Hello all,

Today's menu:

1. Two movies about music. End the year with some noise (Dec 17, 04)
2. Audio1 & JetGroove scam
3. Archive.org
4. TAC5 Oboro (Dec 15, 04)

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1. TWO MOVIES ABOUT MUSIC. END THE YEAR WITH SOME NOISE (DEC 17, 04)

In a co-presentation from Disques Hushush & Rough Age Projectiles, we will
screen in
Montréal two feature-length documentaries about aberrant behavior and music. The
Montreal premiere of the acclaimed “What About Me: The Rise of The Nihilist
Spasm
Band” and the North American premiere of the fascinating “Looking for Reynols”.

(North American première)
Looking for Reynols [Buscando a Reynols] Dir. Néstor Frenkel
(Argentine/Argentina) 79
min. V.O. Espagnol avec sous-titres anglais / Spanish E.S.T.

(Montréal première)
What About Me Dir. Zev Asher (Canada) 75 min. V.O. Anglais / O.V. English

Vendredi 17 décembre - 19:00 Friday December 17th - 7 PM

Goethe-Institut (website)
418 Sherbrooke Est (Coin/Corner St-Denis)
Montréal, Québec - Canada
Metro: Berri-UQAM / Sherbrooke

Participation / cover : 8$

The Nihilist Spasm Band are known as the world’s oldest noise band. Formed in
London, Ontario in 1965, the band has released a number of recordings and
retains a
cult following around the world. They are still active and they recently played
with REM!
Hugh McIntyre from the Nihilist Spasm Band passed away quietly at the age of 68
on
Monday December 6th, 2004 in London, Ontario (Canada). The Zoilus website/blog
about music contains two recent posts about Hugh McIntyre, we advise you to read
them:
http://www.zoilus.com/documents/news/2004/000292.shtml
http://www.zoilus.com/documents/news/2004/000290.shtml

Reynols hail from Buenos Aires, Argentina and are known as the world’s only band
to
be fronted by a person afflicted with Down syndrome. The group was formed by
Miguel,
a creative and energetic savant with an uncanny knack for creating haunting
improvised
chaos. Reynols, name chosen by a chihuahua dog, recently disbanded.

In the winter/spring of 2005, Hushush will release a joint record by the
Nihilist Spasm
Band and Reynols.

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2. AUDIO1 & JETGROOVE SCAM

The Audio1 website recently opened and just as JetGroove did before, they are
offering
MP3’s from the Hushush catalog. Both sites, sharing the same database and design
are
claiming all of their MP3’s are licensed. Their claims are totally false! It
appears the
underground and independent labels featured on both Audio1 and JetGroove never
licensed most of the material nor did the companies actually contacted most of
the
labels. Both websites pretend they are located in the UK while they are actually
in
Russia. Not only the files sold are not legally licensed, but it appears the
whole website
is a scam. The business model is to get people to register (it is said to be
about 20$US)
but without actually offering the download of real files. It’s only after they
gathered
enough requests for some files that they intended to contact the targeted
labels. The
only audio files located on their server seems to be the audio previews most
likely
gathered from peer-to-peer illegal services. We advise you not to register with
Audio1
nor with JetGroove because they will steal your money and they will steal our
right to
distribute our music the way we intend to on the very day they are going to
actually sell
any music. These websites are totally misleading you with their claims to be
able at one
point to offer some of the 500 000+ titles listed.
There are about 4000 albums to be downloaded from the netlabels section at
archive.org and that includes dozens of our deleted releases. Oh yes, did I
forget to
mention it’s free and legal! Please visit :
http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php

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3. ARCHIVE.ORG

We invite you once again to visit our collection at archive.org
(http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=hushush) where we made
13
releases available! They include deleted releases from our catalog as well as
hard to
find releases from like minded people. We still have a few other releases to be
made
available online in the coming weeks. More than 4500 albums and files where
downloaded so far! Oh yes, did we mention it's all free and legal?

http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=hushush

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4. TAC5 - OBORO (DEC 15, 04)

For those living in Montréal, we would like to remind you a special concert/live
presentation this coming Wednesday

TAC 5 - Wednesday December 15th, 9:00 pm
Nancy Tobin
John Sellekaers
David Kristian +I8U
Mathias Delplanque

Oboro, 4001 rue Berri ­ New Medias Lab, 2nd floor
Montréal, Québec - Canada
Métro Sherbrooke
9 PM, doors open at 8:30 PM
Participation / cover 10$

Only since recent days, electronic composers have discovered the possibilities
of multi-
channel diffusion. But rarely have they built a multi-channel environment in
their studio.
With the support of Oboro and its New Media Lab, recently opened, TAC 5 and TAC
6,
offer 4 days of workshops, only accessible to the artists, followed by concerts,
presenting the audio results of their collaborative efforts with sound designers
Nancy
Tobin and Stéphane Claude.

During two full days, Nancy Tobin, John Sellekaers, David Kristian, I8U and
Mathias
Delplanque will work together, share ideas and experiences, adjust, and finalize
new
compositions made for the multi-channel systems installed in the space. On the
15th, at
9 :00 PM, they will deliver the results of long days of works and expectations
to the
public.

http://www.oboro.net/
http://www.oral.qc.ca/

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That's all for the day
Cheers,
Dimitri della Faille (for Disques Hushush)

DISQUES HUSHUSH INC.
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