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This is the first in an occasional series on the history, development and future of Indie music. All comments welcome...
Indie musicians have been around for as long as music itself.
The earliest forms of music were probably simple work and worship chants to a primitive drum accompaniment. By the rise of the first civilizations two types of music had evolved - sacred and secular. Sacred music was extremely formalized with elements of chorus, various flute and harp like instruments and of course drums. On the other hand secular music (folk or popular if you like) was the province of the solo or small group of players often wandering and "getting a gig" where they could.
By the Middle Ages Western sacred music had begun to evolve to formalize with a rudimentary form of written notation known as neumes. The secular musician continued to be more or less improvisatory and still sought gigs where he or she could.
Harmony began to be employed in Western Music soon after this and notation evolved into the format still used today. But it continued to play little or no part in the secular musician's life though.
A huge turning point came with first the introduction of the piano around 1700 and the Industrial Age about 100 years later. This for the first time placed reliable and standardized instruments within the reach of a vast number of people.
So by the beginning of the 20th century, music and instruments were both within the reach of huge numbers of people.
<p>Sorry I have been MIA the last few days or so. We have had some company in town so we have been entertaining. Should be back in business in a few days or so!</p><p>Dazed </p><p> </p>
After faking Stones tunes in standard tuning for most of my life I've finally spent a few weeks woodshedding in Open G tuning. Taking off the 6th string so the root is on the bottom for these simple fingerings is a key component of the Keith Richards sound. A capo on the 4th fret is pretty typical too. Tumbling Dice has to be one of the most fun guitar tunes to play off all time (at least for me) once you get the hang of it. But once you take Keith's advice that "all you need is five strings, three fingers and one arsehole" dozens of Stones riffs practically fall out of the guitar. A song I've posted, "Black-n-Blue" uses a very basic Open g riff.
Okay, It's Monday again, time for The Monday Funky Monkey Mixshow!
We've got a bunch of new music for ya, new tunes and new artists!
And a whole bunch of your favorite tunes.....
Plus Bobby, Mitch, and the whole Monday crowd!
Plus a collab between TLT50 and myself, dedicated especially to all our politician friends!!
I promise it will make you feel good!
Plus real time live requests and dedications and a hoppin' chat room during the show.
Join us!!
We have a lot of fun!!
BROADBAND:
http://209.51.162.173:9278
DIAL-UP:
http://209.51.162.173:9482
Nexus Radio Chatroom (where the ACTION is!)
We'll probably start about 4:00 est, and go until?????
COME ON!!! You know you got nothin' better to do!
RS Cain
rscain@nexusradio.co.uk
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Thats right I'm back tonight with the first Wizzie Mix n Mash in 2 Weeks... we finally have the internet sorted at joeys parents so we can do the shows... we move out in 4 weeks though so we have to deal with this joyas occasion then, but we should have 4 weeks uninterupted nuttyness on nexus, and hopefully if I can time everything right it wont be interupted in the next move.
Anyway tonight should be a pretty good one, no only do we have the Gunslinger Album - Earthquak in E-minor - to play out for you, but we have an exclusive interview with nigel potter and a never before heard acoustic track
We also have had some new submisions for SONG OF THE YEAR 2008: http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?id=996 we've got new tracks from the likes of: Tsargoth, Blake Tobias, Amber McDaniel, Mike Kissel, Ken Lazor and anyone else who reads the post and follows the instructions 
We also have some new tracks from Charlie Beige, Brian Ralston, The Rye, Amber McDaniel, Mobymkii and Yummy
We also have got ourselves a cheap SIM Card for an Old Mobile phone, so if you can't make it on to teamspeak, but still want to talk to us or Send a text than our Number is: 07530446917, If your Dialing from Over Seas You may need to change the number to 44 7530446917, or if dialing from America/Canada then you will need to dial as follows 011 44 7530446917 - Remeber this phone will only get your through to Myself or Joey, But in time we hope to find some way to make an actual "Nexus" phone that redirects to whomever show is live
I'm pretty stoked about tonights line up, and I have missed you all the past few netless weeks, I hope tonights show goes as well as intended!
Email: WizardSleeve@nexusradio.co.uk
Listen Now Hifi: http://209.51.162.173:9278/listen.pls
Chat: http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/chat.php
Forum: http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/forum/forum.php
Request (live feature only): http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/requests/playlist.php?limit=100
Teamspeak: http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1040
Sunday Phone: 07530446917 (from UK) 011 44 7530446917 (From US/Canada) [I don't know how much this will cost you, Teamspeak is free and easy to set up i suggest you do that]
<p>Did you know that iMusicScene offers an FTP Upload site to it's members for collabs as well as for the <a href="/forum/viewforum.php?f=93">Help Mix My Song</a> forum? Our newest moderator, Venuestudio, has offered his help in mixing your song for free. I know a lot of us are not experts in mixing our own music so I know I for one will be asking him to mix some of my songs coming up very soon. </p><p>The upload directory for songs is <!-- m --><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/mix/">http://www.guitaristworks.com/mix/</a> and the download directory is <!-- m --><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/mix/uploads" class="postlink" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guitaristworks.com/mix/uploads</a></p><p>Hopefully this helps us non audio engineer types!!</p><p>Dazed</p>
<p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Posted in the Forum..Find 50 Dark Movies In This Painting! <a href="/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11876&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a"> </a></font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">http://www.imusicscene.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11876 </font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Please reply in the forum with your answers so we can track it.</font><font color="#999999"><br /></font></p>
<p>Just wanted to let everyone know that we have a New Forum Called Nigel and Brian's Corner! It will probably be renamed shortly <img src="/include/tiny_mce/../../images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="" />. The first post is up explaining it so if you want to know more, here is a link to the forum..</p><p>[url]http://www.imusicscene.com/forum[/url]</p><p>Thanks for taking the lead on this Brian and Nigel! </p><p> </p>
Hey Everyone! Just a few quick updates.<br /><br />We have recently added some new moderators to iMusicScene. Some of you may have read that Jim aka Artificial Earth and Saturated have been added but we also just added Venuestudio aka Kent and Beerhunter aka Lonnie. Beerhunter and Venuestudio are going to help out in the Recording Studio Forums. Kent has posted some great tips in the Recording Studio that I will be adding to our Mixing Help area very soon. Beerhunter's Blog is also loaded with great information as well. <br /><br />Kent has offered to start mixing songs for some members. I do not think he can take on every project thrown his way but if you have something that you would like to have him mix, post it in the Help Mix My Song Forum. I know I will be asking him to do some mixing. Remember we also have the upload FTP server for you to upload your wav files to. Information on that is in the Help Mix My Song Forum. <br /><br />Please do not forget about the iMS Songwriting Challenge. We have four songs submitted already. I know I have this on my to do list! When you upload the song, make sure you use the genre of iMS Songwriting Challenge. The due date is May 10th and yes you can be late. The lyrics are in the link and the song name is Prison of Love. <br /><br />Thanks for supporting iMusicScene!<br /><br />Dazed
Greetings, Just wanted to introduce my label to everyone officially now that its all revamped and open for sonic consumption! Over the last 5 years I have been springboarding all of my personal music projects off of the Trinity Records label moniker. Feel free to visit the website at trinityrecords.net and poke around, pull up a chair and get comfy! I hope you dig the ride! Regards, Rob