At least there are a couple of digital music (download) distributors/aggregators/producers/labels in Indonesia. I am not pretending that I know the industry inside out, but since it’s already has a serious impact on telco industry, I should give it a more serious look.
SWA, a couple of weeks ago also featured a story about the future of music in Indonesia, mentioning that telco (Ring Back Tone, to be exact) has kept Indonesian music alive… great, in a country where piracy is very-very-very prevalent.
Secondly, these digital distributors/labels democratize the distribution of music. Long Tail. A lot of indies.
- IM:Port (http://www.importmusik.com/) – the pioneer of Indie label in Indonesia
- Equinox DMD (http://www.equinoxdmd.com/) – channel Indonesian music to iTunes store! Yes, iTunes! So bringing Indonesian abroad. (Subcribe to their interesting Podcast to discover new music from this beautiful country!)
- DB (Digital Beat) Music Store (http://www.digitalbeatstore.com/) – a store, where we buy digital music (MP3), DRM-less. Online and offline purchase. Their physical stores can be found in Blitz Megaplex cinemas complex. Their online store uses Blitz Card for payment.
All of them are willling to distribute and accept songs from aspiring artists, trying to be famous.
I’m interested to explore this further… would be an interesting topic for MoMo.
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randy5kh // September 1, 2008 at 8:56 am |
Hi, I’m a Korean blogger and big dreamer in digital music as well. While I’m searching for some info regarding Indonesian digital music market, I came across your site. Now I’m investigating biz. opportunities of digital music in Indonesia. I hope we can talk more on this.
You can go to my blogs : One is in Korean, which is titled as DTwins’s digital music stories(http://randy5kh.tistory.com/) and the other is in English, but has been frozen for the time being. Jukebox in the sky(http://randy5kh.blogspot.com/)
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