Research into record labels associated with genre.

In the music industry every artist will be signed to a record label, whom will create an image and deal with all the marketing and promotions for the artist. The genre of my track is considered indiepop and because of this I think that the type of recording label would be a small with a few similar artists. Indiepop orientates from the UK in the mid 1980's and has been ever growing since. An artist can be signed to more than one record label at once.

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 One of the record labels I have come across is the German label called Firestation Records

They claim to be the number 1 indiepop label in Germany and have released 80 records in the last 13 years with artists such as Mighty mighty and Skint & Demoralised. I listened to the song 'Red Lipstick' by Skint & Demoralised and it does fit into the category of indiepop.

Another record label I have come across as being indiepop would be 'Sub Pop Records'

They have artists such as Beach House and The Shins. I listened to the song 'Zebra' by Beach House and it fits into the category of indiepop.

 

• Death Cab for Cutie - Sub Pop, Warner Music Group, Barsuk Records, Fierce Panda Records, Atlantic Records
• The Dandy Warhols - Capitol Records.
• The Shins - Sub Pop ,Aural Apothecary, Cargo Industries, Transgressive Records
• RadioHead - Parlophone, Capitol Records, TBD Records, XL Recordings
• The Whitest Boy Alive - Service
• Bat For Lashes - Astralwerks, Manimal Vinyl, Echo Records, Caroline Records, Parlophone
• Broadcast - Warp Records, Tommy Boy Records, Duophonic Records
• Magnetic Fields - Merge Records, Harriet Records, PoPuP, Nonesuch Records.

The above list of similar artists to mine of the my chosen track, shows the kinds of record labels associated with the genre of music. The three most popular seemed to be, Capitol Records, Parlophone and Sub pop.

 
 

Analysis of a music video using Goodwin's theory

Goodwin's theory - 30H!3 from Liam_Aspo

Our preliminary task

I was given the task of analysing a music video from the 1970s and the 1980s. The video I had chosen was for the 1970s was that by The Beatles, 'Let it be', released in 1970. It is a little narrative but it is mainly band footage. There is some still images of the band and album covers but it is mainly made up of the band in the studio performing the song. I feel the music and lyrics have no connection to the video, although it could be connoted that 'Let it be' could be referencing to living life to the full and there are a few still images of the band together having fun. Also the beats and shots have no joint significance. There is no real stereotyping in this video.

The video I had chosen for the 1980s was 'Gold' by Spandeu Ballet, released in 1983.

The video narrative and has band footage towards the end. There is a link between the lyrics and the video because the song is called gold and the lead singer is collecting gold in the narrative part of the video. In addition the shot changes match the beat effectively throughout the video consistantly. There is some small stereotypes in the video as it is set in a hot counrty with a desert, there is old men sitting around playing dominoes and drinking what looks like tequila.

Start of A2

My name's Liam, I'm studying the Media Studies A level in one year! The brief we've been given is to create our own music video to a song we will be given. I like a lot of different types of music, my spotify playlist will go from Maroon5 to Katy Perry to Hollywood Undead to Muse, so yeah all kinds of different types! I'm looking forward to seeing how the music video will come out!