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Jamendo Night in Cannes, France – Saturday, January 28th, 2012

martin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:16:11 +0000

Midem, the biggest networking event for music professionals and artists, will take place in Cannes on January 28th-31st, 2012. Jamendo will be active at the conference, but will also host what is surely one of the coolest events of the music festival organised by Midem: the Jamendo Night!

Here are the 4 artists selected on Jamendo to perform live on January 28th, 2012 in Cannes:

Victoria Caffè (pop, France)

The League (rock, France)

Anitek (trip hop, USA)

Emerald Park (indie pop, Sweden)

We chose these artists because they reflect the best of Jamendo: some are popular on the platform, some represent the most common genres of music in our catalog, others are natural-born live performers…

They will undoubtedly make this show a memorable night!

‘Tis the Season: ccMixter Remixes Jamendo!

nicole — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:45:22 +0000

The holidays are fast approaching! To get into the spirit of the season, Jamendo is teaming with ccMixter for our first remix project.

CcMixter is a fantastic website dedicated to remix culture. The site offers samples, source tracks and a cappella tracks all licensed under Creative Commons. The community then re-imagines these tracks and samples by creating their own remixes!

Join in the fun! Whether you want to contribute your own source tracks or create remixes, we’d love for you to get involved.

We are currently gathering a capellas, samples and stems. Visit ccMixter.org and upload yours! As always, they need to be either original holiday songs, or those in the public domain. Spoken word and instrumentals are also encouraged. Then, get excited to hear your music reinvented!

From now through December 21st, the focus is on remixes! Of course, each remix should include at least one a cappella, sample or stem contributed for this ‘Tis the Season project.

After the remix phase is over, we’ll be sharing a playlist of the remixes on both Jamendo & ccMixter for you to listen to as you celebrate the holidays!

For inspiration or just to get into the spirit of the season, listen to the beautiful album ccMixter already shares on Jamendo!

Happy holidays!

Featured Playlist: Christmas

nicole — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:06:38 +0000

‘Tis the season! Get in the holiday spirit with our Christmas playlist featuring both classic and original holiday music from artists like Jita, Tanya T6 and Stefano Mocini!

Royalty Free Music – Stock Music Library | Jamendo PRO

Or, you can click here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/playlist/215332

1. “Silent Night” by Jita

2. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Chance’s End

3. “Best Christmas Yet” by Stellar Art Wars

4. “Holy Night” by Maya Filipic

5. “Amazing Grace” by Snowflake & ccMixter

6. “Christmas Eve: A Sweet Waiting” by Stefano Mocini

7. “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” by James Edwards

8. “Wayne Coyne, Be Our Santa Claus” by Viola

9. “O Come O Come Emmanuel” by John Springer Family

10. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Third Eye” by Drop Zone

11. “All I Want for Christmas” by Tanya T6

12. “First Noel (guitar)” by Frozen Silence

13. “Silent Night” by Emorej

Featured Playlist: Relaxation

nicole — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:26:01 +0000

Relax to the zen sound of our newest featured playlist! This week’s playlist features meditative tracks by artists like Pedro Collares, Alban Lepsy, Sambodhi Prem and more!

Royalty free music for professional licensing

Or, you can click here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/playlist/213830

1. “Aquarius” by SaReGaMa

2. “Organic Healing Sound” by Pedro Collares

3. “I Still Love Her” by Matti Paalanen

4. “Warrior’s Honor” by Zero-Project

5. “Morning Horizon” by David Schombert

6. “A Walk on the Beach” by Alban Lepsy

7. “Reflecting the Moon” by Sambodhi Prem

8. “Shanti, Shanti” by Migel Konstantin

9. “Réflexions” by Francesco

10. “Our Lives, Our Destinies” by Mindthings

Featured Playlist: Metal

nicole — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:28:29 +0000

Rock out hard with our newest featured playlist! This week’s playlist offers high energy metal tracks from artists such as Serpenthia, Psychocean, Taste of Hell and more!

Royalty free music for professional licensing

Or, you can click here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/playlist/212488

1. “Fallen Star” by nocreeps

2. “Man of Sorrow” by Sekshun 8

3. “Perfection Is the Way It’d Go but It Doesn’t” by all:my:faults

4. “Fear” by Obsidian Shell

5. “The Masquerade King” by Serpenthia

6. “True Metal of the World (Ah-Ah)” by NanowaR

7. “Magmatism” by Psychocean

8. “Letters to God” by Amity in Fame

9. “The Road Killer” by Taste of Hell

10. “Insanity” by Mad Mav

Jamendo at MaMA Event

martin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:30:39 +0000

Jamendo will be at MaMA Event in Paris, France, on October 21-22, 2011. The MaMA is a professional event, a place where the music industry gathers to meet and discuss, and at the same time a festival, with 60 artists and two days of live music in different parisian venues.

Pierre Gérard, co-founder of Jamendo, is a speaker at the conference “OSER“:

Business. Story telling. Entertainment. Daring to re-invent the music market.
New outsiders offer different and surprising ideas to consume, buy and share music in innovative ways. From international success stories to disruptive start-ups, overview of what’s hot in 2011 and what should change in the coming years.

This conference will take place on Friday, October 21st at 12:15pm, at Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d’Or – Barbara.

Martin Guerber, Promotion Manager, presents Jamendo at the Startup Lab, on Saturday, October 22nd at 1:00pm at Le Trianon.

All the information on the event is here: www.mama-event.com

Featured Playlist: Pop

nicole — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:59:12 +0000

Check out our newest featured playlist with great pop tracks from artists like Bella Ruse, Michael McEachern, Andre Rodriguez and more!

Royalty free music for professional licensing

Or, you can click here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/playlist/211901

1. “What’s Inside” by Michael McEachern

2. “Outsider feat Trish Murphy” by Manuel Knappitsch, Robert Bienert

3. “To the Death” by Andre Rodriguez

4. “Dark Horse” by Bella Ruse

5. “You’ve Got a Way” by Fall Walk Run

6. “Analcolico” by Millionaire Blonde

7. “Ley de Gravitación Universal” by Miss Caffeina

8. “Ellen” by Mate

9. “Here’s To You feat. Breanne Düren” by Andre Rodriguez

10. “Cinnamon” by Burly

Jamendo at the Open World Forum

martin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:20:11 +0000

Jamendo is a sponsor of the 4th Open World Forum, taking place in Paris on September 22nd to 24th, 2011.

This event will gather all the key players in the free digital world, and will open its doors to the public on the 24th, with the purpose of educating a wider audience to Open Source and the new habits in the digital era.

As the official music sponsor, we will provide Jamendo playlists for the 3 days of the event.

For more information: www.openworldforum.org

Josh Woodward’s Top 5 Tips for Artist Exposure

nicole — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:53:11 +0000

If you’ve spent time on Jamendo, it’s likely you’ve heard of Josh Woodward. A Jamendo artist since 2007, tracks from Josh are frequently found in Jamendo’s Top 100 list and his 9 albums have had well over 2 million listens. So how did Josh become one of the most loved artists on Jamendo? Read on to find out what he feels contributed to his success.

It’s not a coincidence that I blurt out Jamendo in the first sentence when someone asks me for advice about the music industry – it might be the best thing going for independent music. I usually have to backtrack a little bit and explain to the puzzled musician standing before me that you need to free your music first, and that freeing your music is a wonderful thing for both your listeners and even your bank account.

My solo music really started on a whim, just whipping out songs and posting them for my friends on my website back in 2002. Making money was never a goal. Things started growing – very, very slowly – and a couple of years later, I discovered this new Creative Commons thing. I liked the fact that I was both protecting my music and keeping it free. When I discovered Jamendo, it seemed like a perfect fit. I started noticing that I was selling all sorts of CDs to Europe, to Jamendo fans, and eventually more than half of my CDs were being shipped overseas. And that was awesome.

But then came Jamendo PRO. Not only were my CD sales growing, but suddenly, I’m making even more money through licensing. As if people emailing me to tell me they heard my music playing in a shoe store in Denmark wasn’t cool enough, Jamendo’s getting me *money* for it – good money – and I don’t have to do a thing. So any list of tips has to start with:

1. *Get your songs in* *Jamendo PRO*. For the love of all that is good and pure, do this. You upload them once, and Jamendo handles the licensing legalese and sends you money. It doesn’t get much better than that.

2. *Update your fans*. Take advantage of Jamendo’s awesome features to send messages to your fans when you release a new album or have something important going on. Don’t spam, or people will ignore or block you, but get your word out to the people who want to hear it.

3. *Don’t be afraid of experiments*. Got an odd collection of gypsy jazz songs you recorded for fun? Spoken word Elizabethan poetry? Epic bagpipe symphonies? Put ‘em up here! The community is very diverse, and someone will adore your weird experiments. Well, except maybe the bagpipe stuff. Skip those. :-)

4. *Consider Creative Commons Attribution*. This opens your music up to many new avenues of exposure, including some of the most beneficial, such as partners on YouTube, who can’t use CC-NC music and have tons of viewers. You may have fears about giving up this control, but the benefits far outweigh the problems.

5. *Wait*. This is the hardest part. Jamendo’s rare, in that there’s actually a community here. If you’re new, your brilliant CD will most likely flop at first. But Jamendo’s got an awesome system that floats the best stuff to the top thanks to the great community of reviewers. It’s taken years for me, but my growth here has been linear the whole time.

Jamendo band for a2n-workshop wanted!

susanne — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:01:35 +0000

Jamendo is a partner of the second all2gethernow workshop on September 7th in Berlin.

Within Berlin Music Week and in cooperation with the Fritz Unsigned radio show, this intense and valuable workshop awaits you!

The workshop offers musicians the opportunity to present a song in front of a top-class jury, which includes Sascha Kösch [de:bug], Lars Lewerenz [Audiolith], Tim Renner [Motor Music], Joe Chialo [Airforce1.TV / Universal] and Ryan Rauscher [Popakademie Baden-Württemberg] among others. This impressive jury and other workshop participants then provide feedback and advice.

The a2n workshop will also present practical questions and answers, such as: How do I produce a music video? What does the Artist’s Social Welfare Fund (KSK) offer?

Win the opportunity to attend the workshop as an official Jamendo band! One lucky band will be selected by the jury to attend for free!

To apply, upload your song here.

To be eligible, you must have been a member on Jamendo before August 28, 2011.

Please mention with your application that you are a Jamendo band!
The workshop is in German. Related travel costs won’t be covered.

For further information about the workshop, click here.