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The Downloader

www.thedownloader.co.uk

About Me

Set up in January 2005 to provide a doorway into the digital download world, The Downloader has spent the past two years developing a reputation as the UK’s leading portal focused specifically on generating and promoting legal music downloads.
As the ‘complete guide to legal music downloads’ it has established a niche in the competitive online music world by focusing its entire editorial content on the establishment, development and subsequent escalation of digital music.
By tailoring all its content channels to report exclusively on all aspects of digital music – from daily updates on media player advancements to regularly updated platform reviews - The Downloader has established itself as a key component of the British download market; an editorial site that helps guide consumers through the potentially overwhelming digital world.
By also developing affiliations with leading UK and international labels The Downloader has also prided itself on tackling the burning issue of illegal music downloads. Through out Heist initiative we have teamed up with 20 leading independent labels (Domino, Wichita, Bella Union and Saddle Creek to name a few) to make free legal downloads available for a limited period and encourage consumers to take the simple step from illegal to paid-for downloading.
With a hard-earned reputation as the site of choice for new and established digital music consumers alike The Downloader’s commitment to supporting the growth of digital downloads will also see it embracing the embryonic market of music video and feature film downloads in 2007.
Why you're here why not sit back, put a brew on and watch the wonderful Band Of Horses' video 'The Great Salt Lake'. It's really rather super.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2005
Band Website: thedownloader.co.uk
Band Members: Matt; Editor, marketing goon and the bloke responsible for daily uploads, news stories, scandalous editorial errors and making the odd brew... Kate; Booker of Downloader Live! - our monthly residency at Bristol's luscious venue The Louisiana... ; Mark; the site's technical Wizard of Oz.... Daniel, Dom, Henry, Polly, Andy, Tim, Nick, Pete, Geoff, Josh etc; Our lovely gaggle of bootiful freelancers who are responsible for penning mountains of glorious reviews... Roddy Woomble; well, not officially but in spirit. perhaps.
Influences: the odd sprig of music...

Sounds Like: The Front Door To All Legal Downloads...
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Heist / Chemikal Underground / Aereogramme

If not borne out of adversity, Aereogramme's recent album 'My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go' was certainly influenced by physical affliction: following an endless run of touring & an over...
Posted by The Downloader on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:05:00 PST

The Heist / Mother & The Addicts / Chemikal Underground

History has known many great mothers - Mary, Teresa, Victoria Beckham - but only one of them has been a twenty something male from Glasgow via Brighton, whose children are a motley conglomerate of art...
Posted by The Downloader on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:02:00 PST

Chemikal Underground - Scotland's indie royalty

Name what are, to your independently inclined brain, some of the more important Scottish bands of the last 15 years. The Delgados? Mogwai? Arab Strap? Bis?! Yeah, you heard& The fact remains, though, ...
Posted by The Downloader on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:01:00 PST

****EXCLUSIVE FREE MIDLAKE REMIX!!!!!*****

Formed in the small, quirky town of Denton, Texas, five highly talented musicians from the North Texas School of Music came together under the name of Midlake to create a unique sound, tapping into an...
Posted by The Downloader on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:45:00 PST

Bella Union - The World's Greatest Label?

Blinkered and uncompromising devotion to a band is a feeling that each and every one of us has experienced at least once in our short lives. Blinkered and uncompromising devotion to a record label, no...
Posted by The Downloader on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:04:00 PST

I Like Trains - Spencer Perceval

A good idea on paper, the new single from a band whose name I can't be bothered to type repeatedly tries extremely hard to achieve the near-impossible: the programmatic concept-song. They kind of succ...
Posted by The Downloader on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:40:00 PST

Air - Once Upon A Time

It used to be enough for Air to just sound sexy and a bit French. That got the yuppy crowd and veiled from the intelligentsia the fact that they weren't really trying all that hard. Alas, this can't f...
Posted by The Downloader on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

The Bees - Octopus

Now hear this, because it's coming at you simple: progression is not everything in music. It entirely depends on what band you are. There are bands that change a bit with every album, and that's admir...
Posted by The Downloader on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:35:00 PST

I Was A Cub Scout - I Hate Nightclubs

With their debut single 'Pink Squares' having been selected by The Downloader as one of the best 10 songs released last year (in our Rough Trade digital compilation), it was always going to be difficu...
Posted by The Downloader on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:25:00 PST

The Aliens - Setting Sun

Despite having a rather large chunk of interest following them around thanks to their connections with King Creosote and The Beta Band, The Aliens are yet to release anything that truly warrants the a...
Posted by The Downloader on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:23:00 PST