Thursday, February 5, 2009

Indaba Music

I I was home ill the other day, sitting in my basement and watching a re-run of the Colbert Report. His guest on this particular episode was Dan Zaccagnino, the co-founder of the music sharing site ‘Indaba Music’.
The website was launched February 1, 2007, more than two years ago. I apologize for the delay; until now I wasn’t even aware of the existence of such a wonderful website.
As far as I am aware, the concept behind Indaba is unique to this website; while there are several other websites that allow users to remix preexisting songs, Indaba lets it's patrons lay down tracks to create entirely new songs with people all over the world. A dream-come-true for musicians like me who find they are surrounded by people with no musical talent.
Registering is easy and free and once a member, you have access to all sorts of different goodies.
Probably the greatest draw back is that, at first, the website is difficult to navigate; I think there is just so much to do, that it’s easy to get lost. But once you get past the initial shock of the websites capabilities, finding your way around is relatively easy.
The site allows you to not only create music, but listen to the music of other members or groups, view the records of others (by records, I mean their production history; how many tracks they've layed down, how many were used in songs, ect.), as well as comprehensive profiles.
Once i figure out how, I’m going to be putting tracks on here, both from the website and myself, to demonstrate the usefulness and awesomeness of Indaba Music.

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