Jarome Matthew's Blog

I blogged recently on Pro Soul Alliance about Warner Music Group removing all their content from youtube rather than earn millions per month in royalties in it’s ever increasing number of one terrible business decision after another.

We’re now a victim of this decision, having received a removal notice from Youtube for Laura and my video ‘Enjoy The Cylons‘ since we did a remake of a Warner track by Depeche Mode. The band of course has no say in the matter as they don’t own their music.

I decided to allow the video to stay on youtube, I would replace the audio with licensed content. Unfortunately, youtube doesn’t let you use your own selection…
We would have gladly paid a royalty to release this video, but Warner is not interested.

The fact that Warner is not only missing huge promotional opportunities for their artists, but throwing away income for them in doing this is a sure sign that it is now a very bad idea to do business with a major record label.

• Is doing sound for the regional Baha’i conference in Vancouver for thousands at multiple hotels fed from one venue! #
• Is doing sound for the regional Baha’i conference in Vancouver, worked out everything yesterday. Love how fog gives the city a cool glow #
• @peteratomic awesome, congratulations on reworking the website for music 2.0! Looking forward to it &seeing you in Beijing soon… in reply to peteratomic #
• @ScotMcKay Yes., but it only works on the last 3200 tweets, so it doesn’t work with the twitter pros…! in reply to ScotMcKay #
• Is recording voice over for the Pro Soul promo video & meeting w Martin Kerr later… Then it’s feast tonight (in the spiritual sense) #
• Thinks that this will be the year s**t really goes down in the music business… My prediction-Wall Mart pulls cds from store completely #
• Is doing a terrible job lately of being a decent human being. Maybe I actually can’t handle extreme amounts of stress… A humbling realizat #
• Is celebrating the birthday of a great guy, my nephew Aeron today. Hope your having a blast! #
• @peteratomic amazingm, that’s exactly how I feel! Every so often, one of those buckling wires flings out and impales someone dear to me… in reply to peteratomic #
• “The financial collapse means hopefully, instead of getting rich on stock market, university grads will get real careers” – Bethany McClain #
• Is preparing for new project in Beijing-ambient instrumental album featuring the gorgeous sounding Yang Qin… Just got my ticket! #

• Is wondering why o why is there belly button lint? Why? It never used to be there… #
• reading about Obama’s first international visit as president-to Canada: http://tinyurl.com/7pksyv #
• @robgokeemusic Check out this BSG vs Depeche Mode mash up, ‘Enjoy The Cylons’: http://tinyurl.com/enjoythecylons in reply to robgokeemusic #
• @LauraHarley Yeah! 24 Premiere tonight… Rock on, it’s been too long! in reply to LauraHarley #
• Is trying to get the new Mac all up and running properly in the studio today after months of set up & prep! #
• is having more delays with the new Mac. Waves audio is one of the worst software companies EVER. If you don’t already use them, DONT START. #
• Is amazed at how filthy the streets get after the snow melts in Vancouver! #
• Just met with the talented Canadian Idol finalist Martin Kerr to catch up & talk about Pro Soul Alliance #
• Is having deal with a lot of technical issues & learn a bunch of new software in order to have this fast new computer in the studio… #
• Is glad that I’m finally able to open older projects in Cubase with minimal issues… Off to sound check for regional Bahai conference #

I haven’t had a lot of time lately, especially since I’ve been blogging over at Pro Soul Alliance as well…

Check out some of the insightful music 2.0 posts over there to learn more about what’s going on in the new music industry if you haven’t already…

www.prosoul.com/blog

• Is recording with Bahiyyih & Roya today for B’s album… Hello what’s this, more snow? Bollocks! I’m done with it! #
• @ColleenCoplick watching ads is a huge waste of your time, use a PVR , and the Tetley Vanilla Rooibos is indeed the best, I tried many! in reply to ColleenCoplick #
• is sweating from shoveling snow…. again. TONS of piled up work to do, but just feel like goofing off, such a shame to be responsible… #
• is watching a show about how it’s now possible for a computer can read your mind with precision! Science Fiction is no longer. Will blog… #
• Is celebrating the birthday of a very special person & talented musician today, Mrs Laura Harley! http://www.lauraharley.com #
• @RebeccaGeiger glad you like my twitter bg! aweber.com is the best, but most expensive. I use maxbulk on my computer… http://maxprog.com in reply to RebeccaGeiger #
• Is back teaching music production again tonight #
• just got drenched by a wave of water from a bus while walking through puddle/mini lake. How could I become a victim of this? Shocking… #
• knows that if @felishamatthew can deal with the difficult health routine to deal with hormonal issues, so can you Steve Jobs! #
• Is really proud of @felishamatthew for sticking to her difficult health routine to deal with all the frustrating health problems! #
• @Juliet9 “God gives you friends as His way of saying I’m sorry for your family” That is awesome! Hilarious. Wonder where thats from… in reply to Juliet9 #
• is really kind of a little bit messed up these days. I think months of work without a real day off will do that to a person… #
• Virgin Radio Vancouver has now been broadcasting for 24 hours at 95.3 FM replacing Crave FM. Station focus on the Hot AC format: 25-49 y/o #

Well, it’s the new year and 2008 has been a truly incredible one for me, with more traveling than I’ve done in a long time, so I thought I’d go through my top five moments from 2008 as well as my one most memorable moment of the year.

1. Completing production and release of Elika Mahony’s Fire and Gold CD
2. Traveling to China for the first time and then getting to go again the same year
3. Getting to experience the most amazing and modern city on the planet, Hong Kong
4. North American Theatrical release of feature film I was sound designer for, Sweet Amerika
5. Launch of my new, innovative record label, Pro Soul Alliance

It was hard to pick just five amongst all the incredible things that happened this year, like the exciting new music I produced for Heather Dore, my trip to Las Vegas with Felisha, the collaborative music promotional project with talented artist, Laura Harley, ‘enjoy the cylons‘ which was viewed by over 16,000 people, the california Baha’i music weekend, Working with the talented Phil Morrison & Keith Williams, Jing R, and Cheng LIn in Beijing, and the completion of various other video and music projects…

If I had to pick one most exciting and incredible moment though, It would probably have to be getting stuck in the middle of a raging Nahatlatch river with my nephew Aaron while Whitewater rafting and getting out of it with barely a scratch!

I had a really tough year in 2007, so I had decided this would be an amazing year of travel and exciting things, and it sure was! Amazing how when you really set your mind on something, it happens.

As for last years resolutions unfortunately things didn’t go so well with them. In fact I actually managed to offend some people I truly care about with some of my blog posts and other casual blunt remarks…  So this year no resolutions, except a determination to improve balance in my life, and drastically simplify things over the next 2 years so I don’t have to work so damn hard all the time.

This first blog post of 2009 is particularly exciting for me because it’s the first one I’ve done using speech recognition software, Dragon MacSpeech Dictate, the best in the world. My typing is terrible ever since I quit that pre-widespread computer use high school typing class (because why on earth would I need to type people letters?)
So yes I actually spoke everything you just read, which I feel gives things a little more personal touch don’t you?

Enjoy 2009, and all the best to you!