Underworld lead, others follow... - Page 2

Scott Warner · #11 12-28-2007, 03:47 PM

All things Underworld and Dirty were certainly not the first with these things but we were definitely part of first wave of noteable artists and sites offering alternative broadcasts and distribution. The MP3 free download of "Kittens" before 'Beaucoup Fish' was released was one of the first big free downloads of music and was written up in Time Magazine along with Prince's efforts in the field at the time. Dirtyradio has been streaming since the late 90's. Etc. etc.

lloyd · #12 12-28-2007, 09:04 PM

Underworld provided some music that was used by NVA during Stormy Waters, a live spectacle in Liverpool in 1995. This was the first time in the EU that something like this was broadcasted over the internet (Mbone).
http://www.nva.org.uk/stormy/index.html

BeautifulBurnout · #13 01-03-2008, 01:32 PM

.... and what a lush webcast it was too, it seems. I didn't catch it, but there is a here.

Nice work.

Although this is more a Lemonworld, not a Cocoon or Makuhari, as such. Which is my point, I think

cacophony · #14 01-03-2008, 04:40 PM

^ youtube's basically a second compression. a cleaner version is on current TV. i think i heard they're pulling it down after the 30th or something, so watch while it's still up.

here.

botkiller · #15 01-04-2008, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by joethelion

yea - FSOL 'toured' back in the day from their studios (via ISDN hookup)

like, a big set up was transfered to different places that was connected back to their studios (I'm not totally sure to what extent they toured... it was before I actually got into them.)

and Bowie did a live (audio / video) internet broadcast of one of his shows during the promotional tour for 'hours...' - I think it was a gig in Austria... but I forget (I was never a fan of that album anyways)

Yeah, I was going to mention ISDN as well. They basically set up ISDN connections to places they were playing and had live video/audio feeds into the venue - an idea that I think is awesome, and would love to see done again.

joethelion · #16 01-04-2008, 07:58 PM

I wonder why that never really took off?

I mean - it surely would be much much much easier to do ISDN type shows nowadays than back then, right?