Things have been rough for everyone lately. We could all use a little pick me up. Something to be excited about and take our minds off everything going on in the world. To fill that need, we’ve got a fresh edition of Focus Five. As always we’ve rounded up five of our favourite new finds. From cinematic ambient vibes, to…
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Without an increase of streaming revenues on the horizon, fundraising looks like a more realistic source of income for artists and creatives during this lockdown situation. While the most popular solution in our community so far has been Twitch, Spotify has announced the forthcoming arrival of a brand new feature that will make easier for artists to allow their fans…
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The devil is in the details tells the proverb, and god only knows how much I love all the little easter eggs I find while I write these articles. For example, when I found out that the official remix competition for ‘Holdin’ On To Me’ was launched almost on this same day, 4 years ago, I was blown away. Happy…
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SoundCloud has come in support of its global creator community announcing a partnership with one of the key streaming players of the moment, Twitch, to provide more ways to engage with fans and monetize musicians’ streams on the Amazon-owned platform. Starting from yesterday, All SoundCloud Pro, SoundCloud Premier and Repost by SoundCloud users have the possibility to get a fast…
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In my own scale of values, ‘art of art sake’ is an untouchable principle that can’t be turned down, but at the same time I can’t deny that, when music crosses the path with social themes and activism, wonderful and mighty things happen. With the annual International Women’s Day upon us, Brooklyn queen Jeanie has seized the opportunity to raise…
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A couple of weeks ago me, msft., Voliik, Patrick from Kumo, Gentis, and Drvmmer were all packed on a couple of sofas inside a small backstage at an Electric Wave night, smoking, drinking and chatting about all things music. Try to image: it’s 2 am, cigarette smoke fills the whole room, the air stinks of Jägermeister and Redbull while dubstep…
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Even if my role as a writer should mean that I know things, many things, Electric Hawk remained hidden from my eyes and ears until their debut compilation showed up in our team’s chat and Colin took over an episode of their radio show. Let me say, what a surprise they have been since then! Interviews, spotlights, write-ups: their passion…
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Despite the fact that I have got to know a lot of producers and artists during these years and their respective creative processes, sometimes, when I bump into some incredibly powerful pieces of art, I wonder how humans can create such beautiful things. Since I pretty much have zero creative skills (musically speaking) within me, at certain levels music really…
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A couple of days ago I was hanging in a chat where msft. at some point started to praise this incredible producer he just discovered: skeler. Honestly I couldn’t belive my eyes. Not because compared to me my good Italian fellow is years late, but because I was incredibly happy to see skeler’s name finally making its way through the…
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Finally, after what seemed years, this past weekend I was able to enjoy a proper SoundCloud session. What do I mean by proper SoundCloud session? The concept is simple: I open my feed, I pick the first song that I like and I go down the rabbit hole, jumping from track to track in the “Related” section. I think we…
