Pampelmoose is a music and MP3 web site covering the eclectic independent music scene. We stay clear of major labels and their artists to avoid having the Web Sheriff gallop through our offices. We are indie at heart so we support all things indie – in all its shapes and forms.
Dave walloped the bass strings and is a founding member of the highly influential, post-punk band, Gang of Four. With his business partner, Ned Failing, he started Pampelmoose in 2005. We love music and we love the way the internet leveled the playing field for all artists.
Josh Kneedler is a highly experienced interactive designer. He began working in online media in 1997 at the birth of the interactive world, a world we now take for granted, one that has become as common as the utilities we use at home. His skills consist of design, programming, and creative direction. It’s an eclectic mix, but one that is vital to pursuing new ventures where traditional broadcast media rules do not apply. Josh understands that music artists no longer need traditional record labels. A consumer in Japan may never have heard of our local Northwest music scene so local bands need a different way to promote their independently produced CDs. Josh has the necessary skills and experience that highlight innovation over imitation to tackle contemporary challenges in the world of interactive programming, design and creative marketing. Some of Josh’s work can be seen on his web site: http://www.joshkneedler.net
I dropped my $5 on the new offering, ‘Feed The Animals’ from Girl Talk. I mean why not, a whole album of MP3s plus the whole thing as a seamless mix. Go make your offer. If you choose to pay nothing you can but you will be made to feel guilty – I’m not kidding. Pay the man here. Spot the Nirvana riffs below.
man. It must have taken him years to get sample clearance for all those songs…
June 20th, 2008 at 12:52 pmalso, I think GT is awesome!
June 20th, 2008 at 1:13 pmI put 10$ so I’ll get some extra reward in September: the CD album! By then I’ll have totally forgotten about that purchase — not the music, just the actual buying it! — and this will make for a nice little surprise in the post. :-)
@j ragel: the point is he *didn’t* get clearance…
June 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pmNot to knock what GT is doing but isnt he just setting himself up for some serious “shit hitting the fan” legal bs and would those who download the music, even if they pay for the material, be putting themselves in the same boat. How is this any different from file sharing. Just throwing a little tiny wrench into everyones fun machine. :)
June 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm@bryanv- you’re not throwing any wrenches here. you’re simply asking the most basic pink-elephant-in-the-room question: should dude be able to profit from selling cleverly crafted collages of other peoples’ art? it’s that simple. if he were cutting up prints and rearranging them in a unique and eye-catching fashion we’d likely all herald him as some sort of genious (those of us who like deconstructed art, that is) because he’d have popularity in the art world and his one-of-a-kind collage would be worth a lot of money. but since he is chopping up music that has been copyrighted then mass producing it (what’s more massive as a run of art these days then a mp3?) he somehow falls under much different rules. and I’m not talking about legal rules—we’ll have to let the suits sort that out. I’m talking about being respected as a legit creative force—you know, social rules.
meanwhile, I’m scratching my head as to which set of rules he’s more excited about exposing. I thought he was simply laughing to the stage in front of a packed house. now, apparently, he’s laughing to the bank as well.
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 amWell the solution to all of this would be some sort of compulsory license for the sound recordings, so that the “GT’s” of the world can just create and pay a flat fee to the copyright owners when creating a reproduction be it a CD or an MP3.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmwhere can i go to get the down loads
November 6th, 2008 at 2:34 pm