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I've signed up several months ago. They always have a remix contest going, you can win money and prizes; but beyond that, I find it a huge waste of time. A lot of the so called "musicians" on the site are rank amateurs. If you look through the different projects, a lot of them use songs from major artists as the song they want to collab on. They are supposed to post a clip of their song idea. I get the idea most of the people posting projects are not very serious about it. You are more likely to find a decent collab partner here, or elsewhere.
It's funny, most of the musicians on sites like this are guitarists and producers looking for vocalists and drummers. OK, that's pretty typical, can't blame the site for that. Vocalists and drummers are always the hardest to find in the real world. So the same situation exists in cyberspace too.
I don't like the webpage based recording/tracking software. I'd rather use my own production tools.
Here's another site, same thing http://www.minimumnoise.com/Projects.aspx
I think it's a better than Indaba Music. Since a lot of the projects are paying jobs, the people are more serious. OK, it would nice to get paid for guitar session work or production work, but you have to compete for work, and of course there's no guarantees you will get paid. Even if you're not wanting to make money, this site's simplicity, and no web based production tools, makes it a bit easier to deal with. It's a new site, so not a lot of activity there.
Both these sites are fine if you aren't serious about music, and just want to have fun and jam with people from around the world. Otherwise, both of these sites are a huge waste of time. Good concept, and I'm not blaming the sites themselves, it's the "free for all" nature that ruins it.
I found an up and coming Indie Rock artist to collab with on soundclick.com, through the forums there. Just luck I guess. Probably would of taken me years to find that on the two above mentioned sites. |
Interesting review. Aside from the sites overlying intended purpose, the site might be a good way for major studios to get amatuer musicians and maybe even the more experienced bedroom musicians to rework/remix famous pop,rock, and rap tracks to virally help market those songs and artists on the internet. Say you have some "kid" start a contest to remix Kate Perry - I kissed a girl, have a reward of sorts, maybe even without a reward, of course 20-30 attention seekers are going to sit there trying to remix the track, and then run around the internet posting their remix in hopes of getting some love online. Which would turn into a great inexpensive viral marketing tool for the record industry, especially if this turns into something cultural on the internet.
If you have the major media giving a site like this which is still practically shit and hasn't done anything yet that is really newsworthy yet, then it does seem like there is something bigger behind it. Radio shows, Colbert's show, and whatever else is pushing this site is quite interesting to see. So ultimately this might just be a really smart marketing tool for the record industry and other major media. Sickazz analysis? We'll see how this site develops. I hope its genuinely a site for people to collaborate and share ideas, if its some elaborate marketing tool for popular music, shame. If actually does turn out to be a really great collaboration community + an elaborate marketing tool for the major medias, then thats allright i guess. 
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commercial and underground electronic music (house/techno/trance/other) will surpass today's hip hop/pop/rock/country in worldwide interest...if it has'nt already.
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