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  BACKLASH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director David Chameides Music composed by Marcello De Francisci Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd   CIA Agent Skye Gold races through the throngs of Caribbean Carnival pursued by a mystery avenger, in a heart-pumping action thriller… Another soundtrack of the composer Marcello De Francisci. A more beautiful, more dynamic theme that has looked in the discovery of its to bear the image. Out of the traditional paths, he pursued imagination and originality to achieve the trajectory of a worrying and positive journey. Backlash on Spotify Track List -         01 – Cursed – -         02 – Grazer – -         03 – Calypso – -         04 – Compromised - -         05 – Where Have U Been – -         06 – Surf Shop ...

ANGELS OF DARKNESS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Mauricio Chernovetzky & Mark Devendorf Music Composed by Marcello De Francisci Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Depicts the intense and fractured relationship between a lonely teenager and a beautiful stranger. Lara (Eleanor Tomlinson) and her estranged father, Dr. Hill (Stephen Rea), travel behind the iron curtain to a decrepit castle outside the Hungarian town of Styria. Int the nearby woods, Lara witnesses a car crash. Carmilla, (Julia Pietrucha), escapes from the wreckage as a driver attempts to run her over. When Larea hides this beautiful and mysterious stranger in the castle, the two start an intense and chaotic friendship. As their relationship deepens, the young women of Styria begin to go mad. When local girls are found dead from apparent suicides, Lara wonders if Carmilla is to blame or is there a darker secret behind the mass hysteria destroying the town. Angels Of Darkness (Original M...

SoundCloud has just announced that it has secured $75 million investment from SiriusXM – which, remember, acquired another leading music streaming platform, Pandora, last year in a $3.5bn all-stock transaction. US-based Sirius’s investment in SoundCloud comes three years after the latter company attracted $170m in investment from Raine Group and Temasek – and three weeks after revealed that SoundCloud had posted a $200m annual revenue run-rate in the final months of 2019. U.S-based SiriusXM will take a minority stakeholding in SoundCloud as a result of the $75m investment. SoundCloud says it will use this additional investment to “accelerate its product development and enhance the services that fuel its global community of creators and listeners”. “SoundCloud’s three consecutive years of strong financial performance directly reflect the success of our creator-led growth strategy,” said Kerry Trainor, Chief Executive Officer, SoundCloud. “We have an exciting roadmap f...

on Music Business Worldwide, the CEO of the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), Kim Bayley, gave a rousing defence of music streaming services – in particular, the right of these platforms to claim a larger portion of the industry’s revenue ‘pie’ at the expense of artists and record labels. As a few of you noticed, this included an unflinching takedown of my own words, as originally penned in this Rolling Stone column. “Tim Ingham recently wrote of money ‘being kept by… streaming platforms, rather than landing in the hands of labels and artists’,” wrote Bayley, “which, he implies, somehow rightfully belongs to artists, songwriters, labels and publishers. “This is quite clearly nonsense.” The suggestion, hammered home by ‘nonsense’, is obvious: Kim is valiantly rubbishing an unjust use of language – one supposedly designed to hoodwink you, valued reader, away from the simple truth of the matter. Except the simple truth of the matter, in this case...

A recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruling brought great news for songwriters in the US – with royalty rates for streaming and other mechanical uses set to rise 44% in the market. Spotify and Amazon have now officially come out in opposition to the ruling, in what the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has called a “shameful” move which equates to “suing songwriters”. On January 27, 2018  on the CRB’s landmark decision, which stated that royalty rates paid to songwriters in the US from on-demand subscription streaming would rise by 44% over the next five years. That decision was ratified last month (February 5), when the CRB published the final rates and terms for songwriters. Streaming companies were given 30 days to lodge official opposition to the ruling if they wished. The likes of Apple Music declined to do so – but it’s a different case for Spotify and Amazon, which have now both filed a notice of appeal. Pandora and Google have also asked the CR...