RadioDAZZ And HypeBot - Digital Music Info And News.

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RadioDAZZ has added HypeBot (http://www.hypebot.com) to its list of Resources. For those of our fans and friends who are involved in any aspect of the creation or digital music or in the digital music industry, this particular blog site contains a wealth of useful information for everyone, from the hobbyists to the serious creators of music to the promoters of digital music in the real-time, real-work marketplace.

Take a look at this terrific blog and get an idea of the way its author handles everything from artistry and technology, to promotion and exciting news updates.

Click HERE for a News Ticker Of HypeBot's latest postings.

On the RadioDAZZ site, you'll find it under the SELECTED LINKS, FEEDS AND MORE tab, right below the BLOG header.


Labels, Tags, Search Terms And Categories For This DAZZICLE: Spotify, Digital audio, Music industry, HypeBot, digital music, digital news, Arts and Entertainment, Pandora, The RadioDAZZ Blog, musician resources, Douglas E Castle, Musician's Friend, techno-pop, music tech, recording gear, Justin Bieber, Josh Ledet, American Idol, synthesizers, UVI, pop, soul, funk, oldies, 60s,70s, 80s, digital optimization.

The integration of digital capabilities with old-school musical artistry is creating some amazing new sounds and clearing a path to some new markets in ambient music as well as on the privately published (Indie) and mainstream channels.

The future looks very exciting.

Douglas E Castle for The RadioDAZZ Blog 

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Livin' It Up [Friday Night!] Bell and James - DIZZAZZTER MASTER BLASTER

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Time to indulge in some truly DAZZ-O-LICIOUS* delight.

Bell and James outdid themselves with this anthem to every paycheck-to-paycheck brother and sister working at a put-up-with-it job and an ungrateful boss out of the necessity to make ends meet. This is about people living for the weekend. Thank God It's Friday!

This song was a study in controlled, sound-around, slightly held-back explosive funk. The super-produced arrangement and instrumentation are soulful, clavinet-laden, drum sockin', bass-popping, voice shadowing (those great whispering, repeating reverb-free lines coming in behind every lyric), treble guitar upbeat high note emphasized super soul.

Some of us work for the Man (whoever He is), slaving away every day just daydreaming through the hum-drum routine just so we can survive long enough to get into our clubbing clothes and be (oh yes -we be) "Livin' It Up, Livin' It Up At Last/ Friday Night."

The song is aflame with negative references to boring jobs, coming in late (and getting the hairy eyeball from the boss), punching the time clock and struggling to have enough coin left over at the end of the week (after the landlady knocks on the door and insists on getting paid the month's rent in real cash) to disco, to rock, to let the loud music drown all of the aches and slights and disappointments of the week away.  Friday night is sacred - it's the traditional beginning of life after death for the working class.

Bell and James caught the flavor of this song. You've got to love the "up and down the stairs" bass riff. The song is a genuine candidate in the DAZZ official DIZZAZZTER MASTER BLASTER Hall Of Fame.

Whether you're from Philly [remember TSOP], Cleveland, Detroit [Motown], NYC or LA, this song gets the adrenalin pumpin'. Bell and James, Gamble and Huff, Rufus and Chaka, give us more stuff.

Click and enjoy this. Don't wait 'til Friday. This is a fabulous five-minute vacation song any day! Done ever let this magical music die. Forward this article to every friend you've got (and even the ones who you owe money to), tweet it, retweet it, pin it, spin it and let's brighten up the world just a little bit. DAZZ thanks you. And so will all of your friends.

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Goin' Afrika - Paul Simon - "I Know What I Know"

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Paul Simon is an absolutely brilliant and prolific singer and songwriter. His career has spanned more than 40 years, and he has never resisted the opportunity to integrate all types of music from all over the world into his own, and to share the often dazzling (which has "DAZZ" in it) results.

Originally paired with Art Garfunkel, the duo produced countless hits on amazing albums. The lyrics were filled with visuality, metaphor and the state of Humanity -- sometimes quite serious ("The Sounds Of Silence," "Old Friends"), sometimes hysterical ("Why Don't You Write Me?"). An amazing juxtaposition of tragedy and ironic humor. Seasoned with some typical New York wit (and witout') and sarcasm.

Simon managed to infuse popular radio with a blast of reggae with "Mother And Child Reunion." [Yep - it was in the key of A Major].

On the Graceland album, a solo work by Simon with dominant influences from all types of music (Cajun, Creole, Calypso and a variety of amazing African sounds), I was struck , as were others by "Under African Skies," "Boy In The Bubble," "Call Me Al," "Homeless'" and others, with their syncopated rhythms, somber, colorful lyrics, and indescribable indigenous instrumentation.

But the song that was the ultimate amalgam of New York cynical funk and wildly tribal West African instrumentation and backup vocals was this one.

It is a wild ride! Click on either the links or the YouTube Video Player Below to enjoy the crazy melange that is "I know What I Know." After all..."who am I to blow against the wind?..."
 
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SKYLARK - "Wildflower" - Early Masterpiece By David Foster

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Image via WikipediaDavid Foster is one of this world's most brilliant writers, keyboardists and arrangers. This song, "Wildflower," was performed by Skylark (an early music work in which David was coming into bloom). The song came out when I was in college. It felt sacred, romantic and a great many of my macho classmates had to sniff back tears.

There is some video footage of David and his former wife in this rare clip. The sound is record quality, clean, clear, crisp and indelible. If you've heard it before, you'd be struck with the memory.


If you're hearing it for the first time, play it more than once, and then try to keep it from echoing through the corridors of your mind. It's wonderful. Embedding of the video was restricted, but if you click on the link, you'll get to see it.

Thanks to all of you who helped me survive my undergraduate experience.

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Back when my soul was whole, I would play this with some buddies, and we would jam on the three-chord pattern for fifteen to twenty minutes at a clip. We once jammed to this thing to the point of blisters and drenching sweat in Davey's basement (an obscure location in Long Island) to a capacity crowd of nine people, and I actually heard (through a third-party source the following day) that one of the girls thought I was handsome. God, that had me shining for a few days...little things used to mean so much.

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Michael McDonald with Ashford and Simpson Ain't no Mountain High Enough

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It doesn't get better than this. Michael McDonald on his Motown Tribute, singing along with original performers, Ashford and Simpson. Fabulous re-make, with some more surprises to follow in keeping with the Motown motif. The sound quality, arrangements, and harmonies are the best of all time....heavenly. The songs are classics. Pure. Absolute.

Listen and experience heaven's angels of soul lifting you up. Higher and Higher, Jackie Wilson.

Please say goodbye to recently departed Nick Ashford, brilliant singer and songwriter, who passed on at 70 years of age after an amazingly inspiring career of service to all of those of us who loved and lived for great music. Goodbye Nick, and thank you for your limitless generosity in sharing your gifts with Humanity. We will not forget you.


Here you are...

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