Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Not all artists are ready for a booking agent

Are you ready for a booking agent? It might seem like a good partnership to jump into, but timing does matter. Find out if you’re ready to work with an agency.

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Monday, June 29, 2020

Adversity is what makes an artist great

It’s a given there will be challenges and difficulties on your path as a musician. What matters most is what you do with the adversity that comes your way.

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Friday, June 26, 2020

How do you get a booking agent as a musician?

Interested in getting a booking agent? Here’s how Jack Forman of BiCoastal Productions chooses who to work with.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Are live events coming back? Will they be changing for good?

So, what’s going on with live events? Will they be making a return? What will they look like once they’re back? Jack Forman of BiCoastal Productions shares his perspective.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

What have booking agents been up to during lock-down?

In this video, Jack Forman of BiCoastal Productions shares what working from home has looked like during lock-down.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

SUPER HI-FI SIGNS OCTAVE GROUP TO IMPROVE THE RETAIL MUSIC EXPERIENCE

 Partnership to help retailers with new audio capabilities
 
LOS ANGELES (June 16, 2020) — Super Hi-Fi, the AI-powered audio platform that creates engaging digital music listening experiences, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Octave Group, a leading provider of music and branded entertainment experiences in retail, bars, and restaurants. The agreement will enable Octave Group, including PlayNetwork and TouchTunes, to offer selected Super Hi-Fi music technology in a fully integrated solution.
“Octave Group’s focus on creating meaningful, emotional connections with music for brands strongly aligns with our mission to build next generation listening experiences,” said Zack Zalon, co-founder and chief executive officer at Super Hi-Fi. “We are excited for the relationship with Octave Group and the opportunity it presents us to help significantly improve the overall retail music experience.”
In addition, Super Hi-Fi offers a wide range of capabilities including perfect song transitions, dynamic insertion of audio ads and promotional content, sonic branding, interstitials, audio news and podcast snippets, all perfectly stitched together for a high quality, fully produced result.
“Our singular purpose at Super Hi-Fi is to help digital music providers deliver better experiences to their customers,” says Zalon. “We are truly looking forward to working together with Octave Group and collectively delivering on that purpose.”
For more information about Super Hi-Fi’s services and technology, please visit http://superhifi.com/.
About Super Hi-Fi
Super Hi-Fi uses artificial intelligence to improve the digital listening experience by transforming gaps between songs into relevant and personalized content. The company’s patented technology is capable of understanding the infinite nuances within music with the expertise of a human DJ to improve transitions between content and create better extensions of digital brands. The result is perfectly transitioned streams of music, podcasts, interviews, news, weather, branding, advertisements, and other audio content. Based in Los Angeles, California, Super Hi-Fi is integrated by digital brands like Sonos, iHeart Radio, Peloton, and Napster, and has partnerships with such companies as TargetSpot, Universal Music Group, and The Associated Press.
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About Octave Group
At Octave Group, we believe in the power of music and media to inspire emotional connections in shared spaces, enhancing the way people interact with each other and with their surroundings.  Our offerings include TouchTunes, the pioneer in crowd-sourced music and entertainment featured in bars, restaurants and other shared spaces, and PlayNetwork, the leader in helping brands create emotional connections with their customers through music and media, in-store and beyond. ​
We reach more than 100 million consumers globally every day through 450+ brands, 185,000 locations and 2,500 local partners. Octave Group has offices in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Seattle, London, Columbus, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Santiago, and Sydney.​
Visit us at www.theoctavegroup.com and follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octave-group
 

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Friday, June 12, 2020

Weekly Digest: June 12, 2020

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Bandsintown LIVE Programming Week Of 6.15.2020

Every Monday, the Bandsintown LIVE streaming channel features Bandsintown OUTSKIRTS the Best of Americana and Country programming, and on Tuesday emerging artists takeover for Bandsintown DISCOVERY.

This Wednesday on Bandsintown LIVE FUSION we’ll celebrate Myd’s new single “Together We Stand,” and the Ed Banger Records family will be throwing a release party live from their basement. Catch sets from Myd, Busy P, Breakbot, Sam Tiba, and more special guests.

On Thursday, Legendary R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Jermaine Dupri headlines with live DJ set during a special day of programming on Bandsintown ALL THE VIBES curated by dGi management, and on Friday New Hope Club anchors Bandsintown #MOSTLIKED.

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MONDAY - JUNE 15 - Bandsintown OUTSKIRTS  
Americana, Country & Folk
HOST:    Wild Ponies
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT    Lyn Koonce
3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT    Caroline Spence
4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT    Royal Jelly Jive
5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT    Ray Prim

TUESDAY - JUNE 16 - Bandsintown DISCOVERY  
Emerging Artists
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT    Joshua Speers
3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT    Social Animals
4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT    TBA
5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT    RINI

WEDNESDAY - JUNE 17 - Bandsintown FUSION
Eclectic & International
To celebrate Myd’s new single “Together We Stand,” the Ed Banger Records family will be throwing a release party live from their basement. Catch sets from Busy P, Myd, Breakbot, and more.
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT - 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT      
 
THURSDAY - JUNE 18 - Bandsintown ALL THE VIBES
Dance, DJ, R&B, Latin
Catch performances by acts on dGi management’s roster including a live DJ set by Jermaine Dupri.
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT - 6:00 PM / 3:00 PM PT
  
FRIDAY - JUNE 19 - Bandsintown #MOSTLIKED
New Releases/Pop/Rock & More  
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT    Sam Tsui
3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT    New Hope Club
4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT    PUBLIC
5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT    Phoebe Ryan
  
SUNDAY - JUNE 21 - FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE / MAKE MUSIC DAY  
Special festival celebrating French music the world over with 19 artists participating. Fête de la Musique began in France, but has taken root in communities across the world. By collaborating with French cultural institutions, Bandsintown is able to bring this special day of celebration to a livestreaming audience. Artists include Soul & folk songwriter AYỌ, electronic hitmakers Kung, and many more.

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About Bandsintown
Bandsintown celebrates artists and helps them grow their careers. As the most trusted source of concert recommendations, Bandsintown helps fans discover artists, their music and go more often to concerts.

With a reach of 187M Monthly Active fans globally, over 55M registered concert goers and 530k artists registered to the platform, Bandsintown is a world-leading marketing solution for brands to engage with music enthusiasts at scale.

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Everyone, everywhere, hit record: audiobridge brings studio-quality possibilities to smartphones

audiobridge has a simple proposal: Most of what you need to make quality recorded music--multitracking, for example--can be packed into a smartphone.

This proposal is more radical than it sounds at first. The world’s more than 7 billion phones can now act as little recording studios, ready for everyone, everywhere to lay down ideas, play with arrangements, and make music. “We’re making something for everyone, not just for pros or aspiring pros, but for the entire world, including young people and kids,” says audiobridge founder and CEO Matt Miller, himself an experienced musician, session player, and songwriter. “That’s the vision, to have the power of Pro Tools and the simplicity of a voice memo.”

The vision is now available as an iOS app for free. The app reflects a reality where major hits are being composed on phones, and where many successful songwriters first record their ideas on the fly via hurried voice memos. audiobridge’s multi-track capabilities let composers and songwriters take things further, turning hummed lines into full arrangement sketches (or finished tracks). In addition, due to lockdown, audiobridge’s remote collaboration features have led monthly recorded hours on the app to skyrocket, growing 38x between May 2019 and May 2020. During the same period, the app has increased its MAU tenfold to more than 10K with minimal promotion.

Making serious music on a smartphone makes sense to many musicians and producers, people who may not have the resources to invest in a pricy home studio or buy expensive studio time, and who already use their phones to create. Miller knows their struggle well; he was a working musician who did everything from touring the college circuit to writing songs for other artists. In LA clubs, he would often play five hours a night as part of blues bands, mastering his craft well enough to get regular calls for studio sessions. For his various projects, he longed to get ideas down fast and share them quickly with collaborators, even once he shifted focus from full-time music to freelance software development, to eventually running his own software development company.

Miller figured a mobile app for multitracking and collaboration was around the corner. “But it was just never done,” he says. “By a certain time, I had done enough development to know how the tech works, and as a musician, I knew what exactly I had been seeing in my head for years. It was naturally something I ended up doing once I had the resources, with a few lightbulb moments along the way.”

Miller knew from the beginning that the design and user experience would be key to making the app intuitive, so a musician could download, pick up her phone, and get recording immediately. To pack the powerful features of digital audio workstations onto a small device, however, you need to understand exactly what people need to see and how to streamline their work. “It’s all about UX. What we’ve done very consciously is keep it mobile only and keep it simple,” says Miller. “audiobridge only works in portrait mode and doesn’t support landscape, for example. We’ve embraced the constraints, inserting the recording process into how people already use their devices.”

To simplify the app interface yet keep all the features, audiobridge’s development team has strived to automate key moments. Many creators don’t want a full buffet of detailed options; they just want their work to sound good. “The question is how do we add features when we’re out of room on a small screen without creating problems. That’s where machine learning and other automation comes in. You automate as much of the extraneous process as possible,” Miller explains.

Automation and tech tools have historically led to new sounds and creative practices, and audiobridge hopes to empower people to find them. This also means welcoming developers with cool ideas, effects, or features that can work with the app without audiobridge having to build them in house from scratch. “We love community involvement,” enthuses Andrew Perusi, audiobridge’s product partnership manager (and the bassist for pop rock band Hanson). “The artists who use our platform and the new creative ways they engage with their collaborators help shape audiobridge. User input is a big part of our story, and it's how we've built audiobridge from the beginning.”

“There’s a lot of talk in the music tech space about democratizing music creation, but it’s intellectually dishonest,” states Miller. “They may say it but they don’t do it. Some companies have really cool powerful tech that can make the creation process open to all, but they are using these old-school business models, which often set up barriers to music creation. No one is willing to admit that they don’t know yet what models might fit this new creativity, or that they may actually be setting up unnecessary barriers for musicians.” This can lead to bizarre, nonsensical hybrids, when the old legacy business practices or processes get tacked onto innovative products, in the interest of appeasing antsy investors and making money now.

Miller, Perusi, and audiobridge see it differently, sticking to a truly democratic model inspired by the innovative speed of open source software approaches. “You can’t do things the old way,” Miller insists. “You need to think outside the industry” and work within a small device everyone knows and loves.

About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software.

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With the DJCONTROL INPULSE 500, Hercules pushes DJs out of their bedroom and into their first performances

Rennes, June 11, 2020 —Today, Hercules announced the launch of a new high-performance DJ controller that helps skilled young DJs move from the bedroom to the barroom or livestream. The manufacturer has long nurtured the next generation of young DJs, and as that community’s skills develop to the point when they can turn their hobby into a paid gig, they’ll be well-served by the Hercules DJControl Inpulse 500. The new performance-focused controller is built from the ground up to help DJs feel confident as they share their mix with an audience for the first time.

Hercules has been making DJ controllers since 2003, when they launched the Hercules DJ Console, the industry’s first 2-deck digital portable mixing deck with a built-in audio interface. Over the following 17 years, Hercules released multiple controllers that appealed to beginner and aspirational DJs such as the popular Hercules DJ Console Rmx console in 2008. Also, in 2018 they released the DJControl Inpulse 200 and DJControl Inpulse 300, both of which feature built-in tools that actively teach young DJs how to train their ears for the art of manual mixing rather than relying on the Sync button.

Today’s new controller, the DJControl Inpulse 500, comes with both Serato DJ Lite and DJUCED®, Hercules’ in house mixing software. “We have been working alongside Hercules since 2015, most recently on the DJControl Starlight, which in 2019 became a super popular, portable controller,” said Nick Maclaren, Chief Strategy Officer from Serato. “We’re thrilled to partner with the team again on the DJControl Inpulse 500, a controller that lets young DJs take the first steps towards public performances. We have also adapted our software to integrate Hercules’ unique, award-winning learn-to-DJ hardware features so that users who choose to mix on Serato can go into their first performance with the confidence they need.”

Although the DJControl Inpulse 500 features Learn-to-DJ guides and DJUCED’s AI-driven Intelligent Music Assistant, it also boasts multiple features that help DJs confidently make the leap to performing for an audience and getting paid for their efforts:

-Ready-to-mix audio options: Powered by USB, the backside of the controller is wide open for external sources - DJs can quickly plug in their smartphone or a media player via dual RCA auxiliary input or a 3.5mm stereo mini-jack as a back-up or as an extra source of music. Plus, the hardware mixer for audio inputs comes with an aux filter.

-Controlled MC features: Plug in a microphone into the balanced micro input and play MC. The voice can be equalized, and its level is displayed on a VUmeter- if it glows red, it is peaking.

-Filter FX: This pro performance feature lets DJs push their mix customization to new levels and personalize their sets with effects available with Serato and DJUCED®.

-Solid retractable feet: Elevate the controller with folding feet underneath that glow when extended. This unique feature protects the controller from spilled drinks during rowdy performances and makes DJs look just a little more slick.

-Build quality: sturdy metal backing plate on the mixer, rubber RGB pads and built-in Velvet Sound DSP from AKM for processing audio inputs and outputs.

-Streaming support: Enjoy millions of tracks to mix with TIDAL and SoundCloud Go+ integrated within Serato, and with Beatport LINK, Beatsource LINK and Qobuz integrated within DJUCED.

The team at Hercules has been nurturing beginner DJs for almost 20 years, and as their community’s skills grow, their controllers are growing up too. When DJs feel they’re ready to move out of their bedroom and into bars, cafes and clothing stores, the DJControl Inpulse 500 offers a portable, professional look and feel, performance-ready controller that helps first-timers look cool and perform with confidence.

Available for preorder on June 11, 2020 and commercially available on July 3, 2020 at the recommended retail price of $299.99. Thanks to a special partnership with Sweetwater, US purchasers who order through the leading gear retailer will receive a free lifetime license for Serato Pro.

For more information about the full line of Hercules controllers, please visit hercules.com
 

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Covitech Launches Return-To-Work Platform to Test, Inform, and Protect Employees at Small and Midsize Businesses

Software developers at Art+Logic and health care experts at Hudson Scientific, along with several veteran tech advisors and entrepreneurs, including Arabian Prince (founding member of legendary rap group NWA), are launching Covitech (covitech.us), an end-to-end platform designed to empower small and midsize businesses to implement effective coronavirus response programs that ensure workplace safety and peace of mind. Covitech allows these companies to leverage collective purchasing power to access software, screening tools, and containment products that would otherwise remain out of reach.

“The COVID-19 crisis has revealed many inefficiencies in an employer’s ability to address public health and information needs. The complex decisions required to run a successful business are nearly impossible to make alone.” says Matthew Walk, PharmD, Hudson’s Marketing Director and Co-Founder of Covitech. “The need for digital infrastructure to support these problems is clear. Technology that ensures departments are properly following the constantly changing protocols of the CDC, FDA, state, or local government will address this operations nightmare. It also helps the public to feel safe.”

Beginning with its return-to-work platform, Covitech aims to solve the technological and logistical problems plaguing a range of companies and communities. “The technological basis, what helps us optimize distribution, maintain trust, and equalize access to resources, is what we’re building here.” notes tech entrepreneur and advisor Arabian Prince, one of Covitech’s co-founders. “We want to bring better safety measures and appropriate responses to underserved and overlooked communities and businesses at a time when they desperately need a solution to this challenge.”

Without access to large-scale purchasing power, this need is felt by smaller companies particularly intensely. That’s why Covitech has developed compliant, cloud-based and mobile-app suites that are fully customizable for small and midsize businesses. This creates a more effective way to screen, inform, and protect employees and customers from further spread of COVID-19, all while complying with applicable laws and maintaining employee privacy. A collaborative effort between software developers with keen sensitivity to UI design and trustworthy code, and experts in medical testing and healthcare-related supply chains, Covitech offers solid digital infrastructure that balances workers’ wellbeing, employers’ goals, and recommended healthcare requirements.

The first step is applying Covitech’s detailed protocol for workplace screening, supported by ongoing comprehensive COVID-19 testing resources, which can be arranged on site via a third party. The results are then reported via Covitech’s easy-to-understand platform, which only allows authorized parties to view identifiable information, while notifying employees with positive results via a mobile app and advising them on next steps for them and their families. Finally, Covitech provides sources of personal protective equipment, surface and hand disinfection, and containment solutions. This comprehensive approach stands in contrast to the uncertainty many business leaders are facing.
“Every business is different. The various protocols and directives that agencies and experts have shared with business owners make execution, communication, and planning more complicated,” explains Paul Hershenson of Art+Logic and Co-Founder of Covitech. “We’re working with businesses to implement the best fit for their particular needs and the needs of their employees and customers.”

About Covitech
Driven by a partnership between Art+Logic and Hudson Scientific, Covitech offers back-to-work solutions to small and midsize businesses by combining compliant software, screening, and containment to keep employees safe. It harnesses the power of collective purchasing of PPE, medical supplies, regulatory consulting, and software to make vital resources accessible to businesses managing their operations in a time of public health complexity. For more information, contact sales@covitech.us.

About Art+Logic
Art+Logic has been designing and developing innovative custom software since 1991. They have built software for over 900 clients from a diverse set of industries including education, aerospace, music technology, consumer electronics, entertainment, financial services, and more. With a talent for coding “the impossible,” they are industry leaders in providing software solutions to companies like NASA, General Electric, Google, Apple, Intel, and Motorola. Visit their website at artandlogic.com.

About Hudson Scientific
Hudson Scientific is comprised of FDA and ISO regulatory experts to provide the ability for companies to bring their medical products to market. Their team of engineers, quality assurance technicians, and regulatory experts have over 100 years of FDA related experience to ensure quality products are available in the U.S. market. Hudson has vetted numerous manufacturers of COVID-19 antibody tests and has vetted numerous other manufacturers to meet the FDA’s strict quality control standards. All PPE and testing supplies face rigorous, ongoing quality control testing at our facility in Hudson, Michigan. Visit their website at www.hudsci.com/.

About Arabian Prince
A songwriter, rapper, producer, DJ, technologist Pro Gamer and futurist, Arabian is best known for being a founding member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted rap group N.W.A., pioneering west coast electro music and producing the Grammy nominated #1 hit song Supersonic. He is the founder of iNov8 Next Open Labs and president of LAFTC - The Los Angeles First Tech Challenge robotics competition and partner at Black Dog Gaming.

Arabian Prince’s  passion for technology led to him create a 3D animation and special effects studio in the 90’s working with companies like Saban Entertainment and Fox, including 100+ video game, film and TV titles for Fox interactive and Vivendi Universal. As a consultant, Arabian has advised many companies on bridging the gap between technology and the youth, while bringing new product innovations to market. He is currently working with his tech partners to bring Open Labs to communities across the country in support of youth, women, diversity, veterans and anyone else who wants to explore the future of technology. He is currently launching a new gaming product that will hit the market soon called mClassic. www.marseilleinc.com/mclassic/

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SyncFloor Opens its Search Platform to All, Offers Licensed Music for Podcasts

SyncFloor, the search and discovery company for sync, is announcing the public launch of its service as of June 8, 2020. Now everyone can find great indie music for sync at syncfloor.com.

The platform lets anyone creating video find the perfect song for their production - from film and TV to advertisements and broadcasts -, and it lets them do so using natural search terms that fit the way music supervisors and other pros think about music. SyncFloor offers indie labels, distributors, sync agents and publishers a ready-made storefront to promote their catalogs for sync opportunities.

“There is so much great music out there, music that reflects the unique perspectives and artistic visions of amazing musicians. Similarly, there are many in the film, TV, and video production world who are looking for just the right song,” reflects Kirt Debique, CEO and Co-Founder of SyncFloor. “The problem has been connecting the two sides, helping producers navigate a sea of possibilities to find the one track that works and is available to license. SyncFloor can make those connections.”

Podcasters face similar struggles. To serve this growing community, SyncFloor has applied its platform technology to create a new site specific to podcast producers, allowing them to find and license tracks for use in their podcasts. “Music can be just as important to a podcast as it is to an advertisement, in terms of creating the right vibe, but podcasters aren’t typically plugged into today’s complex sync licensing network,” Cestjon McFarland, SyncFloor Co-Founder notes. “Because of this, we decided to create songsforpodcasters.com, a version of our platform specific to their needs.”

Both syncfloor.com and songsforpodcasters.com demonstrate SyncFloor’s vision for a simpler, more efficient sync world. “Everyone wants real-time solutions in today’s fast-paced world,” says Debique. “We’ve built a platform that enables quick and easy sync transactions, while preserving and even enhancing the creative side of music discovery and the joy of finding the perfect song.”

About SyncFloor
SyncFloor is a revolutionary new marketplace designed to unleash the full potential of music in commerce. Whether you’re a music supervisor on a dramatic film, a music researcher at an advertising agency, an editor on a documentary, or a producer on a TV series, SyncFloor is your one-stop-shop for music from brands you already know and trust. We aggregate existing labels, publishers, distributors, sync agents, and artist catalogs into a single store with beautiful and innovative music discovery combined with a modern workflow and collaboration experience. And of course, when you're ready, hassle free clearance. Search for music the way you want to and clear it when you need it.

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SUPER HI-FI WINS 2020 MIDEMLAB STARTUP COMPETITION

Super Hi-Fi’s Mission to Differentiate the Music Listening Experience by
 “Powering the Space Between the Songs” Receives International Accolade

Midem, the venerable global music industry conference based in Cannes, France, has named Super Hi-Fi, the AI-powered audio experience company, as the winner of the 2020 Midemlab competition for music tech startups in the Music Distribution and Discovery category. Facing the most competitive cohort since the competition’s founding, Super Hi-Fi was selected from amongst literally hundreds of companies from around the world.

“We’re extremely excited to be recognized by Midem and honored by the choice of the jury,” says Zack Zalon, co-founder and CEO of Super Hi-Fi. “We believe that differentiation will be the primary driver of growth for the streaming music industry in the coming years, and this award is an excellent proof point that our vision is starting to break through.”

Super Hi-Fi creates unique audio experiences by weaving together discrete audio elements and music into perfectly-produced, highly engaging listening experiences. Like radio before it, Super Hi-Fi shapes digital streams to their contexts, be they related to premium audio (Sonos); broadcast (iHeart); fitness (Peloton); or even news (Associated Press), audio ads (TargetSpot), and artist content (Universal Music Group). These “moments of magic” won the strong support of Midemlab’s jury of leading VCs, journalists, and music executives.

“We have the honor every year of hearing from the most innovative music tech startups in the world, and this year proved again that innovation has no limit in the music sector,” comments Xavier Tumminello, Director of Midemlab. “Super Hi-Fi stood out to the jury of their category, who felt their service has great potential to fuel a new wave of listening innovation and to add overall value to the music business."

Past Midemlab winners include Soundcloud, Kickstarter, The Echo Nest, NextBigSound, and Asaii (acquired by Apple). Traditionally announced as part of Midem in Cannes, France, this year’s Midemlab competition was incorporated into the Midem Digital Edition and hosted online.

About Super Hi-Fi
Super Hi-Fi uses artificial intelligence to improve the digital listening experience. Super Hi-Fi transforms gaps between songs into relevant and personalized content. The company's patented technology is capable of understanding the infinite nuances within music with the expertise of a human DJ to improve transitions between content and create better extensions of digital brands. The result is perfectly transitioned streams of music, podcasts, interviews, news, weather, advertisements, and other audio content. Based in Los Angeles, California, Super Hi-Fi is integrated by digital brands like Sonos Radio, iHeart Radio, Peloton, Napster, Universal Music Group, TargetSpot, Elevated Music, and The Associated Press.

About Midemlab
Midemlab is the leading competition for innovative startups in the music industry and entertainment business. Previous participants have raised millions of dollars in funding following their appearance at Midemlab. Others have been acquired by major players and many are now well-established in the music ecosystem.

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Friday, June 5, 2020

Weekly Digest: June 5, 2020

Get Your Free Report: 3 Career-Killing Mistakes All Musicians Make

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