Cultural appropriation is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon. Wikipedia – “Cultural Appropriation” I’ve seen the term “cultural appropriation” cropping up a lot lately in my social media timelines – it seems to be fashionable to…
Month: August 2015
Happy Birthday, #CovHour!
Most Thursday evenings from 8-9pm you’ll find me on Twitter, networking and promoting my cotton socks off under the #CovHour hashtag. #Covhour is one of many regional networking groups on Twitter, this one dedicated (pretty obviously) to my adopted home city, Coventry. It’s a time of week when local small businesses, artists and media get together for…
“Skylight” on BBC Local Radio
BBC Introducing in Coventry and Warwickshire gave “Skylight” a play tonight, and gave the launch event a couple of mentions on the show, too. You can hear “Skylight” on the BBC iPlayer here (from about 1 hour 4 minutes).
iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more!
Today I signed up to Tunecore and submitted “Eighty Days of Rain” for distribution. All of which means that the EP will be available on iTunes, YouTube Music Key, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Rdio, Deezer, Xbox Music, Rhapsody, eMusic, Simfy Africa, iHeartRadio, MixRadio, MediaNet, VerveLife, Tidal, Gracenote, Shazam, 7Digital, Juke, JB Hi-Fi, Slacker, Guvera, KKBox,…
Local Radio Airplay
I received a very pleasant email today informing me that my tune “Hah” (which is on my forthcoming EP) was played on my local BBC radio station on Saturday night. If you’ve not tuned in to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Introducing before, it’s well worth a listen – lots of excellent local talent on there,…
BBC1 Proms – Faithless’ “Insomnia”
Saw this posted by a mate on Facebook – made all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up straight away. Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra – not a bad combination for a remix at all!
RESONANCE 2.0
News out today – the RESONANCE electronica night that I launched in Coventry in February will be back on November 7th. RESONANCE is a live electronica event, featuring diverse artists in an intimate setting. I’ll be DJ-ing (and possibly playing live) at the next event. The last one was an absolute blast, we had some…
Wireless Visual Metronome
Learn how to build your own wireless, visual metronome that flashes along (multi-coloured) to your music in a DAW with MIDI out. Liam Lacey uses Processing, Spark Core and a bit of DIY magic. via Building a Wireless Visual Metronome that Synchronizes with your DAW : Ask.Audio.
More local talent
Pedro Jenko is an electronic music producer from Warwickshire, I always enjoy hearing his material when it’s played on BBC Introducing Coventry & Warwickshire (usually this happens when I’m listening in to see if my latest is on – call me self-serving, fine, it goes with the territory). Anyway… Pedro Jenko. Go listen. Now.
Listening
Last night I joined in with a Twitter conversation about listening to your own material. I chipped in with a single tweet: @Configa I listen to my own stuff so much I don't understand it anymore — DJ Morocco Dave (@morocco_dave) August 13, 2015 This caused some LOLs, which is always fun. But then I…
EP news – artwork and production
Sleeve art for my forthcoming EP, “Eighty Days of Rain” has been finalised and CD production starts in the next couple of days! This process has been a really steep learning curve for me – lots of new information to take in, new skills and software to master and a whole lot of work (unfortunately…
Morocco Dave 