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Stephan Kunze's avatar

100% with you on this, Darren.

Love Space Afrika too!

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Tomerle's avatar

Hi Darren. You’ve recommended a service for small labels a few months back. I want to check it out but cannot find the link. Could you please share it again? Thanks!

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Darren Hemmings's avatar

Maybe AmpSuite, whom I am using for my own label now? https://www.ampsuite.com/

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Tomerle's avatar

Yes! Thank you

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Nigel Poore's avatar

As a long time music fan (and die-hard CD buyer / gig goer) I just want a platform I can visit (online is fine) where I can follow a band I like.

The band pays to join and these costs are recouped with music, merch and ticket sales direct to me (or even send me to your preferred merchant platform, that's fine). I want to be notified when a followed band posts new gig dates, releases new music and even posts band news. And I want this to be in one place!

Allow the band to tag with 5 genres so I can locate other similar music with a plain old database search & match. No algorithm needed or wanted.

Sounds like Bandcamp+ to me but with all artists including those on major labels. Surely the big record companies can't mind if the end result is people spending more money on their products?

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Dom Aversano's avatar

Spot on, Darren. I think the issue is that the music industry still likes to think of itself as radical, even though it's deeply conservative. As much as I dislike Big Tech, you can't accuse them of not being radical. Music needs to get radical again, but unlike Big Tech, for the betterment of the world.

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Darren Hemmings's avatar

Amen Dom - I couldn't agree more.

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Jeffrey Anthony's avatar

This is spot on analysis. It is why I say the future of music is offline and I am building something to make that a reality that I am calling Muse Foundry (https://musefoundry.studio/).

I came to this conclusion why revisiting my own path as a professional musician over the last 25 years.

https://medium.com/the-riff/the-future-of-music-offline-8d59e795c97b?sk=32b392068cd8da054d778de27d8b66b5

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