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Lostwave
Lostwave is a term for music with little to no information available about their origins, including song titles, names of associated musicians, and recording and release dates. Lostwave songs have been the subject of online crowdsourced efforts to uncover their origins. History Lostwave and its origins date back to the mid-19th century, when audio recording began with the invention of the phonautograph and the phonograph by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and Thomas Edison, respectively. The preservation of early music recordings has presented significant challenges, as, according to the Library of Congress, many of these recordings, spanning from the late 19th to the early 20th century, have become lost over time. For instance, as of 2024, only two percent of the more than 3,000 wax cylinders produced by the North American Phonograph Company between 1889 and 1894 are preserved in the National Recording Preservation Board's sound recording library. The term "lostwave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulterior Motives (song)
"Ulterior Motives" is a pop song recorded by the British-Canadian filmmakers and musicians Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth in the mid-1980s, and first used in the 1986 pornographic film ''Angels of Passion''. It gained popularity online after a seventeen-second snippet of the song, at the time unidentified, was posted online in 2021. Derived from the previously debated lyrics of the snippet, the song was initially referred to as "Everyone Knows That" (often abbreviated as EKT) or "Ulterior Motives". The snippet was uploaded to the song identification website WatZatSong in 2021 by Spanish user carl92, who claimed to have discovered the recording amongst files in an old DVD backup and speculated it was a leftover from when he was learning to record audio. Since it was uploaded, users searched for the full song and information regarding its origin and artist. In February 2024, '' The Guardian'' named it "one of the biggest and most enduring musical mysteries on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WatZatSong
WatZatSong (stylized as WatZat♫Song?), is a French music identification and social networking website created by French programmers and co-founders Raphaël Arbuz and Thibault Vanhulle in 2006. The website allows users to upload files in formats such as .mp3, .aac, .wav, .m4a, and .ogg. When logged in, users can upload these files onto the website. Posts can also be transformed into quizzes where users guess the song instead of providing a direct answer. Other users can then comment and recommend specific YouTube videos, as well as provide the song's title and musician. Both the uploader and other users can engage in speculation regarding the legitimacy of a proposed song or artist in a ''Proposals'' section under the post's information, expressing their opinions through likes or dislikes. Once a post is solved, a seekbar appears above it, enabling users to listen to the complete song. The post remains open for discussion unless the uploader decides to delete it. Moderators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digital platforms to attract and divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. Crowdsourcing is not limited to online activity, however, and there are various historical examples of crowdsourcing. The word crowdsourcing is a portmanteau of "crowd" and " outsourcing". In contrast to outsourcing, crowdsourcing usually involves less specific and more public groups of participants. Advantages of using crowdsourcing include lowered costs, improved speed, improved quality, increased flexibility, and/or increased scalability of the work, as well as promoting diversity. Crowdsourcing methods include competitions, virtual labor markets, open online collaboration and data donation. Some forms of crowdsourcing, such as in "idea competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West German
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 October 1990. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The FRG's provisional capital was the city of Bonn, and the Cold War era country is retrospectively designated as the Bonn Republic. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Music (magazine)
''The Music'', (formerly known as and now incorporating ''Drum Media)'', is an online Australian music magazine. It previously existed as a street press devoted to long-form music journalism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. In its printed form, it was based in Sydney, NSW and distributed throughout Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle and Canberra, and surrounding areas. The magazine changed its name to ''The Music'' (incorporating Drum Media) in 2013, following the merge with two other magazines, Brisbane's ''Time Off'' and Melbourne's ''Inpress'', owned by Street Press Australia. In 2020 the print edition was paused. Drum Media ''Drum Media'' was founded in 1990 as a free weekly tabloid-sized music magazine (street press). The first issue of ''Drum Media'' appeared on 16 September 1990 with a distribution of 40,000 and featured Midnight Oil on the cover. The magazine had been established after the entire staff of the long-running Sydney street press magazine ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornographic Film
Pornographic films (pornos), erotic films, sex films, and 18+ films are films that present sexually explicit subject matter in order to arouse and satisfy the viewer. Pornographic films present sexual fantasies and usually include erotically stimulating material such as nudity ( softcore) and sexual intercourse (hardcore). A distinction is sometimes made between "erotic" and "pornographic" films on the basis that the latter category contains more explicit sexuality, and focuses more on arousal than storytelling; the distinction is highly subjective. Pornographic films are produced and distributed on a variety of media, depending on the demand and technology available, including traditional film stock in various formats, home video, DVDs, Internet download, cable TV, in addition to other media. Today, pornographic films are sold or rented on DVD; shown through Internet streaming, special channels and pay-per-view on cable and satellite; and viewed in rapidly disappeari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Adrian Booth
Philip Adrian Booth (born 19 February 1960) is a British-Canadian-American filmmaker and musician who has made several documentaries on ghosts and exorcisms, often in collaboration with his twin brother, Christopher Saint Booth. Together, they directed several horror movies in the 2000s, with some notable actors, such as Matthew McGrory. Originally from Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, he moved to Canada in the 1970s. There he played guitar in the band Sweeney Todd, in which his older brother John was the drummer and his twin brother (Christopher) as the singer. He performed several live shows with the band, but they broke up before releasing any music. He and Chris also performed as a duo under the name ''Who's Who?''. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s, the brothers started working odd jobs such as production assistants and licensed some of their songs to pornographic film producers. The experience inspired them to later make their own movies. One of their licens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Saint Booth
Christopher Saint Booth (born 19 February 1960), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Christopher David Booth, is a British-Canadian-American filmmaker and musician who has made several documentaries on ghosts and exorcisms, often in collaboration with his identical twin brother, Philip Adrian Booth. Together they directed several horror movies in the 2000s, with some notable actors, such as Matthew McGrory. Originally from Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, he moved to Canada in the 1970s. He replaced Bryan Adams as a vocalist of the band Sweeney Todd, in which his older brother John was the drummer and his twin Philip played guitar. He performed several live shows with the band, but they broke up before releasing any music. He and Philip also performed as a duo under the name ''Who's Who?''. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s, the brothers started working odd jobs such as production assistants. They licensed some of their songs to pornographic film producers. The exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingle
A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. Jingles are a form of sound branding. A jingle contains one or more hooks and meaning that explicitly promote the product or service being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television commercials; they can also be used in non-advertising contexts to establish or maintain a brand image. Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service. History The Wheaties advertisement, with its lyrical hooks, was seen by its owners as extremely successful. According to one account, General Mills had seriously planned to end production of Wheaties in 1929 on the basis of poor sales. Soon after the song "Have you tried Wheaties?" aired in Minnesota, however, sales spiked there. Of the 53,000 cases of Wheaties breakfast cereal sold, 40,000 were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Production Music
Production music (also known as stock music or library music) is recorded music that can be licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media. Often, the music is produced and owned by production music libraries. Background Unlike popular and classical music publishers, who typically own less than 50 percent of the copyright in a composition, production music libraries own all of the copyrights of their music. Thus, it can be licensed without the composer's permission, as is necessary in licensing music from normal publishers. This is because virtually all music created for music libraries is done on a work-for-hire basis. Production music is a convenient solution for media producers—they are able to license any piece of music in the library at a reasonable rate, whereas a specially commissioned work could be prohibitively expensive. Similarly, licensing a well-known piece of popular music could cost anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subreddit
Reddit (; stylized in all lowercase as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not Reddit employees. As of March 2022, Reddit ranks as the 9th- most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Semrush. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Baskerville
Paul Baskerville (born 3 March 1961) is an English radio disc jockey (DJ) on the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In 2019, he gained international popularity for possibly playing "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" on his program in the early 1980s. Life Baskerville was born and grew up in Manchester. As a teenager, he joined the punk band ''The Limit''. He moved to Germany in 1980. Initially, he worked for Karstadt.NDR Hamburg Journal from December 22, 2012: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTRVxY9uXI He started working for NDR in 1981 with features about music from England and especially Manchester. In 1982, he got his first weekly show, ''Musik für junge Leute'' which he moderated every Thursday from 13:20 to 14:30. He also moderated the shows "No Wave", "Kopfhörer", and "Offbeat". Over the years, he got different slots. He did also shows for Radio Bremen, Deutschlandfunk and DT64 and reportages for Arte. He also wrote a music column for the weekly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
