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...Hipgnosis was founded by music executive Merck Mercuriadis in 2018 to turn music rights into a mainstream asset class....
...The music is a post-genre mash-up of trap beats, hyperpop, emo and thrash metal. Names of designer drugs and designer clothes litter the verses....
...Their 2002 debut LP Babylon arrived during the genre-splicing boom of nu metal. Since then, they’ve mashed up expressions of protest with party beats....
...The cover art depicts charred remnants of infancy and youth, and the bluntness of such imagery contrasts with the music’s exhilarating finesse; the full-throttle blast of the opening title track sets the...
...“I didn’t predict the enormous crash but we knew there was a risk,” said one longstanding LP....
.... ★★☆☆☆ ‘Snoop Cube 40 $hort’ is released by Mount Westmore/MNRK Music Group...
...Its move from private communication to public commodity mirrors Beats’s position in music production....
...The LP-length set is rounded out by three Byrd originals....
...But Merck Mercuriadis, the music mogul who Blackstone backed, isn’t your average portfolio company chief executive....
...It also beats Jeff Buckley’s cover. When 10 different versions of the song “Hallelujah” are added together they account for almost 13 per cent of the Blackstone catalogue’s royalties....
...“This is a wake-up call,” Owens intones over a barrage of harsh beats: the time to act is now. ★★★☆☆ ‘LP.8’ is released by Smalltown Supersound...
...The acclaimed music-maker has elevated sampling to an art form, taking the eclectic jazz and soul records of his youth and bending them into new shapes for his beats....
...Despite being a remorselessly self-absorbed lyricist, he has always avoided the insular self-regard of US rap in his actual music. There is some nicely slick beat-making in his present set of songs....
...Freakout/Release is Hot Chip’s eighth LP and their snappy, whimsical material has unfolded over several acclaimed albums....
...News round-up Music business scrambles to contain fallout from Kanye West controversy (FT) Germany allows Chinese shipping group a stake in its biggest seaport (FT) European banks’ bumper quarter raises...
...Name another major city in which I could get on my bike to catch a flight, parking it securely in lockers outside the terminal, before heading in with my backpack?...
...“Now, if we do our job in a time of crisis . . . we ought to be able” to beat the markets....
...(FT) Behind the music Stars like Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Tina Turner have minted millions inking deals with private equity, streaming groups and publicly traded funds....
...He’s Slim Shady, the puerile psychopath who made his debut in the Detroit rapper’s 1999 breakthrough, The Slim Shady LP....
...He also once owned a stake in the Beats headphone brand. He has sometimes lent financial weight to particular points of view: last September he donated $248,000 to the Trump Victory Fund, for example....
...“You better give me what I want or I’ll beat on you,” Johnson growls in “Rejection”, a seething revenge fantasy with an ambiguously unspecified addressee....
...The studio is minimal, the music deafening. Ride requires rhythm as well as endurance: the speed at which you pedal is dictated by the beat of the music alone....
...He didn’t miss a beat on finding out Hertz had filed for bankruptcy (check out OJ’s Twitter video)....
...Beats are what one might choose to channel the swagger of LeBron James, flanked by cameras, stepping through the Staples Center en route to the Los Angeles Lakers’ locker room....
...For the runners passing by with their music, their split times to beat and that private galaxy of thought that comes with exercise, it might have been the encounter of a lifetime....
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