MUSIC INDUSTRY BLOG

Andrew Dubber interviews Dave Haynes, SoundCloud’s UK manager.

SoundCloud, an online music collaboration and large music file management platform, has secured a €2.5 million ($3.3 million) funding round led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.  Details on TechCrunch.

SoundCloud is an online music collaboration and large music file management platform.  The company positioned itself as a digital music exchange offering but it’s so much more than that.  The SoundCloud audio player displays the waveform of the track, allowing listeners to view and intercept specific segments of the music and comment on it.  As an artist collaboration solution, artists can share, mix, and remix their music under the Creative Commons licensing designations, enabling the creative process to continue long after the master is ‘complete’.  I particularly like the fact that SoundCloud is a music-oriented digital distribution solution, making it super easy to send and receive music files within a community of producers, engineers, DJs, labels etc. who deal with hefty music files on a daily basis.