“The core of the music business has and always will be creative energy, the inspiration and raw talent of an artist. However, to find, develop, and deliver creative content to audiences around the world, you need a solid business infrastructure. Lately, this infrastructure has started to change dramatically. As Holt describes it, “I have spent most of my career in the non-core side of businesses whose core has been challenged by the platforms and initiatives that were my domain. This has made for some challenging landscapes…it is up to new thinking and ideas to evolve the business and chart new courses.” On the topic of generating new ideas in the music business, Holt goes on to say, “You can easily spend all of your time fighting to maintain current audiences or build for the new. Getting legacy thinking around this is a hard challenge, but good ideas are just that and while you can root a good idea in the past, it needs to be fluid in the current landscape.” (Source)

Twilight Notes is excited to have our own Dj Marcelo Pereira doing his first gigs this week under the Twilight Notes name.  Marcelo plays an upbeat, danceable mix of house, electro, disco, and new wave.

He brings his signature sound to the O Lounge at Yolo Restaurant tonight, and to City Link’s beer fest on friday night, playing before and in between bands.

Yolo Restaurant- 333 East Las Olas Blvd

City Link BeerFest- Huzienga Plaza, At the Corner Of Andrew And Las Olas

For a small taste of what is in store for this weekend-check out this unreleased Cut Copy track- Sands Of Time

“SoCal beatmaker Flying Lotus will continue his love affair with Los Angeles on the second EP in his L.A. trilogy. L.A. EP 2 X 3consists of other folks’ remixes of tracks from Flying Lotus’ 2008 full-length Los Angeles.” (Source)

Flying Lotus is also working on producing a Dj Kicks for !K7 

Flying Lotus-Camel (Nosaj Thing Remix)

“This offering is for the laid-back jazz cats out there.There is a heavy dose of rare-as-you-like Japanese Hip Hop from the likes of Kero One, Gagle, Hocus Pocus and Himuki, also some wicked tracks from the like of The Good People, John Forty, Tribe Called Quest, Common, Little Brother, Jazz Liberatorz, Bush Baybees and a whole lot more. Genius music and mixed to perfection, this is your soundtrack to the summer!- Fat City Records

This is the nicest hip hop mixtape I heard in 2008- Buy It Here. 

John Dahlback announces a remix competition for his smash “Everywhere.”  There will be four winning entries, each one in a different genre; Tech House. Electro House, Techno, and Drum and Bass. Check the links below for more details, and buy the exclusive tracks from Juno Downloads. 

Full Details

Download the Tracks Here

Check this interview that Pitchfork did with Common, discussing his new album, which is a serious departure from his previous work:

“What I’m thinking in my mind and wanting you to feel, you will feel, because I’m gonna create music that will make you feel it.” And it’s also symbolic of the global sound that I wanted to create, something universal, something that would touch all parts of the world, ’cause that’s what it was inspired by.”

“The remix project, commissioned by Kanye himself, was mixed by DJ Benzi and Plain Pat and features beats by A-Trak, Scottie B, legendary radio DJ Stretch Armstrong, Cookin’ Soul, Kenny Dope, Scottie B, Eli Escobar, Diplo, The Kickdrums, and Nick Catchdubs among others.”

This was available for preview on Imeem, and will be released for FREE in the next few days at Dj Benzi’s site. 

“Publisher HarperCollins announced Monday the word had been chosen from terms suggested by the public for inclusion in the dictionary’s 30th anniversary edition, to be published next year.

The origins of “meh” are murky, but the term grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of “The Simpsons” in which Homer suggests a day trip to his children Bart and Lisa.

The dictionary defines “meh” as an expression of indifference or boredom, or an adjective meaning mediocre or boring. Examples given by the dictionary include “the Canadian election was so meh.”

(Source)

Today we are featuring Cut Copy, Friendly Fires, Hercules and Love Affair, Aeroplane- the purveyors of cheesy, danceable, electronic pop.  Its monday morning. Start it off right.

Cut Copy- Far Away (Hercules and Love Affair Remix)

Friendly Fires- Paris (Aeroplane Remix) 

After a year or so of obsessively listening to The National’s “Boxer,” I finally dug into their older work.  Their previous album, “Alligator” is not as polished as their more recent work, but it still shows their songwriting at it’s absolute best: insightful, affecting, with a beautiful, rich melancholy.  There is just something so pure and American about this band.  Here are two of the album’s standout tracks.

The National- The Geese of Beverly Hills

The National- All the Wine