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Soundrop Relaunches Platform for YouTubers

Music distribution services are gradually emerging and highlighting their very own features to attract various demands and needs. As for Soundrop, it recently announced their return with their digital-first distribution for the YouTube users after being acquired by CD Baby. Distribution is often an afterthought by recording artists, and they have adopted the single as their format of choice. At the same time, other artists have moved to a singles model to keep up with the newsfeed pace and bite-sized consumption of online society. Soundrop makes it ridiculously easy for…

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Gerry Beauregard, founder of AudioStretch, is now the Associate VP , Audio Core Lead at BandLab

AudioStretch from a Tech Perspective (1/2)

Music Press Asia is facing a new challenge – in our exploration and discovery of developing technologies in the music industry, we have constantly found ourselves wowed, dumbfounded and humbled by the level of sophistication we are seeing on this side of the globe. Whilst we continue to see fantastic works developed each day, we are increasingly faced with the…

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Music jobs in Asia

Jobs of the Month

Sound Designer (Studios) Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Singapore’s largest television and radio broadcaster, is seeking a entry-level sound designer to be part of its audio and recording team. Applicant stands a chance to build their repertoire and skills in music composition as he or she will be responsible to initiate ideas from creating, designing and editing music to composing theme song…

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Live Nation to tour Miyavi in the US.

Live Nation Tours Asian Bands in America

These bands, who collectively have more 4 million likes on Facebook and over 60 million individual YouTube views, will be touring across North America including Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. The first concert will kick off on 1 April and tickets are already on sale at Ticket Master. Live Nation will be documenting their adventures on…

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AHSP audience - image credit to Mikhail Teguh Pribadi

Konserku Crowdsource Platform For Live Music

The conservative route to producing a concert is to organise a fantastic event by predicting the act and theme that may not be what the audience would like or even know. An act who might be popular in one country may not be in another. Konserku is conceived to provide accurate demand – a demand through Konserku’s platform where fans…

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Lightcraft to Represent Indonesia at SXSW

Indonesian bands have remained popular at SXSW and saw bands like Shaggydog and S.I.G.I.T performed at various venues at the festival. White Shoes and the Couples Company started the tradition in 2008 and since then an ongoing slew of Indonesia bands have also performed at the similar festival. SXSW has remained an important for indie bands to perform due to…

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Asia-Focus Panel at SXSW

Demystifying Asia’s Music Industry, chosen as the title for the panel, includes key industry leaders from Asia to discuss more in-depth topics in the growing digital part of the business covering the development of mobile & tech through to privacy and legal licensing. The invited panelists include Justin Sweeting from Magnetic Asia who is also the organiser for one of…

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La Femme tours Taipei, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong

La Femme Tours Asia

Next month, La Femme, the French psych-punk rock band from France, debuts their first Asian tour performing at Scape Club (Singapore), Music Zone @ EMAX (Hong Kong), The Wall (Taipei) and Astro Hall (Tokyo). Their debut album, titled Psycho Tropical Berlin released in 2013, has already earned them almost 1.5 million views on YouTube. Requests have been pouring in to…

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Emtech Asia 2017

EmTech Asia 2017 to Host Technology & Innovation Discussion

The fourth edition of EmTech Asia, taking place at the Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, is organised by Koelnmesse Pte Ltd and MIT Technology Review and is expected to draw over 700 participants from over 20 countries. With more than 40 visionary speakers participating, discussions on what is set to change the way we live,…

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Calling Up Tech and Music Startups

Do you have an interesting story to tell about your music startups? For those of you geeks out there who want to think that you have invented a pretty darn good app, Music Press Asia [MPA] is currently looking for some exquisite creators and their creatives to feature on our Tech Series. Of course, it’s never only about the music,…

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