Web 2.0

Web 2.0 can be seen as an improved software in a sense that with 2.0 it is n improved version of web 1.0.web 2.0 brings with it new features which has made the web more user friendly and open sourced.
Bryan Alexander says the three main concepts of web 2.0 are,

Social software-blogs, podcasting, videoblogs.
Micro content
Openness

Alexander also says ” taken together, this set of concepts informs a way of making, sharing, and consuming digital documents” that pinpoint to an emergent group of practices that are crucially more important than any label can account for.
Leading sites, which propelled web 2.0, have been sites like flickr, You tube, Wikipedia and blogging sites.
These sites gave users control on what content was put up and formed online communities.

Powerpoint Presentation on grime"s growth

Urban Classic Live Grime

Urban Classic was a meeting of musical cultures that brought together some of the biggest names in UK black music with the BBC Concert Orchestra in a ground-breaking live event.

Grime producer DaVinChe and jazz musician Jason Yarde joined forces with conductor Charles Hazlewood, who lead a 36-piece BBC Concert Orchestra alongside several UK grime artists, to create a 70-minute musical suite of grime, hip hop and classical music.

The music was performed live for an audience on Thursday 16 February 2006 at Hackney Empire and was broadcast on 1Xtra Live on Saturday 18 FebruaryUrban Classic was a meeting of musical cultures that brought together some of the biggest names in UK black music with the BBC Concert Orchestra in a groundbreaking live event.

Grime producer DaVinChe and jazz musician Jason Yarde joined forces with conductor Charles Hazlewood, who lead a 36-piece BBC Concert Orchestra alongside several UK grime artists, to create a 70-minute musical suite of grime, hip hop and classical music.

The music was performed live for an audience on Thursday 16 February 2006 at Hackney Empire and was broadcast on 1Xtra Live on Saturday 18 February

-BBC 1Xtra


http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/events/urbanclassic/features/event.shtml

The growth of grime

Grime music has now become widely known though out the world manly thanks to the Internet, with grime acts touring and spreading the music afar. Guys like Kano and Dizzee have help make that step form the estates to overseas.




the independent- article on grime development

Grindie music: what happens when indie and grime collide

Beccy Lindon on the latest sound clash to gain ground in the capital
Published: 29 March 2007

Genre-crossing collaborations can be a real hit and miss affair and the rock and rap fusion teeters on the edge of genius and heinous. The Americans have been mixing things up musically since Run DMC and Aerosmith in 1986, but the UK urban and indie scene have traditionally remained poles apart.

Then in 2006, London producer Statik turned out a couple of quality grime re-workings of Bloc Party and The Rakes tracks and everyone started hopping up and down in excitement. Statik promptly jumped on the positive feedback by coining the term "grindie" and releasing a mixtape where he threw grime MCs over Larrikin Love and Ladyfuzz tracks and had Pete Doherty handling the shout-outs. Statik declared that grindie was a new "movement" but there was something slightly incoherent and synthetic about the sound. In a time when music fans are searching for unprocessed singer-songwriters like Lily Allen and Mika, the cut-and-paste nature of grindie felt slightly uncomfortable.

Fast forward to 2007 and a new brand of grindie has slowly begun to emerge. Bands and artists who are genuinely influenced by both genres are giving birth to an energetic hybrid of grime and punk and the indie kids are eating it up.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2401665.ece






germen grime blog
http://www.voco-me.de/blog/

Downloading music - Bittorrent

Another method of downloading music provide by other peers is bit torrent; this program allows users to upload torrents on websites and allow peers to download it from them. The good thing about torrents is u can download from many other peers who have the file making for a quicker download.




http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/mixtapes

Downloading music-Sendspace,rapidshare and bittorrent

Because most of grime tunes are mainly released in limited records shops many fans use the net to find and download they songs. To do this there are many choices from programmes like lime wire where u can find more of the popular tunes to uploading sites where u can request types of tunes or upload tunes for your friends or others to download.
The main sites that do this are rapid share and send spaces, these sites are the main sites used by many people in forums to upload tunes for others.


http://www.sendspace.com/
http://www.rapidshare.com/







Many fans and artist make use of these sites making hard to get music a little easier if u belong to the community, this maybe forums like Rwd, Real Rap talk, Sohh and Allhiphop.

MySpace Pt3

Online networking sites like Myspace is a prime feature of web 2.0 and allows people form all areas to connected and collaborate. To see how artist use this and others like it I decide to interview one grime/hip hop artist to see how it has help him and if networking and promoting has become more online based.
Illamadi is a new up and coming artist who uses MySpace was a form or free promotion and networking.