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Friday, 03 September 2010 10:20
GEMA FAILS TO GET INTERIM INJUNCTION IN YOUTUBE DISPUTE
As we recently reported, German collecting society GEMA has been in dispute with YouTube for more than a year now over licensing rates. Licensing talks between the two broke down last May and GEMA asked the German court to issue an injunction to force YouTube to remove any videos containing…
Wednesday, 25 August 2010 17:21
EPM Podcast 12: Chris Finke at the controls
Following Kone-R’s deep techno exploration we now welcome Flux’s Chris Finke to the EPM Podcast, providing a sterling dancefloor workout through some of techno’s finest producers featuring Planetary Assault Systems, Robert Hood, James Ruskin, Sterac, Mark Broom, Echospace, Kevin Gorman, Orlando Voorn, Delta Funktionen plus some exclusive edits from Chris…
Monday, 23 August 2010 08:42
Digital album sales up with 51% in Germany
Sales of digital albums grew 51% in both unit terms and value terms in first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. These details come from German music association BVMI and show that 4.7m digital albums were sold in the first six months of this year compared…
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:52
YouTube vs GEMA
As you may have noticed or heard, YouTube is currently blocking a selection of videos on YouTube Germany. This is because negotiations between the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube have broken down.YouTube gives the following explanation:
" Our policy has always been to only monetize music in territories where…
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:18
Illegal downloads = Fewer musicians
Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf now appear to offer a nuanced view of the impact of illegal downloading on sales. Six years ago, with great fanfare but since discredited (see here), the academics concluded that the illegal downloading of music had no impact on the sales of music. The professors now…
Friday, 23 July 2010 14:46
A LIFE OF BRIAN: Engine Room R.I.P.
We are sad to say that a dear friend who has been very much part of the EPM team (under the guise of ‘Party Operations Director’) for many years has passed away. Brian Hanna who was known to one and all as ‘Engine Room’ is now getting the party started…
Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:20
EPM Podcast 11: Kone-R mixes it up
Following Vince Watson’s deep techno exploration we now welcome Uncharted Audio’s Kone-R to the EPM Podcast, providing a superb trawl through some of techno and house’s finest moments in recent years featuring the likes of Bandulu, Redshape, Model 500, $tinkworx, Marco Passarani, Robert Hood, James Ruskin, Florence, Baruka and more.…
Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:13
EPM Online's latest store deals II
And EPM Online just signed deals with these online stores:
France Telecom/ Orange (www.orange.com);
OneCluster, (to be launched in September 2010 - www.onecluster.com);
Thumbplay (www.thumbplay.com);
Aim4Music (www.aim4music.nl);
Satellite (www.satelliterecords.com);
More to follow soon!
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:29
EPM Online's latest store deals
In the past few weeks EPM Online signed deals with the following online stores:
YouLoad, Germany - (http://www.youload.de/)
My Clubbing Store, France - (http://www.myclubbingstore.com/en/)
So Mixx, Spain - (http://www.somixx.com/)
Traxsource, USA - (http://www.traxsource.com/)
More to follow!
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:46
Vince Watson mixes EPM's 10th Podcast
Following Rulex’s exclusive Farris Wheel house excursion we now welcome Vince Watson to the EPM Podcast, providing a deep journey into the more soulful realms of techno, house and leftfield jazz. Featuring the likes of Kindred Spirits Orchestra, Ollie Brooke, Quince, Aroy Dee, Gene Farris and of course his own…
Tuesday, 08 June 2010 10:49
EPM & Phonomonkey present: Robert Hood’s ‘Omega’ Launch Party, Nitsa, Barcelona 17 June
EPM & Phonomonkey present:Robert Hood’s ‘Omega’ Launch Party& Detroit Grand Pubahs ‘Numb Deaf and Dumb’ Release PartyThursday 17th June 201000.00 – 05.0015 Euros / Free with Party InviteNitsa ClubCarrer Nou de la Rambla 113BarcelonaRobert Hood (combined DJ and live set)Mark Broom (Saved/Beardman/Blueprint)Detroit Grand Pubahs - Live (Detelefunk)DJ 3000 (Motech/UR)*all artists…
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:31
The Pirate Bay went offline and online again
The Pirate Bay went offline and online again
The infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay has been offline for a few hours thanks to an injunction granted after a court action of several Hollywood studios. It’s web hosting provider CB3ROB complied with an injunction ordered by a German court prohibiting…
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:29
The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that digital music services don't have to pay performance royalties on 30-second preview clips
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeals has ruled that digital music services do not have to pay performance royalties on 30-second preview clips.
This follows a 2007 ruling by the Copyright Board of Canada that said such previews fell under 'fair dealing' as they counted as consumer “research” to help…
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:03
Music streaming service Spotify launched in the Netherlands and introduces two new products.
Music streaming service Spotify launches in the Netherlands and introduces two new products.
Today is the day Spotify launches in the Netherlands: Spotify’s 7th European market.
Spotify indicated that it plans to launch in the US later this year.
The company also announced two new products that will be available…
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:34
50% OF DANCE LABELS SUPPORT THREE-STRIKES
CMU Daily http://www.theCMUwebsite.com report that dance music website Data Transmission recently surveyed 200 label execs, pluggers, publicists and producers about all things piracy and digital, and found that, while often not so vocal about these things, the independent dance sector is facing much of the same issues as the rest…
Monday, 10 May 2010 12:05
Apple plans to shut down Lala.com
Apple plans to shut down its newly acquired online music service Lala.com at the end of May.
What Apple plans to do exactly with Lala.com and/or its technology is not known yet.
More news to follow!
Monday, 10 May 2010 11:24
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon
Streaming service Spotify has confirmed it will launch in the Netherlands soon.
Dutch media suggests the service will launch on the 18th of May.
More news to follow!
Monday, 03 May 2010 21:24
Fileshares paid for other people's music
Below is an email from a filesharing website service. This shows everyone gets paid except the person that actually made the music or the label that spends money to master, promote and release the music.Labels pay mechanical royalties to release music, legal download stores do the same to sell the…
Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:37
European Commission debate on improving collective rights management in the European Union
On April 23, 2010 the European Commission is planning a Public Hearing on the Governance of Collective Rights Management in the EU. The aim of this hearing is to explore how the relationships between copyright owners, collecting societies and commercial users of copyright have evolved over time and how these can be…
Monday, 19 April 2010 16:44
New EPM podcast hosted by the mighty Space DJz
We proudly welcome the mighty Space DJz with Ben Long at the helm for our new podcast.
A full-bodied techno mix that infuses tracks from James Ruskin, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Decibel Flekx, My Evil Twin, Nick Robson, Robin Renwick and more with their own techno productions we find the often…
Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:30
Music sales slowly increasing
The decline in record sales slowed down significantly last year, despite the recession and all that jazz. According to stats from the Entertainment Retailers Association, whose members represent over 90% of the market.
Needless to say, music sales were helped enormously by the booming a la carte digital market, which…
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 23:03
New EPM Podcast: "St. Patricks Day Special" hosted by dagham & remlaB
Following Robert Hood’s exclusive M-Plant minimal masterclass we now have Ireland’s Nice N Nasty providing us with an exclusive, all Irish mix for a special St. Patrick’s Day EPM Podcast. Recorded by Desy Balmer and Dave Ingham (aka Dagham & Remlab) the mix features some of Ireland’s finest electronic produvers,…
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 20:50
EPM launch new website with Robert Hood Podcast
EPM announce the re-launch of their website www.epm-music.com with minimal master Robert Hood providing the next instalment of the EPM Podcast series. Further EPM has also completed contractual deals with Youtube, Spotify, Scandinavia's Basepoint, France's Deezer and 24/7 Entertainment to give electronic music an even bigger voice within the ever…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:33
James Ruskin’s Blueprint news
James Ruskin’s Blueprint label continues to celebrate its re-birth as the label launches a brand new EP from main man, Ruskin himself. The Sabre EP contains two tracks displaying why Ruskin is revered as one of techno’s most forward thinking DJ/producers. The lead track ‘Sabre’ rattles and hums in the…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:23
High losses for Dutch collecting society Buma-Stemra on 2008’s stock market to the detriment of the artists
Due to huge losses on the stock market in 2008 Dutch collecting society Buma-Stemra is not able to pay all collected royalties to its claimants, the artists. Buma-Stemra, will retain a staggering 10.4% of all royalties collected over 2008 (€ 140 million Euros) to cover its costs and to compensate…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:18
Illegal file sharing site Pirate Bay, has owners imprisoned for 2 years and fined 2.4 million for copyright crime
As much previously reported, on Friday morning three of the men who helped create the tracker service Pirate Bay: Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, and their chief funder Carl Lundstrom, were all sentenced to a year in jail for their role in enabling vast amounts of copyright…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:22
Last.fm goes payware
Last.fm has recently switched to a payment model. For € 3 a month users can enjoy the music stream service that used to be free. As more ad-powered services change to a payment model some new kids around the block give it another go. Spotify is confident it can make…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:24
France, the first country to implement the controversial “three-strikes-and-you’re-out”-legislation
Intellectual property law is on the move! More and more countries are taking a heavy-handed approach to fighting digital piracy. Last month the Swedish court found the founders of the peer-to-peer site “The Pirate Bay” guilty of infringing copyright. The court sentenced all four defendants to a year in jail…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:28
European Commissioner for Competition Kroes welcomes progress on pan-European music licensing following Online Commerce Roundtable
European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes has welcomed progress made towards pan-European music licensing following discussions in the Online Commerce Roundtable. In particular, she welcomes confirmation by French collecting society SACEM that it is willing, in principle, to entrust other collecting societies with pan-European licensing of its repertoire and to…
Monday, 17 August 2009 23:26
EPM August podcast by DJ Nasty
Hot on the heels of the Mysterious Mr. O’s EPM Podcast for July we now welcome the master of the Booty Break himself, DJ Nasty. As one of the most respected Detroit producers around the world he has recorded with some of Detroit's heaviest hitters. Even so, DJ Nasty…
Monday, 31 August 2009 19:37
Mininova flattened by Dutch court
Mininova flattened by Dutch court Ordered to remove BitTorrent files or face big fine A civil court has ordered Pirate Bay rival Mininova to carpet bomb all "infringing" BitTorrent files held on its servers within the next three months or face a fine of up to €5m ($7.16m). Dutch-based pro-copyright…
Thursday, 03 September 2009 12:34
UK MUSIC INDUSTRY SUPPORT MANDELSON'S ANTI-P2P MOMENTUM
The top man of record label trade body the BPI and the boss of entertainment retail organisation ERA have both added their signatures to an open letter published in The Times yesterday supporting the government's recent announcement that it will take a more hardline approach to combat file-sharing, and introduce…
Friday, 25 September 2009 14:34
FAC revoke article in The Times
FAC REACH AGREEMENT: THREE-STRIKES YES, NET-SUSPENSION
Despite earlier in the day announcing she wouldn't be attending the big artist debate on the file-sharing issue, Lily Allen did make an appearance at the Featured Artists' Coalition's meeting in London last night, and apparently got a round of applause from her fellow…
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:14
France passes three-strikes bill
France passes three-strikes bill Opponents vow to block Hadopi II France's lower house has approved an amended version of the controversial three-strikes legislation intended to crack down on illegal downloads. Last September rthe 15th, the French National Assembly passed the anti-piracy bill by a 285 votes to 225, with the…
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:54
Couldn't have said it better....
Feargal Sharkey’s organisation ‘UK Music’ used a whole page of ad space to print this rant in the Guardian (English newspaper) this week. An old blog, but quite an interesting read and brings up some of the points many of you hopefully share, and all of us at EPM have…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:01
SLAM Stems
SLAM Stems With recently released remixes for Paul Ritch, Mihalis Safras and Samuel L Session, a big Slam single on Len Faki's Figure label, and a much anticipated Slam mix of Josh Wink's "Everybody to the Sun" about to drop, the duo are on a roll. Now with the release…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:29
Download a Zombie Nation mix
There's a certain mystery surrounding Zombie Nation. It's a name synonymous with making exciting dance music with a warm analogue sound. Take a listen to his back catalogue…the weird and wonderful sound has been blowing away audiences throughout Europe and Japan in 2009 on the Zombielicious Tour with North America…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 21:05
UK presented the Digital Economy Bill.
Friday 20 November the UK government presented the new Digital Economy Bill bringing in hardcore legislation against fileshares.
Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms announced that Internet service providers will be forced to send cease-and-desist notices to customers they suspect of copyright infringement. The ISPs are then obliged to pass…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:00
Mastering in digital music
Getting your digital music mastered professionally is often the final but all too often overlooked step in releasing your music to the stores. All too often we hear music from labels digital releases that sounds flat, muffled, distorted, no bass etc. one of many problems from people not mastering their…
