And try as she may, Ms. Sykes can't help making the right labels sound hotter than an actual Mr. Right.
In Britain those boxes will soon be deployed to deliver targeted advertising, enabling the living-room television to compete with the internet.Other outfits are learning from TV. Record labels sound terribly innovative when they talk about bundling music together with broadband subscriptions.
Having been signed to Ed Banger since 2006 it's no surprise to learn that "Instant Alpha" encapsulates the light-hearted hedonism of the labels sound, and it's a joy to finally hear it.
Although No Labels sounds like a progressive high school's Model U.N., its heavy hitters are serious adults — or at least white male adults.
The Solar label ( Sound of Los Angeles Records) was on a roll in 1981.
PepsiCo has been part of this trend through Green Label Sound, a label financed through its Mountain Dew drink, which over the last four years has paid to release free music by under-the-radar groups like Matt & Kim and the Cool Kids.
Many of the best labels of the past 30 years, from Factory to Postcard, have had a "label sound", but Wichita, along with Domino, one of the preeminent contemporary British imprints, is not one of them.
The Mountain Dew brand has a music initiative, Green Label Sound, and one of its bands, MNDR, will play during the hack weekend "while the hackers hack," Mr. Henderson said, laughing.
"Our hope, and our intention, is to find the right balance in spending between TV and digital," said Mr. Cooper, whose other projects have included Green Label Sound, a record label financed by Mountain Dew, a PepsiCo brand, which releases online tracks by underground rock bands and pays for all the recording and marketing expenses.
The label "sound art" is a handy phrase that to some might be seen as limiting.
In each trial, the subject was shown three boxes, labeled "Sound 1," "Sound 2," and "Sound 3," referring to the three alternatives, each with an accompanying auditory stimulus.
