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GlobalFaction: Unifying Hip-Hop’s Voices of Dissent

In 2006 a London-based team founded a digital-media production house called GlobalFaction. The intention was to erect a platform — a soapbox — in a corner of the Internet on which conscious lyricists and artists could take a stand against today’s social and political climate. With GlobalFaction as their pedestal and the World Wide Web as their loudspeakers many UK rappers […]

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Self-Funding and How It Can Revive The Underground
It is about time that the digital revolution gave us an interesting, artistic concept beyond piracy. For the last ten years the incessant battle between illegal and legal music downloads has taken center stage while production of physical formats has been kept on the backburner. Artists are […]

So you want to be big? 10 top tips for any new band

So you’ve been jamming, slowly developing as a unit. You start to develop those small snippets of riffs, lyrics, bass lines or beats into fully-fledged, rich, textured songs. Then you try to put them together into an organic and flowing order into a thing called a set. You’re a proper band and you’re ready to gig but what now?
You need […]

Your Virtual Image — part 2

Last time we looked at how using a free email address can give the wrong impression and lead people to think of you as unprofessional or lazy. In part II we shall look at the solution — what a true professional email address looks like.
Anatomy of an email address
Let’s first look at the parts of a typical email address. Take

contact@​newbeatsmedia.​com

as […]

Your Virtual Image and what it says about you.

So you’re online and want to get hired to gig; maybe you hire out a venue; you’re a fan or DJ and run your own site. Whatever you’re online for, fun, profit or a good mix of both, one thing is certain: in order to succeed your online image needs to shine out!
When people first come across your digital […]

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