burial ringtones...

alfons · Post by **alfons** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:34 am

came across a couple of these on the icelandic telecom website and was a bit shocked:

http://skemmtun.siminn.is/search.html?q=Burial

this is the biggest phone company in the country not some dodgy mp3 site.

can it really be legitimate? Selling ringtones kind of seems against the ethos of hyperdub/kode9 and Burial... ?

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:43 am

lolz. I never understood why the fuck people buy ringtones?
how hard is it to copy an mp3 to your phone?

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:44 am

Do you know what is strange

Hearing Burial - Archangel playing as the background music for a Five Life(uk tv) program.

beans · Post by **beans** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:10 am

Burial's becoming a popstar

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:26 am

that would be quite jokes on the train, i'd have all the wannabe badmen from my college on the train with grime ring tones etc. then mine would go off all like "holding yooooooooou" and they'd just stop all their music and stare in disgust

amykamala · Post by **amykamala** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:06 am

guess u gotta make munnies somehow.

T_macabre · Post by **T_macabre** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:16 am

dubluke wrote:that would be quite jokes on the train, i'd have all the wannabe badmen from my college on the train with grime ring tones etc. then mine would go off all like "holding yooooooooou" and they'd just stop all their music and stare in disgust

i chucked a load of mp3 snippets for ringtones up in the secret ninja a few weeks ago had archanel and etched headplate ringtones in!

westernsynthetics · Post by **westernsynthetics** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:20 pm

I work in digital music and deal mostly with ringtone and full track content so i see the worst of it.
I still don't see a problem with RT's per-se, artists should be remunerated for their labour. But it may make you end up hating Burial if its played over and over as a RT. However it depends, I have Bob Marley as my ringtone and I never get sick of hearing Bob Marley.

saxenhammer · Post by **saxenhammer** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:42 pm

A Burial ring tone must sound extremely amusing

badger · Post by **badger** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:32 pm

Vonboyage wrote:Do you know what is strange

Hearing Burial - Archangel playing as the background music for a Five Life(uk tv) program.

lol yeah i keep seeing that. i'm amazed there hasn't been a thread about it yet

Juan BassHead · Post by **Juan BassHead** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:42 pm

I have Bobby Brown - "My Perogative" as my ringtone. KILLS IT EVERY TIME!

Im not joking

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:43 pm

well well have they started making phones with subs now?

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:44 pm

Why does anyone have anything except a generic bleep for a ringtone? Is it so that when your phone rings on a bus and JX- Son of A Gun starts blaring out everyone knows that you like that song and therefore will sleep with you in the off chance that your spit will slide down their ears onto their brain and reconfigure their cerebral composition so that they can think and select ringtones like you?

Littlefoot · Post by **Littlefoot** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:10 pm

you gotta realise that the people whi do music/sound for telly are often music tech students just out of college

and they like whatever electronic artist that is big

the decoy · Post by **the decoy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:32 pm

fliPPo wrote:lolz. I never understood why the fuck people buy ringtones?
how hard is it to copy an mp3 to your phone?

some phones disallow that for just that reason. my old sidekick was an example. I guess I could have hacked it, but I wasn't so inclined. I used the default tones.

im_useless · Post by **im_useless** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:47 pm

i remember when i had Quarta 330 - 9 Samurai Remix) as my ringtone, i had it well loud and when it went off everyone around me were like what the fuck is that

enik · Post by **enik** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:47 am

Burial " Stairwell " was my ring tone for a month or so recently...cut from the Kode 9 Sonar Mix...hopefully will be out soon....mysteriously removed from the Hyperdub release list though..mmm..Archangel is my current ringtone...lovely melody.. puff on!!!

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