Nelly B’s chart 21st April 2009

DJ Nelly B aka Neil Brown’s top 20 promo chart.  For more info, visit Neils website

DJ Nelly B

1    Alina    When You Leave (Numa Numa)
2    Agnes    Release Me
3    Tinatin    Thinking Of Someone Else
4    3Mix    Put It On Me
5    Daniel Meriweather    Red
6    Chanel    If You Love Me
7    Gathania    Blame It On You
8    Anthoney Wright    Wud If I Cud
9    Chaka Khan    Disrespectful
10    Fe-Nix    Lady Baby (My Boo)
11    The Veronicas    Untouched
12    Chasing Liz    Gravity Girl
13    Ciara feat.Justin Timberlake    Love Sex Magic
14    J Tease & Danny Jay feat.Fabre    Expansions
15    Groovesisters    My Time
16    Elin Lanto    Discotheque (Clubstar Mix)
17    Chris Cornell    Part Of Me
18    Lazee feat.Neverstore    Hold On
19    Wonderfully Courteous Gentlemen    Yes You Can Can
20    Eoghan Quigg    28,000 Friends

UK Copyright Laws “The Worst”

The following article was taken from the BBC news website.  The original article is here.

UK copyright laws “needlessly criminalise” music fans and need to be updated, a consumer watchdog says.

UK laws that make it a copyright violation to copy a CD that you own onto a computer or iPod should be changed, says Consumer Focus.

The call came after global umbrella group Consumers International put the UK in last place in a survey of 16 countries’ copyright laws.

Consumer Focus said the UK had to catch up with the rest of the world.

“UK copyright law is the oldest, but also the most out of date,” said Ed Mayo, chief executive of Consumer Focus.

“The current system puts unrealistic limits on our listening and viewing habits and is rapidly losing credibility among consumers. A broad ‘fair use’ exception would bring us in line with consumer expectations, technology and the rest of the world.”

Violation

The survey by Consumers International looked at intellectual property laws and enforcement practices in 16 countries – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US.

It decided that UK law was least effective in balancing the interests of rights holders against those of consumers.

“It is currently a copyright violation [in the UK] to rip a CD that you own on to your PC or iPod,” said Consumer Focus, “even though over half (55%) of British consumers admit to doing it and three in five (59%) think this type of copying is perfectly legal.”

The watchdog’s call was backed by digital rights campaign body the Open Rights Group, which called for a “more flexible” approach to copyright.

Open Rights group executive director Jim Killock said: “It is ridiculous to ban copying, sampling and parody without payment, yet that is how the law stands today.

“The government is undermining copyright’s reputation by failing to give clear rights to users in a changed digital world, where we all rip, mix and burn. Copyright urgently needs reform, as this study shows.”

Too much sex or too much bass?

On the H & S front, I have it on good authority that too much bass can damage…your….eyesight.

Apparently, frequencies over 150 hz WILL damage your hearing but frequencies in the bass or sub-bass region (5-40hz ) WILL damage your eyesight !

Bass, as I am sure you all know, is about moving large volumes of air in time with the speaker cones on a push-pull basis. So, out of doors at, say, Glastonbury, the bass cabs move huge amounts of air which is all ok as long as you do not stand within 10-20 metres of the speakers. You cannot hear the damaging frequencies, only feel your chest cavity going in and out in time to the beat. The same thing happens to your eyeballs if you get too close, the retinas rupture and become detached from your eyeballs, causing you to go blind.

Imagine using the same amount of power at a disco indoors with the dancers/audience very much closer to the speakers. It does not bear thinking about, does it ? Luckily most DJ’s do not use such huge amounts of bass power at their gigs, do we !

A practical test that can demo what I mean can be done in any kitchen or boiler room where there is gas boiler. All you need to do is stand very close to the permanent ventilator/air brick and wait for the boiler to fire-up. Its just like a piston in a hydraulic system.

My source tells me that they recently were able to demo this, quite by accident when testing high powered amps in a relatively small test building. The bass blew out the letterbox and, on further investigation, they were able to see the window frames bowing in-and-out in time to the beat.

Food for thought We might all end up as ‘pinball wizards’…….!

Cheers

Ian Barber

Queen Liz is a copyright infringer!

You may have read that President Obama has given Queen Elizabeth an iPod with 40 show tunes on it. Well, that’s better than the set of region one DVDs he gave Gordon Brown, but yet again as the EFF have pointed out Obama has stepped right into the territory of copyright infringement, and forced UK premiers to risk their reputations by potentially breaking the law.

Well, maybe not, as nobody in their right minds takes this sort of copyright infringement seriously. Except of course lawyers who construct 9,000 word legal contracts for iTunes, and rights holders, who resist legal change as a sort of bargaining chip to extract other concessions, like online enforcement, or levies on tapes, CDs or hard drives.

Campaigners like the EFF and the Open Rights Group, however believe that copyright law needs to be simple and clear, and reflect users’ needs, if it isn’t going to be a joke.

Legal experts were recently asked for a quick opinion as to whether the Queen and Obama were infringing copyright. It’s very unclear. Did Obama buy her a CD, and transfer the songs? In the UK, that would be a infringement, but not in the US.

Does the US iTunes Store allow you to buy songs in the US and give them to a UK user? Probably not, but you have to wade through the 9,000 word contract to find out.

Do you ‘own’ the songs you’ve bought, entitling you to give them to someone else? Definitely not.

Of course, Obama might have been really careful about all this, and made sure his staff spent time ensuring there was no copyright infringement. It’d be good to know that his diplomatic staff were investing their time avoiding diplomatic copyright incidents, rather than, let’s say, working on a common position for a Middle East peace process. Which brings us back to the point: copyright needs to be simple and clear, and not get in the way of doing things even the US President seems to think are acceptable behaviour.

Steve Angello tells Paris where to get off, DJ’s everywhere cheer!

silly cow

Whilst I was at the Winter Music Conference in Miami a couple of weeks ago, the party next door had a little ‘event’ when Miss Paris was taught a valuable lesson.  Here is the article on Beatportal which explains it much better than me!  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did LOL!

Talking of Steve Angello, one of my ’secret weapons’ is his version of the Eurythmics classic Sweet Dreams, which never fails to set the dancefloor on fire I suggest you find a copy on Ebay to add to your repertoire!

Nelly B’s chart, 11th April 2009

DJ Nelly B aka Neil Brown’s top 20 promo chart.  For more info, visit Neils website

DJ Nelly B

Nelly B’s chart, 4th April 2009

DJ Nelly B aka Neil Brown’s top 20 promo chart.  For more info, visit Neils website

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Now 72

The latest edition of the nations favourite collection of Pop Music has just hit the shelves and as usual they are about 2 months behind as far as current releases goes.  It’s fair to say though that it will still be a valuable edition to ANY DJ’s music collection, I myself am a proud owner of every Now album released so having researched the cheapest places to buy this brilliant slab of plastic, i’ve provided some links below for you to chew over!

First of all, hop over to NowMusic.com to get the tracklist.

• Play.com – £11.99 (free delivery)
• Amazon – £11.98 (free delivery)
• Tesco – £11.97 (free delivery)
• ASDA – £11.93 (free delivery)

Have you seen it cheaper?  If so, get in touch and let us know!

Ableton Live 8 now available!

If you were at the last SEDA ShowNight, you would have seen SEDA member and HouseProud resident DJ Jonathan Dobson putting the amazing Ableton Live 7 DJ performance software through its paces.  The long awaited version 8 of this software has now been released, and you can try the demo version for free.

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