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It is not new for a lot of us, that the credibility of a giant can be shaked by the lack of honor and ethics of the people. For quite a while, inumerous services have been arising to provide artists at myspace the possibility to increase dramatically their plays, number of page visits and friends, only for some dollars.

But as it was obvious, this kind of services were, and are, violating the term of service of Myspace, so those who used this abuse policy of promotion, and still are using, for sure will not be as happy, as they were when they thought they were climbing in the charts.

As you can read in this quote of an answer done by Myspace crew member in a topic around this subject in the www.donewating.com blog.

And i shall quote:

1. By Myspace Security on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply

   Hello, this is myspace security analyst Mark Kasinowski. We are aware that bands are beginning to use fake play generator bots and scripts which strictly violates our users Terms of Servers.

   We have now started sending Music Abuse letters to bands who we are investigating. We delete approximately 14,000 band accounts per day using our automated tools we’ve developed to detect artificial increases in plays views and friends. We are currently compiling a list of sites who provide these types of services.

   We strong urge Bands to carefully consider whether losing all their Myspace friends and account information is worth the $50.00 software that allows you to cheat your plays.

   In addition, we have now implemented a policy where once your band url is detected as cheating and deleted, we block that band url from ever being used again.

   We are working activity to discourage bands from using fake bots and scripts to falsely inflate profile activity. IF you have purchased a software package that claims to increase plays or views, your account will be detected and your band url banned from future use.

   Mark
   Myspace Security Policy Enforcement
   Myspace.com

So for the records, Metricks numbers at Myspace:

"Metricks"

Lisboa, Lisboa
Portugal

Visitas ao Perfil (Profile Views): 16734

Total Plays: 12742

There are no hundred thousand plays, but for sure no risk of being deleted...

As the music was played by the listeners...

The portuguese artist Metricks after last year won the Best Electronic Artist Award, in the IOMA, receives in this year edition the award for "Best Soundtrack" with the music "Memoire des Temps Perdu"

December 31, 2005 ( Press Release) -- The 2006 edition of the International Online Music Awards have finished with more than

30000 artist nominations, and in last day of christmas were revealed the final five

nominated artists in each category, and all the winners. The complete list can be found in

here http://www.rcatcommunications.com/IOMAs/HallofFame.htm

The portuguese artist Metricks after last year won the Best Electronic Artist Award, in the

International Online Music Awards, receives in this year edition of this prestigious

showcase the award for "Best Soundtrack" with the music "Memoire des Temps Perdu". Metricks

is an independent artist based in Lisboa, Portugal, that expose his works in several omds

(Online Music Distributors) arround the world.

Metricks is active at the electronic music scene since 1993. Metricks music is a fusion of

emotions, and melting feelings, that are always expressed in the strange tunes, and

divergent beat strokes, of somehow familiar reminds... Metricks work with great artists

like Daniel Iorio, JDVoid, Phrulex, Renato Ventura, M�rio Raposo, SoundFreak, Lisa T,

Rakur, Pio Pio, GaiaBeat and Stuart Elliott.

Metricks in Artislaunch:
http://www.artistlaunch.com/artist.asp?artistid=5900

The IOMA was established in 2004 when the event attracted 1,500 artist nominations, In

2005, the event attracted 15,000 nominations world wide. The IOMA are the biggest

international awards event of it's kind where artists and industry professionals are given

the opportunity to show their respect and appreciation for the work of their companions.

And this year the event finished with more than 30000 artists nominations.

Terça-feira, Dezembro 27, 2005

DESTAQUE|Internacional On-Line Music Awards

> Metricks

Electrónica/Ambiental
www.metricks.host.sk

Tank you Tom! :)

Freaky Trigger is a United Kingdom Blog community with a respectful number of users that discuss music and all parallels related.
Europop 2008 is a competitive pop tournament: 16 brave players have each volunteered to ‘manage’ one of the countries involved in the Euro 2008 football tournament. This involves finding MP3 tracks from each country and pitting them in one-on-one matches with tracks from another country, in the same format and order as the ‘real’ competition. This one is designed to end at around the time the real one does, in June.

The Europop manager of the portuguese team, did a great job leading the Portuguese Nationl team of Music reaching the Semi-Finals (much better than the real soccer team, that only reached the quarter-finlas of the Euro 2008).

The selected musics selected by the manager of the Portuguese Team were:

PORTUGAL: Madredeus - “A Andorinha De Primavera”
PORTUGAL: The Weatherman - “About Harmony”
PORTUGAL : Metricks - “ Postcard To Outerspace”
PORTUGAL: Buraka Som Sisteme - “Sound Of Kudoro”
PORTUGAL: Expander and Thinkfreak - “Trackum”

Thank you Portuguese Team Manager, and to all the users Freaky Trigger web site!

Metricks track "Photoaster" was broadcast at the beginning of "Alien Radio Show" in the 20 of May of 2007, in KXLU RADIO 88.9 FM Los Angeles

"Alien Air Music" features international electronic music and has run since 1984 here in Los Angeles from KXLU radio at Loyola Marymount University. Broadcast time is Sunday evenings 9-11pm (PST).

Alien Air Music

KXLU 88.9FM
Los Angeles
webcast info at http://www.kxlu.com
playlist of 20/05/2007 http://members.aol.com/aamkxlu/5-20-07.html
Alien Air Music http://members.aol.com/aamkxlu/index.htm

In the week of 21-09-2007 the musical work of etricks was featured in the front page of the "giant" site www.artistdirect.com

"The ARTISTdirect network has 42 million unique users per month, which makes it the 3rd largest international music network behind itunes and yahoo music! The ARTISTdirect Network is bigger than AOL Music, MTV Networks, MSN Music and MySpace Music (Source: Media Metrix, August, 2007)!"

The work of Metricks is still featured this week in the "sister" of Artist Direct , the UBL - Ultimate Band List, in the electronic musical section.

http://www.ubl.com/genres/electronic/

Metricks page in UBL

http://www.ubl.com/artists/metricks/

enrcmp05 - Sound Research

[nsi-online and enoughrecords are proud to present a set of tracks
surrounding the theme of artificial intelligence and post-humanism.]

Each track was composed by 2 portuguese projects active in the national
electronic scene in different styles; many of them only coming to know
each other through the participation of this project. A sample of the best
done in Portugal. 14 projects, 7 tracks in a journey to the future...
The future is now!

Download all the album for free: Enough Records Musical Depot

Bands:
cygnus x1 - dream metaphor - eletrolise - jdvoid - mcgea - metricks - m-pex - nny - oxygen - ps - sci-fi industries - structura - xastre

Designer:
Hugo Carreira

nsi-online & enough records 2007

And stay with this theme from Metricks @ JDvoid: " Extropian Atrophy"

You are all invited to listen to Metricks works @ Last.Fm.

There will be the possibility of full listening of two albuns of the artist. So, Roots 98, and unminimal will provide more than hour of diferent listening, filled with strange sensations, neverhow similar... as reminds...

Enjoy the trip!

I hope that once you register in the Last.Fm site, cause for sure you will do it, you can "TAG" my music, with your opinion and expression

The actual main "Cloud Tag" for Metricks @ last.fm is like this:

ambient dreamy electro electronic
electronica idm indie new age

http://www.last.fm/music/metricks

Listen to this great list of artists that are played in the IDM Portugal Radio Station , World wide list of Artists!

Listen to some songs that Metricks did with his friends arround the world!

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