Der offizielle "The-Thrillercast"-Thread

Der offizielle "The-Thrillercast-Thread"

Ich denke man kann hierzu ein neues Thema eröffnen, da ja nun wöchentlich neue Folgen des "Thrillercasts" und ähnliches erscheinen werden, um diese in einem Thread zu sammeln:

THRILLERCAST

EPISODE 0: WELCOME TO THRILLERCAST

25 Years ago, Michael Jackson created what would become the biggest selling album of all time, "Thriller". In 2008, Legacy Recordings is proud to present Thrillercast, a year-long podcast event featuring legends of music, film and culture taking you behind the scenes to their own experiences with Michael and hearing the album for the first time.

Thrillercast launches on February 12th with Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

Thrillercast Preview

02/04/2008

(PR) In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's multi-platinum, multi-award winning album Thriller, Legacy Recordings is proud to present Thrillercast: A groundbreaking podcast event dedicated to the 25th anniversary celebration of the world's biggest selling album of all time, "Thriller".

The 40-episode podcast will run throughout 2008 and feature icons of music and screen, including hip-hop legend DMC, current superstars Akon, Nick Cannon, Chris Brown, will.i.am, Quincy Jones, Imogen Heap, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels, turntablist DJ Spooky as well as many more special guests. Each guest sat down with us to discuss their experiences with Thriller, the various singles and videos, and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. Their stories are each unique and profound and singular in their message: Thriller was a game-changer across the board.

The free podcasts start today with "Episode 0", a teaser of what's to come, with a new episode available (roughly) each week starting on February 12.

Thrillercast Preview - antiMUSIC News

Übersetzung:

PRESS RELEASE: Official Thriller Podcast
PRESSEMITTEILUNG: Offizieller Thriller Podcast

Sony are proud to announce the launch of the official Thriller podcast, with an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson coming soon.
Sony kann heute den Start des offiziellen Thriller Podcasts bekanntgeben. Auch ein exklusives Interview mit Michael Jackson wird demnächst erhältlich sein.

Press Release:
Pressemitteilung:

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s multi-platinum, multi-award winning album Thriller, Legacy Recordings is proud to present Thrillercast: A groundbreaking podcast event dedicated to the 25th anniversary celebration of the world's biggest selling album of all time, "Thriller".
Passend zu den Feierlichkeiten rund um das 25jährige Jubiläum von Michael Jacksons Rekordalbum 'Thriller' freut sich Legacy Recordings den Thrillercast ankündigen zu dürfen: Ein bahnbrechender Podcast, der ganz dem 25jährigen Jubiläum des bestverkauften Albums aller Zeiten, "Thriller", gewidmet ist.

The 40-episode podcast will run throughout 2008 and feature icons of music and screen, including hip-hop legends KRS-ONE, DMC, current superstars Akon, Nick Cannon, Chris Brown, will.i.am, Quincy Jones, Imogen Heap, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels, turntablist DJ Spooky as well as many more special guests. Each guest sat down with us to discuss their experiences with Thriller, the various singles and videos, and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. Their stories are each unique and profound and singular in their message: Thriller was a game-changer across the board.
Über das ganze Jahr 2008 verteilt werden 40 Folgen dieses Podcasts ausgestrahlt werden. Viele Musik- und Filmlegenden, wie die HipHop Legende KRS-ONE, aktuelle Superstars wie Akon, Nick Cannon, Chris Brown, will.i.am, Quincy Jones, Imogen Heap, die Choreographen Shane Sparks und Mia Michaels und DJ Spooky werden sich neben vielen anderen Special Guests in diesen Podcasts zu Wort melden. Jeder Gast nahm sich Zeit für uns, um uns seine Erfahrungen mit Thriller zu schildern. Wir sprechen über die verschiedenen Singles und Videos und darüber, wie die Gäste durch Thriller beeinflusst wurden, sowohl im privaten, als auch im beruflichen Bereich. Die Geschichten, die sie zu erzählen haben, sind einzigartig und fundiert. Und in einem sind sich alle einig: Thriller hat damals alles verändert.

The free podcasts will start February 1 with "Episode 0", a teaser of what's to come, with a new episode available (roughly) each week starting on February 12. Subscribe to the series via iTunes or Zune, through the RSS Feed,
Thrillercast
Die kostenlosen Podcasts starten ab 1. Februar mit "Episode 0", einem Teaser mit einer Vorschau auf alles, was euch noch so erwartet. Ab 12. Februar wird immer in ungefähr wöchentlichen Abständen eine neue Folge erhältlich sein. Abbonniert den Podcast über iTunes oder Zune, über den RSS Feed,
Thrillercast

SONYBMG / LEGACY RECORDINGS

Übersetzung: Maja / MALIBU Michael Jackson & Family Fan Club

New Footage of Michael Jackson in the Studio with Will.I.Am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…will-i-am.html#post249659

Will.I.Am Interviewing Quincy Jones

Akon talking about Thriller

Akon in the studio laying out vocals for WBSS

Some clips from Number Ones DVD (Mary J and Beyonce)

Wyclef talking about Thriller (New)

Michael and Will.I.Am in a studio on a laptop

February 05, 2008 - Thrillercast Climbing the Charts!

Thanks to early buzz from MJ fansites and the support of you the Michael fans, Thrillercast is steadily climbing the iTunes Podcast charts! We want to make this the most popular podcast of all time, so be sure to spread the word and let people know that they can subscribe to the Thrillercast at Thrillercast: Michael Jackson. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about Thrillercast, including some upcoming guests we think you'll really enjoy.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

Thrillercast:

Hey All-

I'm the Associate Producer for the Thrillercast...just wanted to clear something up.

ALL of the interviews (with the exception of 3) will be ALL-NEW and recorded specifically for this podcast in 2008.

I'm glad everyone's looking forward to it!

You can subscribe on iTunes now (although its not searchable yet)

http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edg…cast%253Fid%253D273157848

Source: SonyBMGJeremy, MJJC

Quincy Jones' 'Thriller' Memories

As the landmark Michael Jackson album turns 25, its legendary producer tells us what it means to him, what happened at his recent get-together with the King of Pop, and whether he's got more music to make (Snoop Dogg and Joe Pesci (?!) think so)

MICHAEL JACKSON AND QUINCY JONES AT THE 1984 GRAMMYS ''When I go to Shanghai or Cairo or wherever, it's shocking to see that they're still playing [Thriller] all over the world 25 years later. It's an honor''

By Simon Vozick-Levinson

Quincy Jones could use a day off. Twenty-five years after producing Michael Jackson's Thriller, at an age when some might be settling into a peaceful retirement, the 74-year-old music-biz legend stays busy crisscrossing the globe for various philanthropic projects. ''I'm so tired of these planes, man!'' Jones kids. ''I'm going to go to Brazil tomorrow. It's ridiculous.'' During a rare free moment at his Bel Air, Calif., home, Jones chatted with EW.com about this month's deluxe Thriller anniversary edition, his most recent visit with Michael Jackson, and whether the music industry is too far gone to be saved.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How do you feel when you look back at Thriller, 25 years later?
QUINCY JONES: I can't believe it's that long ago. When I go to Shanghai or Cairo or wherever, it's shocking to see that they're still playing it all over the world 25 years later. It's an honor to me.

When you were in the studio recording that music, did you ever imagine it would be that timeless?
You don't think about that kind of stuff when you make records. You want it to be played next week! [Laughs] It's astounding. I picked one of the most incredible teams in the world, the guys that I worked with — [songwriter] Rod Temperton and [engineer] Bruce Swedien and [keyboardist] Greg Phillinganes and [horns/strings arranger] Jerry Hey — it was a divine situation. Everybody had this incredible respect and love and affection for each other. A team that is real honest with each other, that's the key. Because there's nothing in the world like getting a group of guys [like this] around.... I've seen a lot of people [whose] friends and cousins tell them everything they do is perfect. That's a big mistake.

Have you listened to the whole Thriller album start to finish in one sitting recently?
God, no. I haven't done that in 20 years.

Why not?
I have it in my system in my home, but I'm not going to sit there attentively listening to every song. We had a lot of music out in the '80s and the '70s. So it's never been a situation where I just sit down. Maybe I will one day, when I get time. Just sit down and relax and count the blessings, really. Because that's what they are.... Michael came by here the other day.

What was that visit like?
It was great. We just hung out and talked. It was nice to see him. He came with [attorney] Peter Lopez. I hadn't seen him in a long time.

What kind of things did you talk about?
He told me that they were doing some remixes [of songs from Thriller] and so forth. Somebody sent it to me, and they're fantastic. Akon worked on one, will.i.am did one. They were beautiful.

Some people think it's almost blasphemy to remix Thriller.
Look, man, stuff happens. What happens happens, right? Lord knows, Thriller's certainly had its time, and it still does. It's still doing whatever it's supposed to do, which is shocking in itself. I think the way the record business is now, it'll never happen again.

Why do you say that?
It was the very beginning of MTV, back when MTV wasn't even playing black music. In a way, Michael and MTV rode each other to glory, in terms of establishing the format for videos. I still see every day, videos that were made last month that look just like the videos that he made 25 years ago. It's amazing. And, you know, everything grows. It has its natural evolution and it evolves. When you've been in the music business this long, nothing surprises you. I started back with 78 [rpm] records — that's how long I've been in the business.

NEXT PAGE: ''I like it best when there's no time for paralysis from analysis. We ended up making Thriller in eight weeks, the entire album. We didn't have time to think about all that intellectual stuff.''

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think the music business will eventually recover from where it is now?
QUINCY JONES: Who the hell knows? I think the passion for music is as high as ever. I think the distribution system is a disaster, totally flawed. It's a misunderstanding between Silicon Valley and the corporate bean counters at the record companies. And I don't think anybody knows what to do. Binary numbers are not new — they had binary numbers in Egypt, in 3500 B.C. That's still what drives all the high-tech stuff: permutations of zeros and ones. Once you get into the area of a CD or a DVD, you're handing your customer a smoking gun, 'cause it has the same power as a master. You couldn't do that with vinyl — vinyl would wear out and they'd have to buy another copy. It's changed so much. The technologies ran by the record business. The genie's out of the bottle, never to return. That's what I think. What do I know? I'm old-school, man! [Laughs]

Michael's also been recording an all-new album of his own. As someone who's collaborated with him closely, where would you like to see him go with his music?
I don't know. Right now, I haven't been concentrating on that. I've been involved in a lot of things, mainly my foundation — running all over the world, trying to figure out what to do about these kids that are having a real difficult time in Cambodia, Rwanda, the favelas, Katrina, everywhere. I care about that more than anything in the world. I'm going to be 75 this year. At that age, you've got to come up with some big solutions.

Given all that, would you say music is in the past for you?
God, no. Are you kidding me? People couldn't live two days without music. It's powerful stuff, man. It's the only thing in the world that engages the left and right brain simultaneously, emotion and intellect. Can you imagine one month with no music at all, not one note? You'd go out of your mind.

What about you personally, though? What would get you excited about making music again?
I'm going to. I'm working with Snoop Dogg, Joe Pesci...Tony Bennett called me a while ago, to do an album with him and Stevie Wonder. Music's always going to be a part of my life, man. I don't even know how to drive, so I guess I was born to do that.

Can you tell me anything else about those projects? What are they going to sound like?
I don't know. I just listen to God's whispers and when it's time to go, just go. I like it best when there's no time for paralysis from analysis. We ended up making Thriller in eight weeks, the entire album. We didn't have time to think about all that intellectual stuff. It's about blink! Malcolm Gladwell was absolutely right. You realize that we are all vehicles for a higher power to express what this is about. Music is a strange element of the planet, really. You can't see it, taste it, touch it, smell it — but you sure can feel it. Since I was 12 years old, all I've ever wanted to do is orchestrate, arrange, compose, and so forth. And most people are serious about their music. That's where it comes from. Mozart was not worried about making money off of music, you know. Money and bling-bling and Benjamins and all that stuff ain't about nothing. When we came up, we couldn't care, 'cause our idols were the raggediest dudes in the world.

Maybe these changes in the industry will help bring people back to what's important about music, then.
Yes. It's interesting to watch, though, isn't it? Especially when you get older. You start to have a different perspective on what it's really all about. I've been blessed enough, man, to work with almost everybody in the last 55 years of American music. It's a huge blessing.

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February 11, 2008 - Michael Jackson MySpace's Featured Celebrity

Michael Jackson is this week's Featured Celebrity on Myspace. The feature includes an exclusive interview with Quincy Jones about the making of Thriller. Be sure to go to

MySpace Celebrity: Official MySpace Celebrity Profiles Channel to check it out!

EPISODE 01: Darryl DMC McDaniels

DMC talks MTV, meeting Michael at the Grammys and the impact Thriller had on RUN-DMC.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's Thriller Reissue: All Killer, No Filler

Feb 12 2008 8:02 AM EST

Did you happen to catch Michael Jackson's appearance at Sunday night's Grammy Awards? Yeah, we didn't either. While the rumors were coming on hot and heavy, the reclusive pop legend didn't surface at the show — and that certainly didn't help the ceremony, which could have used some more pizzazz, or the promotional efforts behind the 25th anniversary edition of Jackson's landmark album, Thriller.

The LP might be older than you are, but it's pretty rare to see a reissue loaded with as much contemporary appeal as this one. Kanye West, Will.I.Am, Akon and Fergie all contributed in various capacities for the birthday gift, with Chris Brown, Nick Cannon and Imogen Heap all participating in a related 40-episode podcast series called Thrillercast:

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For a release as big as this — oh, and did we mention Thriller is the top-selling album of all time? — it only makes sense that there would be a single to hype it. Well, there is one indeed: a new version of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' " that features 'Kon, Will and, of course, Mr. Jackson.

"He's a genius," Akon told MTV News last month about working with the icon. "Just to be in the same room [with him], I felt everything I wanted to accomplish in life has been achieved. That aura ... that's how incredible that aura is. We about to shake the world up, man."

Thriller 25 has a few more silver bars too, including a Kanye-produced remix of "Billie Jean"; Will.I.Am's reworkings of "The Girl Is Mine" and "P.Y.T."; Fergie's version of "Beat It"; an outtake from the original Thriller sessions called "For All Time"; "Someone in the Dark"; "Carousel"; and the original "Billie Jean" demo. To boot, there's a DVD encompassing the related Thriller short films, Jackson's Emmy-nominated performance of "Billie Jean" during the "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" TV special and more.

Now that's what you call a reissue. As for what else is in store for this week, seeing as how it's almost Valentine's Day and all, we're bringing the 411 to you as a series of couples. After all, we heart having fun in New Releases.

Michael Jackson's Thriller Reissue & More: New Releases - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News

February 13, 2008 - Learn The Thriller Dance With CW11

Check out a video from CW11's Morning News as choreographer/dancer Giovanni Perez teaches everyone Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance moves. The video available on the CW11 website.

The CW11 Morning News Blog

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on PopMatters.com

Popmatters.com has a great piece on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" reissue with track-by-track insight on the album's success. Read the article on the PopMatters website.

Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller' turns 25 » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire

Share Your Thriller Thoughts

A few of our partners want to hear your opinions! Yahoo wants to know "Is Thriller Still A Thrill?" Here is your chance to voice your opinion to the world. Visit Yahoo! Music at:

new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining

Poll The People wants to hear what your favorite songs from the Original Thriller release was. Simply go to:

Poll The People: Michel Jackson to cast your vote.

EPISODE 02: will i am

will talks MJ influence, the Thriller video and recording with the man.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

http://kiptronic.sonybmgmedia.…ode02_william__564452.mp3

EPISODE 3: Next one is up... Nick Cannon

http://kiptronic.sonybmgmedia.…03_nickcannon__617304.mp3

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

NEW THRILLERCAST: EPISODE 4: SHANE SPARKS

Shane Sparks shares his Thrillercast starting today! check it out on the Thrillercast page.Thrillercast page:

Choreographer Shane Sparks gives us the dope on Thriller.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

"Thriller" On America's Best Dance Crew

Get ready for the next battle on America's Best Dance Crew. On Thursday, March 6, the remaining crews will throw down to the hits from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. Be sure to tune into MTV at 10PM to watch all the action unfold.

News: Michael Jackson

EPISODE 05: Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap shares a personal Thriller story and much more.
(Photo credit Michael Crook)

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson

EPISODE 06: Omarion

Omarion recounts his first experience with Thriller and talks about Michael's superstar attitude.

Thrillercast: Michael Jackson