Labels, tech companies & platforms are raking in billions while the people actually making the music—musicians, producers, and creators—are left with scraps.
Visa restrictions, venue closures, and broken industry systems are shutting down opportunities for real talent to thrive.
We want to flip the script.
We see a radical new model that pays artists fairly. Not just another platform. A movement. A rebellion against the exploitative systems that have dominated the music world for too long.
A home where creators connect, collaborate, and finally get what they deserve.
No middlemen. No BS. Just a fair shot at making a living from what you love.
This has never been done before—and we’re ready to shake the foundations of the industry.
Who’s with us?
Does anyone want to contact them to hear what they’re planning?
I agree, but I also think it stems from some long boiled anger coming out all of the sudden because you probably teamed up with a bunch of people to do something but you’re not ready yet to fully start, and you lack a clear view of “what’s out there” so you do this sort of cryptic rallying cry. We’ve all been kind of guilty of this in one form or another at some point because it’s easier to gather the energy for that initial spark of anger “we’re gonna change it all”, than it is to stay for the long run once it’s clear it will not be that easy to change “it all” and even “anything at all” and that you have to put up with all the failures and general lack of interest along the way.
I really hope we can get them to come here and talk about their project with us, we DO need some initiatives that are revolutionnary would it at least be in their initial aspiration, rather than “another platform”. As soon as Mirlo started we were worried we’d appear that way to people and we wanted to distantiate Mirlo from the broader effort of confronting the current music landscape’s logic and ecosystem (part of why we setup “Fun Music Place” to not just be “Mirlo Discord” even though we kind of failed in many regards).
I’m hopeful a discourse forum like this one can be a place where, whatever it is Soundgas and whoever they’re building with have in mind, they can come and find a crowd already ready to support them and provide toolings or know how. I respect Soundgas output and work in the music landscape and value it a lot, these are people who are at an interesting spot of confluence between tools / tech and music in a very pragmatic physical way.
This is trolling me on so many levels. been rewriting this post like 17 times, i’ll post it like this, without the details, just to get it out of my system.
