Tracks & Fields will release its production and collaboration platform for musicians and producers at the leading global music trade fair, MIDEM. Following a beta phase spanning several months, the internet portal is now online with all functions under www.tracksand fields.com. This web offering for professional music creators will be introduced in Cannes as the sole German contribution within the scope of the MIDEMNet Lab (www.MIDEM.com/en/MIDEMnet/MIDEMnet- lab/, a new forum at Europe's largest specialist music trade fair where the digital music business's most innovative solutions are gathered. To mark the launch of the platform, Universal Music and other prominent labels issue a call to take part in their contests to remix songs from well-known artists.
The next level of music production in the internet
Tracks & Fields is the first web-based collaboration, network and business platform aimed primarily at professional working musicians and producers. In the virtual production world of Tracks & Fields, musicians can file sounds in a public music database, exchange large audio files via the platform and, with the aid of an integrated sequencer, can even work on whole tracks with other fellow musicians, online, from anywhere in the world. With this approach, the Berlin company solves a basic problem of present-day music production, in which work processes are generally more time-displaced and widely spread around the globe than is the case in other industries.
Direct creative contact improves workflow
In addition to web-based collaboration, Tracks & Fields serves as a network for initiating new projects and acts as a business interface to the commercial consumers of music productions. Among others, the users on the employer side include the producers of games, film, TV or even advertising productions, who place job proposals in the Request zone of Tracks & Fields and, in doing so, come into direct contact with artists and producers.
For music producers, as well as music consumers this will revolutionise conventional workflows - in future, both sides will be able to communicate directly via the platform, to discuss briefings or to pitch and exchange music online, without intermediary agencies or music firms and, in so doing, to work more effectively and, in the end, more profitably. Labels place remix jobs with the international music community via the platform, thereby generating high- quality content efficiently. Universal Music, !K7 and Motor Music have already used Tracks & Fields during the beta phase to carry out international remix contests with audience appeal.
Remix contest with top acts from Universal Music and !K7
For the official launch of the platform, Universal Music is calling on three of its hottest indie acts with Wolfmother, Florence & The Machine and Moke all up for the remix contests on TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix.. From the Australian stoner rock band, Wolfmother, Universal is throwing in the song, "California Queen" and the thunder-groove anthem, "New Moon Rising" for creative refinement. Besides lots of fame and honour, the winners of the Wolfmother remix contest can also look forward to their winning entries being showcased on the band's official Myspace page, a digital release of the production by Universal Music and a Gibson SG Special HC electric guitar.
South London indie-pop group, Florence & The Machine is represented in the remix contest with the hit, "You Got The Love", and indie-rock band, Moke, who also hail from England, chip in with their song "Switch." Universal Music is also sponsoring further prizes for the winners of these contests. With Bomb the Bass, the Berlin indie-electronic label !K7 is sending a true pioneer of music sampling into a further Tracks & Fields remix contest for the portal's official launch. Further information on the remix contests and the conditions of participation may be found on TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix..
"Musicians are often faced with the problem that, whilst they may have great ideas, they don't have the right partners to implement those ideas or, ultimately, to market them. With Tracks & Fields, we provide professional musicians with a platform and the necessary tools for them to collaborate with partners and customers all over the world, online, within the scope of daily work processes," says Christian Mix- Linzer, CEO of Tracks & Fields. "The remix contests we're staging for the portal launch with our music industry partners are good examples of how music production will look in the future."
MIDEM 2010 (www.mi dem.com/en/Homepage/) runs from 24 to 27 January 2010 in Cannes; MIDEMNet 2010 will already be off and running on 23 January.
About Tracks & Fields
TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix is the first collaboration, network and business platform for professional musicians and producers in the internet. Audio files may be exchanged via the platform or filed in the Music Library, also under various Creative Commons licences and made accessible to the community for further editing. It is even possible to work on tracks online thanks to the integrated sequencer from Tracks & Fields. The Request zone of the platform enables users to network or to take on commissions offered via commercial tenders. Tracks & Fields GmbH was founded in Berlin in 2007 by Christian Mix-Linzer, who also runs the music label, Trans Solar Records.
The next level of music production in the internet
Tracks & Fields is the first web-based collaboration, network and business platform aimed primarily at professional working musicians and producers. In the virtual production world of Tracks & Fields, musicians can file sounds in a public music database, exchange large audio files via the platform and, with the aid of an integrated sequencer, can even work on whole tracks with other fellow musicians, online, from anywhere in the world. With this approach, the Berlin company solves a basic problem of present-day music production, in which work processes are generally more time-displaced and widely spread around the globe than is the case in other industries.
Direct creative contact improves workflow
In addition to web-based collaboration, Tracks & Fields serves as a network for initiating new projects and acts as a business interface to the commercial consumers of music productions. Among others, the users on the employer side include the producers of games, film, TV or even advertising productions, who place job proposals in the Request zone of Tracks & Fields and, in doing so, come into direct contact with artists and producers.
For music producers, as well as music consumers this will revolutionise conventional workflows - in future, both sides will be able to communicate directly via the platform, to discuss briefings or to pitch and exchange music online, without intermediary agencies or music firms and, in so doing, to work more effectively and, in the end, more profitably. Labels place remix jobs with the international music community via the platform, thereby generating high- quality content efficiently. Universal Music, !K7 and Motor Music have already used Tracks & Fields during the beta phase to carry out international remix contests with audience appeal.
Remix contest with top acts from Universal Music and !K7
For the official launch of the platform, Universal Music is calling on three of its hottest indie acts with Wolfmother, Florence & The Machine and Moke all up for the remix contests on TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix.. From the Australian stoner rock band, Wolfmother, Universal is throwing in the song, "California Queen" and the thunder-groove anthem, "New Moon Rising" for creative refinement. Besides lots of fame and honour, the winners of the Wolfmother remix contest can also look forward to their winning entries being showcased on the band's official Myspace page, a digital release of the production by Universal Music and a Gibson SG Special HC electric guitar.
South London indie-pop group, Florence & The Machine is represented in the remix contest with the hit, "You Got The Love", and indie-rock band, Moke, who also hail from England, chip in with their song "Switch." Universal Music is also sponsoring further prizes for the winners of these contests. With Bomb the Bass, the Berlin indie-electronic label !K7 is sending a true pioneer of music sampling into a further Tracks & Fields remix contest for the portal's official launch. Further information on the remix contests and the conditions of participation may be found on TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix..
"Musicians are often faced with the problem that, whilst they may have great ideas, they don't have the right partners to implement those ideas or, ultimately, to market them. With Tracks & Fields, we provide professional musicians with a platform and the necessary tools for them to collaborate with partners and customers all over the world, online, within the scope of daily work processes," says Christian Mix- Linzer, CEO of Tracks & Fields. "The remix contests we're staging for the portal launch with our music industry partners are good examples of how music production will look in the future."
MIDEM 2010 (www.mi dem.com/en/Homepage/) runs from 24 to 27 January 2010 in Cannes; MIDEMNet 2010 will already be off and running on 23 January.
About Tracks & Fields
TracksAndFields.com — Make music online. Collaborate and remix is the first collaboration, network and business platform for professional musicians and producers in the internet. Audio files may be exchanged via the platform or filed in the Music Library, also under various Creative Commons licences and made accessible to the community for further editing. It is even possible to work on tracks online thanks to the integrated sequencer from Tracks & Fields. The Request zone of the platform enables users to network or to take on commissions offered via commercial tenders. Tracks & Fields GmbH was founded in Berlin in 2007 by Christian Mix-Linzer, who also runs the music label, Trans Solar Records.
