SR News: R.A.W. Mix Tape Contest with EM and Indaba

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INDABA MUSIC & PENTON MEDIA DEBUT NEW
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PRESENTS PORTAL AT INDABAMUSIC.COM
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FIRST MONTHLY MIXTAPE COMPETITION PRESENTED BY SONIC REALITY

Indaba Music, a leading destination for online music creation, and Penton Media have unveiled ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PRESENTS, a new section of IndabaMusic.com that features a variety of informative and interactive content from respected publication Electronic Musician. The ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PRESENTS page will mirror the offerings of its parent brand, and will focus on music production technology and techniques, including artist coverage and interviews, tutorials, reviews of products and record releases, tech tips, DIY features and production topics presented by Grammy and Emmy Award-winning audio engineers.

Indaba Music has also launched a monthly digital "mixtape" competition. The first of these competitions will be presented by Sonic Reality, the innovative sound development and music software company, and dubbed "Sonic Reality Presents: Electronic Musician Digital Mixtape, Vol. 1." Sonic Reality will provide musicians on Indaba Music with sounds to work with from their R.A.W. Platinum sample pack, and a blue ribbon panel comprised of Electronic Musician's editor, Indaba Music's co-founder and a representative from Sonic Reality, will judge the entries. The resulting sharable digital "mixtape" of winning tracks will be available to everyone from IndabaMusic.com and ElectronicMusician.com.

Beginning next quarter, "Pro" and "Platinum" members of the Indaba Music community will receive complimentary digital subscriptions of Electronic Musician (for three and six months, respectively) and annual subscription discounts, while Electronic Musician subscribers will receive complimentary, three-month "Pro" memberships to Indaba Music. With a print and digital circulation of more than 40,000, a suite of e-newsletters, and a web site reaching more than 175,000 unique visitors monthly, Electronic Musician is an information leader in the personal studio category for everyone from novices to professional caliber recording artists.


R.A.W. Platinum Special Offer: As a special bonus for the month of June all participants in the contest and all members of Sonic Reality's affiliate e-store "esoundz" can get an incredible $250 off the price of the massive R.A.W. Platinum Edition featuring over 50,000 loops in Rex, Apple Loops in Wave spanning a large range of music styles. The discount is available now by using the coupon code RAWPLAT when ordering from esoundz here:
http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?Prod ... code=INDNL


About Penton Media
Penton Media, Inc. (www.penton.com) is the largest, independent, business-to-business media company in the U.S. serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 websites, 150 industry tradeshows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products.

About Sonic Reality
Sonic Reality has been a leader in sound development since 1996 co-creating award-winning products such as Miroslav Philharmonik, Sonik Synth 2, R.A.W. Loops, Ocean Way Drums, EpiK DrumS - A Ken Scott Collection, Neil Peart Drums, Drum Masters, Serafine FX Tron, Cinema Sessions, Infinite Player and more. As a company that "samples everything", Sonic Reality aims to provide musicians with loops for every style of music and top quality multisampled instruments ranging from drums to pianos to vintage keyboards, guitars, bass, orchestral and world instruments. For more info visit http://www.sonicreality.com

About Indaba Music
Indaba Music is employed by musicians around the world to collaborate through the exchange of files, ideas, and even rights. With a strong emphasis on community, users connect and collaborate as they would in any other social network—through search, algorithmic recommendation, and site programming. As of early 2010, www.indabamusic.com has nearly 500,000 users, growing at a rate of nearly 450% over the past year to include members from 185 countries. Indaba's collaboration opportunities have previously featured such diverse artists as The Roots, Yo-Yo Ma, Mariah Carey, Crystal Method, John Legend, Alkaline Trio, Har Mar Superstar and more. The company and its contests have been featured in USA Today, Wired, CNET, The Independent (UK), Rolling Stone, NPR, the Discovery Channel, the Christian Science Monitor, The Colbert Report, TechCrunch, SPIN and more.

For more information, visit http://www.indabamusic.com.