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The company we keep

When you establish a website it is always interesting to see who the search engines associate you with.

There are the obvious associations that occur on the search results for a keyword or phrase and there are the less obvious results that come up when you look at the pages 'similar to' according to Google. Our two press releases have apparently made us similar to some PR sites but more rationally we are also associated with other sites using Bitpass to sell their music and other media files. On Yahoo you can look at the sites they have identified which have links to your site and we appear to have been picked up by Sublime MP3 on the basis of a single use of that word to describe the Dvorak cello concerto. So maybe this blog will be picked up there now!

Today's podcast features two of our composers in Brahms Variations on a theme by Paganini in a lofi clip which will enable you to recognise the tune and get some appreciation of the arrangement. If you like what you hear you can buy the full piece as two large HiFi MP3 files on the Brahms page.

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