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✖️ The Moby problem on Spotify 😭 End of music hardware ownership 🎹 Kik launches cryptocurrency 💸

Bas Grasmayer
May 29, 2017
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Hey everybody!

A little change in format this week. Cutting out some of the images, which I felt clutter the experience. Let me know what you think of this format by using the 👍👎 feedback buttons at the bottom of this email.

Don’t forget to reach out for Midem meetups – I’m going to start scheduling for Midem this week.

Thanks!

Love,
Bas

From me, for you

The Moby Problem: open letter to Matt Ogle's successor at Spotify

Almost every week, Spotify adds a Moby track to my Discover Weekly or Release Radar playlists - probably the playlists I listen to the most. The problem is: I don’t like Moby.

www.musicxtechxfuture.com • Share

The end of hardware ownership in music

Looking at the startups that make owning your instruments and gear less necessary. (the page wasn’t up when I published it, but Grover has an overview of the equipment you can rent through their partnership with DJ Technik here, so you can get a better idea)

www.synchblog.com • Share

Streaming music

These startups think the future of the music industry is artificial intelligence

A few months ago I already took a look at the startups joining Techstars Music’s acceleration program. Find out what they’ve been up to since.

thump.vice.com • Share

Who's leading the streaming pack?

YouTube, Spotify, and Amazon Prime Music lead in terms of active users (interesting to note that the latter only has a 2 million song catalogue). Read the article to find out where the others stand, and get some data on revenue growth.

musicindustryblog.wordpress.com • Share

RecordGram thinks your phone is the new recording studio

Years ago, I spent hours per day on internet forums for hiphop. I was part of an early generation of creatives in hiphop who would use the internet to connect with writers, textcees, emcees, artists, and beat producers from around the world (read more).

Soundclick was an important part of that economy: producers would sell or lease their beats through there. Later, this shifted to Soundcloud. Now, a new startup things they can take this mobile-first. They may be on to something.

techcrunch.com • Share

Beyond streaming

How data is transforming the music industry

Does musical taste even matter anymore? Or does a data-driven feedback loop – where what you enjoy in the past shapes what you hear today – influence what you’ll like in the future?

theconversation.com • Share

Dear creepy men of the music industry, please stop

Heartbreaking to read these stories. To the creepy men of the music industry: you’ve been put on notice. (if you have stories to share about this, even if anonymously, and you need people to hear that story - I’m happy to provide a platform for that)

www.digitalmusicnews.com • Share

After years of silence, activists are forcing music festivals to take sexual assault seriously

A new wave of activists and artists are aiming to change the culture of unwanted sexual advances and harassment at music festivals.

www.latimes.com • Share

Wide view

What's next for bots on Facebook Messenger? Maybe helping companies sell.

“He shot down the idea that Facebook would build a mobile operating system to encourage this sort of use, or that it would try to take a cut of sales made because of Messenger. Instead, the company believes it can prove that Messenger improves sales, and that that will indirectly lead to more ad sales.”

www.recode.net • Share

Messaging platform Kik launches cryptocurrency to power its ecosystem of services

This is very exciting. They already enabled the ecosystem by being one of the first messaging platforms to allow external developers to build services for it (sometimes inaccurately dubbed ‘chatbots’), but now the Kik founder lays down the vision for the creation of something much greater.

medium.com • Share

Are we about to witness the most unequal societies in history?

Biotechnology and the rise of AI may split humankind into a small class of ‘superhumans’ and a huge underclass of ‘useless’ people. Once the masses lose their economic and political power, inequality levels could spiral alarmingly

www.theguardian.com • Share

Fun

Technology in music: a chronological playlist through history

A great chronology of how technological innovation in instruments changed the popular sounds of contemporary music.

thenextweb.com • Share

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