Umbreen Tapal » Music http://umbreen.com That's my name. Don't wear it out. :) Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Life Goal: SXSW http://umbreen.com/2010/03/12/life-goal-sxsw/ http://umbreen.com/2010/03/12/life-goal-sxsw/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:58:37 +0000 umbreen http://www.umbreen.com/?p=249 Continue reading →]]> Someday I want to go to the SXSW festival.

For music, film, interactive …whatever. But must be something I should reasonably be expected to do because of my job. Hey – you gotta envision the future and then make it real right? :)

]]> http://umbreen.com/2010/03/12/life-goal-sxsw/feed/ 0 Electro Disco Pop Is My Guilty Pleasure http://umbreen.com/2009/10/30/electro-disco-pop-is-my-guilty-pleasure/ http://umbreen.com/2009/10/30/electro-disco-pop-is-my-guilty-pleasure/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:11:41 +0000 umbreen http://www.umbreen.com/?p=75 Continue reading →]]> Some times I have pretensions of liking deep house, electronic experimental, indie rock…But I checked my most played iTunes list; is all electro-disco-pop.Top of the list recently is The Ravonettes – their new album, In and Out of Control is not instant love for me as LUST, LUST, LUST.  (Maybe because I instantly loved the title… Lust… Lust… Lust…) The new album is more upbeat, with fewer hooky tunes – but it’s got the trademark wall of hazy sound. I’m going to get into it.High rotation on my list is also Desire – best song is ‘Don’t call’, ‘Mirror Mirror’ and ‘Colorless Sky’. Big surprise that Johnny Jewel is behind Desire; also of italians do it better; chromatics; glass candy – all artists who have been in heavy rotation in my digital record player.Which brings me to – why is eMusic a walled garden? As I’m writing this now, I would like to link to all these artists on emusic. Its an excellent music wiki; I love that ‘editor’ plus ‘regular peeps’ reviews, plus it automatically pulls the artists info from YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr in one page. I would be GREAT if other people could see it!Think of all the excellent google indexing they could have, tons of organic traffic and many more subscriptions! Grrr – opportunity wasted makes me mad. Also, I hate that emusic doesn’t automatically tell me when there is a new album by an artist I have already downloaded.All things I would love to fix. I wish they had something like mystarbucksidea.com where I could tell them about this. I’ve emailed emusic (because in actuality I’m a big fan girl of the site) quite a few times of things they need to add to site – but never any response.Booo product manager.

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