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Newsletter 2/2014 News from Finnish music companies This
newsletter collects news from the Finnish Music Startups collective (FMS). It
represents around 35 music companies from Finland. Their common goal is to make
their voices heard more effectively. This newsletter is compiled by the PR &
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Finnish Music Startups goes global In its current form the Finnish Music Startups is a little over a year old collective of 35 companies. During the first year, we focused on starting up the operations, developing collaboration and communicating exclusively to media in Finland. Now we are expanding our operations globally! This newsletter has been produced for the first time in English. It is also distributed internationally in collaboration with ranking website Startup100.net. An introduction to Finnish Music Startups and all the companies involved can be found here. The collective's Facebook pages can be found here. |
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SingOn reinvents karaoke with 1.8 million euros SingOn was founded in 2009 and it aims to reinvent karaoke. SingOn just raised 1.8 million Euros to build the 3rd generation karaoke service. SingOn will introduce a Spotify-like streaming service and it will bring songs to the platform in a matter of weeks after their radio releases. SingOn is planning to release their service on many different platforms. They want to make sure that the user doesn't need any extra equipment for karaoke. Singers can use smartphones and even TV remotes with built-in microphones for singing karaoke. And with the autotune feature even a bad singer can sound good. The new version of SingOn will be launched on April 14th in the UK. It will be followed with an expansion to the US, Australia and New Zealand later this year. More information: |
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GuitarBots released on the iPhone The Finnish music gaming company Ovelin has released its praised and award-winning guitar learning game GuitarBots on the iPhone. GuitarBots is a personalized, fun and motivating guitar tutor of the digital age in one's pocket, anytime, anywhere. All that is needed is a guitar and the app. And it doesn't matter whether it's an electric guitar or an acoustic one, both will do just fine. GuitarBots features a ton of tutorials for beginners and more advanced players. There are over 300 levels to play through, so there are plenty of hours to be spent learning the guitar, new tricks and techniques. GuitarBots also features an easy-to-use tuner as well as the practice mode that lets the players play at their own speed, learn certain sections and solos note-by-note. The GuitarBots app for the iPhone is available through AppStore. More information: |
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Beatphonic makes music with physical gestures Soundical is the newest company joining Finnish Music Startups. It develops innovative music games and applications for mobile devices. Some of the first products include the kids' music game Panda Band and the physical gestures based music production app Beatphonic. Beatphonic is a free Windows Phone app that enables anyone to produce electronic music by using physical gestures. Beatphonic contains 16 high quality instruments with four alternative styles suitable for techno, dance, r&b, and pop music. There are over 65,000 different instrument & style combinations! All the instruments and style patterns have been made and composed exclusively for Beatphonic by top professional musicians. Record your own song, upload it to SoundCloud, and post it to Facebook - let your friends hear it and them be impressed!
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Playmysong released a new jukebox for Spotify Playmysong is a jukebox application that really makes party music fun and social. Now Playmysong has launched the all-new version of their application called Playmysong Spotify App 3.0. With the new version the application has gone through complete visual redesign focusing on album art and ease of use. The new design is not only more attractive, but also has a new feature. Users can now launch their jukebox by searching for any playlist based on a genre or theme. The approximate location of the jukebox is now detected automatically, which is also a very cool feature for guests to join the party. In addition to these new features, Playmysong Spotify App 3.0 has its previous Windows issues now fixed. The Playmysong Spotify app will make your party's music rock like never before! More information: |
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A new version of Mubik Musical Puzzle is available now Mubik Entertainment has launched a new version of the Mubik Musical Puzzle game. With the new version there are a number of new features that make the game more playable and yet offer something new for the old and new players alike. Mubik Musical Puzzle is now available in English, Swedish and Finnish. There's also a new Narrator mode which reads the musical questions aloud. This is especially handy for children who can't yet read and visually impaired people. Also the new Talent mode uses graphics to show players how well they played any given song. Mubik Musical Puzzle's new playable content features Rock Classics album, which offer a lot of new tunes to play with. The basic version of Mubik Musical Puzzle is available for free from AppStore for iPhone and iPad. More information: |
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This newsletter from Finnish Music Startups is published irregularly whenever the collective companies have enough news. Would you like to participate in the newsletter with news, a company introduction or an ad? Would you like to get more information about the featured companies or products? Contact us: This newsletter is sponsored by Logitech UE. If you don't want this newsletter in future, please reply "cancel". |
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