TuneCore and BPM Magazine today announced the creation of a custom iTunes iMix that readers can download from the iTunes Store (
http://www.itunes.com). Inside its next issue, BPM magazine will distribute instructions for getting an iTunes code that allows readers to download all the songs in the iMix for free. The 25 exclusive tracks include artists from around the world all of whom have used TuneCore to get their music onto the iTunes Store.
About TuneCoreTuneCore.com, the new music delivery and distribution service has changed the 100-year-old rules and model of the music business. It is a low, flat fee service that delivers music to iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and many other major download sites while taking no rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. TuneCore's fees are simply based upon the number songs delivered and the number of digital retailers it will be delivered to. With Nielsen SoundScan already reporting almost 200 million digital units sold this year (and those are just the ones they are counting), it is no wonder that artists are building careers, selling significant volumes of music and generating more revenue than most "signed" artists while keeping their rights utilizing the new model created by TuneCore.
Featured artists include:
Romanowski, who was born is Switzerland and is living in San Francisco, has been featured in URB Magazine, XLR8R, Re Up Magazine, San Francisco Weekly and The San Francisco Guardian. He has worked with notables such as: Z-Trip, Rjd2, Poets of Rhythm, Tommy Guerrero, Fred Wesley, The Meters and many more. Romanowski has had several worldwide tours and is also a successful club DJ.
Ray Manzarek & Bal have made an album as a complete collaboration. Bal is a Conn-Selmer sponsored trumpet player, as well as a producer and record label owner (PBM Records). Fusing Bal's productions with Ray's synthesizers and adding everything from traditional keyboard sounds to symphonic elements, the two created a unique electronic/jazz sound. Manzarek is one of the most influential keyboardists of all time. He was the keyboard player for the legendary band, The Doors, and currently plays in the modern day version, Riders on the Storm with original Doors member Robby Krieger. He has made other collaboration albums with Michael McClure, is a fiction novelist (Snake Moon, The Poet in Exile) and non-fiction writer (Light My Fire - My Life with The Doors). Bal has worked with David Benoit, composed original scores for films and worked as a trumpeter on projects for V2 and Dreamworks Records. Bal has been featured on TV shows and films such as, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ally McBeal Show, The Italian Job, Love Her Madly, Alias, Boston Public and many more.
Dutch artist
Like a Tim has been releasing records since 1992. He has done remixes for Aphex Twin, who later released his "Red and Blue Boxing" album on their own label. Tim started his own label, Like Records, as a forum for his own albums after years of releasing music on different labels.
Jamika is an American who has been living in London for the past ten years. She recorded her first album with the group Zenzile, who have been featured on all her albums, and have shared the stage with her for European dates in London, Rome, Copenhagen, Oslo and Barcelona. She also appeared at the 2007 SXSW festival.
Black Market Robot is Ross Thomas, a San Francisco-based artist, who produces his own music as well as remixes. His remix "8 point agenda" was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Beat Championship.
Caused by Defect came into being in late 2006 and was the result of a series of studio experiments by the 25 year old Dutch DJ and producer Fabian Kranen. A musician for 15 years, he decided to take the next step and submitted 'Freakin' Distortion' to a few prominent online radio stations. Although still without a label, the many positive reactions from both listeners and the stations encouraged him to release his work through TuneCore and open up his music to a worldwide audience.
Arthur Oskan has shared the stage with Ben Neil (Astralwerks), Misstress Barbara, Adam Jay and Murat. This Toronto artist has recently released a two-volume retrospective of his works from 1995-1997, 'The Auracle Sessions - Volume One/Two' on Decibel Palace.
The Horrorist has released over sixty 12" singles and two albums in the last fifteen years for majors and techno labels alike. In 2004 he had a #1 hit on the German Dance Charts (DDC) with the song "One Night in NYC" and in 2004 his album 'Manic Panic' went to #1 on the German Alternative charts (DAC). He currently runs his own label, Things To Come Records to release his own music as well as that of other dance/electronic artists.
Lismore's love affair with lo-fi synthetics, fuzzy pianos, raw guitars and odd electronics began in 2002 when two Jersey City residents became neighbors. Australian-born Penelope and Ohio-born Stephen, an ex-DJ (Kingsize), blindly began making electronic pop songs together unwittingly creating their acclaimed debut CD, 'We Could Connect Or We Could Not.' Soon after they took their sound into the live realm, morphing Lismore into a beefed up, loop-based electronic band that still retained their odd strain of fragile pop mechanics. Now a two-piece, Lismore recently released an EP, 'It Takes Guts to Deceive So Eloquently' and play in the NYC area extensively. BPM called their release, "an unusual album that grows with play and momentum, like albums used to back in the day when there was a deliberate creative distinction between side A and side B."
