I am re-releasing this podcast from 10-10-05, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.
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Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast (June 2008)
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The next installment in Tony Z’s Global House Mix series for June 2008. This mix is dedicated to my girlfriend, Missy, who has been so supportive despite my disappearing for hours in the studio to produce these shows. It’s also dedicated to all those who are seeking inspiration to pursue their goals and realize their dreams.
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If you want to purchase the individual tracks, head over to Beatport.com.
- Love In War – KID Remix – Pete Gust
- Give It Up – Alex Gold Remix – Adam K/Soha
- Jupiter Calling – Original Mix – Thomas Schwartz
- Sunrise – Original Mix – Dave Spoon
- Pjanoo – Original Mix – Eric Prydz
- I Just Want To Be – Antoine Clamaran Remix – Sebastien Drums/Rolf Dyman
- Automatic – Tikaro/J.Louis/Ferran Remix – Ultra Nate
- Rhythm Is A Dancer – Tom Novy Remix – Snap!
- Down Down Down – Mattias Remix – No Tone
- You – Tom Novy Remix – Steve Mac/Paul Harris
- Got That M – Original Mix – Patch Park
- Vertical Smile – Original Mix – Andomat 3000
- Rising Up – Christian Malloni Remix – Ross Couch
- Yes We Can – Original Mix – House Music United
- 4 AM – Adam K & Soha Mix – Kaskade
- Moscow After Autumn Rain – Original Mix – Elastic Sound
- Silence (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – Neils Van Gogh vs Thomas Gold Remix – Delerium
- Delightful Encounters – Terry’s Deeplightful Edit – Terry Lee Brown Junior | Download Not Available
- City of Lost Souls – Stan Kolev Remix – Pete Moss
- Mushrooms – Justin Martin Mix – Marshall Jefferson/Noosa Heads
- Papaia – Original Mix – Tony Lionni
- We Are Facing The Sun – Original Mix – Sascha Funke
- The Big Blue – Original Mix – Billy Dalessandro
- Here Come The Beats – Original Mix – Fred Everything/JT Donaldson
- Manta – Original Mix – Jona
- No Comment – Original Mix – Solomun
- Berno – Mark August Remix – Till Von Sein
Netmix Podcast – Interview with 8tracks.com CEO, David Porter
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In December, we sat down for an interview with David Porter, CEO of a new online radio service, 8tracks.com. The company provides music fans, amateur DJs or seasoned professional DJs and music programmers alike, tools to create their own, unique Internet radio stations. Users who register with the service can upload any track they wish, sort and create play lists, and then publish those play lists to a streaming radio player. The Flash-based player can then be ported to a blog, web site, or social network like MySpace.
One of the best features is the ability to attach other users play lists to your own, creating a viral opportunity for great programmers to have their mixes heard across the network. Initially, listeners will be able to purchase tracks through Amazon’s download service (when available), but the company hopes to integrate with independent and niche download stores as well.
At this point, the service is in its Alpha testing phase. A beta launch is planned for late Q1 or early Q2 of this year. Netmix has partnered with 8tracks.com and will be switching streaming radio services at the end of the month. For the time being, you’ll be able to listen to both until January 31, when the switch will be complete.
Netmix will also be advising 8tracks on adding first-to-market innovations for professional and amateur mix shows DJs to incorporate into their stations.
Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast (December 2007)
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After a few starts and stops, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my latest 3-hour mix show. Things have been hectic over the last few months and I just didn’t have the time to focus on it. But, it’s finally done!
I love the 3-hour format, because you can really stretch out and program a variety of tunes into the set. So, download to your desktop and transfer to your portable device, or simply just listen to it here.
I’ve also provided links to download each individual track from Beatport.com when available [UPDATE – June 6, 2012 – Beatport’s affilate program with Linkshare is no longer active and the links have been removed]. I know I was hard on Beatport in the past, but the service finally got around to building out a text linking program through their partnerships with Linkshare, an affiliate network that provides companies with the tools to build out affiliate programs. I found most of the tracks, but there were a few I couldn’t track down. It might be because they are new and haven’t pushed an update to Linkshare yet. Beatport have also created an API through LinkShare, which I hope to use in the future. But for now, we’ll just keep it simple.
Would love to know what you think, so please come back and post your comments. Enjoy!
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Netmix SXSW Podcast Interview w/ John Toone, CEO of Muzu.tv
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After a 4-day swing through South by Southwest in Austin, TV, I’m back in New York wading through the content I’d generated during the festival. While walking through the main exhibit hall, I ran across a number of companies promoting products and services to artists. Muzu.tv is one that caught my eye. In this Netmix SXSW podcast, Muzu.tv CEO, John Toone explains the company’s toolsets and philosophy.
The two-year old company are planning a late Q2 launch of their online platform of front end and back end tools allowing recording artists, labels, DJs and DVD DJs, record producers, remixers, video artists, directors and more to build and maintain highly customizable online profiles. In addition to general profile features, under a simple set of tabbed headers, creative types can build a network of video channels alongside a library of copyrighted works, which can all be made available for streaming or paid/free download, with rights issues, transactions and tracking all handled within the system.
DJs, remixers and video remixers can create their own profiles, grab samples or tracks from other artists in the system and create new tracks and mashups, with all rights, clearances or transactional payments handled through as well.
The service provides promotional tools within the network. Profiles have a variety of social networking features and the ability to handle merchandise transactions, like t-shirts and ticket sales. A wiki provides user generated content organized by city about upcoming performances, bios on bands and other relevant information that can be added or edited and updated by anyone in the network.
Recently, the company made its public debut at Midem, the world’s largest music conference in Cannes, France. In our interview, Mr. Toone relayed that feedback was positive, considering the number of entrants in the marketplace competing for the attention of the world’s bands, musicians and DJs. Mainly, it’s the simplicity that’s key. With an interface that generally keeps the user from having to scroll down to view, presenting the content generally above the scroll in a mostly Flash-based experience, the web sites core principle is K.I.S.S., which stands for “Keep it simple, stupid.”
Operating out of Dublin, Ireland with staffers in London and New York, Muzu.tv CEO, John Toone applied his extensive music legal experience in business affairs at both Virgin and A&M to create a legal and scalable platform to distribute copyrighted works with an extensive tracking system. Copyright owners are excited about the company’s plan to share revenues from video pre-roll and banner advertising with those contributing to the network. Where applicable monies will be distributed back to copyright owners on the sale of new works created within the system should they be downloaded. A pretty neat feature in itself, but widely dependent on creators to upload to the system.
To the layman, one would probably ask how is this different from MySpace, YouTube and other user-generated content companies in the marketplace? A key differentiator is that Muzu.tv was built by music industy folks who have a deep understanding of the challenges facing copyright owners in a widely fragmented space, providing a legal platform to ingest and redistribute content with rights tracking and payments handled organically by the system. Instead of a build and worry about the rights later, which is what MySpace and YouTube orginally did, the creators of Muzu.tv saw the need to provide an efficient rights-based system.
I have yet to look through any agreements a copyright owner would agree to to upload their content, but I believe the system is built on retaining rights while Muzu shares in revenues generated by those rights.
The challenge facing Muzu.tv is to convince the world’s band’s already on MySpace, YouTube and other music plaforms, like CDBaby, to move over to and leverage to Muzu.tv stystem. MySpace’s partnership with SnoCap gives artists the ability to offer their tracks for sale on MySpace’s pages. However, the downside with Snocap/MySpace is the reliance on third-part providers to build widgets. Many MySpace pages are disjointed, broken and can crash browswers after artists add some of these third-party tools. Given the technology the company has built and its founders vision, the technology comes from one source, not unlike Apple’s proprietary system. Although it’s great that a cottage industry is being built around MySpace for third-party solutions, having a place like Muzu.tv could save artists time and money with a closed system that will add new products after extensive testing.
I’m thinking it’s reasonable to believe Muzu.tv, given the intellectual and technology capital in the company, should do quite well once artists begin to trust the service and use it as their home base and an extension of their own web sites.