Last night, I was at a friend's place for dinner and at some point, he whipped out his phone and asked us for prompts to generate a song on the go. We settled on something eccentric like a drum ‘n bass jazz song with intense guitar riffs, a splash of jungle and opera vocals.
Last year something amazing happened. I connected to a group of super-talented musicians through a project I did with my friend Jackson and Gennaro at the Groove House near Lisbon.
Back to Spotify because oh boy it’s getting bad. Living legend Reggie Watts is retracting his music and is just flat-out saying it: “F\*ck Spotify”. Nice one, Reggs.
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About a year ago, I ran into web3 & music and fell in love with the change that would bring to the industry. Now, I am working as the PR lead for SmartLabel. A Dutch company building a streaming service and music distribution platform based on web3 technology and I couldn’t be happier about it.
I started this series out with how Spotify could be better. That first post brought me a lot but most of all it brought me in contact with Jonathan Oudekerk, the founder of SmartLabel, and now I very see clearly how my first blog sparked his interest.