Lovefingers R.I.P
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by baggy in Articles
Lovefingers has been supplying us all, music lovers, a source of unknown obscurities and unsung gems since March 2006. However, as all good things in life, they come to an end when you least expect it. And that is the case with Andrew Hogge’s music blog, where words were not necessary to expose the incredible amount of musical output that has gone largely unregistered through the last decades, and that he made sure we all listened.
There are still some tracks available on the website, but they will disappear any time soon, leaving us all with a musical void that hopefully will be filled by someone else.
We have all gotten a good number of free tracks through him so why not return the favour by showing some support and getting his last 12? It is worth its price just for the fantastic picture disc, especially for the lady on the B-Side. It comes with three great re-edits, of course. Have a look at what all is this about here.
It seems these guys are dropping like flies of late. First Bumrocks, then Dream Chimney, now Lovefingers and if this wasn’t enough we have today read that another fantastically educative blog in Donna Slut is shutting it’s virtual doors as new projects and reports of others cloning the site have concluded in the guys behind the blog also deciding to call it a day.
Are we witnessing the first signs of the change in how music on the net is being regulated and policed?
We’d like to pass our regards onto the guys behind these sites who have no doubt ensured at some point or other we have dug out (And bought the records!) some real gems we would have otherwise missed.
Peas…
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Guy
29. Jan, 2010
Dream Chimney is back so it is not all bad news!
http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/?yesterday
Markus
02. Feb, 2010
Sad I did not know about donnaslut before
Lovefingers was really great! I loved it!!!!!!!
lovefingers
03. Feb, 2010
the whole lovefingers set will be put back up in monthly mix format, each month since 2006 downloadable as a mix, as soon as i can… x andrew/lovefingers
baggy
03. Feb, 2010
cheers andrew, looking forward to hearing them!
BC
07. Feb, 2010
Love finger my arse – he is an MP3 pirate good ridance . B
silvestre
11. Feb, 2010
To BC,
I strongly disagree with your ‘Love finger my arse’ comment. The guy is not a pirate. He surely owns most of the records he posts. He has disclaimer where you can email him if you are not particularly exhilarated to have your obscure, deleted, unsellable (in a mass market sense) production, promoted by him on a website visited by thousands every month.
The guy, BC, is doing a favor to everyone, uncovering unsung tunes, hidden gems and great music in general that otherwise, would simply disappear. I have learnt of many great artists thanks to him, and I have PURCHASED and research around some of his recommendations.
BC, before making such a derogative comment, inform yourself a bit, and try to come out with a more balanced argument on the topic of posting music on the net. ‘Love Finger my arse’ is a pretty weak contribution.
with all my respects,
silvestre