GDD™ MORNING UPDATE: Apple, Four Tet, How To Dress Well

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• Apple Music agrees to pay artists during trial period
• Four Tet releases new album early
• How To Dress Well offers unexpected Diplo & Friends mix

Apple Music agrees to pay artists during trial period

Apple’s new streaming service Apple Music will launch at the end of this month, offering all users a free three-month trial.

Originally, Apple explained that it would not compensate any artists, producers or songwriters for music played during the trial period. That decision drew a lot of criticism, with with Beggar’s Group, Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe and the UK’s indie label trade body all speaking out against the royalty-free trial.

Apple had stuck to its guns until Taylor Swift penned an open letter explaining why her latest album won’t be on Apple Music. The Cupertino tech giant reversed its decision less than 24 hours after Swift’s scathing statement.

Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, published a series of tweets confirming that Apple will indeed be compensating artists for music played during the trial period.

Apple Music will launch on June 30.

(via FACT)

 

Four Tet releases new album early

Four Tet has made his latest album, Morning/Evening, available through BandCamp.

Kieran Hebden teased the LP back in May when he posted the album art on Twitter, revealing that it comprise two side-long 20 minute tracks. Now, to celebrate the summer solstice, the UK artist has released Morning/Evening digitally ahead of schedule—you can stream it in full and buy a copy over at his BandCamp page right now. A physical edition will follow on July 10th through Hebden’s own Text Records, according to Pitchfork.

“This music was created on a laptop computer using the Ableton Live software to control and mix VST synthesizers and manipulations of found audio recordings,” reads the brief description.

(via RA)

 

 How To Dress Well offers unexpected Diplo & Friends mix

How To Dress Well was a special guest on Diplo’s BBC Radio 1 show last night, putting together an eclectic mix of R&B. As Krell explains in the introduction, his definition of “R&B” is a loose one.

Krell aired tracks from The Dream, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Popcaan, N. Sync, Fleetwood Mac, The Pussycat Dolls and more.

You can listen back to the entire show and view the full tracklist here.

(via FACT)

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