Happy Birth Day State Of Trance
Yesterday Armin Van Buuren and his weekly radio show - A State Of Trance, began to celebrate its 300th episode, and 6 years of existence. This week the first part of episode 300 was broadcasted, containing many classic tunes from the past. Next week in Den Bosch in Holland, the celebration will continue with a free party with some very imporant guest from the trance music world:
- Aly & Fila
- Sean Tyas
- Menno De Jong
- Marcel Woods
- Markus Schulz
And of course Armin Van Buuren himself. As written on Armada Events "The Best Things In Life Are Free". Well i like that very much but the distance to Holland, and my wallet are exactly the opposite - Holland is far away and my wallet is empty :(
ASOT 2007 & Anjunabeats Vol. 5
May 8th was a great day at TT, the main reason for that is -
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7
6 is the number of strings on a standard guitar
Jack Bauer has been on the air for 6 seasons
It was the 6th day when God created Man
It has been 6 years since us Gods formed a group
Here to please... here to achieve... here to rule
Today we celebrate... and how do we celebrate
By dropping some bombs, coz that is why we are here
Amen
In other words TGX celebrated their 6th birthday, and TT sorta had a b-day too since the bombs mentioned in the cited NFO above were real ones. The biggest of them were
VA-Anjunabeats Vol 5 Mixed By Above And Beyond-2CD-2007-TGX VA-A State Of Trance 2007 Mixed By Armin Van Buuren-2CD-2007-TGX Now when i have listened to both of them... Well i like the Anjunabeats product much more. The tracklist is simply wonderfull, mixing perfect as always from Above and Beyond - i loved it from the very beginning to the end. ASOT 2007 is not bad either, it's a must have for any trance listener. CD2 is way better than CD1, lots of good tunes on both of the compilations but in the end Above and Beyond did a better job ;)
DI.FM is going down???
UNBELIEVABLE !!! Di.fm is currently the biggest and in my opinion the best radio station in the internet. I just noticed on their blog the following:
THE ISSUE:
In March the United States Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) made a decision on what the webcasting royalties should be going forward and dating back starting with 2006.
The new fees, making us owe literally more than *two million dollars* due July 15th, do not take any realistic business model of a service such as ours and most others on the web into account. The short story translation is that Digitally Imported the company already owes just for 2006 many many times more in royalty fees than all combined revenue generated. Imagine a picture similar to if for every $1 we earn before even any expenses, we actually owe about $5 in royalty fees.
To make an analogy, imagine there was a law passed on an ice cream tax, and the tax rate depended on the number of visitors visiting your store rather than how much ice cream the store sold. So imagine the tax does not care if ice cream buyers came just to hang out and get a little bit of icecream - all ice cream stands would go out of business except those who sell wholesale mega packs to a few visitors in places like Sams Club or Costco, or Walmart if it was willing to loose money just to get you into their store.
The CRB judges completely ignored independent webcasters such as us and our business models, and adopted only a very high per song performance fee, without any kind of a provision for a percentage of revenue.
Full post here
WTF is that? I can not believe that Di.fm can be shut down, 2 milion $$$... where the hell should they get this money from? And if it does happen where will all of us listen to our weekly State of Trance ? :( If you live in the US, there is a site that describes what you can do to help the Internet Radio - Savenetradio.org. The new laws will be in effect on July 15th, and i am going to US on July 7th - i will call the f#$%$ing representative on the very fist day i arrive there, so U.S. Representative Thomas Allen - be prepared for a looooong phone talk :)
Not secure PHP ?
Some time ago as usual i was checking whats happening in Linux world and on HowToForge (its a great site btw) i found that article How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin (Debian Etch/Ubuntu). I decided to look some further into the PHP security issue and yes there are numerous flaws in the PHP servers ;). But most of them are produced by not skilled programmers who create vulnerable code. Overall that would most likely fit my situation since i classify my self as a "recreational PHP programmer. So what i did? I followed the how to and re-compiled my PHP in order to harden my PHP... The result ? Who knows, maybe i am more secure now :)
ATB – Trilogy
On April 28, André Tanneberger aka ATB released his 1st in 3 years studio album called Trilogy. Till now i have listen to the album at least a million times and i have to say its very good. ATB is evolving his sounds, there is a very little trance/dance music there. Most of the tracks are kind of ambient, and are very melodic as usual. Overall i really like the vocals on the CD - Heather Nova has a beautiful voice, and thats what makes ATB - Renegade a beautiful song. Some people say that this album is such a mixture of genres and André simply doesn't know which way to go now. I totally disagree with that, ATB has his own style, and as said above the style is evolving and in my opinion its going on a good way. Nothing more to say, grab the album and listen :)