Here's the official press release.

The digital era of music has been around for awhile now, but the transition from CDs to a more modern digital product has up til now been years behind the technology of the mp3 itself. Various attempts have been made at a new, more adaptable to cyberspace means of delivering a record to consumers, but all were missing the joy that comes with buying a CD or album - the opening of the package, the discovery of the culture behind the artist or band whose music you brought into your life to make your day a little bit better.

Millions of listeners on the internet are used to just clicking on a play button to download or stream a song. Lost in the immediacy of the maze of names, links, and buttons is the cultivation of longterm associations with the great artists out there, because as a listener, you're stuck dealing with a world that is strictly one song at a time. The disposable nature of music as its been presented on the internet up to this juncture causes the music lover to follow suit haphazardly, grabbing a song here or there for their I-pod, and then later just wiping the slate clean and loading up another batch of songs from whatever source is close at hand. Some listeners build collections, but they are not collections of full records coming precisely from the realm the artist intended, but rather a peripheral sampling of unrelated songs resulting in songlists put together out of hasty convenience. The true artists have been squeezed out of this short attention span format and the bottom line is, for the great online music scene, due to the lack of imagination of the labels and all the quickie music sites born overnight, the full length record as we once knew it is dead. Enter IAC.

Independent Artists Company's revolutionary DMD (Digital Music Delivery) is set to change the landscape for online listeners and artists both. For the first time there is a product that provides everything you once got from a CD but injects all the past magic of opening and perusing a new album into the digital product. Not only does the DMD have built-in state of the art conveniences such as being able to burn the CD in one shot, transfer to I-pod device and download individual songs, the presentation of this innovative digital event goes far deeper than that complimentary booklet we all like to find inside the latest CD we purchased. In fact, the whole record listening process gets a brand new dimension as the artist-customizable "Ultrapage" (which comes included with every DMD) allows you to check out the lyrics, and to view and save a large assortment of images and reading material provided to you by the artist. This all unfolds directly in front of you on your monitor screen as you listen. IAC artists are given tools to serve up links to past songs, blogs, and basically, whatever extras they want to provide the listener. Meanwhile, the music lover who buys a DMD enters an artist-created html experience that takes the music to another level.

http://www.iacmusic.com

Thanks, very nice site. Are you affiliated with this production? I found this 19 year old Nellie McKay Wow what a voice. Very sultry-!!

hi Al
how are ya?

thanks for the link, I'll check it out

T

Glad you liked the site !

yeah I'm affiliated, I'm the COO of the company.

One of the big strengths of the site is that we did really what was an unprecedented online talent search. It probably sounds pompous to say but there is no doubt in my mind that the greatest songwriters in the world are there, having been locked out of narrow Clear Channel formats. We've been able to add some pretty famous acts to the site too because they feel we're on the right path. Most recently Pete Townsend and his lady started a page. We also have Frank Black, Ani Difranco, Aimee Mann, XTC, Teenage Fanclub..

hey Tubedriver,

pretty good, been worse anyway. haha

you ?

Great site and terrific selection of good music

I tried the link but all I got was a page with an "H" on it.

Rocky

That's odd, has to be your server cause we haven't had a second of downtime today.

Thanks Rob !

Al

I'm good, thanks.

Nice site, dig that Frank Black tune.

There is some good music there, well done.

Tube

Very nice site with some good stuff there!

quote:

I tried the link but all I got was a page with an "H" on it.

Rocky

In Safari on a Mac I just got a blank page...no "H".

well we have a lot of artists who use Macs but I believe you have to be on the newest version and IE to see the site properly, at this time.

and thanks, Rick.

Wow remember LP's.......... sadly I show my age

It works fine on the Windows (ugh) box here at work...very cool! I'll have to get it sussed out on the Mac at home, definitely interested in signing my own band up now!

seems to work ok on my Mac
Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12)

Chris, we'd love to have you if you want to start a page. It is free and you get to put up 3 songs at any kbps.

I wanted to add here that we finally finished an elaborate demo page to show how easy it is to make a DMD and especially, how cool the Ultrapage is.

http://www.independentartistscompany.com/dmddemo.html