On the heels of the republishing of the lost Spirit interview I’m back with the notes series: The return of Two Hungry Ghosts, dBridge portrait, the Spotify backup, why artists should get a blog, a non-Dickensian story and a personal note. https://www.djbooga.com/notes-from-the-forest-10/

Lost interview with drum and bass producer Spirit from 2006. As a producer and label boss, he talks about his white label strategy, why the head is still a musician’s best instrument, and how much the early Reinforced sound influenced him. https://www.djbooga.com/spirit-interview-january-2006/

Rejoice, the Two Hungry Ghosts blog is back online. https://twohungryghosts.blog

Be Good To The Ones You Love 🖖🏼 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph6hXpPbl0s

Unhinged and unregulated capitalism enabled after consumer protection agency was neutralized by Trump: Corporations are tracking shopping behavior online AND offline to charge what is the maximum possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr7xSxsGo

If you don‘t know my label Defrostatica yet, here‘s a free starting point. 🖖🏼 https://defrostatica.bandcamp.com/album/dicax-mixtape

The number one reason why significant growth of any sustainable, context-driven digital music business model in a mobile world — like Bandcamp — is blocked is Apple’s and Google’s 30% in-app sales tax. https://www.djbooga.com/the-epic-games-bandcamp-deal/

@zoemcphers to circumwent the Apple mobil digital sales tax you need to open the browser, login to the platform of your choice (eg Bandcamp) and buy from there, but in-app sales are only allowed for physical goods without tax. I wrote about here in a different context but the main bottleneck remains: https://www.djbooga.com/the-epic-games-bandcamp-deal/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zoemcphers/115572231406830620

That's a great kickoff page for many reasons. I'd like to add that for indie artists and labels the main income is still download sales on Bandcamp - which can not be done in their mobile app bc Apple insists on a 30% share for digital sales. This monopoly behaviour is currently challenged in several lawsuits. Until antitrust law kicks in, every music platform with a mobile app that likes to enable a marketplace to sell digital music is essentially held back to do so.

Matt Stoller almost called it a class-war: “From the Abundance movement to the pro-monopoly group to the AI oligarchs, operates a class of human beings who feel completely insulated from any normal sense of political obligation.” https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/larry-summers-and-the-blast-radius

#StarTrek 💀

Sarsen Cinema EP by Jon1st & Mux Mool is out. Never sounded underground dance music on 110 bpm better. https://opaldrums.bandcamp.com/album/sarsen-cinema

Jungle Tekno Pack is out now! 20 bangers from 10 years Defrostatica now on Bandcamp and Juno exclusively.
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/dicax-jungle-tekno-pack/7299274-02/
Bandcamp: https://defrostatica.bandcamp.com/album/dicax-jungle-tekno-pack

Hey 🖖 since Ghost doesn't have a mobile app, I'm going to post here.