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We’ve had our heads’ down the last week getting together some new stuff for the Music Wall and the first of the new thingies is a widget for displaying a labels music on a website or blog.

It is indeed possible to watch 3 episodes of prison break before your laptop battery gives out. Here’s a few tips, some blatantly obvious and some… well, pretty obvious also… but here we go:

We’ve spent so much time pretending that we really are cool with this music industry lark that we’ve forgotten to mention the other stuff that is happening around here at the moment. SimpleWeb has some cool things afoot and we’re getting ready to test them.

We seem to be getting about a bit at the moment, which is nice. Despite still not being able to sleep without facebook running through my mind like an eyelid poltergeist, Music Wall still seems to be gaining interest.

We’ve just added over 35 more artists to Music Wall, all free downloads and our first stateside label – SMtv Music

Bristol OpenCoffee last night was interesting, Tom and I were late, we’d been adding artists to Music Wall, which now seems to consume most of our waking brain time…

DJ Krust the internationally acclaimed Drum & Bass artist is distributing three tracks from his Hidden Knowledge album on Music Wall. YES!

It’s all a bit musical around here at the moment with our work on the Music Wall – in fact, I’m starting to think I might be in a cheap production of West Side Story. So, as a change of topic, I thought I would do a quick review of a PHP IDE that has made my life far more enjoyable of late. Introducing, phpDesigner :

Essentially we don’t think that there’s any money in selling music any more, especially on a smaller indie label level. The money is in the licensing and the gigs and for that to work you need fans… So, let’s give away the music, build loyalty and let fans spend their money wisely.

So after just a few days we have two more labels who want to get on board from the states, and three more in mind for late next week, one a big name in the UK dance scene, which is pretty exciting. By the end of this week, we should have over 30 artists, a new facebook application for artists and labels, plus a new iteration of the Music Wall. We really didn’t expect any of this quite so soonâ€