songbird

Information about songbird

SongBird
Parent companyBlack Hole Recordings
FounderTijs Verwest and Arny Bink
GenreTrance
Vocal trance
Progressive Trance
Country of origin Netherlands
Official websiteOfficial website of SongBird
SongBird is a Dutch record label owned by Tijs Verwest and Arny Bink. It is a sublabel of Black Hole Recordings, established in 1997, and is most well known as the label on which Tiësto's popular trance series In Search of Sunrise was released. Other artists featured on this label are DJ Dazzle, Mistral, Moontribe and Masai, with remixes by Dawnseekers, Ronald van Gelderen and Cygnus X.

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Passeri
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Male Superb Lyrebird

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Suborder:Passeri
Families


Many, see text


A songbird or oscine is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of Passeriformes (ca. 4000 species), in which the vocal organ is developed in such a way as to produce various sound notes, commonly known as bird song. There is evidence to suggest that songbirds evolved about 50 million years ago in the western part of Gondwanaland that later became Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Antarctica, before spreading around the world [1].

This 'bird song' is essentially territorial in that it communicates the identity and whereabouts of an individual to other birds and also signals sexual intentions. It is not to be confused with bird calls, which are used for alarms and contact, and are especially important in birds that feed or migrate in flocks.

Other birds have songs to attract mates or hold territory, but these are usually simple and repetitive, lacking the variety of many passerine songs. The monotonous repetition of the Common Cuckoo or Little Crake can be contrasted with the variety of a Nightingale or Marsh Warbler.

Although many songbirds have songs which are pleasant to the human ear, this is not invariably the case. Many members of the crow family make croaks or screeches which sound harsh to humans.

Under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy this suborder is divided into two "parvorders", Corvida and Passerida (standard taxonomic practice would rank these as infraorders). However, more recent research is casting doubt on the existence of Corvida as single parvorder, but given the present lack of any generally accepted redivision of Corvida into two or more groupings at the parvorder level, the families of suborder Passeri are listed below as being in either Corvida or Passerida.

Families

Corvida

Passerida

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Black Hole Recordings is a Dutch recording label founded by one of the world's leading DJs Tijs Verwest (Tiësto), and Arny Bink in 1997.

Sublabels

  • Bite The Dust
  • Black Hole Avanti
  • Black Hole Recordings Download Only Only digital releases

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Tiësto /tiɛsto/ (born Tijs Verwest /tɛɪs vɛɹʋɛst/
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Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 165 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track.
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Vocal trance is a subgenre of trance music, and contains highly melodic sessions, intro/outros which are similar to those of hard trance and tracks of usually about 6 to 8 minutes long.
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
Anthem
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
Anthem
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In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. In everyday usage, a record label is also a company that manages such brands and trademarks; coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution,
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Tiësto /tiɛsto/ (born Tijs Verwest /tɛɪs vɛɹʋɛst/
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Black Hole Recordings is a Dutch recording label founded by one of the world's leading DJs Tijs Verwest (Tiësto), and Arny Bink in 1997.

Sublabels

  • Bite The Dust
  • Black Hole Avanti
  • Black Hole Recordings Download Only Only digital releases

..... Click the link for more information.
Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 165 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track.
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In Search of Sunrise (ISOS for short) is the title given to a trance mix-compilation series by Tijs Verwest under his most well known pseudonym DJ Tiësto, and just Tiësto from the fourth installment onwards.
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Cygnus X was a trance project named after the famous X-ray binary Cygnus X-1. It began as a collaboration between Matthias Hoffmann & Ralf Hildenbeutel (who later left). Other projects of the pair include A.C. Boutsen, Brainchild and Dee.FX.
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Black Hole Recordings is a Dutch recording label founded by one of the world's leading DJs Tijs Verwest (Tiësto), and Arny Bink in 1997.

Sublabels

  • Bite The Dust
  • Black Hole Avanti
  • Black Hole Recordings Download Only Only digital releases

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In Search of Sunrise (ISOS for short) is the title given to a trance mix-compilation series by Tijs Verwest under his most well known pseudonym DJ Tiësto, and just Tiësto from the fourth installment onwards.
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Tiësto /tiɛsto/ (born Tijs Verwest /tɛɪs vɛɹʋɛst/
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M. novaehollandiae

Binomial name
Menura novaehollandiae
Latham, 1801

The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Passeriformes
Linnaeus, 1758

Suborders
  • Acanthisitti
  • Tyranni
  • Passeri


A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. More than half of all species of bird are passerines.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Passeriformes
Linnaeus, 1758

Suborders
  • Acanthisitti
  • Tyranni
  • Passeri


A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. More than half of all species of bird are passerines.
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Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave (through fluids as a compression wave, and through solids as both compression and shear waves).
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Bird songs are certain vocal sounds that birds make. In non-technical use, these are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology, bird 'songs' are often distinguished from shorter sounds, which may be termed 'calls'.
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Gondwana (IPA: /ɡɒnˈdwɑːnə/[1], originally Gondwanaland) included most of the landmasses in today's southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar,
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Anthem
"God Defend New Zealand"
"God Save the Queen" 1


Capital Wellington

Largest city Auckland
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