MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #10

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Keep innovating and collaborating.

Cheers,

Matt

Ken Freeman couldn't afford a Mellotron to play his string parts, so he invented a new kind of electronic instrument. But though the world would eventually embrace string synthesizers with a passion, he never got the credit he deserved.

Music industry body the BPI said UK cassette sales reached 80,404 last year (2019), the highest annual figure since the just over 100,000 in 2004

Report reveals that digital is growing but audiences still mainly rely on FM to tune into radio

Tesla Trax v0.1 lets users make their own beats using built-in MIDI instruments, with the option to save and load projects.

The record executive who made the leap to Silicon Valley looks back on the decade in the music business, and sees a major problem on the horizon.

8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019. We have mixed feelings as we round out this decade and the life of 8tracks. We served many…

The Chinese conglomerate continues its global expansion.

How RapCaviar, the Spotify playlist curated by Tuma Base, creates rap hits and turns mixtape rappers into megastars.

This infographic explores how the music streaming industry generates almost half of the global music market's $19.1 billion in revenue.