Blues sound. Travel back to the Delta 1900’s from Memphis to Mississippi whether you preferHouse Rocking Blues, Boogie-Woogie or the downtempo sounds of Country Blues or the Louisiana style, Blues Flavors is the essential royalty-free collection for your post production needs. Transport yourself further back to 1890, where -song singing and solo field hollers recount the African oral histories by stylistically improvising common lyrical phrases along railroad tracks and plantations that would forever transform the musical tradition of America.
This extensive collection includes over 1 hour of broadcast quality blues tracks that include Traditional blues, Memphis Blues, New Orleans Blues, Piedmont Blues, piano, Roadhouse, Slide, Texas, Urban, West Coast, Delta, Chicago Blues, Work Songs and more. Smooth jazz complete with live horns, guitar, upright bass, finger bass, trap kits with brushes, piano, Rhodes Piano, Hammond and Farfisa organ. Additionally, nearly all of the sounds in this collection were recorded in stereo, providing phenomenal sound quality. The collection utilizes a variety of recording techniques, from solo recordings to saturations of echo and reverb to re-create the depth and drama of the swamp blues era. With an Robert Fairweather’s extensive background in the early delta blues, the tracks provide a fresh perspective and interpretive lending of blues greats like T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, BB King, Skip James, Lester Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Johnny Copeland, Willie Dixon, and John Lee Hooker.
Two hot new collections are on the horizon for songwriters Robert Fairweather and Nico Demonte, the American Folk Sessions featuring all the patriotic music beds and the American Blues Sound Collection, a set of beds produced in tandem with America’s great blues musicians! Check back soon for more details!
“A Haunting sound collection. Distorted slide guitars that breathe fire! The slide collection is thunderous. All of the instrumentations cover the shades of human emotion. A must for your clients!” – Jennifer Rubenstein, Delta Blues Chronicle
"This library rings with magic! All of your commercial and post production projects should include Blues Flavors, Volume I. Absolutely stunning sound!" -Saul Goldstein, Sound Design Magazine
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By Anonymous
NEW YORK, June 15, 2003: Today, MadWaves Corporation (London, Nice, Boston) announced that a number of stations within Emmis Communications’ radio group – the 7th largest radio group in the US – have purchased the MadPlayer™ to create music beds for commercials and backgrounds for their DJs. Emmis is the second radio company in the US to go Certifiably Mad™; earlier this year, Radio One bought MadPlayers for all its affiliate groups. Operated by MadWaves’ proprietary Generactive™ Music Technology, the MadPlayer generates unique, unlimited copyright-free music of exceptional sound quality users can play with, change, listen to and share with others.
Great Addition to Stations’ Ability to Produce Top-Quality Music.
“MadPlayer is a great addition to our stations' ability to produce top-quality music beds for the DJs and for client commercials,” said Rick Cummings, President of Emmis Radio. "Many of our stations are using the MadPlayer,” added Jimmy Steal, Emmis’ VP of Programming and Program Director at Power 106 in Los Angeles, the number one hip-hop station in Southern California. “It's an incredible resource at a reasonable price.”
One of the Emmis stations using MadPlayer is the New K-LITE 98.7 in Phoenix, AZ. “When MadWaves demo’d the MadPlayer, all of us were sitting there and saying, ‘Wow! Now we won’t have to buy as many production libraries as in the past, that’s fabulous!’” said Joel Grey, K-LITE’s Program Director, who ordered a unit for his imaging director. Grey said he was drawn to the versatility of the technology. “What I liked about it, if you needed a 7-second music bed for a sweeper, you could program it to do that. I think MadPlayer really has a future.”
“The feedback I’ve gotten from our directors is that they love it,” said R.J. Curtis, KZLA’s Operations Manager in Burbank, CA, who bought the MadPlayer for his station’s imaging and creative directors. “MadPlayer feels and looks like a video game, but it has such practical application. It’s a good tool for creating music beds for the jocks to use and for work for some of the station’s clients. It’s so easy to use and there are multiple possibilities for our team to do creative stuff with it on the air.”
MadPlayer Usage A Trend With Music Professionals.
“We’re excited by the Emmis professionals’ response to the MadPlayer,” said Voislav Damevski, MadWaves’ CEO, who pointed out: “Not only are production staff at radio stations across the US adopting MadPlayer technology, music producers and professional musicians increasingly are turning to MadPlayer as an essential part of their music creativity arsenal. ”MadTechnology™ usage is a growing trend. Rap artists, drummers, composers – even K-12 music and technology educators now use MadPlayer to inspire, create and make it with music.”
About Emmis.
Emmis Communications - Great Media, Great People, Great Servicesm .
Emmis Communications is an Indianapolis based diversified media firm with radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. Emmis' 18 FM and 3 AM domestic radio stations serve the nation's largest markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as well as Phoenix, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, IN. In addition, Emmis owns two radio networks, three international radio stations, 16 television stations, award winning regional and specialty magazines, and ancillary businesses in broadcast sales and publishing. Emmis has announced the acquisition of a majority interest in six radio stations in Austin, Texas. Pending approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and other regulatory agencies, the transaction is expected to close in the company's second fiscal quarter. After the close of the transaction, Emmis will own 27 radio stations in eight markets.
About MadWaves.
MadWaves designs, develops, markets and licenses software and hardware solutions that bring interactivity to digital music. The Company delivers generative and interactive music solutions and interactive products and software, for application to the web, personal computers, consumer/business products and wireless devices. The Company sells and licenses its products to companies that want to add interactivity and generative music features to their consumer digital audio-related products. MadWaves LTD., UK is headquartered in London with its R&D facility in Sophia Antipolis, France; MadWaves USA, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA.
For Further Information.
Contact Laurie Rich, MadWaves Director of Marketing and Communication, in New York at 845.876.6330 or Lrich@madwaves.com. Or visit MadWaves’ web site, www.madwaves.com.
For quotes and reviews from some of the numerous professional music industry members who use the MadPlayer, please visit http://www.madwaves.com/flash/quotes.asp
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By Vicky White
We live in affluent times. We think nothing of using a hairdryer to dry our hair, putting the washing in a machine to clean it, having a television set in our bedrooms and having a clock beside our beds, set to bring us our favorite radio station as we wake.
What if you were getting more than you thought with your electric appliances?
Research suggests that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have an effect on the immune system, and have been linked to headaches, cancers, blood disorders and a host of autoimmune diseases.
In October, 2002, preliminary findings from an 8 year research project commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission, and considered the largest project to date, suggests hundreds of thousands of people, particularly children, are at risk from life-threatening illnesses linked to the emissions. Pregnant women are also at greater risk of miscarriage.
Everything that uses or transmits electricity emits EMFs, however those in your bedroom will have the greatest impact on your health because it is during sleep that you are most vulnerable to energy imbalances. You are affected in direct proportion to their strength, proximity and the length of time you are exposed to these fields. The affect is also accumulative.
Tips For Detecting And Reducing The Harmful Effects Of EMFs In Your Life
1. You can detect the presence of strong fields with a small compass. When you move towards an electromagnetic field the needle will turn to realign with the new magnetic field, swinging as you move over it. Try it on your television or computer monitor.
2. Remove all plug-in clocks, television, answering machines, and electric blankets from your bedroom. If you cannot do this, move these things at least eight to twelve feet away from where you sleep, or unplug them while you sleep.
3. Look for any cables that run under your bed or close to your head. Where possible reposition the cables, keeping them as far from your bed as possible. Consider moving the bed to another part of the room if necessary.
4. Take note of appliances on shared walls with the bedroom. EMFs will transmit through walls. Check the distance between these appliances and where you lie in bed. If this applies to you, check for anxiety, insomnia, or any unusual types of illness.
5. Where possible unplug a device - this will disconnect the transformer and will no longer create an EMF.
6. Reduce your exposure by increasing the distance between you and your electrical appliances. Sit or lie at least 10 feet from your television set, and move your computer at least 2 feet away from your keyboard if possible. A peace lily, or spider plant grown near electrical objects will absorb some EMFs.
It is no longer enough to improve the purely Feng Shui aspects of your home and bedroom. To ensure good health you also need to be assessing levels of EMFs now.
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