Since Easter Fresh On The Net has been working with The F-List to encourage F-List ambassadors to join us as weekly guest moderators in the hope that it will encourage more female music makers to share their music with our inbox, and to help spread the word of both the individual ambassadors music-making, and the work of The F-List. According to Spotify’s latest data, music…
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Back in early 2019, I interviewed New York based psych-pop artist and producer Tanners; thanks to my ever-busy work schedule, the interview fell between the cracks and was never published. Earlier this week, Tanners contacted me with news of a new release, a brooding electro-synth-pop rendition of the 1985 Beach Boys track, Male Ego, in which Tanners instills a compelling undercurrent of menace and dislocation…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Tobi this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ANRIMEAL - Could Flower (Demo) “Conjuror. Clodhopper. Cherub.” Just some of the words Ana Rita de Melo Alves has picked to describe herself on her website. The Porto born, now based…
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Tobisonics talks the Good, The Bad & The Ugly of SubmitHub with its creator, Jason. In a short number of years pay for submission has become the norm across the independent music scene, thanks in no small part to the success of SubmitHub, and while opinions among independent artists run the full gambit from glowing praise to utter disdain, with live music struggling to find…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Tobi this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. AJIMAL - I've Known Your Heart Painted in graceful brushstrokes of carefully composed instrumentation, compelling contrasted by vocals delivered in fits, asides, and surges, singer-songwriter AJIMAL blesses this week’s Fresh Favs…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Tobi this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. 0171 - Follow Hackney-based Future Pop duo Joe Bedell-Brill and Georgie Hoare aka 0171 dial up an infectious dose of sublime vocal hook and sumptuous sonics delivered with dexterous musical depth…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Tobi this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ALL SMILES IN WONDERLAND - Stranger Bath/Bristol-based emo five-piece All Smiles in Wonderland graced last week’s Fresh On The Net inbox with Stranger, a bittersweet rocketship of surging six-string saturation, soaring…
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Though simple, single mic setups can still offer artists a range of straightforward options to improve and tailor their live streaming sound. The tips/advice below are meant as a set of principles, not hard and fast rules, for you to employ as you see fit, to tailor the sound of your live streaming shows. And although they do apply to built-in mics too, it goes…
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The term “acoustic treatment” conjures dread thoughts of great expense and bewildering complexity; and in the world of professional, high-end audio, this is all too often the case. In truth though, at least in its most basic sense, everyone of us has already “acoustically treated” countless rooms. When moving into a new home, we quickly begin to add rugs, soft furnishings, and curtains, etc. A Quiet…
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Lighting is vital to producing a high quality image that viewers will enjoy watching. It is also extremely useful for creating a mood/atmosphere for your live streaming events. And while professional lighting can be very expensive, there are plenty of creative solutions making use of what you already have at home. 1. Natural LightCameras are built to give the best results in natural light because…
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