RCADE

📱38% of all music on TikTok is user-edited (slowed, sped up, reverbed, mashed up, etc).

💰There is no easy way for artists and fans to monetize this popularity or legally create these remixes.

🕹️RCADE is the first platform to meaningfully tap this trend, creating an entirely new revenue stream for artists and fans alike.

Creating a remix [demo music] in just a few clicks with:

🎤[VOCALS]: "Flip a Switch" - RAYE

🎸[MELODY]: "wonder if u care" - flying fish

🥁[DRUMS]: "Bzrp Music Sessions 58" Young Miko, Bzrap

🔊[BASS]: "Flip a Switch" - RAYE

🎵FOR ARTISTS: Set your own stem prices and availability. Receive $$ when you sell stems AND when fan-creations featuring your music are heard.

🙌FOR FANS: Create and share remixes with no music knowledge required. You ALSO receive $$ when and where your creations are heard.

👾RCADE is a game-like experience. We are actively integrating our music-making toolkit into virtual worlds with Unreal Engine 5.

Team

Jeff Shell

Business/Technical

- Co-Founder/CEO of record label Dust Collectors Records and paid seven figures to artists
- Previously finance at Warner Music Group/Atlantic Records

Edward Quintero

Creative/Marketing

- Founder/CEO of Mold3d, a real-time and virtual production studio
- Collaborated on Unreal Engine 5 demo for Epic Games, worked with Disney, Meta, and Netflix

"Those who use Spotify’s remix feature cannot share their creations on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. These are the two social media apps that have the most popularity for remixes. Those who want to upload there will need to stick to “unofficial” spins on songs. This is due to financial and legal reasons, particularly the fact that 'artists and labels don’t often get paid for those altered versions of their songs.'”

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Is the Music Industry Losing Money to Sped-Up Remixes?

“We’re talking more than 1 million unlicensed, manipulated songs that are diverting revenue away from rightsholders this very minute. These can generate millions in cumulative revenue for the uploaders instead of the correct rightsholders.”

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In the age of TikTok and Fortnite Festival, it’s time for DJ Hero 3

“The democratization of not only music but music creation tools means that the exact type of ridiculous remixes that were a fixture of DJ Hero are all over TikTok... A soundtrack for 100 songs is great, but for something like this to have legs, you’d need a community actively supporting it with remixes. The obvious opportunity to sell new songs via microtransactions.”

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A Different Kind of Streaming Fraud: Over 1M Manipulated Tracks Are On Audio Streaming Services

“[These] are 'modified audio' – which means an original track has been sped up, slowed down, or otherwise manipulated, and then uploaded as an entirely new recording. The main issue for the music industry? Unless these million-plus tracks have legally licensed the original recording on which they’re based, they’re infringing copyright. More than that, they’re pulling royalties away from the original artists in question.”

READ ARTICLE

Monstercat’s latest Roblox experience is a DJ Simulator

"DJ Simulator launched in June, and has been visited more than 310k times so far. The business model includes selling ‘Premium VIP’ subscriptions offering exclusive gifts and boosts, with additional ‘passes’ sold with benefits like coin-boosts, the ability to equip an extra pet, and auto mixing. The label has also made the most of selling virtual merch on Roblox – including, famously, a $10k necklace item.”

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TikTok users are demanding that their favorite musicians release sped-up songs

“The remixes will oftentimes see even more engagement than the original, according to the TikTok spokesperson. For example, In January, R&B star Miguel released an official sped-up version of his 2010 single, “Sure Thing,” which went viral on TikTok and made its way into the Billboard Top 20 at #15, over a decade after its release.”

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How TikTok is Revolutionizing The Remix, From Mashups to Micro DJs

“Normally confined to a mere 15 seconds, audio mashups on TikTok are beginning to shift the ways in which young people discover music (mashups of hits from the ‘90s are just as popular as those featuring current chart-toppers like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”). Many young DJs and producers are taking to the platform to jumpstart their careers and even live-mix songs.”

READ ARTICLE

Spotify Will Soon Let Users Remix Songs, But There’s A Catch (And A Price) To It

"Those who use Spotify’s remix feature cannot share their creations on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. These are the two social media apps that have the most popularity for remixes. Those who want to upload there will need to stick to “unofficial” spins on songs. This is due to financial and legal reasons, particularly the fact that 'artists and labels don’t often get paid for those altered versions of their songs.'”

READ ARTICLE

In the age of TikTok and Fortnite Festival, it’s time for DJ Hero 3

“The democratization of not only music but music creation tools means that the exact type of ridiculous remixes that were a fixture of DJ Hero are all over TikTok... A soundtrack for 100 songs is great, but for something like this to have legs, you’d need a community actively supporting it with remixes. The obvious opportunity to sell new songs via microtransactions.”

READ ARTICLE

A Different Kind of Streaming Fraud: Over 1M Manipulated Tracks Are On Audio Streaming Services

“[These] are 'modified audio' – which means an original track has been sped up, slowed down, or otherwise manipulated, and then uploaded as an entirely new recording. The main issue for the music industry? Unless these million-plus tracks have legally licensed the original recording on which they’re based, they’re infringing copyright. More than that, they’re pulling royalties away from the original artists in question.”

READ ARTICLE

Monstercat’s latest Roblox experience is a DJ Simulator

"DJ Simulator launched in June, and has been visited more than 310k times so far. The business model includes selling ‘Premium VIP’ subscriptions offering exclusive gifts and boosts, with additional ‘passes’ sold with benefits like coin-boosts, the ability to equip an extra pet, and auto mixing. The label has also made the most of selling virtual merch on Roblox – including, famously, a $10k necklace item.”

READ ARTICLE

TikTok users are demanding that their favorite musicians release sped-up songs

“The remixes will oftentimes see even more engagement than the original, according to the TikTok spokesperson. For example, In January, R&B star Miguel released an official sped-up version of his 2010 single, “Sure Thing,” which went viral on TikTok and made its way into the Billboard Top 20 at #15, over a decade after its release.”

READ ARTICLE

How TikTok is Revolutionizing The Remix, From Mashups to Micro DJs

“Normally confined to a mere 15 seconds, audio mashups on TikTok are beginning to shift the ways in which young people discover music (mashups of hits from the ‘90s are just as popular as those featuring current chart-toppers like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”). Many young DJs and producers are taking to the platform to jumpstart their careers and even live-mix songs.”

READ ARTICLE

Spotify Will Soon Let Users Remix Songs, But There’s A Catch (And A Price) To It

"Those who use Spotify’s remix feature cannot share their creations on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. These are the two social media apps that have the most popularity for remixes. Those who want to upload there will need to stick to “unofficial” spins on songs. This is due to financial and legal reasons, particularly the fact that 'artists and labels don’t often get paid for those altered versions of their songs.'”