Thursday, 19 April 2007
Hi Anorakkers, here's an internet only radio station I have just discovered and frankly it's a hoot . .. Check it out, David.
here's some stuff from their website
About LuxuriaMusic
LuxuriaMusic programming is an original mix of music content not found anywhere else. LuxuriaMusic features an intoxicating and often hallucinatory blend of musical genres, featuring Exotica, Lounge, Space Age Bachelor Pad, Bossa, Bollywood, Bubblegum,Soft-Psych, Go-Go, Latin Jazz, Sophisticated Rock and Surf music.
Current programming is a mix of live, taped-for-broadcast and automated shows. Most live programming airs between the hours of 1PM – midnight, Pacific Time (-0800 GMT).
The LuxuriaMusic radio format was developed by Chuck Kelley (music consultant on "Pulp Fiction" and "From Dusk till Dawn") and The Millionaire (from Combustible Edison) in the late 1990's and launched an Internet radio broadcast on February 14, 2000. LuxuriaMusic ranked #73 in the November 2000 Arbitron ratings, and in the Top 30 among "internet only" stations. In December 2000, Clear Channel Communications bought LuxuriaMusic's parent company Enigma Digital. LuxuriaMusic.com ceased operations in May 2001.
The LuxuriaMusic radio stream was relaunched in March 2003 after a 22-month hiatus. The relaunched LuxuriaMusic is owned and operated by LuxuriaMusic, LLC with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California and broadcast studios in Los Angeles, California. Chuck Kelley and Eric Bonerz (Program Director of the original LuxuriaMusic) are co-program directors. LuxuriaMusic is made possible by a staff of dedicated volunteers from around the world. Please support us financially by donating via our the "Donate" link and/or purchasing fine items in the LuxuriaMusic store. If you would like to advertise on LuxuriaMusic visit the "Advertise" link. Thank you for listening.
The LuxuriaMusic Team FAQ
When did LuxuriaMusic start?
"Lux Mach 1" – started broadcasting on February 14, 2000.
"Lux Mach 2" – automated broadcast launched in March 2003.
"Lux Mach 3" – updated and LIVE broadcast launched in August 2006.
What is LuxuriaMusic?
LuxuriaMusic is an internet radio station, hosted by live DJs, that plays an eclectic mix of Exotica, Lounge, Space Age Bachelor Pad, Bossa, Bollywood, Bubblegum,Soft-Psych, Go-Go, Latin Jazz, Sophisticated Rock and Surf music.
Where are you located?
Our broadcast studios are based in Los Angeles, California with adminstrative offices in San Francisco, California.
What is your mailing address?
Donations should go to:
LuxuriaMusic, LLC
P.O. Box 26290
San Francisco, CA 94126–6290 USA
Music submissions should go to:
LuxuriaMusic, LLC
c/o Chuck Kelley
P.O. Box 61036
Pasadena, CA 91116 USA
I would like to apply to be a DJ on LuxuriaMusic, what do I have to do?
Currently, we are focusing on providing LIVE programming, therefore we are not accepting any new taped-for-broadcast shows. If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to be a DJ on LuxuriaMusic, you will have to record a 2 hour demo CD (or cassette) and send it to Chuck Kelley at the address above.
**PLEASE make sure you are familiar with our format before you submit your demo.
Who are the DJs on LuxuriaMusic?
Our current roster consists of:
Eric Bonerz email: ...
Becky Ebenkamp myspace: http://www.myspace.com/traderbeck
Jack Fetterman – http://www.inhi-fi.com
Joe ("Cornbat") Flynn – http://www.inhi-fi.com
John Godin
Kari French
Sharaabi Hapoor – http://www.inhi-fi.com
Kristian Hoffman website: www.kristianhoffman.com myspace: http://www.myspace.com/kristianhoffman Carl Howard myspace: http://www.myspace.com/litlgrey
Igor
Il Facile Duo (Vanni Parmigiani and Robert Pasera) website: http://www.mondoez.com Chuck Kelley email: ... myspace: http://www.myspace.com/frederickkornblum Dennis Kelley
Paul Kennedy
DJ Mobita – http://www.inhi-fi.com
David Ponak website: www.mellocads.com myspace:http://www.myspace.com/mellocads Peter Principle -http://www.inhi-fi.com
Domenic Priore website: http://www.dumbangelmagazine.com/ blog: http://dumbangelmag.blogspot.com/ Howie Pyro – http://www.myspace.com/intoxicaradio
Andrew Sandoval website: http://www.andrewsandoval.com/ myspace: http://www.myspace.com/andrewsandoval Anita (the Meat Mistress) Serwacki – http://www.djmeatmistress.com/
The Seeker
Scott Springer – http://www.inhi-fi.com
Steve Stanley myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thenowpeople
Strike
Super Agent 69 – http://www.atmosphere69.com/
Ron Sures
John T. website: http://www.maitaionline.com/
The Lounge King – http://www.theloungeking.com
Tothar – http://www.inhi-fi.com
Jonathan Ward – http://www.inhi-fi.com
Andy Zax – http://archivesofoblivion.blogspot.com
Who have been some of the guests on LuxuriaMusic?
Brian Wilson, Carol Kaye, Vic Mizzy, Lalo Schifrin, Allan MacDonell, Nelson Bragg, John C. Reilly, Stu Philips, Richard and Robert Sherman, David Marks, Van Dyke Parks, Haji, Emil Richards, Margo Guryan, Ferrante & Teicher, Keely Smith.
Do you have a MySpace page?
http://www.myspace.com/luxuriamusic
Where can I find the music you play?
That is a loaded question. If you are looking for a particular song, please feel free to email us at ... and we will try to help you. You can also check Amazon, eBay, GEMM...
Do you have any lux branded merchandise for sale?
T-shirts are coming soon.
Who designed the new website?
Sarah Signorovitch and Chuck Kelley with technical assistance from Cliff Chase.
Last updated: 10/25/2006
Dermott Young <...> said:
Hello there Richard.
One achievement you can hand to Chris V and that is to make the normally fairly arrogant band of programme controllers on more successful (ratings wise) stations, look like the epitomy of humility compared to himself – which is a pity, as I like their thinking (wide playlists and all that) but the programme proved that for people like me, there is not a lot of point listening to music radio, as narrow playlists seem to be the way to survive the tough market place today.
Hi Dermott i agree with you there, i absolutely hate narrow play lists and hearing the same track played several times a day,
It must have happened before but the first time i really noticed it was on Atlantic 252 and i found it a turn off,
Anyway......further to yesterdays crack, wasn't it eye opening to see Mike Reid playing to a small crowd of mostly elderly people on the Big L roadshow?
I think that again that was due to channel four picking the road show with the smallest audience, From what i read at the time some of them attracted quite a large attendance.
Richard
Charlie Davy <...> said:
Hence the rather interesting signal
on 107.9 as you entered Frinton gates ;)
Is that still in use? The last time i mentioned it a while ago on the old AN site i received a couple of rather nasty e-mails saying that due to my post they now had to switch it off, So one can only assume it is shall we say not a legal tx!!
Richard
In article <...>, ... (Richard Sharpe) wrote:
on 107.9 as you entered Frinton gates ;)
Is that still in use? The last time i mentioned it a while ago on the
old AN site i received a couple of rather nasty e-mails saying that
due to my post they now had to switch it off, So one can only assume
it is shall we say not a legal tx!!
For any relay an Ofcom ticket is needed – with the exception of those low-power toys for use with MP3 players and the like, tar Peter for reminding me about them last night.
Quick Anorak – during a very irresponsible moment, gawd nearly 15 years ago, I chatted to a nice man based in Surrey where I went to every Saturday. On the way I could listen via a frequency somewhere around 107.9, he had a really ticket to use said frequency for testing in a very local area, but for some reason it leaked out.
So I asked if it was possible to get a ticket cos I was a journo testing stuff :-) After loads of grief I was granted a ticket and duly started testing things, everything was fine until we made some major cable changes.
By accident – HONEST – the feeder from the testing tx got connected to a 2M dipole, it really was an accident.
Next morning I played with the radio and about 5 miles away from the office in came a satellite radio station. Oh gawd. To late someone had already complained and I got a verbal roasting.......
Regards
Eric
Have you looked at vmware ? There's a vmware client for mos OS's so
you can run windows in linux, linux in windows (and it works with ubuntu) etc etc. Free and it works.
(www.vmware com)
Geoff
On 19 Apr 2007 00:45:36 +0100, Dave Martin <...> wrote:
William S <...> said:
Dave Martin <...> said:Microsoft have released their latest version of Virtual PC (well I've
just found it).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
In theory you can run any OS inside Windoze whilst taking advantage of
its network and driver compatibility advantages.
Has anyone tried this?Yes. I've been using it for some time with Vista. I'm running Ubuntu,
Win XP and Trixbox in virtual machines. The great thing is that you can
take a backup of your virtual machine and restore it to its original
state any time. That means, for example, that you can experiment with
new software in XP and restore your original clean installation when
you're through simply by reinstating the backup.William
I can't get Ubuntu to run on it,any tips?
All windows QS's run but nothing else, or am I missing some thing.
I remember using a earlier version of virtual PC and getting Red Hat to
run but this time Ubuntu comes up with 2 faults that don't stay in the
window long enough to take note of!
I should say that the Ubuntu distro is a bootable CD version of Edgy
Eft the version after Dapper Drake!
Strange names but more interesting than 98, XP or Vista as names go!dave
www.jiglu.com – making communities, smarter
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Regards,
Geoff
If you buck the trend in programme format and get an audience, you will secure advertising.
When I lived in Banbury during the Laser 558 era, for the first time in the Midlands you could go into newsagents, garages and shops and actually hear ordinary people listening to Laser. Banbury is well inland and the signal strength was substantial.
Laser would have had keen advertisers but for its illegality.
Its audience was demonstrably huge.
Because Big L doesn't have an audience, it may have been better to have complied with all of the advice with enthusiasm. That may have helped to secure advertising despite the lack of audience.
The lack of RF coverage makes Big L virtually non-viable. I do feel very sorry for them because their options are very limited.
hi can someone out there help me i would like to set up my own ftp surver on my pc, can someone tell me how i go aboute duing this. and what software i need. many thanks from stewart ross.
from stewart ross
email me at
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text me on
07875319558
I can't get Ubuntu to run on it,any tips?
Yes - http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/installing-ubuntu-610-on-virtual-pc-2007-step-by-step/
William
Interesting piece from some long documents Ofcom have just published:
"The report also shows that some illegal stations attract a substantial audience, with 16% of adults in Greater London regularly listening to them. Ofcom’s research shows that 25% of adults in Hackney, Haringey and Lambeth regularly tune in. Some 62% of listeners in these boroughs say that illegal broadcasters offer something different from licensed commercial radio and 40% say that illegal radio is community focused."
News release:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2007/04/nr_20070419
Executive Summary and links to full documents: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/radio/reports/illegal_broadcasting/
In article <74...>, 2@slewis.biz (Sterling Times) wrote:
Because Big L doesn't have an audience, it may have been better to
have complied with all of the advice with enthusiasm. That may have
helped to secure advertising despite the lack of audience.
Again asking a question not commenting on the show.
If you had been someone working in an ad-agency would the show have made you tempted to spend even a small budget?
Eric
Eric Tesug <...> said:
In article <74...>,
2@slewis.biz (Sterling Times) wrote:Because Big L doesn't have an audience, it may have been better to
have complied with all of the advice with enthusiasm. That may have
helped to secure advertising despite the lack of audience.Again asking a question not commenting on the show.
If you had been someone working in an ad-agency would the show have made
you tempted to spend even a small budget?Eric
There must be a trigger point at which an agency adds a station to its pool.
For instance take Fosseway Radio
http://www.fossewayradio.co.uk/
- website far worst than Big L's
- small coverage area
- poor presentation
- confused programming
- no consistency
- huge competition from bigger broacasters
Presumably if Big L had an FM licence for Margate, it would be at least as well postioned as Fosseway is for Hinckley.
If a station can demonstrate that it fits the norm then it stands a very good chance of capturing a tiny share of the advertising market.
If Big L had played the game it might have had a slim chance of getting some advertising based on the recommendation the intrductions that were made during the programme.
There's no quality qualification for gaining advertising revenue in this market but it helps to have a transmitter that can be heard reliably over a few square miles.
Stewart Ross <...> said:
hi can someone out there help me i would like to set up my own ftp surver on
my pc, can someone tell me how i go aboute duing this. and what software i
need. many thanks from stewart ross.
I've used EasyFTP Server – works really well and fairly straightforward to get going. Just open Port21 (or whatever port you assign) on your Router to allow incoming connections.
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/quick__n_easy_ftp_server.html
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Charlie
In article <...>, 2@slewis.biz (Sterling Times) wrote:
There must be a trigger point at which an agency adds a station to
its pool.
For instance take Fosseway Radio
http://www.fossewayradio.co.uk/
– website far worst than Big L's
To some degree the ease of access may well be the driving force for agencies, as you stated.
However, agencies take info these days, as Chris stated, from numerous sources and will take some guidance from qualified stats and click throughs from web areas. So a station could build up there but it would need to show an audience that has a good click through and regularly as well. By that I don't mean, with respect to anyone that uses them, the ads you can get just by registering http://www.upload.iwannagetsomeads.org.net.com
I mean using professionally obtained data to demonstrate what the listeners are doing with the mouse and keyboard.
If the station adds a USP, Unique Selling Point, it could rather nicely on an audience of 100,000 purely because it has a focus.
Eric
Eric Tesug <...> said:
Well U have to admit, the C4 programme has got oodles of free PR on AN
and what's more the levels of traffic have jumped so quickly, the server
must have had a real shock :-)
That was my thoughts, after the panning they appeared to get on the programme, this will be the real payoff. They will probably now, (maybe temporarily) have a fair increase in people listening to the station. If they don't grasp this chance now to make good then they will be doomed. But for now they have a reprieve.
I was listening to Roger Day-vis last night. he was definately tight and pacey, but too smashey and nicey for my taste. Maybe now they are under orders to get it right! lets hope so. But for now I still prefer radio 1!!!!
What was REALLY funny about the programme, nothing to do with programmes was the BigL house! All those blokes living together was a scream, a bit like the Monkees, I suppose. They're really time shifted. Are they for real?!
And, Garry Williams. he had more than his 15 minutes of fame. and what a drama queen! What must people on the planet earth think of this whole set up of BigL!
Eric Tesug <said:
If you had been someone working in an ad-agency would the show have made you tempted to spend even a small budget?
Eric
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Eric,
Yes! and I spoke to a few mates who are agency buyers in London and they felt the same, but first the signal has to be right into the UK, they feel it would cost very little compared to some campaign spends and they would be able to negotiate a very high number of spots campaign.
Cheers John
