En el inicio de marzo, nos fuimos a Carabanchel un bario de Madrid, en el local de ensayo de la banda Falsa Monea.

Nos fuimos con camera y microfonos para gravar una entrevista y un par de temas en el local.

Aqui esta el video que salio de esa ‘Carabanchel-session’. Falsa Monea esta entrevistada por Pablo Zapata, periodista independiente. Montaje y post-produccion: Luis Madrid.

Una iniciativa de Jamendo.

Jamendo Interviews – Falsa Monea from JamendoTV on Vimeo.

Aujourd’hui, près de 300.057 morceaux sont disponibles à l’écoute en ligne et au téléchargement, gratuitement, légalement et à volonté !

Chaque jour, plusieurs centaines de nouveaux titres sont publiés par les artistes Jamendo, et permettent aux internautes de découvrir de la musique de qualité issue d’artistes provenant du monde entier et de tous les genres musicaux.

Les internautes peuvent non seulement l’écouter et la télécharger, mais aussi rédiger des critiques musicales, recommander leurs albums préférés sur leur blog sous forme d’un widget ou encore les partager sur les réseaux sociaux Facebook et Twitter et même les écouter sur leur mobile avec les applications iPhone et Android de Jamendo.

À cette occasion, le magazine en ligne Frenchweb a publié un article à ce sujet : 300 000 morceaux de musique gratuits sur Jamendo !

This week, discover some lovely piano pieces in our weekly featured playlist.  Relax to the gorgeous melodies of Jamendo artists Peter Rudenko, Steve Grams, Sydney Poma and many more!

1. “Le Piano” by Torley on Piano

2. “Elle Intrigue…” by Sydney Poma

3. “Waltz” by Pianochocolate

4. “Longing” by Yunus

5. “Prelude No. 2 op 12″ by Marcin Brzozowski

6. “Pizzicato” by Ehma

7. “Love is Invincible” by Steve Grams

8. “Autumn 4/4 90″ by Vladimir Sterzer

9. “Old Times” by Galdson

10. “Heart of Darkness” by Stefano Mocini

11. “If” by Peter Rudenko

El jueves 24 de marzo 2011, por la primera vez la Comunidad de Usuarios y Artistas de Jamendo se junta en Madrid: una ocasión para encontrarse ‘offline’ y compartir ideas, consejos. Tambien estaran unas personas del equipo Jamendo para presentarles algunos nuevos proyectos en curso, y contestar a sus dudas.

El evento esta abierto a todos, en primer lugar a los artistas y usuarios de la plataforma, pero tambien a todos los que están interesados por el tema de la musica libre. En efecto, se tratara de musica libre, copyleft, creative commons, y maneras alternativas de producir y promover musica independiente etc.

La juntada va ser en la Tabacalera: un centro social autogestionado ubicado en Lavapies, Madrid.

Informaciones practicas:

Donde? En la cafetaria de La Tabacalera (53 Calle Embajadores, Madrid – metro: Embajadores)

Cuando? 24 de Marzo, entre 19h y 21h

Twitter Hash Tag: #jameetup

Apuntarse: visita el evento Facebook aqui

Mas informacion acerca de la Tabacalera: http://latabacalera.net/

Uno de los objetivos principales de Jamendo en el año 2011 es hacer una nueva web más fácil para los usuarios y los artistas.

Los objetivos son: limpiar las páginas, mejorar nuestras funcionalidades y tener una web más cómoda para descubrir música que te gusta.

Ahora tenemos algunas maquetas de lo que nuestro diseñador ha hecho: la página de perfil de un artista, y la pagina de un álbum. Nos encantaría tener comentarios!

Por el momento, son unicamente maquetas (imagenes), entonces lo mas feedback que tenemos de su parte, lo mejor! ¿Qué les parece? (Pincha en las imágenes para ampliarlas.)

One major goal for Jamendo in 2011 is making our site easier to use.  We want to clean up the pages, refine our features and make the site a more comfortable place to discover music you love.  We now have some mock-ups of what our artist and album pages will look like and we’d love your feedback!  Nothing is set in stone yet, so the more input we receive from you, the better.  What do you think? (Click on the images to make them bigger.)

For the past several months, we’ve been running a promotion where jamendo artists are awarded 25 Euros for every 1,000 “likes” they get through Facebook Connect! Congratulations to the jamendo artists who have already surpassed 1,000 “likes” including Diablo Swing Orchestra, zero-project, Rolo y Los F*cking Adictos, David TMX, Kriminal Forceps, Kendra Springer, Kultura Sin Censura, Mentalités Sons Dangereux, pornophonique, Moredich DX and Babel Sin Fronteras por Jorgestrada. If you’re a jamendo artist, it’s not too late to win a 25 Euro prize – the promotion runs through the end of March. Good luck!

This spring is an exciting time for jamendo with a lot of improvements up ahead – both big and small. The series of upcoming releases will implement changes that will ultimately make jamendo more user-friendly from a user and artist standpoint. Because numbers can get a little dull, we decided to name each release after a band and today was “The Bee Gees” release. On top of a bunch of behind-the-scenes changes that you won’t see on the site (but will definitely improve jamendo), here are some new additions:

- a new ratings algorithm

- a new, simpler newsfeed

- a plugin that will display a simple Mp3 player in artist blogs

- a new backoffice that will improve the stability of artist stats

- a new and improved SafeCreative registration process

One thing we really want to focus on is making it easier for you to find the music you love on jamendo. One of our tech guys, Claudio, spent months assessing how we measure the popularity of albums and tracks and creating a new, more fair ratings system. At this point, you can still search for songs based on the old popularity algorithms, but you can also search for tracks using a search based on Claudio’s work. On the album page, just click on the drop down and select either Popularity (V2), Popularity this month (V2) or Popularity this week (V2). You can also listen to Claudio talk about the reasoning behind his work below. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Jamendo’s new rating algorithm from Sylvain Zimmer on Vimeo.

The new update of the SafeCreative process is something that we’re also particularly excited about. Jamendo and SafeCreative have been partners since 2009. They help legally protect the works of artists as far as intellectual property is concerned and is an additional guarantee to the Creative Commons license that all jamendo artists already use. Our artists can get a registration certificate for free from SafeCreative – it’s quick, easy and available from their jamendo accounts. For each musical piece, the SafeCreative certificate provides the date of registration and a unique registration code that can be used as proof of legal authorship in the event of litigation.

We hope you find the new improvements from our “Bee Gees” release useful! Click here to download our Bee Gees-inspired disco playlist in honor of the first of these great improvements.