Took a System 100 modular, a battered old Pearl drum kit, some odd vocal grunts and an entire rack of Space Echoes and made my first record in almost a year. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it x principleasure.bandcamp.com/…

"Platforms don't need to be complex, or for someone to be hoovering up that much of the income": Wavetick on their new artist and producer-focused sample marketplace trib.al/nmr8GNy

Step up your music game with revenue wisdom from Sharooz Raoofi. magneticmag.com/2024/02/earn…

Wavetick (@wavetickmusic) launches, offering a marketplace for royalty-free music with 600k downloads. Promises creators 87.5% of fees and rights retention. musically.com/2024/02/28/wav… #Wavetick #MusicLicensing #RoyaltyFreeMusic #musically #musicnews #readmore

Licensable Music Marketplace Wavetick launches with industry-leading sales shares for creators and instant payouts musicconnection.com/licensab…

Wavetick founder Sharooz Raoofi discusses how to get started generating income as an upcoming producer, with Magentic Magazine magneticmag.com/2024/02/earn…

Grateful for the incredibly kind words and news pieces in the past few weeks on Wavetick. Huge thanks to Sound on Sound, Music Tech, Future Music, Bedroom Producers Blog and the many others. We’re just getting started

SOS NEWS! @wavetickmusic is a new music marketplace established by former Splice executive and Sample Magic founder Sharooz Raoofi. The service provides a quick and easy way to purchase or sell copyright-free beats, whilst providing clear flexible terms sosm.ag/Wavetick

We’ve had 600,000 individual sound downloads on Wavetick in 6 weeks. While I’m incredibly proud of our team, it’s just the start.. there’s so much more to our platform. Limited edition works, one price for ALL use tracks, instant selling, i can go on.. wavetick.com

A friendly reminder you can sell beats and sound packs on @wavetickmusic, receive over 85% of sales income, get paid instantly,l and cancel any time. It’s free to use and you can set your own pricing. 50/50 is a bullshit concept. Don’t stand for it. wavetick.com/sell

I hear many people say it's unrealistic to expect all creators behind training data to receive micropayments whenever a generative AI model trained on their work is used. This strikes me as being a very weak argument. First, it's a straw man: there are many different business models for training data licensing. To name a few: upfront payment, payment upon training, equal revenue share, weighted revenue share based on impact on output, equity-for-data. Making out there's just one proposed solution is intentional misdirection. Second, it suggests it's not already happening. This is false. There are already a number of gen AI companies who take exactly this approach. Third, it suggests that payments to a large number of creative contributors is an impossible problem to solve. It's not: there are existing mechanisms in place that do precisely this outside of generative AI. And fourth, it often comes as part of a suggestion that the responsibility should be on the creative industries to work out how to license their content to gen AI companies. But this has it backwards. It is not incumbent on creators to create business models that work for the gen AI industry. If gen AI companies need training data, it is their job to propose licensing structures that make it worth creators' while.

Excited to launch @wavetickmusic today. A marketplace for buying / selling licensable tracks and sounds. Users keep 90% income with instant payouts and can sell 1 of 1, limited and unlimited beats. Our commission is just 12.5%. Let’s put creators first! wavetick.com

‘O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..’

Marching and calling for a ceasefire and peace so that more innocent children don’t get killed is not really the definition of a hate march.

Apparently Berghain have replaced their soundsystem. The old one put in 20 years of service, which means, assuming it was running 40 hours a week at an average of 135bpm (always 4 to the floor, obviously), it played approximately 340 million kick drums during its lifetime

We’ve taken all the infamous classic breaks and replayed from start to end, sample accurate in 24-bit clarity, getting as close as possible to the mics, recording techniques and rooms of the originals. You can grab them here: wavetick.com/sounds/classic-…

A message from those trapped at Burning Man has just been released: "They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming!"

It’s an honour to be invited to Apple’s new UK HQ to view first hand their latest developments in the creator space. I’m wowed and inspired at where they’re taking music creation. While not giving much away, porting audio applications to iPad is just the beginning.

On this day 6 years ago recording ‘I’ in 3 days at the legendary Handwerk studios in Berlin. All analogue. All straight to DAW.