If you’re African or you love African music, music streaming service, Spinlet is bringing the top music stars from across the continent to South By South West.  The All Africa Showcase is co-sponsored by Society HAE. If you’re at SXSW or you’re following it online, the following artistes will be performing at Spinlet’s events.

On Thursday, the 15th of March at Copa, 217 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas.

• Chief Boima (Sierra Leone)
• Sauti Sol (Kenya)
• Just A Band (Kenya)
• Spoek Mathambo (South Africa)
• Baloji (Congo)
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Nigeria)

On Friday, March 16, at Beso Cantina on 307B West 5th Street. Spinlet has got

• Bez (Nigeria)
• Naeto C (Nigeria)
• M.I (Nigeria)
• Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana)
• 2Face (Nigeria)

Here’s a video from Spinlet on what to expect

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paSzvBszvqE]

Notice the number of Nigerians on the list? B) Quick question for Spinlet: When are you going to launch? It’s taking forever!

Source: We blog the world

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Music streaming and download service Spinlet, has announced the signing of non-exclusive agreements with more artists and record labels. The agreement puts Spinlet back in the music streaming game and will help artists distribute and sell music on its platform when it finally launches.

Some of the artists and record labels are

Alapomeji Records (9ice), Chocolate City (Brymo, M.I, Jesse Jags, Ice Prince), Hypertek (2Face Idibia), Game Time (Lineo), Funky Money Ent (Konga), Syndik8 Records (Lynxx, E Jay, Ikon), Flytime (Tiwa Savage, P Square – Invasion Album), Too Much Music (Femi Juba), Starville (Shank), DJ Jimmy Jatt, Show Dem Camp (Ghost,Tec, Lucci and Poe), Storm Records (Naeto C Sasha, Tosin Martins, YQ, and Yung6ix), Cobhams Asuquo Music Productions (Bez), Timaya, Play Records (Rilwan, Mimi), Effya, Ghetto Ruff (Jozi, Nancy G) and Sunset Distribution.

It’s a good thing Spinlet has signed more artists. One reason I use iROKING is because of its large mass of content. They’ve got a large amount of music. Until Spinlet does that, a lot of users will stick with whatever service has their favourite music.

Spinlet’s upload service allows artists upload content to Spinlet’s servers, making it possible for independent and unsigned artists to take advantage of the platform. Spinlet has also made a Music Extraction Utility tool[Windows PCs only] to rip music from CDs and upload them online.

When Spinlet eventually launches, it’ll go head to head with already launched iROKING, Spotify and Apple’s iTunes.

Source: TechLoy

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Music distribution and subscription service, Spinlet has signed a deal with Storm 360 and its new digital music label Storm Digital, to provide Storm with a platform to sell and promote their content.

Storm has hit-making stars like Naeto C, Tosin Martins, Sasha P, YQ, Deejay Neptune and Yung6ix. The deal will see Spinlet assist Storm in content production, talent development and strategic management. Spinlet will also showcase Storm 360′s artists at Midem and SXSW 2012.

Storm 360 Founder, Obi Asika  says:

“As we move forward into 2012 and as Spinlet launches globally we are confident that this marriage of technology, African finance, and content are game changers, and we look forward to welcoming all labels, artists and partners onto the platform,”

When Spinlet launches on November 20, it’ll provide a music purchasing and subscription service for Africans on desktops and mobile phones to rival Apple’s iTunes on availability and cost.

Source: Techloy

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1. iTunes’ African Rival, Spinlet To Launch On November 20

On November 20th, Spinlet, a music service for Africa will go live. It will allow you store, manage and listen to your music from any device like iCloud. Spinlet will also let users create playlists and share favorite tracks on social networks.

Spinlet was founded in 2006 by Sami Leino and Ville Leino in Finland and received an undisclosed sum in funding from a Nigerian venture capital firm, Verod Capital in early 2011. Spinlet will also allow artistes promote their music and earn income from sales and has been in talks with record labels in Europe, Africa and Asia to increase its portfolio of music.

Spinlet will be launched in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana and its mobile app will be free. We aren’t sure how much Spinlet’s subscription service will cost, but it’s a welcome development as the only way to currently purchase content on the iTunes store is by iTunes credit cards purchased abroad. iTunes also isn’t open to a lot of African countries.

From Spinlet’s website we can see they’ve got deals with Chocolate City, Storm360 Records, Show Dem Camp and 2Face. Spinlet also has to battle with sites that allow music uploads(4shared, hulkshare, limelinx) and torrent websites. In conjuction with The Beat FM, they currently sponsor ‘Industry Nite’ a monthly event for people in the music industry and their fans.

Spinlet’s Co-founder and COO, Sami Leino talks about the service in this video:

What do you think? Does Spinlet have the chance to compete against Apple‘s iTunes?

source: Techloy

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