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Ryan and Anji chat about El Dia de los Muertos, being excited to vote for Barack Obama at the upcoming the presidental election, contributing to the Rhythms in Black Satin “Get Out and Vote!” collabocast, high tech camping on Catalina with Ryan’s jailbroke first gen iPhone, and V-Moda Vibe Duo headphones, writing and recording for a new Lovespirals album, shopping at Tone Merchants (we called them Tone Vendor, which is an online music store who carries some Lovespirals album – oops!), the T Rex Replica delay pedal, Guitar Center being too loud, Damien.S VS Lovespirals coming out soon on Loverush Digital with remixes by Adam Fielding and Avatar One, Anji being a gues on the new album by The Grooveblaster, voting for The Chillcast with Anji Bee as the Best Podsafe Music Podcast at podcastawards.com, and using blip.fm to help promote your music utlizing the additional functionality of Twitter and Amazon Digital. The show closes with “Summer Days (ft. Anji Bee)” by The Grooveblaster from Cities, Streets, and Bebop Nights in full! This track is available to podcasters via Anji Bee’s Podsafe Music Network page.
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I can’t give up CDs. The beauty of a physical medium is the fact that it is, by virtue of the fact that it is composed of matter, limited. Most albums are of course reprinted constantly, so they don’t really count, but the physical medium can be customised and artificially limited, and that’s mainly where I come in as a collector.
I just bought Thievery Corporation’s new one, “Radio Retaliation”. It comes in a thick cardboard sleeve. The internal is a massive foldout poster with artwork, quotes from famous people, track listing and lyrics. It’s impressive to look at. A lot of care has gone into the packaging and there is an obvious effort to be as green as possible. It looks good, it smells nice. I can’t give that up. It cost me $5 more than buying it on iTunes, but it was worth it to me. In contrast, buying it from iTunes gives you a 600 x 600 pixel rendition of what really should be experienced palpably.
On top of the sensuousness of the physical object, the audio is, of course, uncompressed. I’m good on the ear but I’m not so pedantic as to require lossless audio. It’s just nice to know that I can upgrade my rips in the future.
Your decision to release your last EP as digital only is an unfortunate but understandable one. I think once you go down that path, albums become less important. I’m no old-media advocate of album-only formats. I can see that digital-only releases give a new way of looking at presenting music and I always respect the artist’s presentation. I take it as gospel that it’s his vision.
Though the music is somewhat lessened, I feel, as when there can be limitless copies of the work, it no longer has the limited aspect of the physical media. Thus the value of singles. I willingly paid $25 a pop for the UK 1 and 2 of each of Goldfrapp’s 3 singles from the last album. I could buy them on iTunes but there’s nothing cool about having the copies. I think that singles, especially, embody the struggle and victory that is the work of the collector. It takes constant monitoring of the market, good timing and money to be a collector. Once you land that special title, though, the value transcends that of the work itself, as you’ve added your own effort to it.
That’s how I see it. I hope this helps.