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Namito Wins a 2024 Global Recognition Award(TM)

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - February 6, 2024) - Namito has been presented with a 2024 Global Recognition Award for his extraordinary contributions to the electronic music industry.

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  • New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - February 6, 2024) - Namito has been presented with a 2024 Global Recognition Award for his extraordinary contributions to the electronic music industry.
  • This foresight and ingenuity are what underline his receiving of a 2024 Global Recognition Award.
  • The essence of a 2024 Global Recognition Award is to honor the exceptional, the innovative, and the influential.
  • Namito's attainment of a 2024 Global Recognition Award celebrates artistic innovation, cultural influence, and personal narrative that rises above mere statistics.

Beatport.io Launches New Documentary and Digital Collection Celebrating 5 Years of HE.SHE.THEY.

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

with 3D artist Enes Güç, and includes the premiere of a brand new documentary following the brand’s fearless founders.

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  • with 3D artist Enes Güç, and includes the premiere of a brand new documentary following the brand’s fearless founders.
  • HE.SHE.THEY.’s KINSHIP collection unites the brand’s commitment to music, community, and diversity, combining emotional and narrative elements into a single, cohesive product.
  • emerged at a time when discussions around pronouns, sexuality, and inclusivity in mainstream electronic spaces were far more scarce.
  • Launched earlier this year, Beatport.io is a digital marketplace bridging the gap between electronic music culture and cutting-edge technology.

Audius Launches Music Marketplace, Enabling Direct On Platform Payments

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --  Audius, the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments. Audius music fans seamlessly use their credit card to pay artists in USDC, which can be converted by artists and rights holders to the currency of their choice including USD, EUR, GBP, or most other currencies. Alongside the core purchasing features, Audius fans can pay artists more than the list price for their music by adding extra payment to further support their favorite artists. These new innovations give creators control in pricing their music for access in streams and downloads, while delivering instant payouts. It's a powerful new revenue stream for artists and rights holders.

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  • Audius, the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments.
  • LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Audius , the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments.
  • Alongside the core purchasing features, Audius fans can pay artists more than the list price for their music by adding extra payment to further support their favorite artists.
  • It's a first of its kind rewards program in the music industry enabled by the unique community owned model of the Audius platform.

Somms.ai Brings AI Attribution for Artists and Original Works, Custom GenAI Models to the Enterprise Music Industry

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The platform enables labels, distributors, artists, and rights holders to craft their own custom AI Music Models and attribute AI-generated music to their training data sources, enabling them to assert justifiable ownership, promote fair royalty payouts, and ethically forge new revenue streams.

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  • The platform enables labels, distributors, artists, and rights holders to craft their own custom AI Music Models and attribute AI-generated music to their training data sources, enabling them to assert justifiable ownership, promote fair royalty payouts, and ethically forge new revenue streams.
  • Founded by music industry insiders from Beatport, Napster, MTV, and Native Instruments, Somms.ai was developed with the core mission of helping artists and rights owners to take advantage of AI technology while also protecting their art.
  • “Training AI models on other people's material without consent is unethical and fundamentally detrimental to the industry,” said Sean Power, CEO of Somms.ai.
  • “We have invented the equivalent of PRO algorithms for measuring public performance for the enterprise music industry.

Korea Blockchain Week 2023 Recap: Uniting Industry Leaders and Web3 Innovators in Asia’s hub for tech, business and culture

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Korea Blockchain Week, the premier Web3 event in Asia, brought together leading investors, builders, founders, media and brands to explore the latest in Web3 technology in Korea and beyond. Organized by Web3 ecosystem accelerator, FactBlock, and co-hosted by Korea’s leading Web3 VC fund, Hashed, the week-long industry included three tentpole events: the two-day keystone conference Impact, nft now’s The Gateway: Korea digital gallery of 76 artists, and the nft and media art sound festival Micro Seoul, which drew over 20,000 attendees to activations across two venues and the Official KBW Afterparty.

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  • SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Korea Blockchain Week , the premier Web3 event in Asia, brought together leading investors, builders, founders, media and brands to explore the latest in Web3 technology in Korea and beyond.
  • Taking place alongside Seoul Fashion Week and Frieze Seoul, KBW spotlighted Seoul as one of the cultural capitals of Asia and a hub of technical innovation.
  • “As many of the leading Web3 players have targeted APAC expansion, we have seen South Korea emerge as a hub of culture, talent, investment and innovation.
  • Since Korea Blockchain Week first began in 2018, the week has transformed from a blockchain industry conference to a week-long tech event celebrating the intersection of culture and technology.

TuneCore Partners With CreateSafe Using Grimes' Elf.Tech To Facilitate Collaboration Between AI and Self-Releasing Artists

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Monday, June 12, 2023

NEW YORK, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TuneCore, the leading development partner for self-releasing artists (owned by Paris-based Believe, one of the world's leading digital music companies), has partnered with category-defining AI development studio CreateSafe and Grimes. The initiative is part of Believe's wider AI strategy, and enables TuneCore artists to distribute collaborations created through Grimes' Elf.Tech AI to all major streaming platforms. The partnership sprang from conversations during Beatport's International Music Summit in Ibiza in late April 2023.

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  • The initiative is part of Believe's wider AI strategy, and enables TuneCore artists to distribute collaborations created through Grimes' Elf.Tech AI to all major streaming platforms.
  • Daouda Leonard, CEO, CreateSafe commented, "Elf.Tech is the first showcase of our TRINITI operating system, a landmark platform for generative music AI.
  • This innovative partnership with CreateSafe and Grimes offers a responsible way for music creators to participate in creation using AI tools and technology.
  • As such, it reflects Believe Group's greater AI strategy, which is based on five principles: consent, control, adding value, sharing value, and properly identifying all AI assisted tracks.

TuneCore Partners with Beatport, The World's Largest Electronic Music Streaming and Download Platform

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

NEW YORK, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TuneCore, the leading development partner for self-releasing artists—owned by Believe, one of the world's leading digital music companies—has announced a new partnership with Beatport, the global leader in music for DJs, producers, and their fans, to enable TuneCore artists to distribute their songs to the platform. To celebrate and discuss their new partnership, TuneCore CEO, Andreea Gleeson, and Beatport CEO, Robb McDaniels will be participating in multiple events at the International Music Summit in Ibiza including a TuneCore-produced reception on Thursday, April 27th and a fireside chat at the Beatport Villa on Friday, April 28th.

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  • TuneCore will begin distributing music to Beatport in early May, allowing artists to get their music in front of Beatport's robust user base of electronic music fans, tastemakers, and professional DJs, as well as the platform's in-house curation team.
  • Andreea Gleeson, CEO, TuneCore commented, "Electronic music is a top genre among TuneCore artists.
  • Beatport is the world's largest electronic music platform for DJs, serving both downloads and streaming through a web store, mobile app, DJ Web App, and integrations directly into DJ software and hardware.
  • In celebration of TuneCore's new partnership with Beatport, Believe, its development platform for self-releasing artists TuneCore, and its electronic music focused imprint b:electronic, will be kicking off a talent search to discover and promote up-and-coming electronic music artists and producers.

METAVERSE PLATFORM VRJAM OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES TO PROVIDE REVOLUTIONARY NEW SPACES FOR LIVE SHOWS & EVENTS

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first multiverse platform able to provide real-time live virtual events and concerts, award-winning metaverse entertainment platform VRJAM, is officially launching today and anyone can now access the platform by going to www.VRJAM.com. VRJAM uses real-time motion capture technology and VFX to enable creators to provide the most real live experience that's available in a virtual world today. These unique abilities will now open the potential for brands and performers to host live events in the metaverse unlike ever before.

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  • VRJAM uses real-time motion capture technology and VFX to enable creators to provide the most real live experience that's available in a virtual world today.
  • These unique abilities will now open the potential for brands and performers to host live events in the metaverse unlike ever before.
  • VRJAM have partnered with leading Web3 music powerhouse Animal Concerts to bring some of the world's biggest music artists to the VRJAM platform inside a magical, custom built virtual events space.
  • VRJAM also recently announced its partnership with Ethereum scaling blockchain protocol Polygon to build Planet Polygon,a new immersive live events space within VRJAM's platform.

Unity Delivers World’s First Multi-Destination Virtual Concert Featuring TikTok Bass Sensation Blu DeTiger

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, in a partnership with Unity creators VRrOOm on VRChat, Future Fest and Volta, will broadcast a first of its kind multi-destination and cross-platform virtual concert, featuring TikTok bass sensation Blu DeTiger in closing to the companys annual event Unite 2022 .

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  • Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, in a partnership with Unity creators VRrOOm on VRChat, Future Fest and Volta, will broadcast a first of its kind multi-destination and cross-platform virtual concert, featuring TikTok bass sensation Blu DeTiger in closing to the companys annual event Unite 2022 .
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    Unite 2022 After Party Poster (Photo: Business Wire)
    The Unite virtual concert is a simultaneous broadcast of a performance to multiple virtual Made With Unity (MWU) real-time 3D (RT3D) destinations.
  • We are so excited to be forging this new intersection of games and entertainment with Blu, Xite Labs and Made with Unity platforms VRrOOm, Future Fest and Volta for this first of its kind, multi-destination virtual concert.
  • Bass prodigy and burgeoning pop icon Blu DeTiger was born and raised in NYC.

TWO THIRDS OF CLUBBERS WANT TO SEE A SHIFT TO GREATER INCLUSIVITY ON THE DANCE FLOOR

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Thursday, July 28, 2022

AMSTERDAM , July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-thirds of people want to see more diversity and inclusivity in the party scene, according to new research conducted by Desperados, with more than 50% of people wanting to see more opportunities for ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ+ community, and over 62% want to see more done for women. What's more, it's affecting the night life scene, with four in ten people saying that would go out more if it was more inclusive.

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  • What's more, it's affecting the night life scene, with four in ten people saying that would go out more if it was more inclusive.
  • Utilising their innovative Rave to Save app and wearable tech, Desperados enables party goers to convert their dance steps into donations for global and local charities that champion inclusivity, including Women in Music and Stonewall.
  • I remain committed to taking steps to make partying more inclusive, so everyone can enjoy it, equally, both in front of and behind the decks.
  • These funds will be used to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, and opportunities of women and the LGBTQ+ community worldwide.