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Hi, my name is David Noël. Hands up for all things tech, entrepreneurship, music, internet, remarkable people & ideas. Hands back down to type about it.

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I'm the SoundCloud Evangelist. These are my favorites

I live in Berlin and would love to fly in a chopper some time. Got a question? Shoot!

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13 March 10
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Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know

This is fresh and kicks of with cow bells! What You Know is screaming for consideration to be your Song of the Summer. On my watch, they’re currently competing with Foster The People. The battle is on, tap the Saturday away.

Tourist History is out now on Kitsuné.

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12 March 10

Album art for The National’s upcoming album, High Violet. (via davehyndman)

Album art for The National’s upcoming album, High Violet. (via davehyndman)

Reblogged: davehyndman

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Posted: 9:43 AM
Either way, [bands] entering a landscape where getting their song on Gossip Girl for 40 seconds is more important than any amount of FM radio play, where getting a music video posted to Stereogum is more important than getting it on MTV and where you make more money touring behind an album than selling that same album.
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Posted: 9:37 AM
One big positive that signing to a label provides a band, he told me, is giving them legitimacy. “I think right now with the internet, there are just so many bands out there that it’s easy to go unnoticed,” he told me. “There’s still is a certain charm to having a label saying ‘We like this band and we’re going to sign them and you should take a listen.’ With the amount of bands that are out there, it’s hard to filter what is actually good now.

Gizmodo - Record labels: change or die

But let’s stick with the positives.

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Posted: 9:34 AM
EMI is bleeding money. Earlier this month, it reported a whopping $2.4 billion loss, which, when added to its prior debts, puts it $4.5 billion in debt to CitiGroup. It owes Citi $160 million this month, and it’s facing a restructuring plan that’ll require an additional investment from its parent company.

Gizmodo - Record labels: change or die

Look at these numbers. Oh dear.

(hat tip to Ellen for sending the link)

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11 March 10
soundcloud:

Yay to Texas, Tumblr and Kickstarter y’all. Come join us for a sweet night out!
staff:

Some of us Tumblr folks, along with our friends from Kickstarter and SoundCloud, are throwing a party in Austin this weekend for SXSW.
RSVP and come hang out!
And a special thanks to Tumblr’s hosting partner The Planet for sponsoring.

soundcloud:

Yay to Texas, Tumblr and Kickstarter y’all. Come join us for a sweet night out!

staff:

Some of us Tumblr folks, along with our friends from Kickstarter and SoundCloud, are throwing a party in Austin this weekend for SXSW.

RSVP and come hang out!

And a special thanks to Tumblr’s hosting partner The Planet for sponsoring.

Reblogged: soundcloud

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Posted: 3:53 PM
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The Besnard Lakes - And This Is What We Call Progress

Love this. Found the album on Spotify and will give it a proper run.

gregb:

The Besnard Lakes - “And This Is What We Call Progress”

Hell yes on the new Besnard Lakes album. Loving every track. This is the one that’s in my head today.

Reblogged: gregb

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Posted: 3:39 PM

Evangelism

I’ve been sitting on this anonymous Tumblr Question for a while now:

So what exactly does a Technical Evangelist “do”? Specifically a SoundCloud Evangelist.

I won’t go into the definition of the term as Wikipedia already provides more general and historic details about it.

Don’t know about you but my short answer is: before an Evangelist does, she is.

When I look around and think about the people around me here on Tumblr, I can see Evangelists everywhere. Hiten Shah, Dave Lifson and Mike Hudack all are entrepreneurship evangelists. Fred Wilson, Brad Feld, Mark Suster and Bijan Sabet are Startup Visa and “modern” venture capital evangelists. Jen Robinson, Jimmy Morris, Mark Schoneveld: music evangelists. Carmen Magar? Mass customization. Jen Bekman? Affordable art.  Jay Parkinson? Re-inventing health care. Mareen Fischinger? Photography. And Topher? He was evangelizing Tumblr to the point they got him to move from Florida to work with them out of NYC.

You get the point. All of these folks share one common thing: passion. That’s all it takes to be an Evangelist for something: a band, a product, a cause or a company.

You don’t join a company for the sake of being an Evangelist. You don’t join a company - or for that fact, a startup - for a pay check. You join a startup because you believe in the product, the vision and the people executing it and you will do whatever it takes to help the push things forward. You can’t go work as an Evangelist if you don’t love the product and everything it stands for. You can’t browse job openings for Evangelist positions on Monster or Craigslist and just apply for the ones you randomly stumble upon. You’ll have to breathe the product and know as much as possible about the company before you even type the first word on your cover letter. Heck, best case you wouldn’t even have to send a cover letter because the company already found you (see Topher above).

An Evangelist will most likely spend his day & most of his nights communicating, informing, teaching, solving, helping, connecting, moderating, arguing, motivating, getting & keeping people excited about what you, your company and its product do. You’re a company’s sonar, you listen to what is being said outside and you channel that feedback into the product.

Even better when it doesn’t stop there: at the same time you’re excited about an entire industry (tech & music - in that order) or a ‘movement’ (open source, API’s, entrepreneurship, independent artists) and you’re an advocate for remarkable things and people working hard every day to make a change.

If you find the company you love and end up being its Evangelist, you probably have found your dream job. You can’t call it a job though, it’s so much more than that.

Oh right, we were talking about the SoundCloud Evangelist. There’s more in this Q&A I did on our blog and it’s only half of what I do 8 months after it was posted. Things move fast in startup land.

This sounds like you, want to join the fun? We’re looking for a kick-ass, self-motivated and awesome Community Management Intern. Do the things mentioned above and work with a great & passionate music community.

Would love to hear from others, so make sure to add your thoughts to the comments.

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Posted: 3:06 PM
Twestival.fm just launched its new site and its powered by SoundCloud, its API and third-party app Tracks On A Map.

Twestival.fm is powered entirely by artists and bands on Twitter. They’re uploading tracks from all around the world for you to enjoy and download. All we ask is that you donate a small amount of money and tweet about your favorite tracks.

Twestival.fm just launched its new site and its powered by SoundCloud, its API and third-party app Tracks On A Map.

Twestival.fm is powered entirely by artists and bands on Twitter. They’re uploading tracks from all around the world for you to enjoy and download. All we ask is that you donate a small amount of money and tweet about your favorite tracks.

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Posted: 2:19 PM
Alright, I’ve got 500,000,000 Dollars to invest. What’s the hottest Groupon clone in town?

Alright, I’ve got 500,000,000 Dollars to invest. What’s the hottest Groupon clone in town?

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Posted: 12:10 PM
Wawawawaepic!

Wawawawaepic!

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Posted: 12:01 PM

The National - Terrible Love

The National premiered the opening track of their upcoming album High Violet on Jimmy Fallon last night.

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10 March 10
Carbonmade (re)launches, looking neat. Manage your online portfolio, the easy and stylish way. Check out the examples to immediately see what it does.
Very nice!

Carbonmade (re)launches, looking neat. Manage your online portfolio, the easy and stylish way. Check out the examples to immediately see what it does.

Very nice!

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Posted: 8:03 PM
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The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

Aah, Sweden.

via indierawk

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