Motherlode of free Bollywood MP3s

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Building Playlists Of Free MP3s

Building Playlists Of Free MP3s 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Despite what the recording industry would have you believe, there actually are a lot of bands who release tracks as MP3s for free online, as a way of promoting their music. A while back Lucas Gonze came up with the idea of helping people create web-based playlists for such free MP3s and ended up creating Webjay. I had played around with it a couple months ago when he launched it, but haven't had much time since. It looks like many others, though, have started populating it with some interesting playlists. The idea is not to include unauthorized MP3s (and, in fact, those lists get taken down), but as a way to help promote bands who realize the benefit of offering free MP3s online.

Bands Promoting Free MP3s Online

Bands Promoting Free MP3s Online 11/11/2003 10:23 PM
Sometimes it's good to be reminded that there are still musicians who can see through all the rhetoric and realize that it might be beneficial to them to offer their music online for free. Bands are coming to terms with the fact that free MP3s work as a promotional tool that brings people out to concerts - which is where they make their money anyway. The rest of the article includes typical quotes from the RIAA, including their favorite line: "you can't compete with free." Of course, that's a lie. You absolutely can compete with free - but you have to offer something worthwhile above what people can get for free, and that's what the industry keeps missing. Besides, the issue isn't really about "competing" with free - but using the free reproduction and distribution of the internet to your advantage. That's what the profiled band ("Q and not U") did. If an up-and-coming band can see that, why can't the industry association?

Archeology motherlode in Utah

Archeology motherlode in Utah 06/25/2004 01:59 PM
Artifac ts were lying on the ground untouched for more than 1,000 years.
For sixty years Waldo Wilcox, a rancher in Utah, kept people off his land about 130 miles South of Salt Lake City. The reason was a string of prehistoric indian settlements that stretch 12 miles. (more inside)

Bollywood online

Bollywood online 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
CNET Asia Dec 23 2003 7:32PM ET

Bollywood for the Skeptical

Bollywood for the Skeptical 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
Bollywood for the Skeptical offers information about Bollywood film, language in India, useful Hindi words, and even downloads of songs from Bollywood movies .. aquaint yourself with Bollywood music

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Bollywood gambles on P2P

Bollywood gambles on P2P 12/23/2003 02:10 PM
In the UK Guardian today:

Bollywood movie fans will soon be able to download full-length features with the file-sharing software Kazaa. A deal struck between a partner of Sharman Networks Ltd, the company which owns Kazaa, and IndiaFM.com, a popular entertainment site, will allow Indian film producers to distribute movies, music and other large, rich media files online to an estimated 60 million international Kazaa users. The move follows a pilot scheme in November when Bollywood thriller Supari was offered for sale at US $2.99 and promoted through Kazaa prior to its release in India. The file was designed to self destruct after being watched and could not be copied.

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"Bollywood for the Skeptical"

"Bollywood for the Skeptical" 12/24/2004 01:00 PM

Spidey Goes to Bollywood

Spidey Goes to Bollywood 06/20/2004 04:06 PM
Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group are introducing a new version of Spiderman regionalized for South Asian audiences. In the Indian version, Peter Parker becomes Pavitr Prabhakar; instead of fighting the Green Goblin he'll battle Rakshasa, a mythical Indian demon. He's wearing a sarong-like garment, and he has unstoppable spiritual powers of asskickage. Link (Thanks, Robin Pen)

Toronto-set Bollywood movie

Toronto-set Bollywood movie 05/27/2004 06:25 PM
Ouchless sez, "My mother found this Bollywood-esque film "poster" completely by accident. The movie is titled 'Coxwell and Gerrard', which is the main intersection in Toronto's Little India." Link (Thanks, Ouchless!)

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood 04/13/2004 11:17 AM
A few days ago, Jonno pointed me to a Bollywood-flavored remake of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," which he found on a supercool sekrit MP3 blog that shall remain nameless. This track is phat. This track is funky. This track makes me want to do a little dance in my ergonomic chair. A little google-digging reveals the song is by a group called the Bollywood Freaks, and came out on a limited edition red vinyl 7" in the UK. I want to send them money for the funk they provide. I want more of their music. If anyone has info, cough it up.

But for now -- look! Someone dumped a copy of said funky track on a server somewhere. Download the MP3 while it lasts. Link

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood 11/13/2003 12:26 PM
The file-swapping company, which is locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios, has stuck a deal to digitally distribute a full-length feature film made in India's Bollywood.

Bollywood MP3 Disco Blowout Friday

Bollywood MP3 Disco Blowout Friday 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
Following up on this previous BoingBoing post about the Bollywood Freaks mashup "Don't Stop 'til You Get to Bollywood," BoingBoing reader Mike says:

This was only a very slightly re-tweaked version of a tune from an early 1980s Bollywood soundtrack, as sung by the well-known Indian singer Usha Uthup. (The tune's original title is "Chhupke Kaun Aya".) The Usha Uthup version has just been re-released on CD in the UK, as part of a 2CD mix set called "The Trip", mixed by Tom Middleton.

But you ain't heard nothing yet! Usha's greatest work, which dates from the same era, is the utterly INSANE "One Two Cha Cha Cha". (This also quotes from a classic disco hit.) This track is available on a 1997 compilation called "In Flight Entertainment Vol.2" - and also as an MP3 on my blog for the next week or two.

Link to the blog hosting an MP3 download of "Cha Cha Cha." Oh yeah.

Kazaa to distribute Bollywood feature

Kazaa to distribute Bollywood feature 11/13/2003 12:21 PM
Kazaa has inked a deal to simultaneously distribute a theatrically released Bollywood movie, using its DRM-based Altnet technology.

"The Bollywood movie market is growing at twice the rate of Hollywood, in terms of production and revenue. This is where the benefits of P2P technology become really clear," Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming said in a statement. "P2P technology offers the movie industry a huge opportunity to massively enhance its distribution and generate revenue."

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Bollywood in Internet download deal

Bollywood in Internet download deal 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
Deccan Herald Dec 23 2003 4:44PM ET

Bollywood Vanilla Coke ad which kicks
ass

Bollywood Vanilla Coke ad which kicks
ass 05/30/2004 05:44 PM
BoingBoing reader Vishal points us to a spectacularly cheesy Indian TV ad starring yet another one of my fut ure husbands (look, any fella who eschews SMS for pigeon as preferred love-note carrier is alright by me).

Vishal says, "This Ad is really popular in India, and I was surprised to find that the good people at Coke have it online too (RealPlayer). It features one of the hottest young actors in Bollywood, Vivek Oberoi, and features many in-jokes to '70s Bollywood films (note, especially, the lightbulb dress in the 3rd segment, a direct lift from a classic 70's movie)."

Footnote to menswear trendwatchers: take a tip from Vivek, at left -- pink vomit prints are the new black.

Update: BoingBoing reader Berklee totally harshes my mellow by saying, "Excellent choice for a future husband, but you'll have to wait until he's done with Aishwarya Rai, I'm afraid. Meanwhile, I recommend [a 2002 film starring Oberoi titled] Company. Go rent it (or download it) and enjoy this un-Bollywood-like gangster-movie!"
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60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood

60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood 01/02/2005 11:06 PM
Xeni Jardin: Well -- not all together in the same story, though that might have been even more interesting.

The CBS television program 60 Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Google this evening which included astute comment from John Battelle, who moonlights as BoingBoing's Reuben Kincaid when he's not writing books, building empires, and tracking search tech trends here. Snip from the transcript:

"If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d probably be drummed out of the company," observes John Battelle, an author and entrepreneur who has been following Silicon Valley companies for 20 years. He says, "Google has a brand image to maintain. And their image is they’re all about innovation and they’re all about the Internet, and they’re all about trust. They’re not about selling out. They’re not about getting rich quick. So you’ve got a culture like that; I think if anyone were to buy, you know, a new Mercedes convertible and drive around with the stereo blaring, and miss work a couple days because they’re rich now, that would not be acceptable behavior at Google.

"But trust me," he adds. "There’s a Mercedes convertible in every one of their heads. There is. And it will…come out. Over time, it will come out."

The show also included a killer piece on Indian film star and hyperbolic superbeauty Aishwarya Rai. Snip:

The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because they’re squeaky-clean. There are no sex scenes, not even kissing. Every time you think someone’s going to do it, they'll burst into song instead. "I'd assume that's really a reflection of our society," Rai says, when asked to explain the films' modesty. "Of course people kiss and of course people have a very healthy love life. This is the land of the Kama Sutra. But nevertheless, in our society you don't really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely, overtly, physically demonstrative publicly. They do it privately but not publicly."

Link to Google piece with BoingBoing's own John Battelle, and Link to seg on Aishwarya Rai.

Kazaa gets into showbiz, Bollywood style

Kazaa gets into showbiz, Bollywood style 11/12/2003 10:16 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 12 2003 9:38PM ET

Bollywood Dreams - Apple Loops 1.0

Bollywood Dreams - Apple Loops 1.0 08/27/2004 02:16 PM
Superb collection of Bollywood inspired loops for GarageBand!

Bollywood signs up for Kazaa download
sales

Bollywood signs up for Kazaa download
sales 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 24 2003 9:40AM ET

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads 12/23/2003 11:47 AM
MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace ...

Badass Bollywood dance-off Saturday in
San Francisco

Badass Bollywood dance-off Saturday in
San Francisco 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: Terrific SF Chronicle article about a Bollywood dance competition taking place in San Francisco tomorrow. Snip:

Growing up in Calcutta, I rarely watched Hindi films. Going to the movies usually meant viewing English-language evergreens like "Born Free" and "Willie Wonka," or hoary literary classics with dialogue in my native Bengali. Bollywood was a risqué world with money but little class where the vamps flashed thigh and cleavage and the heroes kept their shirts unbuttoned. At my school, we had regular "hair check" days, at which school staff made sure our locks were not curling over our collars like some "two-bit Bombay film star." We knew Bollywood produced more films than Hollywood, and millions of Indians queued up on opening weekend to buy tickets on the black market, but I was taught to look down my nose at the genre's kitschy excess.

Now, to my surprise, Bollywood is entering the American mainstream, thanks to movies such as Mira Nair's art-house hit "Monsoon Wedding" and the Bollywood-inspired pageantry of "Moulin Rouge." Indian beauty queen Aishwarya Rai recently appeared on "60 Minutes," and rapper Dr. Dre was slapped with a lawsuit for mixing a snatch of an old Hindi song into his single "Addictive." It's also hit academia in media-studies courses on campuses from UC Berkeley to MIT.

Link (Thanks, Brian "Badass" Lam!).

Update: Boing Boing reader Kevin H points out that the author of this SF Chron story appears to have made a minor error:

Dr. Dre didn't have a single called "Addictive". The single was for Truth Hurts, and it featured a blistering Rakim rap. Truth Hurts is an artist on Dre's label Aftermath Records. DJ Quik produced the single. It drips with hotness.

Bollywood puts more films online with
Kazaa

Bollywood puts more films online with
Kazaa 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
CNET Asia Dec 23 2003 7:32PM ET

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really 12/23/2003 05:39 PM
There have been a few stories about "legitimate" companies doing deals with Kazaa, but once you get past the headline, you realize that it's not true at all. Just like all those other deals the headlines trumpeting a deal between some some Bollywood film makers and Kazaa isn't really about Kazaa at all. Instead, it's a deal with Kazaa's sister company Altnet, which runs a service within Kazaa to distribute approved copy protected content. So, this isn't at all about film makers understanding the promotional value of free downloads, but rather them trying to piggyback copy protection (in this case files that supposedly "self-destruct" after a single $3 viewing) on the popularity of Kazaa. The deal isn't even that good. $3 for a product that self-destructs after a single viewing? You get a better deal going to the local video store. Meanwhile, though, they get all the publicity of having the film "offered on Kazaa". All Altnet is really doing is bolting a pay-for service (like iTunes) into Kazaa. It doesn't leverage the real benefits of a distributed file sharing network at all.

More Sexy Adult Movies out in the
Internet from Bollywood

More Sexy Adult Movies out in the
Internet from Bollywood 04/02/2005 07:24 AM
India Daily Apr 2 2005 11:00AM GMT

Bollywood ad takeover, part three:
Peugot ad, and TV ad index

Bollywood ad takeover, part three:
Peugot ad, and TV ad index 05/31/2004 09:59 AM
BoingBoing reader Manish Vij points us to his list of Bollywood-themed TV advertisements for western products, which includes a popular ad for Peugot. Manish's website includes terrific liner notes -- for instance, pointers on where to download copies of songs you hear in the ads.
Link to Peugot ad, and alternate link; Link to "TV Satires on India"; Previous BoingBoing posts on Bollywood spoof ads: 1, 2

Kazaa to digitally distribute a feature
film from Bollywood

Kazaa to digitally distribute a feature
film from Bollywood 11/13/2003 02:55 PM

Phonecams = kiss of death to Bollywood
stars' privacy?

Phonecams = kiss of death to Bollywood
stars' privacy? 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Kevin Slavin says,

I just got back from Mumbai yesterday, and it's true about the scale of the Baazee uproar -- it's front page full-width headlines, first the scandal, then the arrest, then the arrest scandal, etc.

Worth noting is the echo to it, also front pages over there -- a phonecam snap of some Bollywood celebs kissing in public. It provoked a series of suprisingly fierce newspaper debates over Public Displays of Affection in India overall.

There's a funny logic behind that, considering that almost no one saw the event itself, and that the real Public is the viewers of the news networks which broadcasted the image. The distributed image was considered the documentation of public-ness, rather than a further expression of it.

Link< /a> to "Why the phone camera may be kiss of death to secret lives for Bollywood stars: A snatched image breaks a taboo and horrifies India's screen giants" in the Times Online (UK)

Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet
pseudo-history

Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet
pseudo-history 05/31/2004 01:05 AM
BoingBoing reader Chris points us to this blast from the online past:

"Another corporate '70s Bollywood spoof, this time by Absolut Vodka. ~10 minute film, made in 2002, filmed in India. It's a Bollywood pseudohistory of the mullet. Entertaining enough story (a little long...) - but really well-crafted, with awesome songs and dancing. Low-level product placement - no actual bottles or mention of vodka - but the familiar Absolut shape makes subtle appearances."

The film's hilarious, but -- OMGWTF! Do my own eyes betray me? Look closely at the faux promo poster screengrabbed at left. Is the male lead in Absolut Mulit not wearing a shirt with the exact same pink vomit print that Vivek Oberoi wears in the aforementioned Vanilla Coke Bollywood ad? Perhaps this is a secret, ironic reference to pink vomit couture featured in a real Bollywood film -- and I'm not enough of an Indian cinema buff to get the joke. If any intrepid BoingBoing readers know the answer, do tell.
Link to Absolut Mulit (Flash required), more background on the making of the 12-minute short in thi s 2003 issue of Fast Company magazine (scroll down to bottom of page).i>

India's Bollywood offers Internet film
downloads

India's Bollywood offers Internet film
downloads 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
ABC Online Dec 23 2003 4:30PM ET

You want MP3s with that?

You want MP3s with that? 04/14/2004 05:23 PM
McDonald's plans to use its Wi-Fi network to deliver digital content, including music files, to customers as well as to support in-house business applications.

Amplify your MP3s

Amplify your MP3s 09/09/2004 03:06 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 9 2004 7:39AM GMT

coolass mp3s

coolass mp3s 05/01/2004 10:56 PM
Browse MP3it's collection - Some free music for fans of gybe!, Black Heart Procession, Rumah Sakit, The Champs, Sea and Cake, and others.

More on "Why can't the BBC play MP3s?"

More on "Why can't the BBC play MP3s?" 06/13/2004 12:56 AM
Following up on this earlier BoingBoing post about the curious tale of Rodeohead MP3s, BoingBoing, and the BBC -- reader and geek sleuth Rupert Goodwins says, "I asked Mike Todd, one of BBC Radio's Broadcast Duty Managers, what was with that MP3 ban on the wireless. He said:

"A lot depends on the amount of compression in the original MP3, but the CD-R request would be either to allow a linear version to be supplied, or a very much less compressed version. Every time lossy-compressed audio goes via a lossy part of the chain it gets worse (depending, of course, on the original level of compression and the type of audio)."

A BH studio to the FM transmitter network is not a problem, but it is when it goes to DAB/Freeview/Dsat ... and then the studio itself may be being sourced via a lossy ISDN (as indeed Peel is). Add these together and the results could be dreadful ... therefore there's a policy to (a) not use MP3s unless editorial imperatives demand it and there is absolutely no other way, (b) not us Minidiscs except in certain circumstances and (c) have computer playout systems working with linear audio.

BoingBoing reader Rupert continues:

"There we have it. DAB is the European terrestrial digital radio system, Freeview is the UK's digital terrestrial TV system which has multiple radio channels too, and DSat is the digital satellite system. There's one heck of a lot of digital broadcasting round these parts, each with its own compression system, and that's before you start to worry about the streaming stuff on the Net."

[Xeni speaking again here]. I'm still not sure that explains it. The BoingBoing reader who pointed John Peel to the Rodeohead MP3s says that when he learned Peel couldn't play the MP3s, he burned them to CD, sent them to Peel at the BBC, and they aired on Peel's show shortly thereafter. So, either (a) the issue was that Peel's show was simply unable to deal with downloading, storing, and playing digital files (but popping a CD in a player was no prob), or (b) the above theory is true, and Peel's show obtained and then aired a non-lossy version of the material, from someone other than this BoingBoing reader.

Pay To Have Your CDs Turned Into MP3s

Pay To Have Your CDs Turned Into MP3s 01/26/2004 12:42 PM
I've mentioned before that I'm still a bit behind on using digitized music, as it seems like quite a chore to rip all my CDs. It's been something of an ad hoc process. Every once in a while, when I want to listen to a specific CD and have the music stored on my computer, I'll rip that CD. However, ripping them all (over 1,000) seems like quite a process. That said, I'm still not sure I'd be interested in a service that would rip your CDs into MP3s for you. Still, it appears plenty of people are interested and are paying about a dollar per CD to have the process done. While the service was originally intended for DJs, many people are apparently signing up to have their personal collections ripped as well. Of course, you have to wonder how sustainable this business is. You certainly aren't going to have many repeat customers.

Bollywood News, India: I searched for
nerds on Internet: Tusshar (INTERVIEW)

Bollywood News, India: I searched for
nerds on Internet: Tusshar (INTERVIEW) 06/16/2004 05:12 AM
Keralanext.com - Wed Jun 16, 07:51 am GMT

They Might Be Giants's new album as
$0.99 MP3s

They Might Be Giants's new album as
$0.99 MP3s 07/08/2004 05:32 AM
They Might Be Giants have put their new album online as MP3s, for $0.99 each, with the whole disc available for $9.99. The disc costs $18, and the band has refused to withhold material from the Web version to make up for the discrepancy, listening to fans who insisted that they wanted to buy the disc online. Link (Thanks, Jon!)

First Mac OS X trojan infects MP3s

First Mac OS X trojan infects MP3s 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
trojan in questions .. MP3Concept alert .. today announced .. Press Release .. MP3Concept .. announced .. Troj

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Send back your MP3s

Send back your MP3s 11/17/2003 09:17 AM
Do you feel remorse over all the MP3s you've downloaded? This site has the answer: send them back!

1. Look up the email address of your regional RIAA authority (listed in your white pages under "Recording Industry: Regional Authorities)

2. Open up your email program, such as Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express

3. Create an email to the email address you found.

4. Attach all the MP3s you're returning

Link (via JoHo the Blog)

"flaming other bl0gs via hip-hop MP3s"

"flaming other bl0gs via hip-hop MP3s" 01/28/2004 03:23 AM

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