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Zimbalam discount and freebie!

Our good friends at Zimbalam are offering all Dizzyjam users a very special deal on their great service. Their site lets you sell on iTunes and other platforms for a simple one off fee (£19.99 for a single, £29.99 for an album). And we’re giving one lucky

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Free designs for bands, DJs, promoters and labels

Here at Dizzyjam we’re really proud of the big steps we’ve made towards making it much easier to make money from merchandise for anyone who makes, plays or promotes music. To start making money from merch with us, all you need to do is sign-up for free, upload

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Invest in Dizzyjam

At Dizzyjam we’re undertaking a really exciting crowdfunding project to raise funds to help us grow. But unlike most crowdfunding, you’ll actually get to OWN SHARES in our company. That’s right – you’ll be a shareholder and will be entitled to a share of our future dividends.

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Work at Dizzyjam

We’ll shortly be employing two new members of staff, thanks to the Jobs Growth Wales fund. If you’re between 16 and 24, currently unemployed, live in Wales, and want to work for Wales’ most exciting startup, then we want to hear from you. The wages are basic, but

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Radar's Ultimate Guide To Getting The Most From Your Music Video

Here’s a great guide from our friends over at Radar: Radar helps independent labels and DIY artists everywhere find and commission the best music video directors for their budget, and helps promote the best new music videos to music journalists and fans worldwide. We also publish useful articles. Here’

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Take It Away

We’ve learned about a brilliant scheme from the Arts Council to enable young people to get their hands on musical instruments more easily and cheaply. Take It Away aims to make musical instruments more accessible to children and young people by providing interest-free loans of between £100 and £2,

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Radar Music Videos

We love the idea of Radar. A platform for getting your music video made, and promoted! Check out the great list of videos that have been commissioned through the site. Everyone from Cinematic Orchestra to Young Guns. Here’s some more info, straight from the horse’s mouth! What’s

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Make your band look and feel more professional

Make your band look and feel more professional, optimise the free tools the web has to offer by Planzai Music – Part 1 (Behind the Scenes) This guest blog post comes from Planzai, a how to app for musicians, and their content expert David Hill. He is also the director of

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Disco Shedonism

Our very good friends at Disco Shed have just launched their new range of summer essentials for the shedonist massive! Kitsch, cool, and full of character, the Disco Shed was conceived in a moment of garden party madness by club promoters and long time festival goers Peepshow Paddy and Aidan

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Goldie Lookin Chain - The Fresh Prince Of Cwmbran

Newport’s finest, Goldie Lookin Chain have wandered as far as Cwmbran for their new track & video The Fresh Prince Of Cwmbran: Watch it here… You can get these sexy GLC Fresh Prince Of Cwmbran t-shirts here. We expect to see photos of you next to the biscuit factory

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Penny postage and sell your merch with bundled MP3s

Well, we don’t know about you guys, but here at Dizzyjam HQ in not-so-sunny Cardiff we’ve become heartily bored of the lack of the British summer so far. Two or three consecutive sunny days isn’t too much to ask, is it? So, we’ve taken it upon

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Record Store Day 2011

Well that was fun wasn’t it? We’re glad to have been a part of RSD11, where we camped ourself in Spillers Records in Cardiff, and made and customised the famous Spillers Records t-shirts ‘live’. When we arrived at opening time, we were greeted by a humungous queue, all

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New Facebook app launched

We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched a Facebook app to allow your customers to browse your products on your Facebook fanpage and then buy. To add the app to your fanpage all you need to do is…. 1 – Click here. 2 – On the left hand side

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A Broad Church.

These four shirts were sat right next to each other in our order queue – and in terms of genres,  you’ve got (left to right) Jungle (Jungle Syndicate), Welsh Folk (Mary Hopkin), Goth (Solemn Novena) and Breakbeat (Ape Music). And that’s exactly the kind of diversity we want to

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January Newsletter

January 2011 Newsletter Welcome to a new decade. At Dizzyjam, we variously saw it in by: drinking strong drinks out of ribena bottles; frightening karaoke; DJing on an indoor boat; drawing on walls at 6am; saying b0llocks to it all and going to bed at 11pm. Aside from that, we’

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How to create an image with transparent areas

Here’s a guide on how to create transparent areas for your designs. CREATING YOUR IMAGE: First off, you need to decide if you are starting your design from scratch, or editing an existing design? Starting from scratch is always best, as it means you won’t lose any definition

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Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day

The brilliant “Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day” is today. In it’s third year we’re proud to bring you these photos from the Dizzyjam office. Neil wearing an ancient t-shirt from breakbeat act "Phantom Beats". He claims he's thrown all his Wonderstuff

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Myspace on the brink?

Much has been made of Myspace’s apparent inability to keep up with the astonishing growth of Facebook. But now, even after a recent overhaul (video overview of new features), it appears Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp are considering their options for the site which they bought for $580m just five

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Christmas posting times

It’s a little tough working out the best dates to announce as our last order dates for Christmas delivery. First we have to look at what Royal Mail set as their last postage dates. And then we have the tough problem of trying to predict how busy we’ll

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The tale of our first five t-shirts

Just over a year ago Dizzyjam.com went live and we sold our first t-shirts. We went back to our first five customers and sent them all an email to see how they were getting on with those shirts a year later. We got emails back from four of them:

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Dizzyjam intern

We’re looking for an intern. Primarily we’re thinking about maybe a student over the winter holidays who could spend most of December devising and carrying out a marketing campaign. But we’d be really interested to hear from anyone who is interested in doing work of any kind.

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Swn festival

We’ll be printing t-shirts and hoodies ‘live’ (not unplugged, we need electrcity, sorry) at this weekend’s Swn Festival in Cardiff. Swn is a great 3-day event based around tons of venues all over the city. Obviously, it’s brilliant checking out all the bands that are playing all

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Festinho update

The Dizzyjam stall: Lou, Neil, Jo and Gareth. Daf was hiding! What a weekend! Firstly, Festinho is now surely the best small festival in the country. We basically saw smile after smile after smile on people who couldn’t believe how much fun they were having in such a beautiful

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Festinho

We’re really excited to be sponsoring the brilliant festival Festinho! It’s a great weekend out in the beautiful countryside, surrounded by lovely people and music. We’ll be there with a merch stall, selling t-shirts and hoodies of artists playing at the festival. And some limited edition only-available-that-weekend

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Voodoo Funk

Frank Gossner is a bit of a legend. Frank’s been digging for rare afrobeat, disco and funk in Africa for a while now. And when we say digging, we mean really, really digging. Not just hanging out at record shops, thumbing a crate. We’re talking putting ‘Wanted’ posters