{"id":6355,"date":"2011-12-22T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/vague-illusions-new-beginnings\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:40:49","slug":"vague-illusions-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/vague-illusions-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vague Illusion\u2019s New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vague Illusion<\/p>\n

When Edward Labuschagne told me that he was working hard on being signed to a record label I hoped fervently that he would not notice my complete misunderstanding of the present day music industry. As a 40 something male that so wishes he was in his late teens during the Woodstock era, my understanding of being signed to a record label centres around having to hump an instrument from gig to gig, having to endure poor pay, poor audience attendance and fighting off the unwanted attentions of the town\u2019s ageing bottle blonde lush. Not glamorous at all.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the instant gratification era where one pays ones dues in a completely different and almost isolated way \u2013 where music making is on an entirely different level \u2013 software driven, collaborative and consists of samples and riffs with backbeats that drive it all along.<\/p>\n

Now we have moved from genres such as Rock, Reggae and Country to Drum and Bass, House, Trance, Hip-Hop and Dubstep \u2013 WTF I say, WTF! Although I have listened to Edward\u2019s stuff and found myself quite, well, enTRANCEd.<\/p>\n

Then Edward let me know that he had been signed to a record label and that they were working on releasing an album consisting of singles by various artists \u2013 colour me damn impressed.<\/p>\n

Edward is a Port Elizabeth based musician, web designer and SEO expert who can now drop casually into conversations that he has with adoring groupies that he has an album released by Airplus Recordings that is available for purchase from iTunes<\/a> and soon from an Amazon, Napster, eMusic, Rhapsody and Spotify near YOU.<\/p>\n

I asked Edward a couple of questions about his music:
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