Im proud to announce the creation of a new online music community in support of the 313TechKnow and 313@hyperreal.org mailing lists. Many of you may have checked the material on my old mp3.com station. Due to some policy changes at mp3.com and a desire for greater control over the online distribution of our music, a group of approximately twenty-five 313ers have banded together to create our own site, http://mp313.com
The site is still under construction. If you are interested in joining this community you must be actively subscribed to 313 or 313TechKnow. There will be a monthly fee not in excess of $15 associated with paying for a server connection, web space, and periodic administrative expenses. We are exploring sponsorships and the possibility of establishing ourselves as a non-profit organization. We hope to launch by DEMF. The core members who have been working on this project for the last month and a half have already determined the structure of the site, some basic rules regarding content moderation, etc. We have designed art for the site and are in the process of building as I type. We have reached the stage where we need to know if any other producers on the 313 list are interested in contributing their music and what monthly contributions we can count on from them. mp313.com will not house DJ mixes. Those of you who listened to the material on the old mp3.com station know that quality is a pre-requisite for us. We will be moderating content from new members until we are assured that there will be no pollution. We will be accepting music of any style that is discussed on this list, as long as the 313 relevance is evident in some way. Were not going to be tyrannical about it we just want to retain a focus. If you are interested in joining this community, please contact me off-list, and I will forward subscription information to you (might not get to your message until tomorrow though). If you are a journalist interested in reviewing material on the site, we will be hosting reviews as well. I think the support of the journalists on 313 would be a wonderful helping hand as we launch and I think were a worthy cause. Were free, were underground, and were all about Detroit. Thanks for the bandwidth, Tristan Watkins mp313.com administrator __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
