Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places.
It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process.
With recording hardware and software now available on almost any budget, it's easier than ever for artists of all levels and backgrounds to record and produce professional quality music. Artists are also harnessing the internet to get their music heard by more people than ever before. We think this is a big deal for the future of music, and we built Indaba to be an environment for artists to harness these trends and create music in new ways.
We don't believe that Indaba Music will ever recreate or replace the experience of working with someone else in the same room, but we do believe we can foster a community that offers new opportunities for artists at all levels to connect and work creatively together, regardless of location.
The site is more than just a tool, it's a community of real people connecting and collaborating in new and exciting ways. As we grow, we plan to add even more exciting features, including more advanced collaborative functionality and ways for fans to experience music creation. We can't wait to see how you use the site!
In college, we realized that there was a huge need for services that student musicians didn't have access to... things like professional production assistance, concert organization, and promotion. We also saw a big opportunity to create exciting events around music, so we began a non-profit student record label to serve our local community of musicians. We recorded and produced compilation albums at no cost to artists, we freely distributed them on-campus (and beyond), and we organized release parties and concerts for our artists.
It was important to us that the label remain a student-run organization even after we graduated. We started thinking about other ways to help the larger community of musicians and music professionals, and what the tremendous changes in music, technology, and media would mean for artists in the future. We were particularly interested in the increasing availability of cheap digital recording technology and easily accessible digital distribution. Together, they enable anyone to make music and get it to people all over the world inexpensively and easily.
We wanted to empower more artists to take advantage of these changes, so in the Spring of 2005 we started work on an idea that eventually became Indaba Music. We assembled a young team experienced in startup media, with members who had successfully launched a national student magazine, started a college television station, founded a recording studio for independent musicians, and directed the technical development of the first label-released mp3 CD. Check out our work and let us know what you think - if something could be different or better, we definitely want to hear about it. E-mail us at feedback@indabamusic.com.
Welcome!
Dan and Matt
Co-Founders, Indaba Music