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Monday, August 17, 2009

city music @ your service

Cute idea, to start a streaming platform offering music based on ... cities. A location based approach by a club called CitySounds.fm. You choose a city and you get a stream, expecting the music streams to be different in Nashville than streams from New York or Berlin. Or are they? And what is that, 'music from a city': from artists living and working there? Or is 'Amsterdam' basically music 'made in Holland' and 'Berlin' music 'made in Germany'? Or is it music popular in trendsetting clubs in those cities? All tracks offered come from one platform (SoundCloud.com) , guys from Sweden who settled in Berlin and started this dedicated music site. I'm just curious how the selection of cities is going to evolve and how they make musical selections. 'Cause why would I want to know what music is being played in, let's say, Cincinatti? I'd be much more curious about Marseille, Jo'burg or ... Mumbai. And CitySounds.fm is basically nothing more than a mashup of Sound.com tracks and Flick'r images. .. But let's give it a try first. With (again) thanks to Springwise.

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