On December 1st, 2008 a new option opened up for both consumers of music and the producers of the music they love when Sneaky Sound System and Gurrumul, amongst others, released their current albums on the revolutionary new DDA format.
Like a CD package each DDA has album tracks, lyrics, liner notes/credits, photos and artwork. Unlike a CD package, a DDA can have hundreds of tracks (over varied file formats) and thousands of photos. And significantly, the DDA owner also gets their own space within the D:Net Media System - ‘myDDA’. Not just a back up of each user’s content, myDDA is a means to acquire new content, and access the content they own from any internet enabled computer. Other online features include a non-stop music news service and exclusive artist forums - a great way to socially network with like-minded people. Importantly it’s all about content, which is owned by the consumer and stored locally and remotely for them. It’s not content they visit when online at someone else’s website. Each DDA features its own player, track list builder, media transfer unit (with a simple click to transfer playlists to iTunes > iPods and burn CDs), a video viewer, plus interaction with the users Facebook page!
Each DDA owner can also access their myDDA from their mobile phone - all the content THEY OWN plus news and their Forum posts and replies, on their own mobile myDDA application.
All for the price of a CD
* Sneaky Sound System ‘2’
* Grafton Primary ‘EON’
* Skipping Girl Vinegar ‘Sift The Noise’
* Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu ‘Gurrumul’
* Various Artists ‘Home Grown Roots VOL3’ (featuring: Paul Kelly, John Butler, Ash Grunwald, Mia Dyson)
All available in all good record stores Now! (distributed through MGM)
"In an age of varied options for the consumption of music - a la carte online sales like iTunes, CDs, vinyl, downloads direct to mobiles, subscription services, ad funded models.... there will never again be one dominant format for the recorded music business" predicts Scott Murphy. "However, I’m confident that the DDA will quickly obtain a decent global market share of this business - it fills a niche that no other format/offering has so far and I believe it’s a niche that will suit many".
Influences
Home Grown Roots 4 Disc 1 1. Throwing Good Love After Bad by Paul Kelly (exclusive to Home Grown Roots 4!)
2. Oh My My by Jill Barber
3. As You Find It by Lucie Thorne
4. Some Simplicity by Paul Greene
5. Rolls That Way by Kym Campbell
6. Nasty Weather by Josh Owen
7. Yellow Moon by 8 Ball Aitken
8. Desert Crow by The Sweetlips
9. Arabian Sea by Genevieve Maynard and The Tallboys
10. Too Old To Take New Drugs by Luke Escombe
11. Captain Starlight by Dear Orphans
12. Ballad of a Young Married Man by The Wildes
13. Midnight Train by Christina crofts
14. Lost At Sea by Iron bar Hotel
15. On My Own by Jessica Belle
Disc 2 1. Hell Of A Time by Ross Wilson (exclusive to Home Grown Roots 4!)
2. To Her Door by Natalie D-Napoleon
3. Drink The Whole Bottle Down by Karl Broadie
4. Two Wheels by Felicity Urquhart
5. Home To You by Jeff Lang
6. A Line In The Sand by Jeff Martin and the Armada
7. Is This Not Paris? by John Kennedy
8. Sweet Candy by Chase The Sun
9. Come My Way by Cass Eager
10. Down in Your Valley by Dead Letter Chorus
11. Chest of Drawers by Jenny Biddle
12. Skin and Bones by Rosie Burgess
13. Wisdom Teeth by April Maze
14. I Begin by Doug Sandrini
15. Only On A Grey Day by Tim walker
16. heads Up by Michael Peter
Home Grown Roots 2 1. Rastawookie
2. Josh Owen Band
3. Ben Marshall
4. Leroy Lee
5. Daxton
6. Mia Dyson
7. Joel Plaskett Emergency
8. Tyrone Noonan
9. Jesse Morris
10. Tim Walker
11. Back To Sea
12. The Beggars
13. Nathan Wheldon
14. Zenith ASP
15. Colin Bullock
16. Altruism
17. Klia Zuka
18. Rosie Burgess
19. Doug Sandrini
20. Chicken Head
Home Grown Roots 1 1. Ben Marshall
2. Angus & Julia Stone
3. Back To Sea
4. Karl Broadie
5. Hawksley Workman
6. Nick Everitt
7. Tecoma
8. Itu and Van Sereno
9. Ester Toli
10. Liesl Karlsson
11. Jesse Morrison and the Project
12. Tim Walker
13. Patrick Carr
14. Van Sereno
15. Doug Sandrini
16. Joel Plaskett
17. Klia Zuka
18. Shannon Reynolds
19. Vanessa Hoffman
20. Luke Koteras
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Hello there! How you going? I wrote a new song today and recorded it and put it on myspace. Its called BIGGEST MISTAKE. Please have a listen and leave comment when you have time. Cheers Adam
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