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Listening to 'Feel Good' Electronica Music Online

As part of broadening our Keyword net we put up a couple of think piece pages that could have gone in the blog but they involved a bit more research than you get for a daily blog.

We did a bit more digging - mainly in Wikipedia on the music genre question as it applies to us. Apart from exposing the depth of my ignorance about recent popular music it is also clear that we don't quite fit. While it is pretty clear that we do fit in Electronica that brings us alongside some unfamiliar bed fellows so we are seeking to qualify that with the 'Feel Good' . There is evidently some risk of confusion with the recent Gorillaz single 'Feel Good Inc' but we couldn't find anything else and I guess that will sink back to obscurity fairly soon. We'll need to look at updating our published MP3 files at some stage.

We've also published a little reflection piece on how we listen to music online and the impact that has on our production process. Some background for those interested in the thinking that goes into producing our kind of music.

Have a nice weekend.

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