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Jamendo hits a new target and welcomes independent music labels
Jamendo was thrilled to receive positive coverage from around the world following the announcement of their 10.000th published album on June 18th (today already 10.820 albums from 6186 artists all over the world).
You can get a feel of this coverage by visiting their June section in their blog. More and more independent labels choose to post their productions on Jamendo. Some examples?
Fading Ways was one of the first. Founded in Toronto in 1998, its aim is to « treat artists fairly and keep them in control of their own careers », explains founder Neil Leyton. From Canada, Fading Ways’ activities expanded over the years to the UK, then Finland. It is in fact a network of labels that « choose their artists locally and then feed them into the international network and our UK-based music store ». Fading Ways’ first CC release was Red Orkestra’s debut album in 2004. « I believe we were the first label to place a CC logo and license on the back cover of our international, commercially distributed releases. » Publishing music on Jamendo was the obvious next step…
Other examples are the Chicago-based indie label Paperwork Media, a label with a clear vision of the future of the music industry or the Sao Paulo-based electronic music label Psydom Recordz, label that has a specific philosophy as to how to go about getting its artist’s names out there. Its manager, Yuri, explains: « Psydom was an independent initiative of Brazilian producers. Our purpose is to propagate new artists by releasing promo recordings that are available for free download. The goal is to get positive feedback from the public. » They have been very busy uploading their catalogue on Jamendo these last few months.
In terms of new services Jamendo has decided to unveil some of its hidden treasures on a weekly basis through specific playlists. And by the way – read the CYEL article in the Technoport section for further news about Jamendo !
For more information please visit www.jamendo.com ; http://blog.jamendo.com/category/en/