Music sharing startup SoundCloud has added the a new feature that lets you “tweet” the tracks that you share. When you tweet them, your tracks are posted straight to Twitter, a microblogging site. Tracks are tweeted from the share-box above each track: Click here to see how it looks on Twitter.
This video demos how to create and upload a remix project to Koblo.com. Music by Mankind is Obsolete.
Social music discovery service iLike has hooked up with TuneCore, a leading digital music distribution service, to help independent artists effectively becoming their own label. The alliance leverages TuneCore’s digital distribution model and iLike’s music promotion and discovery services to give independent artists a way to distribute, promote and sell their music: Distribution: TuneCore empowers… Read More iLike Teams With TuneCore
SoundCloud – a free file sharing service for musicians – has added a Creative Commons option, so you can share music in ways that let others freely copy it: The CC license support on SoundCloud is pretty straight-forward. You can pick a license when you upload a track, and you can set a default license… Read More SoundCloud Adds Creative Commons Support
Masterbeat is a new digital download music site that specializes in dance and electronica genres including House, Disco, Electro, Trance, Garage and Pop. Masterbeat.com sells DRM-free MP3’s. “These are the dance tracks made by and for the industry’s top DJs and remixers,” said Brett Henrichsen, Founder and President of Masterbeat, at the site’s announcement in… Read More New Site Masterbeat Focuses On Electronic Music Downloads
SoundCloud is a new music site designed to let you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.
It’s hard to believe that blogging has been around for 15 years, but it has. Even more amazing, the person many people consider to be the first blogger is an electronic music geek, Ranjit Bhatnagar. We’ve mentioned his DIY instrument a day project here before – like his 2×4 guitar – but it’s just as… Read More The First Blogger, Ranjit Bhatnagar
Bojam is a new site – not officially released yet – that tries to bring the open-source approach to music: Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music. Mass collaboration has been utilized in text (Wikipedia) and software (Firefox). Bojam does so with… Read More New Site Bojam Like Wikipedia For Music
Disquiet published an interesting post about the Joy of Hexadecimal MP3 – a look at Hexawe.net. Hexawe.net features music made with Little Pig Tracker – a sequencer designed to work on old-school game platforms: A “tracker” is about as simple a sequencer there can be, locating musical tidbits along a basic time line. In Little… Read More Free Music From Little Pig Trackers
Karma-Lab has updated its site, and added the Karma-Lab Wiki, which aims to build a library of useful “how to” information for working with the various keyboards, music workstations and software incorporating KARMA technology. It features articles covering all aspects of the products that incorporate KARMA (such as Korg Keyboards like the M3, OASYS, Karma… Read More Karma-Lab Updates Site, Adds Karma-Lab Wiki
