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I’ve recently stumbled on a site called Jamendo. Its been set up by some dudes in Luxembourg and provides an easy way to search for music that is available via BitTorret or eMule. The dudes even got some Series A funding from Mangrove Capital. What surprised me was that:

• The dudes are based in Luxembourg.
• They got VC backing.
• The VC is also based in Lux (which probably explains why they got the backing).

Meanwhile,the real kicker is that the music distributed (or should that be cataloged?) by Jamendo is done so under very liberal Creative Commons licences. You can check out their concept here.
Now whilst some of the music available is, to my ears at least, crap, there are however some excellent gems out there. I’m currently hooked on the likes of:

• Boom Boom Becket
• AdHoc
• Tom La Mache
• Solcarlus
• Bosques de mi Mente

Oh, for some techno-ish stuff XL Ant ain’t too bad…
Now, I’m off to check out some music from them before they burn out all their Series A cash.

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