✖️ Remix culture goes mobile-first 📲 Streaming in emerging markets 🇨🇳 Midem recap + off to Sonár+D ✈️
Hi everyone,
I’ve had a blast at Midem, doing 2 awesome panels, meeting a lot of old friends, and being introduced to many more interesting people whom I hadn’t met yet. Feeling grateful! 🌷
Congrats to Soundcharts for winning Midemlab. And congrats for TrueLinked for winning their category. (read more 👀)
Welcome to all the new subscribers (some of you have asked me to add you - that’s why you’re receiving this). 👋
This week I’m off to Sonár+D in Barcelona to moderate How to Blockchain for Artists, Labels and Fans, with Cliff Fluet, Blanca Rego, and Resonate’s Peter Harris. Look forward to seeing some of you there 🌞
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
Is the future of remix culture mobile-first?
In this article, I explain how the shift from desktop to mobile devices is shaping the future of remix culture, with startups like Pacemaker, 8Stem, Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Musical.ly, Tracklib, and others leading the way.
Midem wrap-up: chatbots + marketing Run The Jewels panels
In this article, I reflect on the two panels I moderated – includes full videos of the awesome panels featuring people from The Bot Platform, Polydor, POP, The Orchard, SuperPlayer, Sony Music, The Other Hand, Monotone, and the Run The Jewels team.
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Streaming music
Are 24/7 live YouTube channels the next big music streaming trend? 💻
In this article, Eric Skelton examines how live streams are quickly gaining popularity, bringing a sense of community to the traditional radio format. It’s a trend I myself have also noticed in the online underground: livestreaming is an important tool to bring global music communities online at the same time.
Music streaming 2.0: new models in emerging markets 🇨🇳
In this panel report, Stuart Dredge explains how music streaming’s evolution will be about more than just how the big, global services like Spotify and Apple Music continue their growth. Perspectives by Tencent, 7digital, and XPERI.
Spotify’s plan to win over anxious artists–and win the streaming war 🤝
In this long read, John Paul Titlow looks at how Spotify is investing in new ways to serve artists’ needs with data, fan-targeting promos, and the power of playlists.
Beyond streaming
Adult Swim Singles' creative director: 'People don't download music anymore' 🔽
In this interview, Lizzie Plaugic talks to Adult Swim’s James DeMarco about the digital music landscape. (MxTxF throwback: why nobody cares about your free download)
Meet the man classifying every genre of music on Spotify — all 1,387 of them 😮
In this article, Nick Patch talks to Spotify’s Glenn McDonald about how they identify new music trends and define genres, from ‘neurostep’ to ‘vapor house’.
Nigeria’s Afrobeats music scene is booming, but profits go to pirates 🇳🇬
Artists worldwide battle illegal sales of their work. In this article, Dionne Searcey explains how Nigeria’s piracy is so ingrained that music thieves even worry about rip-offs of their rip-offs.
Wide view
Ableton co-founder: “we need a revolution in music education” 👩🏫
In this report, Max Mertens presents five key take-aways from Gerhard Behles’ speech at Moogfest. (he’ll be speaking about a similar topic at the c/o pop convention in Cologne in August – I’m helping them with speaker curation)
Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters 🏴
Following up from last week’s blockchain emphasis, I wanted to include this to give people a scope of how new technologies are not just changing business, but even ideology. Blockchain is bigger than music.
Mapping the decentralized world of tomorrow ⛓️
Another interesting map of the blockchain ecosystem. If you thought torrents were bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Fun
Redditors design worst volume sliders possible 🔊
Intentionally terrible interfaces are hilarious.
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