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Pink Floyd’s “Wall” everywhere today. But… it wasn’t THAT wall, rather a wall Roger Waters built between himself and the audience… no ?

Pink Floyd’s tribute (featuring Sinéad O’Connor) would really be http://tra.kz/n0x

Jacno, les derniers mots : http://tra.kz/jacno R.I.P.

Need a studio in the cloud ? http://www.soundation.com/

Popular names in popular music : http://tra.kz/do2

10 Songs Disowned by the People Who Made Them Famous : http://tra.kz/hated (Creep inside !)

5 Great US Bands That Were First Discovered In The UK : http://tra.kz/wco Do you know of any european group discovered first in the US ??

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die : http://tra.kz/af1k (Spotify Inside)

Still warming up the machines

As a few of you may have noticed, there’s been little activity on BS recently. We did launch a (first and beta) version of our real time music guide - we will come back on the real time features in another post. But since we haven’t been able to focus completely on BS, the production rythm isn’t tremendous yet. Confession.

One word about our schedule : intensive production will start on BS in november 09. The first step (which is still only the beginning) should be reached in february 2010. At this time we will have a solid groundwork, and new features which will allow visitors to interact and - at last - participate to the site. We can’t wait working on this BS Step 1 and sharing it with you. But we’ll have to. Stay tuned.

Step 1 : In the beginning, there was...

Babelsound is building a complete and comprehensive music resource website, step by step. This is step 1.

Step 1 aims to lay the groundwork of Babelsound.

Primary dataset is focused on artists. For each artist, BS provides :

• Biographies
• Discographies
• Photos
• Videos
• No Similar artists

Nothing to jump and down about ? Yep, you’re right. But wait : this is only (the beginning) of step 1.

Thingies we aggregate for this first release :

• Musicbrainz (artists dataset ; discographies)
• Wikipedia and LastFM (biographies)
• LastFM (photos)
• Youtube (videos)

Step 1 is still in progress. In the next weeks, we will add a lot of new medias and contents. We’ll let you know about the additions on this blog.

But BS is not only about aggregation. So stay tuned for step 2, which should become a bit more spicy.

Thanks for visiting, and please feel free to drop us a line : babelsound (at) gmail.com.