Happy New Year and welcome to the first GoMojo newsletter of 2010!
Thanks to everyone who have joined the mailing lists for Katharine Blake, Nick Marsh and Club Bellissima. You can manage your mailing list subscriptions from your GoMojo profile settings. Just click Profile and then Mailing Lists from your HQ page.
DOWNLOADS
The big news this time is that GoMojo Basement is now offering downloads. The first download to go live is Katharine Blake's album Midnight Flower. It's been available in digital form from iTunes and other vendors for some time. However the download you can buy from GoMojo Basement has been encoded using a very low level of compression. Essentially what this means is that less of the music has been lost in the process, compared to the versions offered by the major digital stores. This makes a real difference for an album such as Midnight Flower, with its wide range of instruments. Listen to it with a good set of headphones and enjoy the album the way it was meant to sound. The good news is that the full album download is only £5.99. Go download now:
http://www.gomojo.net/basement/katblake
More high quality downloads will be available in the Basement shortly.
STORIES FROM THE MOON - AUTOGRAPHED
Available now from GoMojo Basement: Stories From The Moon, the multi-collaborative album from Ben Golomstock of
Miranda Sex Garden and The
Naked Goat. This extraordinary album has been around for a while, but has generally been hard to find. Numbers are limited, so get it before it is too late. Learn more and buy it here:
http://www.gomojo.net/basement/storiesmoon
If you already have it then go and buy another copy, because the albums we are selling have had the beautiful artwork enhanced by Ben's autograph.
Jocelyn West AND
The Shadow Kabinet
There is new music in the pipeline from both
Jocelyn West and
The Shadow Kabinet. I'm afraid I can't give you any more details at this time, but you're welcome to start feeling excited, jumping up and down, etc. In the meantime Smiling Worlds Apart, the latest album from
The Shadow Kabinet, continues to generate rave reviews. Have a look here:
http://www.daggerzine.com/reviews_main.html
http://www.buhdge.com/hot%20buhdge/smiling-worlds-apart.html
To celebrate the reviews, we've reduced the price of Smiling Worlds Apart by £1 for one week only (expires 24 January), both for the standard and autographed album. Check out some songs and order the album here:
http://www.gomojo.net/basement/shadowkabinet
IMPROVE YOUR STYLE...
...with a Stylophone! Forget about analog synthesizers the size of a wardrobe. Here's one that you can stick in your pocket (if you have a very large pocket). This classic monophonic synthesizer from 1968 (as heard on
David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and more recently on "Meddle" by
Little Boots) is back in a new and improved version with three different sounds, vibrato, pitch control and even audio in and out sockets. Listen using headphones, plug in your MP3 player and play along. It's essentially a small keyboard operated with a stylus. Absolutely addictive. Firebox have got a special offer in January. Get your official Stylophone for a ridiculous £9.95 (price subject to change)! Order through this link and become the next
Kraftwerk, while supporting GoMojo at the same time:
http://tidd.ly/42ce19cd
OH PING WHERE ART THOU?
Finally a small technical update. The option to "ping Technorati" when you write a new blog on GoMojo has been removed. You may have wondered what that was for anyway. Technorati (
http://www.technorati.com) is a search engine for blogs. You can open an account and then "claim your blog", which basically means that you verify that the blog belongs to you and the blog is entered into Technorati's index. You can tag it, write a description of it, etc. There is still functionality in GoMojo to help you claim your blog. However the Technorati ping was a mechanism where GoMojo would send a message to Technorati every time your blog was updated – if you wanted. This mechanism has been discontinued by Technorati. They say that they'll go and visit all the blogs anyway and detect updates. They were getting pinged by too many spam pages. We'll have to see how well that works. In any case that's the reason why the ping option is gone.
Stay cool (it's a cold winter here in the UK).
Cheers,
Casper – purveyor of fine GoMojo and proud Stylophone owner
