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 --through radio, print, and the Internet--on the best music (whether it be house, techno, electro, drum n bass, hip hop, etc) the world's electronic musiccommunity has to offer. Staying on the leading edge with the music and information continue to be the priority. I hope the following will help you and help further this cause. Thank you. Andrew Duke/Cognition Audioworks
1. Good news for those seeking further coverage of their releases and artists: I'm now writing for Magicfeet (the print and online magazine based in Nottingham UK with distribution in North America and Europe). Monthly Reports (i.e. columns) are still being published in print in VICE (Montreal), FIX (Los Angeles), Streetsound (New York), and EVE (London UK), plus reviews and features for these and The Coast (Halifax). 2. If you have not already done so, please note the new address and website for Cognition Audioworks:
Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks 1096 Queen Street Suite 123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9 http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition TEL, FAX, and email remain the same 3. For those in the music industry, the Cognition Audioworks website will function as a resource tool for all Cognition Audioworks radio/Internet/print coverage of electronic music: all columns, reviews, and features will be posted here (http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition) immediately after they are written. You will be able to have tearsheets of your material often a month before the print versions appear in the above magazines. In addition, older columns/reviews/features are being archived for your convenience. Current, upcoming, and past Cognition Audioworks radio and Internet shows are also listed and promoted on this site with details on guest DJs, world premieres, interviews, contests, and the like.
4. For music consumers, the Cognition Audioworks website is being promoted to
those looking to listen to and read about upcoming (immediate postings) and already available (archived material) house, techno, and electronics artists, DJs, and releases. Cognition Audioworks radio and Internet
programming is promoted with display ads in every issue of VICE, FIX,
EVE, and The Coast, and now the Cognition Audioworks website URL and information will be
included as well. There is a banner ad for the site on WIDR.COM and links from WIDR and
STREETSOUND.COM. If you have a site of your own, I would encourage you to link to the
Cognition Audioworks website.
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The site is crosspromoted on the Cognition Audioworks radio show as
well. Readers
and surfers who check out the Cognition Audioworks website will be able
to hear (in RealAudio or
syndicated radio in various areas) guest DJs, world premieres of
forthcoming releases, interviews with
artists, plus cutting edge sets of forthcoming material. They will also
be able to read the reviews,
columns, and features as soon as they are written (again, sometimes more
than a month before print
publication). Cognition Audioworks online written material
5. The Cognition Audioworks weekly radio show and three weekly Internet
shows are
now being boiled down to a weekly syndicated 60 minute best-of package
that will soon begin airing on the
Belgrade radio and Internet station B92 and others. If you know of any
radio stations/Internet stations in your
area that might like to air this program (with guest DJs, world
premieres, interviews, features, cutting edge
electronic music), please email names and contact information.
6. In addition to regular interviews, more live to air radio interviews
will now be done
on a weekly basis. Taylor Deupree and Dietrich Schoenemann (12k and
many others) will be
interviewed live from New York on the May13th show; Pimp Daddy Nash
(Eighth Dimension)
will be interviewed live from Orlando on the May 20th show. These live
radio interviews can also
be used for later Internet rebroadcast and possible online/print
publication.
7. world premieres of forthcoming full length artist and DJ mix
releases on the
Cognition Audioworks radio show and Internet shows are generating an
excellent response:
how does a "world premiere" work? Get me a cassette, DAT, or CDROM of a
forthcoming
full length release with plenty of info at least a month in advance of
commercial release.
The release is then played as a world premiere (i.e. played out in full
on the radio and Internet
--for the first time anywhere--with a related contest.) usually a
minimum of two weeks before streetdate.
Comments from radio and Internet listeners have been 100% positive to
these promotions. The
number one comment is: "Thank you. Sounds great. Glad you are doing
this." Usually five
copies of the premiered release are given away. This in itself is great
promotion because the number
one comment in relation to the contests is: "If I don't win, I'm going
to go buy this release." These
world premieres are promoted well in advance--through display ads, the
website, and the
shows themselves--and can guarantee much worldwide exposure and "buzz"
with just one advance copy. Additionally, all who've joined the
Cognition Audioworks email list
(again, promoted through above channels) are emailed advance
notification of world premieres,
guests DJs, etc, so there is a regular, builtin audience along with
those who see/hear the promotions.
Vinyl tests (preferred), plus advance cassettes, DATS, CDRs, and promos
CDs for review and
radio/Internet airplay are always appreciated. Please include plenty of
info along with the
release date and distributors (Magicfeet in particular requires this
information when reviews are
published). Emailed updates (news/forthcoming release info) can be sent
anytime to
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