‘social music network’ Category

Percussionlab collects mixes

January 21st, 2010

percussionlab

Percussion Lab is a collective of like-minded artists, DJs, record labels and selectors. Since 2002 they’ve been curating an exclusive collection of live and DJ sets from their favorite artists, DJs and record labels. In August 2009, they decided to open up their previously exclusive collection of live, DJ and curated mixes to you, the user and invite you to participate in this community.

www.percussionlab.com

Getdarker.com devoted to dubstep

December 30th, 2009

GetDarker is an endorsed independent online magazine based in London  devoted to Dubstep music and UK underground culture.
Each month over 110,000* people across the globe visit the site to read the latest news,
reviews and interviews, download podcasts, and contribute to the world’s largest and
most reliable source throughout Dubstep including listing of club and event listings.
Throughout Dubstep, Getdarker keep a close eye on the most promising new talent around, featuring and promoting them on the site before anyone else whilst remaining upto date on the most exciting dance music genre.

Fnoob Radio Launch Night

September 5th, 2009

Fnoob Radio Launch Night
September 5th 10pm – 7am GMT
Fnoob is an electronic music and radio community who aims to create a bond between listeners, artists and record labels across the world.
Its motto is simple -’Raising Underground Music to the Surface’.
The radio hosts DJs from around the world with exclusive releases, interviews and special one off broadcasts from electronic music events.

The social aspects of fnoob allow users to create unique profiles, upload their own music, write blogs,
create groups, upload videos and photos to share with the world or just their friends.
This has all been done before, but fnoob is focused on purely electronic music. Above all else fnoob is
free for all members and will remain that way, without intrusive advertising and sponsorship, and is is
privately funded by an electronic music enthusiast.
The website is still in a beta development stage with applications and features being added daily.

The radio launches on September 5th with live broadcasts and interviews from the following well
known & up-and-coming Techno and Minimal DJs / Producers
PERC – [CLR, Drumcode, Kompakt and Lost Souls] http://www.myspace.com/perctrax
Mikael Jonasson – [Harthouse, Audiomatique and Kobra records] http://www.myspace.com/mikaeljonasson
Plus live sets from Lee D’Mellow and Wayne D’Mellow
The Broadcast will be taken from the launch night of ‘This is Techno..’ a new and exciting techno night set to hit Reading, UK.

Soundcloud moves music

May 14th, 2009

Soundcloud moves music and we love it.

The sharing music platform makes life easier for music professionals, record labels to send and receive files and makes also life easier for music lovers. You can listen to a tone of mixes, radio shows mixes, from your favorite djs and hosts and find out about new talented djs.
A great place to discover good sound.
Soundcloud uses the same idea then twitter, where you follow and have followers. Write comments on the timeline and send private messages.
Nominated for the webby award 2009 in the category “services and applications”.

scanner fm direct from Barcelona

April 27th, 2009

scanner fm, the independent and alternative webradio from Barcelona.
Find there a good selection of radio shows (electronic, techno, downtempo, classic, reggae/roots, soul/funk, etc)  presented in Spanish, Catalan or English depending of the host.

scanner fm is also famous for its retransmission live and direct of the 2 majors festivals of Barcelona, the Primavera sound (28-30 May 09) and the Sonar (18-20 June 09)
Both festivals have their own channels where you can listen right now artists who participated in previous editions or that will be playing in the upcoming edition.
channel  Sonar
channel Primavera Sound

On scanner fm find also music reviews, agenda, a tv with video of interviews, live sessions and be part of an active community!

The hype machine

April 24th, 2009

The hype machine radio <ecletic>
Stream of blogged tracks from the past week
#webradio

the best mixes on mixcloud

April 22nd, 2009

Listen to the best mixes on mixcloud.com.
Mixclouds founders Nico Perez and Nikhil Shah descriped their new project as a distribution channel for DJ content. It helps DJs to promote their mixes and  helps listeners to discover new shows, mixes and DJs.
Good sound guarantied!
Mixcloud was launched in march in beta, for the moment  you still need a invitation to enter.

Get your invitation to discover mixcloud!
Write to goodsoundonline, (goodsoundonline[at]gmail.com), or by twitter (twitter/goodsoundonline)

Jamendo, free and legal downloading

April 11th, 2009

Download music on jamendo, it’s free and legal!
Another social music network where you can download  music under
creative common licenses.  If your a artist you can also upload your music.
A good place for discovering music and names.

Cotonete, the portuguese social music network

April 6th, 2009

Cotonete, the portuguese social music network, literally meaning the q-tip.
Easy to surf even if you don’t speak portuguese.
Radios, podcasts, community, game, search artists by alphabetic order and find a resume, the discography, information and its corresponding radio.
Clean your ears with a really wide range of thematic radios going from fado, afro-beat, classic, soul, latino to rock, reggae and lounge, etc..

Deezer

April 6th, 2009

What to listen after last.fm? There’s also the popular deezer
A really good music social network, where you can search for bands, songs or albums and play them right in the browser, listen to thematic radios.
You can make playlists, see complete discography, and  resume of the artist, if available. Find similar artists, and also be part of the community and upload music .