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WINZ (the providers of the unemployment benefit) have worked out a sweet deal with that quality family restaurant...It's a win/win!

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Wishing Bliss Single 2008 (Free Downloads)

As part of our efforts to make Urbantramper music available from this site, here's the MP3s from the 2007 single: "Wishing Bliss". Other downloads are available from the 'free MP3 download' section in the contents tab on the right of the page...

Wishing Bliss (radio edit)

Wishing Bliss (X-rated version)

Can I be Dr Strangelove?

Audio Postcard...The Making of: Episode 2

Dresden, UT tour 2008

This postcard has taken a while to send, I bought it ages ago because i thought it looked cool. Since then it's just sat in my bag, getting dog-eared and stained...I only just wrote on it and it doesn't portray the vibe as well as i would have hoped. But you get the idea...We're just keeping on, trying not to get lost in the sea of superficiality -whilst still swimming in it when it gets too hot...Whoops, maybe too many metaphors...

There's a sample at the end from a track that will be on the new album. At the moment, it's called 'i live in shoe house'...

All the best.

UT.

The making of: episode 2.mp3

The future of music will be shared: An essay on the hope for a shift in power...

"The goal is not only better living conditions, a radical change of structures, a social revolution; it is much more: the continuous creation, never ending, of a new way to be a man [or woman], a permanent cultural revolution" -Gustavo Gutiérrez

This essay was written to fulfill requirements for a paper Lake took at school. It suggests that the internet creates the possibility for a shift in power relations away from the corporate record companies and back toward the musicians and the audience. We acknowledge this as a process and not an end.

We are currently experimenting wih websites that share a similar ethos, allowing artists to share their music and providing an opportunity for payment. Basically we are trying to avoid sites that are owned by major corporations who have profit as their only goal, that is: Lastfm.com, myspace.com, itunes.com, napster.com, amazon.com.

Websites that currently seem interesting, both from an audience and artist perspective, are: bandcamp.com and thesixtyone.com which even allows creative commons licensing for posted tracks...
Let us know any others...

Here's the essay, it may not be flawless, but hopefully it provokes thought...

The future of music will be shared