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<p>What a great Tune!</p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="400" height="450" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=25005&band_id=6500&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="name" value="video"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=25005&band_id=6500&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="450" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" name="video" wmode="transparent" quality="high" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=25005&band_id=6500&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /> <strong><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_signup">Create Your Own Playlist</a></strong><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com">Mixposure.com</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just wanted to congratulate or July Artist of the Month <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Nuada/">Nuada</a> and Song of the Week Winner <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Cristina_Ribeiro/">Cristina Ribeiro</a>. Both are extremely talented artists so please stop by their page and say hello.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We will be posting a new Song of the Week winner tomorrow!</span></p>
<p>Congratulations to our July Artist of the Month - <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/NUADA/">Nuada</a>! Nuada was also the winner of the Synergy contest AJ ran in May. Thank you for being a part of Mixposure and congrats in Winning the Artist of the Month.</p><p> </p><h2>Biography</h2><p> </p><p>I'm a songwriter, painter and photographer from the West of Ireland. I listen to all genres of music including classical, jazz ,world music, new music, rock (not so much pop), but I think it is soul that probably moves me the most, especially the work of Curtis Mayfield.</p><p> </p><p>I don't think I can categorise my own music as I like to experiment with different styles, but most of it falls into the rock/pop end of things. I do a lot of experimental work, influenced by artists such as Steve Reich, but the results are not always fit for human consumption 
</p><p> </p><p>I live on a small island in the middle of nowhere, with my partner, surrounded by nature and the stormy Atlantic. I love being out in nature, walking, gardening, swimming (a somewhat masochistic pastime even in the heart of summer, haha) and have a particular passion for wild flowers which, though abundant here, are sadly at huge risk from habitat destruction and climate change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="450" height="400" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=5880&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcc9900&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=325&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="name" value="video"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=5880&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x0cc9900&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="400" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" name="video" wmode="transparent" quality="high" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=5880&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x0cc9900&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /> <strong><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_signup">Create Your Own Playlist</a></strong><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com">Mixposure.com</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/bri-an/">Bri-an</a> had asked about having an audio player that would play the newest songs in rotation. This is kind of a cool feature actually since you essentially will always have a radio station playing new songs. Right now we have included the newest 75 songs. I think that is a pretty good start. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the main Mixposure Page on the left hand side we have a list of the Newest 25 Songs. Next to that is a Play Songs link that will launch the player with the newest 75 songs. We will be adding more links to a few other areas as well. You can also reach it directly <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=new_tunes">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Great suggestion Bri-an!</span></p>
<div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 85%; float: left;"><p>A friend of mine sent me a link to this blog and I thought I would share. I think many of us used Columbia House or BMG at one time or another. Obviously this was a brilliant marketing strategy.</p><p> </p><p><span class="blog_title"><a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/91126">It’s a Steal! How Columbia House Made Money Giving Away Music</a></span><br /><span class="posted_by">by <span class="author"><a title="Posts by Ethan Trex" href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/author/ethan/">Ethan Trex</a></span> - June 21, 2011 - 1:32 PM</span></p></div><div class="blog_frontentry"><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91337" title="columbia-house" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/columbia-house.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="160" />If you grew up in the pre-MP3 era, chances are you had at least one go-round as a member of Columbia House’s mail-order music club. Who could turn down the allure of eight compact discs (or 11 record albums or cassette tapes) for just a penny? It would be stupid not to join up! <strong>A few months of automatic shipments later, you probably ended up like a lot of members did: as a no-income 14-year-old who owed Columbia House $47 for unwanted Sir Mix-a-Lot CDs.</strong> Let’s take a look at a few lingering questions about the music club.</p>How did the Columbia House business model work?<p>The underlying model for Columbia House was a pretty simple setup known as negative option billing. Basically, once you sign up for a membership in a club or service, you start getting monthly shipments unless you expressly tell the club you don’t want them. Of course, you also get the bill.</p><p>Negative option billing has actually been illegal in Ontario since 2005, but it’s still legal in the United States. There are a few caveats, though. The Federal Trade Commission requires that any club or service offering a negative option plan must clearly and conspicuously indicate minimum purchase obligations, cancellation procedures, the frequency with which members must reject shipments, and how to eventually cancel a membership when they enroll new members.</p><p>The FTC really drops the hammer on any company that doesn’t comply with these regulations. In 2009 it reached a $1 million settlement with the online company Commerce Planet, which had been offering a “free” online auction kit while also signing customers up for a recurring $59.95 “online supplier” program.</p>How did Columbia House make any money while giving away so much music?<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91350" title="columbia-ads" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/columbia-ads.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="408" />Columbia House and competitor BMG brought in a tons of gross revenue — as late as 2000, the two companies were grossing $1.5 billion a year. But even with negative option billing bringing in cash from club members who forgot to return their rejection forms, Columbia House operated on a seemingly tight margin.<br /><br />Columbia House and BMG had some fairly clever ways to save cash, though. Until 2006, the record companies had never actually secured written licenses to distribute the records it sent to club members. Instead, the clubs saved the hassle (and the expense) by paying most publishers 75% of the standard royalties set by copyright law. The clubs argued that since the publishers were cashing their discounted checks, they were submitting to “implied” licenses.<br /><br />Music publishers didn’t love this arrangement, but for decades it was pretty tough to fight back against the mail-order clubs. As some of the biggest pre-Internet retailers, the clubs held enormous power over the music market. According to a 2006 <em>Billboard</em> article, if a publisher complained, the clubs would simply stop carrying their records.<br /><br />On top of that, the clubs generally weren’t buying their records from labels and then selling them. Instead, the clubs would acquire the master tapes of records and press their own copies on the cheap. Moreover, remember those “bonus” or “free” records you got for signing up for the clubs? The clubs generally didn’t pay any royalties at all on those, which further slashed their costs.</p><p>In the end, all these little factors saved a ton of money. In his 2004 book <em>The Recording Industry</em>, Geoffrey P. Hull took a look at the economics of the clubs. He estimated that the cost to the clubs of a “free” disc was only around $1.50, while a disc sold at full price cost the club anywhere from $3.20 to $5.50. Hull did the math and realized that even if only one of every three discs a club distributed sold at the $16 list price, the club would still end up making a margin of around $7.20 on each sold disc. Hull explains that retail stores were hard pressed to make a margin of even $6.50 per sold disc, so it’s easy to see how the clubs stayed afloat even with their massive marketing and advertising costs.</p>Did anyone really, really take advantage of those introductory offers?<p>Joseph Parvin of Lawrenceville, NJ, was undoubtedly the patron saint of anyone who ever wanted to stick it to a music club for receiving an unwanted record.</p><h2>In March 2000, the 60-year-old Parvin admitted that he had used 16 post office boxes and his own home address to fleece Columbia House and BMG out of 26,554 discs during a five-year span in the ’90s. He pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud.</h2><p>Oddly, the <em>New York Times</em> story on Parvin’s plea included a story of another scammer who was nearly as prolific. Just five months earlier, David Russo pleaded guilty to stockpiling 22,000 CDs using a similar scheme. He then sold the booty at flea markets.</p>What about Columbia House’s old rival, BMG?<p>This may come as a shock to your circa-1994 self, but Columbia House and BMG are part of the same company now. In 2002 Columbia House’s then-owners, Sony and AOL Time Warner, sold a majority stake of the company to the Blackstone Group. (Sony and AOL maintained a 15 percent share between them.)</p><p>In 2005, Blackstone again flipped Columbia House to the German media giant Bertelsmann, the owner of BMG, for a reported $400 million. After a series of further transactions, Columbia House is now situated in the portfolio of Direct Brands, Inc., a direct marketer whose other holdings include the Book-of-the-Month Club.</p>Can I still order music from Columbia House?<p>You’re about two years too late. The merged version of Columbia House and BMG, the BMG Music Group, quit selling music on June 30, 2009. (Apparently digital music wasn’t just some silly fad.) Direct Brands still operates a business under the Columbia House name, but don’t expect the latest music to show up at your door. The revamped company sells DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.</p></div>
<p>It was sad reading the news today that Clarence Clemmons has passed away after suffering from a stroke a few days ago. What an amazing musician he was. He has an amazing career with Springsteen and will be missed.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/18/clarence.clemons.obit/story.clarence.clemons.gi.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" /></p>
<p>Congratulations to our June Artist of the Month Autopilot Club. Check out some of their songs below!</p><p> </p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="450" height="325" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=1263&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=450&remoteHeight=325&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="name" value="video"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=1263&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=450&remoteHeight=325"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="325" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" name="video" wmode="transparent" quality="high" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=all&band_id=1263&autoplay=false&skin_color=0xcccccc&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=450&remoteHeight=325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /> <strong><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_signup">Create Your Own Playlist</a></strong><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com">Mixposure.com</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just an fyi that Groovy Disk has been released. I have included some screen shots below and a link to the download for iPhone. Remember this is a free application and is a little bit more exposure for your music. The application is basically a game where you buy and sell music and get "money" for doing reviews. With the "money", you can buy upgrades like better equipment and more music. As a reminder, the application is free and it is virtual money so they are not making money off of your music. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To participate, go into the control panel and click on Groovy Disk and fill out the info!</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groovydisk/id425363402?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groovydisk/id425363402?mt=8</a></p><p><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/images/groovy1.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/images/groovy2.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The long awaited Gear Reviews Feature is now available! There are some tweaks we need to make and some bug fixes we need to do. I am working on getting the search feature working for one. I would also like to add this to your artist pages in some way so you can show off your equipment! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How this works is pretty simple. In your control panel you will now see a Review Menu Item at the top. Click Create Review Item. In order to do a review, we have to create the Review Item first. Fill in the fields and add any pictures you would like to add. Click Create Review Item. Then go to the Gear Review Page located here - http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=Review (also under the Navigation Menu) and add your values and comments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As I said, this is just the start of this and there will be some tweaks along the way. The Product Category for example is kind of this at the moment. If you want something added, just contact me and I will get it added. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed</span></p>
<p>We just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone who has served and remember those who have fallen defending this country. I know many on Mixposure have served so to you, we thank you!!</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D41u49o12XM/TAB0-UQbfKI/AAAAAAAABuI/J-Ol56uLpaU/s400/memorial_day01.jpg" alt="" width="393" height="335" /></p>
