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Author: Fidel

  • Digital Music Landscape III: Consumption

    [This is the concluding part of a three-part post on the Digital Music Landscape. You can read the first post and the second post to get up to speed] Let’s look at the services that exist in the West against the services for Indian music in an attempt to look at how music recommendations serve…

  • Digital Music Landscape II: Discovery

    [This is the second part of a three-part post covering the digital music landscape. You can read the first post here.] In the second part , let’s look at the different approaches of music discovery. Regardless of the approach, the end objective is to help people find new music. Music for music’s sake The Music…

  • Digital Music Landscape I : Recommenders

    [This is the first part of a three-part post that provides a high level overview of the digital music landscape where Mavrix and MySwar fits in.] Recommender: specific type of information filtering system technique that attempts to recommend information items (movies, music, books, news, images, web pages, etc.) or social elements (e.g. people, events or groups) that are likely to be of interest to the user. – Wikipedia…

  • Musicians Are A Lot Like Technology Startups

    Life experiences (especially early ones) inspire the musician’s music and the entrepreneur’s business. John Lennon used song-writing as an escape from a troubled childhood. Richard Branson started a school newspaper when he got frustrated by rigid school rules and regulations. Success for both musicians and startups come after a lot of hard work and learning from experience.…

  • 5 Factors To Consider While Buying A Guitar

    It could be the funky groove in the song. Or the catchy riff in the chorus. Could definitely be the powerful solo building the crescendo. For what ever reasons we have, we can no longer deny ourselves the passion.The decision makes itself. To finally get yourself that  guitar. Or that  keyboard, the drums or that…

  • Bangalore’s Live Music Scene Making A Comeback

    Bengaluru will not let go of the Rock Capital tag easily! Despite all that transpired in the city potentially spelling doom for music lovers, it appears that there is enough and more support going around. Here ‘s a link to a blogpost  belonging to a local rising artist, Fidel Dsouza, who he talks about the new…