Greek music from the Cyber Space June 17, 2007
Posted by grhomeboy in MusicLife Greek.trackback
Nowhere is music more cutting edge than online. It’s the instantaneousness of it all. One day you have some lyrics on the PC screen, the next someone has made it into a song, and the day after it’s in the charts, on myspace or soundclick.
Where radio stations have failed abysmally in their support for local music, many artists now take matters into their own hands and make their myspace pages into their own form of media. So here are a few worth checking >
As the first woman music producer making crisp beatz, St3phanie knew she had a whole heap of odds going against her. Now studying music production in the UK, her myspace page www.myspace.com/st3phani3music gets a serious amount of hits each day. ‘3Stripe Productions’ is open for all kinds of collaborations and experiments. With over 30,000 plays online, St3ph’s page is one of the most popular music sites by an individual from Cyprus.
A Greek music online radio stream would have had a fairly limited market ten years ago with possibly 25 listeners being able to tune in at any given one time. Global Greek Radio works between two people Dino in New York and DJ Zeus in London. These days it’s a serious initiative with thousands of listeners tuning in www.myspace.com/globalgreekradio. With two live streams and three new ones to be launched, this site looks set to becoming even more popular in months to come.
A recent collaboration on a tune online via Spill The Milk Productions in the UK. As most good things often do, the project came about completely by accident. The artist having sent the audio file to Don V Louie at STM www.myspace.com/spilllthemilk.com rising roots reggae singer Aaron Kedar www.myspace.com/bongokanny was also in the studio and liked the vibes.
‘Babylon’ is the result of this new cyber collaboration. Check it out at www.soundclick.com/hajimike. This tune, being so different, will be a hit soon.
Finally, if comedy is what you after check Donald Mack’s www.myspace.com/donald_mack. D entertains audiences with his charismatic humour which for the second year running will be happening at the Edinburgh Festival in August.
On the Greek-North American tip, Angelo Tsarouchas’ space is at www.myspace.com/funnygreek. Check the video section, stereotypically hilarious!
grhomeboy
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