Recently a friend told me about a new platform for music exchange. This sitution has two interesting aspects in it. Firstly, new ideas are always exciting to me and its thrilling in how many and which directions the music industry is developing. Secondly, I again became aware of the incredible value of the exchange of information and news in between friends. Where would I be, what would I know without my friends around me. It's such an enriching neverending process of giving and taking. Be grateful, take part, share! Thanks for this one, man!
Back to the subject. SoundCloud for the exchange of music in between musicians and other music professionals ("we move music"). This involves the receiving, sending and distributing of tracks in most of the common formats. As a user you can listen to the tracks and comment on them directly in the waveform in which the track is displayed (nice widget!). Moreover, as an active user uploading music you dispose of a variety of options and statistics to see who listened, downloaded or commented on your tracks. Maybe one of the most striking facts is that your uploads are unlimited in terms of filesize, 'nuff said!
The endeavour was founded and initiated by Alex Ljung, a sounddesigner from Stockholm, Eric Wahlforss ('Forss') from the Sonar Kollektiv, Yanneck Salvo from the Drumpoet Community and developer Sean from the U.S.
For more information and an interesting interview with the four of them check: their feature in the highly recommended DE:BUG magazine
Another interesting fact is that SoundCloud managed to raise 2,5 million Euro from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, which should definitely open new perspectives and hopefully a bright future for the platform (source: vator.tv).
If this got you interested, check them www.soundcloud.com and take the tour:
SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.
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