Saturday, January 14, 2006

New Pantheon Award finalists, Academy screeners, Digital DJ licenses, Cool Cuts Chart

Here are the finalists for the New Pantheon Music Award, awarded to the best album selling less than 500,000 copies.

The finalists:
Animal Collective - Feels
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
M.I.A. - Arular
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Decemberists - Picaresque

The nominations were places by a partly illustrious, partly dubious panel:

?uestlove - Member of The Roots
Adam Brody - Actor on The OC
Alex Patsavas - Music Supervisor: Chop Shop
Beck - Mad Scientist
Benjamin Gibbard - of Death Cab for Cutie
Chester Bennington - of Linkin Park
Dave Matthews - of Dave Matthews Band
Elijah Wood - Actor/Hobbit
Elton John - Musician, Songwriter, Legend
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Jennifer Maerz - Music Editor at The Stranger
John Cameron Mitchell - Actor, Writer, Producer
John Legend - Singer/Songwriter
John McCrea - of Cake
Josh Schwartz - Creator - The OC
Keith Urban - International Superstar
Margaret Cho - Comedienne, Writer
Mike Shinoda - of Linkin Park
Nic Harcourt - Music Director, KCRW
Peter Margasak - Writer at The Chicago Reader
Ric Ocasek - Musician, Producer, Icon
Ryan Schreiber - Editor-in-Chief at Pitchfork Media
Shirley Manson - of Garbage
Steve Hochman - Writer - L.A. Times
Suzanne Vega - Singer, Songwriter
Tony Kanal - of No Doubt
Will Hermes - Editor and Writer
If you can't stop industry people from file-sharing, you might as well give up: Academy screeners on P2P
Oft-ignored digital DJ licenses in the UK
The Cool Cuts is the UK’s leading tastemaker dance chart compiled from reactions from tastemaker DJs and the Cool Cuts shop panel.

The Cool Cuts is broadcast on Ministry Of Sound Digital Radio ' on Paul 'Radical' Ruiz - 'Anything Goes' show every Wednesday 2-4pm GMT on www.ministryofsound.com/radio'
and on Tall Paul’s Kiss 100 show. The Cool Cuts is published in the UK’s leading music industry trade publication Music Week and on www.musicweek.com

Cool Cuts Chart for MW issue date 21/01/06

1 NEW SORRY / Madonna / East West
With mixes from Pet Shop Boys and Stuart Price as Paper Faces and Man With Guitar
2 (3) INCREDIBLE / Shapeshifters / Positiva
With mixes from Denis The Menace & Jerry Ropero and Mark Knight & MTV
3 NEW HELLO I LOVE YOU / The Doors / Marine Parade
With stunning new mixes from Adam Freeland
4 (5) MAKE A MOVE ON ME / Joey Negro / Data
Back for 2006 with a full release
5 NEW FADE / Solu Music / Hed Kandi
Hed Kandi’s evergreen classic in new mixes from Grant Nelson
6 (9) PARTY FOR THE WEEKEND / Soul Seekerz / CDR
Lively party time house tune
7 NEW ALONE TONIGHT / Above & Beyond / Anjunabeats
First single from their album with mixes from Mathew Dekay and Disciples Of Sound
8 (10) WALKING AWAY / The Egg / Cr2
Getting a UK release with new mix of ‘The Wall’ by Mylo
9 (11) BOUNCE SHAKE MOVE STOP / M.V.P / EMI
With mixes from Ian Carey and Trailblazers
10 NEW IT DOESN’T STOP / The Young Punx / Mofo Hifi
Excellent mash up of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’
11 NEW ETERNITY / Matt Darey / Darey Products
With mixes from Alex Morph, Thomas Dat, John ‘00’ Flemming and more
12 (16) TURN ME OUT / Dirty Old Ann / White Label
Kathy Brown’s classic gets a disco makeover
13 (18) PUNCH DRUNK/COPYRAT / Cirez D / Mouseville
Eric Prydz under one of his pseudonyms with a couple of hot club grooves
14 NEW FALSE LIGHT / Marco V / Maelstrom
With mixes from Ton B and Danny Olivera
15 (20) CLEAR SKY / Kayot / Buzzin Fly
Cool house vibes with a mix from Manoo and Francois A
16 NEW SWIMMING PLACES / Julien Jabre / Defected
Summery house groove with new mixes from Jerome Sydenham and Pete Heller
17 NEW SHOW ME LOVE / Robin S / Champion
Club classic is back with a new mix from Diesel
18 NEW RAZORBLADE / GIVE ME LOVE / Coburn / Frontier
Sexy electro pop tune
19 NEW WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE / Test Icicles / Domino
Digitalism and Alan Braxe & Fred Falke on the mix
20 NEW IN THE EVENING / Rob Boskamp / Spinnin’
Pumping reworking of the Sheryl Lee Ralph classic

© Original Artists 2006

The Cool Cuts is compiled from reactions from Tastemaker DJs and from the Cool Cuts shop panel: Bang Bang (Bristol), Black Market (London), Bradley’s (Halifax), Catapult (Cardiff), Citysounds (London), Crash (Leeds), Covert (Brighton), Eastern Bloc (Manchester) Global Groove (Stoke), Know How (London) Massive (Oxford & Birmingham), Mixmaster (Belfast), Plastic Fantastic (London), Power (Wigan), Pure Groove (London), Streetwise (Cambridge), The Disc (Bradford), 3 Beat (Liverpool), Trax (London), 23rd Precinct (Glasgow), Urban (Brighton).

DJMonsterMo | 1:39 PM |

Comments:

Here are the finalists for the New Pantheon Music Award, awarded to the best album selling less than 500,000 copies.

The finalists:
Animal Collective - Feels
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
M.I.A. - Arular
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Decemberists - Picaresque

The nominations were places by a partly illustrious, partly dubious panel:

?uestlove - Member of The Roots
Adam Brody - Actor on The OC
Alex Patsavas - Music Supervisor: Chop Shop
Beck - Mad Scientist
Benjamin Gibbard - of Death Cab for Cutie
Chester Bennington - of Linkin Park
Dave Matthews - of Dave Matthews Band
Elijah Wood - Actor/Hobbit
Elton John - Musician, Songwriter, Legend
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Jennifer Maerz - Music Editor at The Stranger
John Cameron Mitchell - Actor, Writer, Producer
John Legend - Singer/Songwriter
John McCrea - of Cake
Josh Schwartz - Creator - The OC
Keith Urban - International Superstar
Margaret Cho - Comedienne, Writer
Mike Shinoda - of Linkin Park
Nic Harcourt - Music Director, KCRW
Peter Margasak - Writer at The Chicago Reader
Ric Ocasek - Musician, Producer, Icon
Ryan Schreiber - Editor-in-Chief at Pitchfork Media
Shirley Manson - of Garbage
Steve Hochman - Writer - L.A. Times
Suzanne Vega - Singer, Songwriter
Tony Kanal - of No Doubt
Will Hermes - Editor and Writer
If you can't stop industry people from file-sharing, you might as well give up: Academy screeners on P2P
Oft-ignored digital DJ licenses in the UK
The Cool Cuts is the UK’s leading tastemaker dance chart compiled from reactions from tastemaker DJs and the Cool Cuts shop panel.

The Cool Cuts is broadcast on Ministry Of Sound Digital Radio ' on Paul 'Radical' Ruiz - 'Anything Goes' show every Wednesday 2-4pm GMT on www.ministryofsound.com/radio'
and on Tall Paul’s Kiss 100 show. The Cool Cuts is published in the UK’s leading music industry trade publication Music Week and on www.musicweek.com

Cool Cuts Chart for MW issue date 21/01/06

1 NEW SORRY / Madonna / East West
With mixes from Pet Shop Boys and Stuart Price as Paper Faces and Man With Guitar
2 (3) INCREDIBLE / Shapeshifters / Positiva
With mixes from Denis The Menace & Jerry Ropero and Mark Knight & MTV
3 NEW HELLO I LOVE YOU / The Doors / Marine Parade
With stunning new mixes from Adam Freeland
4 (5) MAKE A MOVE ON ME / Joey Negro / Data
Back for 2006 with a full release
5 NEW FADE / Solu Music / Hed Kandi
Hed Kandi’s evergreen classic in new mixes from Grant Nelson
6 (9) PARTY FOR THE WEEKEND / Soul Seekerz / CDR
Lively party time house tune
7 NEW ALONE TONIGHT / Above & Beyond / Anjunabeats
First single from their album with mixes from Mathew Dekay and Disciples Of Sound
8 (10) WALKING AWAY / The Egg / Cr2
Getting a UK release with new mix of ‘The Wall’ by Mylo
9 (11) BOUNCE SHAKE MOVE STOP / M.V.P / EMI
With mixes from Ian Carey and Trailblazers
10 NEW IT DOESN’T STOP / The Young Punx / Mofo Hifi
Excellent mash up of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’
11 NEW ETERNITY / Matt Darey / Darey Products
With mixes from Alex Morph, Thomas Dat, John ‘00’ Flemming and more
12 (16) TURN ME OUT / Dirty Old Ann / White Label
Kathy Brown’s classic gets a disco makeover
13 (18) PUNCH DRUNK/COPYRAT / Cirez D / Mouseville
Eric Prydz under one of his pseudonyms with a couple of hot club grooves
14 NEW FALSE LIGHT / Marco V / Maelstrom
With mixes from Ton B and Danny Olivera
15 (20) CLEAR SKY / Kayot / Buzzin Fly
Cool house vibes with a mix from Manoo and Francois A
16 NEW SWIMMING PLACES / Julien Jabre / Defected
Summery house groove with new mixes from Jerome Sydenham and Pete Heller
17 NEW SHOW ME LOVE / Robin S / Champion
Club classic is back with a new mix from Diesel
18 NEW RAZORBLADE / GIVE ME LOVE / Coburn / Frontier
Sexy electro pop tune
19 NEW WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE / Test Icicles / Domino
Digitalism and Alan Braxe & Fred Falke on the mix
20 NEW IN THE EVENING / Rob Boskamp / Spinnin’
Pumping reworking of the Sheryl Lee Ralph classic

© Original Artists 2006

The Cool Cuts is compiled from reactions from Tastemaker DJs and from the Cool Cuts shop panel: Bang Bang (Bristol), Black Market (London), Bradley’s (Halifax), Catapult (Cardiff), Citysounds (London), Crash (Leeds), Covert (Brighton), Eastern Bloc (Manchester) Global Groove (Stoke), Know How (London) Massive (Oxford & Birmingham), Mixmaster (Belfast), Plastic Fantastic (London), Power (Wigan), Pure Groove (London), Streetwise (Cambridge), The Disc (Bradford), 3 Beat (Liverpool), Trax (London), 23rd Precinct (Glasgow), Urban (Brighton).