The Midnight Funk Association, The Last Great Radio Show

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The Midnight Funk Association was the 12 a.m. segment of the legendary late night Detroit radio DJ Electrifying Mojo, a.k.a Charles Johnson.
An entire generation of faithful fans and listeners from the late 70’s through the early 90’s recognize the radio show for shaping the musical tastes of listeners in the Metropolitan Detroit Area, Northern Ohio, and Eastern Ontario Canada.

Mojo broke many artists in the Detroit market including Prince, The J. Giles Band, The B-52’s and turned audiences on to classic legends like Pink Floyd and Peter Frampton, artist previously unheard on radio stations that were labelled as “black”, or “R and B” .

Nightly at 12 a.m., Mojo called to order The Midnight Funk Association, an homage to some of the great funk bands of the day and of all time. He frequently played original long versions, and entire sides of albums by George Clinton and Parliament / Funkadelic, Prince, Rick James and many other all time great bands and artists, as well as local groups like Ready For the World.

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Musical Instruments Of Colombia

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Everybody deeply appreciate the great treasure that is Colombian musical instruments, such as Colombian tiple, made in coral wood, with clear lines and awesome authentic color, with twelve metal strings arranged in four courses. Any professional or student guitarist will find it easy to use in Colombian folk music, and in many Latin American songs. Musicians can use it in Latin American folk jazz music, but also in original songs as well. Tiple’s ethereal and clear sound is also used in classic guitar music creations.

Colombian Cuatro is concert grade guitar; it is made of slices and blocks from curly maple. It has a violin shape and has a great pitch accuracy and finish. The ‘seis’ is a hybrid of the cuatro and a supplementary sixth course tunes a fourth below the usual fifth bottom course. It is also a very popular Colombian musical instrument. This feature allows an expanded bass range. It can be used also for guitar intervals as well, and it makes a awesome music, It sounds as a guitar, but sweeter, faster and louder.

Original Colombian music instruments
Spanish and African traditions are strongly represented in Colombian music. Traditional quena, a king of flute, and Spanish guitar are very popular. Colombian bandolina has fifteen strings and its sound is beautiful, sweet and clear. It is usually made by hand, of unexcelled quality. The marimba is another Colombian musical instrument; it looks like a xylophone and its keys are made in wood. The arpa is a local version of the harp, the guassa is a rattle. The songs from the Pacific coast are using drums and are tinged with Spanish influence. Due to the Spanish influence, piano music is also very popular in Colombia. The newest music style in Colombia is “valenato”, based on the European accordion.

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Popularize Your Music On Youtube

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While there is actually no problem with making your own videos and releasing them on YouTube – in truth I completely advocate that you do – there’s a very powerful way to get thousands of visitors, either to your own videos, your band’s web site, or even better a promotional offer like “sign on to our mailing list to get our new single for free”, or some other such thing, by simply paying other YouTube users to incorporate a link to your site within their description box.

If you don’t quite know what I’m talking about go to Youtube and search the most viewed videos. You need to find a few examples of videos with the link in the description box.

To the right of the video you should see a link. This is an example of what I’m talking about.

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 Boasts A Music Player App

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 features a Music Player app in addition to both a music download, and a track recognition application allowing you to constantly enjoy and add more music to your handset as you go. The phone also features an impressive 3 inch touch display with simple touch parameters for control.

The device has a 3.2 megapixel camera which allows you to chapter special moments as photos, or by recording videos, which can both then be shared with friends via the integrated social networks Facebook or Twitter. You can also take advantage of the handsets Send To Web option, which enables you to send photos and videos direct to a personal blog or website too. Photos and videos can also be enjoyed on the handset 3 inch capacitive touch screen with HVGA resolution, and you have microSD card expandable memory, meaning there is always room for endless multimedia to be made.

The Xperia X8 has an Assisted GPS receiver, which allows it to provide useful location based services, such as Geotagging for photos and videos. When you create a photo or video image, the location from which you took it is recorded as file data, which can be helpful, particularly when uploading to certain sharing websites or desktop applications. Additionally, the GPS provisions allow for maps and directions to be provided by the preinstalled Google Maps; while the WisePilot application (also preloaded), offers full turn by turn navigation by foot or car.

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Playlist Overview

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Playlist.com is a rapidly emerging online music search and music play list sharing service. Offering an innovative approach to access music collections on line, playlist.com is redefining the way people listen to their favorite music and legally share it with everyone on the web. Playlist.com adopts a revolutionary approach which integrates local tastes, diverse music genres and user preference data to provide a comprehensive music search and listening experience for online legal music. The online music distribution segment is growing at a geometric rate and has found vast popularity among various segments of people off all ages from diverse backgrounds. The Internet has been a boon from small artists who are now able to project their work before a global audience. Playlist.com provides a unique user experience which helps the perform a music search and on line music. The user can sort his music collection and create a music playlist which can be shared across the world without any boundaries or borders. Playlist.com has the unique feature of letting user download ringtones of their favorite songs.

The music collection which you will find linked from playlist.com is legal and has been linked to sites which respect the Intellectual property of artists and pay for using their music. We encourage you to use playlist.com to share and legally distribute music. Playlist.com also respect the rights of the music creator’s and publisher’s and prevents unauthorized and illegal distribution and sharing of mp3songs and music tracks across the Internet and any other media. Playlist.com does not host any music files and provides links to various sites which have legal copies of music works hosted line. Users can access these links and bookmark them or share them with fellow members of the play list community. We use an advanced streaming media player which allows you to play the online music collection. You can place our media player on any website which you choose and access your play list from that location. This enables visitors to listen to music online and enjoy a personalized selection of tracks which are linked through playlist.com.

Playlist.com has an advanced music search engine for music files. We use various types of spiders and robots to trace and link to legalized music files on the web. We also allow user submission of links which offer legal or free music on the Internet. Upcoming artists can use this as a valuable tool to generate exposure in the competitive music market and get noticed by music fans and industry labels as well.

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