The world of dance music has tragically lost one of its pioneering concept producers, Mark Spoon, of the Berlin based trance duo, Jam & Spoon, who succumbed to a heart-attack at age 39.
Author: Tony Zeoli
Tony Zeoli is Founder and CEO of Netmix.com and Radio Station by netmix.® Originally launched in 1995, Netmix was was considered by Billboard Magazine to be the "innovation and advancement of dance music on the Internet." Tony had launched the world's first Internet mix show website featuring the most influential DJs from around the globe. After two-and-a-half decades, Netmix has since evolved into an online station directory and powerful WordPress plugin, Radio Station, for broadcasters and webcasters to manage their statioon's show schedule in WordPress. Tony has been an innovator at the intersection of music and the Internet for the past thirty years in project management, product development, and digital strategy,. He is also the founder and CEO of Digital Strategy Works, a WordPress web design and digital marketing agency. And, Executive Producer of the Asheville House Music Society, an online House Music mix show. Tony is located in Asheville, NC where he loves to mountain bike, hike, and play golf with his son.
NYC Legalize Dancing Web Site and Petition
I was browsing the GBH.tv web site tonight (web home of the promoters of Lotus) and came across a link to a story about the "Let's make dancing legal in NYC" petition.
Through the web site, LegalDancingNYC.com, NYU Law Professor Paul Chevigny is assisting four dancers and a social dance organization, John Festa, Gotham West Coast Swing Club, Byron Cox, Ian Dutton and Meredith Stead in suing the city, charging that the Cabaret Laws, which prevents clubs and bars from allowing patrons to dance unless they are a licensed venue, limits freedom of expression.
Music Headlines from Logan
I'm sitting in Logan Airport killing some time (should I say the word "killing" in an airport?), waiting for an 8:50 PM Jet Blue flight to JFK, which I'm way early for. I met up with my friend Karen Dyer, a Miami socialite who by day doubles as a State Department employee, earlier this afternoon at the American Air terminal to catch up on old times. We were both in New England for the holidays and took advantage of similar travel schedules to catch up on three years in an hour and a half.
Whazzzzzzzzup!
Netmix: 10 Years Later
If you were to search the Network Solutions WHOIS records database, you would learn the domain name this blog falls under, Netmix.com, was registered 10-years ago today. Scroll half-way down the page and the text simply says, “Record created on 13-Dec-1995."
10-years forward, an eternity measure in Internet time. Netmix is, for all intensive purposes, still alive and kicking. Sitting back in my chair, I ponder the time passed and am simply amazed that 10-years has gone by and throughout, I’ve tried my best to support dance music and DJ culture form a place, not of greed, but of love and commitment to the craft and industry I knew I wanted to work in since I was 12-years-old.
Pacha: A Whirlwind, Sexy Opening
Sexy...that's the word I'm going to use to describe the new Pacha in New York. No...strike that. Super Sexy is more like it.
Tony Z. Lands at StarStyle.com: To Develop Company's Music Video Product
Just wanted to announce my new position as the Product Manager, Music at Entertainment Media Works on the web site, StarStyle.com.
StarStyle brings you backstage and behind the scenes with the set dressers, make-up artists, fashion stylists and the stars themselves while giving you an opportunity to find out where to get the clothes, furniture and accessories featured on your favorite tv shows, movies and music videos!
Random Thoughts…
Since this is a blog, and I can write just about anything I damn well please, I'll take a little break from the DJ world for a minute and just write about what's been going on lately. I gotta fill this space with something...it's getting a little stale.
It's been quite a whirlwind past few weeks for me. After the last posting about Armand Van Helden at Avalon, I took a little break from writing and producing the mix shows to finish up some school work for my classes at NYU just before the Thanksgiving break.
Roger Sanchez & Armand Van Helden: Two Nights, Two Legends
New York City has been hopping lately. With the arrival of the Eric Morillo's new Pacha in a few weeks, Crobar continuing a pretty good run, Cielo still packing them in and all kinds of new venues opening up, including SOL and this new spot, Duvet (the old Centro Fly), there are plenty of parties kicking off to hear house music in New York nowadays.
Sony DRM Forces Recall of CD's
Last week, in my posting about the Grokster case, I mentioned at the bottom my disdain for DRM, a necessary but controversial copyright protection method that is used in digital media files and copy-protected CD's to prevent unauthorized duplication of digital assets. As the music industry continues to transform itself from reliance on a physical product to digital distribution, it has enlisted the help of various companies developing copy protection schemes to fight piracy, which affects anyone dependent on the music industry supply chain. From labels who lose millions in sales to artists who gain exposure but lose control of where their music is sold. Eventually it affects you, the consumer, who risks purchasing low-quality product with poor fidelity from vendors on Canal Street in New York City to download sites based in Russia.