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Nace el portal musica.com.mx para impulsar el talento musical
Jun 22nd, 2007
Con el propósito de proyectar al
talento musical, tanto de México como de otros países, que no cuenta
con el apoyo necesario para sobresalir en el ámbito, nace el portal
www.musica.com.mx. MORE
You can be an A&R Rep for BETA Records
Feb 14th, 2007
Online record company pays people to find and sign new artists and bands to BETArecords.com.
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com), along with founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel, invite you to accept a paying job with their company. MORE
Ringtone Widget For Indie Artists Closes Gap Between Beta Records And Major Labels
Feb 3rd, 2007
New Feature Is Available At No Cost For Any Artist On The BETArecords.com Site.
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com) and founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel are making it possible for independent musicians to take advantage of the communication and promotional advantages of ringtones. MORE
BETA Records and Universal Music Find Opening Act For BON JOVI
Berlin, May 15th 2006 (translated from German)
BON JOVI is offering emerging artists the chance of a lifetime!
As of now, German bands can submit their music to compete to be an opening act for the shows in Stuttgart & Munich. MORE
Companies Partner to Find New Fans for Unsigned Musicians
Monrovia, CA May 3 2006
MusicIP, the first global music search engine, has announced that BETA Records, one of the leading music websites for unsigned artists, has licensed a number of products within its technology platform, including the new interactive Music Playground™ search interface. MORE
DIESEL AND BETA Records go global searching for talent.
May 1, 2006 11:00am
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com) has been chosen as the “around the world” partner for the DIESEL-U-MUSIC contest launching May 1, 2006. BETA Records will use its existing database and broad network of partners to assist DIESEL in finding the best musicians across the globe. MORE
Poly Students Given Chance To Lay Their Raps Down Professionally
Oct 27, 2005
BETA Records, an Internet-based independent music company that gives aspiring musicians a chance to record and then showcase their talent on the Web for free, was at the central Long Beach school last Wednesday and Thursday to launch its teen Bus Stop Tour. MORE
BETA contact information
Company BETA Records, LLC
Box 48
Hollywood, CA 90028
(877) 232-2382 x801 office
(562) 901-9778 fax
Press contact – Chris Honetschlaeger (press@betarecords.com)
BETA facts
Company description
BETA Records is a hybrid community that actively finds, produces, and showcases unsigned artists to the music industry and distributes content to fans via digital channels. BETA offers each artist a dedicated page (www.betarecords.com) to profile personal information, stream and/or download music, blog and email with fans, and much more.
Company founders
Chris Honetschlaeger, Founder, President and Chairman
Georg van Handel, Founder and CEO
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Nace el portal musica.com.mx para impulsar el talento musical
Jun 22nd, 2007
Con el propósito de proyectar al
talento musical, tanto de México como de otros países, que no cuenta
con el apoyo necesario para sobresalir en el ámbito, nace el portal
www.musica.com.mx.
En entrevista por teléfono con Notimex, Attilio Tonelli,
responsable del sitio, señaló que es un proyecto 100 por ciento
mexicano que se lanzó el pasado 1 de junio.
Agregó que el portal está dedicado a la gran cantidad de
músicos, cantantes, bandas y artistas desconocidos, carentes de
apoyo, todos poseedores de talento, para llegar a los cibernautas.
Ello, dijo, con una tecnología de vanguardia "online", misma que
fue proporcionada por el sello discográfico Alternativa BetaRecords,
que permitirá a los artistas crear sin costo alguno y en cuestión de
minutos su pagina de internet, donde prodrán subir su música, fotos,
biografías y además organizar su propio club de fans.
Se ofrece también la alternativa de que cada uno de los talentos
que formen parte de www.musica.com.mx puedan promocionar sus eventos,
así como extraer ringtones con la posibilidad de ser enviados desde
el portal a cualquier móvil que cuente con conexión a internet.
www.musica.com.mx representa además la posibilidad para los
seguidores de los diferentes géneros musicales de escuchar y bajar la
música nueva que es expuesta por cada uno de los que se unen al
proyecto.
Tonelli destacó que se cuenta con un control muy estricto que
los hace diferentes de otras páginas: "Nosotros al momento de
detectar que alguno de nuestros suscriptores sube música de alguna
personalidad conocida en el medio, inmediatamente damos de baja su
cuenta".
Precisó que esto lo hacen como una estrategia para combatir la
piratería, "es lo que tenemos de diferencia a otros portales en donde
está presente la piratería y se puede intercambiar la música de los
artistas ya consolidados".
Finalmente, manifestó que hasta el momento cuentan con
aproximadamente 200 personas inscritas de diferentes nacionalidades
entre las que hay chilenos, españoles y mexicanos, quienes se
inscribieron sin costo alguno.
You can be an A&R Rep for BETA Records
Feb 14th, 2007
Online record company pays people to find and sign new artists and bands to BETArecords.com
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com), along with founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel, invite you to accept a paying job with their company. You can become an A&R (artists & repertoire) representative and turn your love of music into a paying gig.
BETA Records, the online record company, has just launched a new module within its website that allows anyone to apply as a street team A&R member. Once registered, you can discover unsigned artists, have them join BETA Records, and earn money for each new indie artist signed.
“We are taking the lost art of A&R and putting it back into the hands of music lovers," states Honetschlaeger, President of BETA Records. "Major labels seem to have no budget and no interest in searching out new up-and-coming acts at local city venues. Our Street Teams have a passion for this and now will get paid to do what they love," Honetschlaeger adds.
Approved BETA Street Team members are assigned a 5-digit code that can be given to an artist to join and upload music and pictures to the BETA Records site. This automatically triggers a payout to the Street Team member who then gets cash transferred to their PayPal account.
BETA will also be giving a bonus of $5,000 to the Street Team member with the highest number of sign-ups by Dec 31, 2007. Street Team members will also be supported with a variety of promotional materials, including caps, stickers and more.
For a sneak peek within the system, go to: www.betarecords.com/street-team-info.php and register with the default username of preview@betarecords.com and the password of "betarecords" which has been assigned the test promo code of 12345.
"We’ve made a real effort to keep the technology as simple as possible and the user experience positive," says van Handel, the record company CEO. "Street Team members need only focus on finding new acts and bringing them to our music community,” van Handel adds.
"At the end of the day, we are paying people to do something they think is great: talk about and listen to music," said Honetschlaeger. Any worries about the style or content of the music that will be brought in? "No, because the fans are always right when it comes to their favorite bands."
Ringtone Widget For Indie Artists Closes Gap Between Beta Records And Major Labels
Feb 3rd, 2007
New Feature Is Available At No Cost For Any Artist On The BETArecords.com Site.
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com) and founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel are making it possible for independent musicians to take advantage of the communication and promotional advantages of ringtones.
"The new BETA Ringtone Widget allows artists to copy and paste a personalized ringtone code into any forum, blog, or website," Honetschlaeger says. Through a custom code, artists' pictures and songs pass into a standalone interface enabling ringtones to be sent from any Internet environment to mobile phones around the globe. Thousands of artists on the BETA Records roster can utilize this feature without charge.
"Up until today, the ability to quickly and easily make and distribute a ringtone from a song was difficult for unsigned artists," van Handel states, "but now it's easy and doesn't cost a thing. This is part of our ongoing effort to bring modern distribution and interactive tools to every indie artist across the music community," van Handel adds.
Each advancement in distribution and promotion brings independent artists closer to enjoying all the advantages formerly reserved for artists signed to one of the four major record labels (Warner, Song/BMG, EMI, Universal).
"Getting music to fans, friends, and professional organizations like ad agencies or radio and television broadcasters no longer depends on major label representation," notes Honetschlaeger, "and the ringtone widget is just one more example of how indie labels are getting more 'major' every day."
BETA Records and Universal Music Find Opening Act For BON JOVI
Berlin, May15th 2006
BON JOVI is offering emerging artists the chance of a lifetime! As of now, German bands can submit their music to compete to be an opening act for the shows in Stuttgart & Munich.
Berlin, May15th 2006: worldwide more than 110 million albums sold, over 2,500 live shows in 50 countries with more than 32 million fans in attendance – these numbers speak a very clear language: Bon Jovi, the Rock-Superstars from New Jersey, are one of the most successful contemporary bands. This statement was once again proved last Saturday in the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf. Performing in front of 50,000 fans, Bon Jovi sold out their kick off show for their European tour.
During the occasion of Bon Jovi’s newly released album, “Have A Nice Day,” and the subsequent world tour, emerging bands from Germany are given the chance of a lifetime: The band members of Jon Bon Jovi are searching for a Support-Act for the upcoming MEGA shows in Stuttgart (May 27 on the Cannstatter Was’n) and Munich (May 28 in the Olympiastadium).
Simply put: A newcomer band will be given the opportunity to play a thirty minute live-show, playing original Bon Jovi songs in front of 75, 000 at each event! Bands that are eligible may be from anywhere within the Republic of Germany, with the exception of bands, which are already signed to a label or are primarily cover bands.
The two winning bands will be determined through an “Online-Voting” system – this way Bon Jovi’s fan base has the final say in who will heat up the stage of this years “Open-Air-Highlight”. Bon Jovi, who already established some success in the early 80’s as the opening act for the band “Scandal”, are offering up-and-coming bands the chance to be well known over night.
A quote from Jon Bon Jovi about this event: “When we started out, we were completely unknown and now we are larger than we could have ever imagined. We want to offer an opportunity to newcomer bands to showcase in front of a mega audience. This way the new generation of Rock Bands can experience what we are allowed to experience on a daily basis."
The entry phase for bands has started! On www.betarecords.de all contestants can apply immediately by uploading their music.
Sven Kilthau-Lander, Senior Director Promotion Universal Music Deutschland (International Division): “For Bon Jovi to share their success and stage with an unsigned band is a true sign of greatness. We are very excited about the competition and will watch each band very closely on behalf of Universal Music. The deadline to apply ends on May 23, 2006 at 12 noon.”
Appropriately, for the start of their European tour in the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf last Saturday, Bon Jovi played their current single for the first time in public, “ Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” it drove the audience wild.
For a long time Bon Jovi as a band has become an event you can’t miss.
Companies Partner to Find New Fans for Unsigned Musicians
Monrovia, CA May 3, 2006
MusicIP, the first global music search engine, has announced that BETA Records, one of the leading music websites for unsigned artists, has licensed a number of products within its technology platform, including the new interactive Music Playground™ search interface.
BETA Records provides singers, songwriters and musicians with a website platform to promote their songs and videos to music enthusiasts, industry executives, A&R agents and record labels. MusicIP’s technology will provide BETA Records with an infrastructure for rigorous track identification, metadata, acoustic discovery, and more using the actual musical attributes of the submitted songs. That infrastructure will also be used to provide a music search engine interface affording unparalleled discovery of unsigned artists in the BETA Records database.
“Our goal is to democratize the music business by creating a network of emerging artists and fans looking to discover new music,” says Georg van Handel, CEO of BETA Records. “The decision to license MusicIP’s technology platform was a natural fit to take our offering to the next level.”
The BETA Records website, www.betarecords.com, profiles musicians by name, gender, career, instrument, song, genre, and location, making advanced searches easy and results effective for record labels looking to find genre specific unsigned artists ready for record deals or gigs. The searches will now be powered by MusicIP’s innovative new Interactive Playground interface, which provides an impressive visual representation of acoustically similar tracks, as well as artist/album information.
“MusicIP and BETA Records have a similar goal to connect musicians and fans looking for new music,” says Dr. Matthew Dunn, CEO of MusicIP. “All of our technology is designed to help listeners discover new music, help musicians find new fans, and help music enterprises sell more music.”
About MusicIP
Known as the Global Music Search Engine, MusicIP provides a complete digital-music platform, with scalable services and products for every major industry niche. Founded in 2000, MusicIP provides revolutionary solutions that connect listeners, artists and enterprises. For music enterprises, MusicIP provides a complete framework for providing track identification and music discovery, spanning from consumer-electronics devices to large-scale label and commerce applications. In addition, MusicIP gives musicians a new marketing edge with a service called ListenerLink that provides global track exposure. Consumers can rediscover their music and discover new music with MusicIP’s amazing playlist firmware in partner devices, and in the company’s free MusicIP Mixer for all desktop platforms. For more information, visit www.musicip.com
About BETA Records
BETA Records--located in Hollywood, CA—is one of the leading major music websites for unsigned artists worldwide. BETA Records acts as a stepping stone for musicians looking for records deals, gigs, radio airplay, connect with other band members, or simply to get their songs heard. All clients of BETA Records receive free promotional tools such as business cards, e-mail, fan club database, mp3 downloads, ringtone downloads, video streaming capabilities and an image gallery to jump start their career. For more information, visit www.betarecords.com.
DIESEL AND BETA Records go global searching for talent.
May 1, 2006 11:00am
BETA Records (www.betarecords.com) has been chosen as the “around the world” partner for the DIESEL-U-MUSIC contest launching May 1, 2006. BETA Records will use its existing database and broad network of partners to assist DIESEL in finding the best musicians across the globe.
Diesel-U-Music gives the next generation of artists both an industry and public platform on an international scale, bringing them out of their bedrooms and garages and showcasing their talents across three genres: Rock, Urban/Hip Hop and Electronic.
Entries will be accepted from May 1 – June 25, 2006. The finalists from each territory around the world will be chosen and announced in July, winning the opportunity to participate at the Diesel-U-Music Awards in London this October to perform in front of a huge international audience.
To find out more, GOTO
BETA Records – www.betarecords.com
Diesel-U-Music – www.diesel-u-music.com
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