Who We Are & What We Do...
Traxx24 is a new music blog from Berlin.
We interview Artists, DJs, Tastemakers and Digital Music Professionals from all over the world. Our audience are digital music professionals, artists, hardcore music lovers, djs and tastemakers looking for new sources of inspiration and knowledge. The site is run by artists for artists.
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(Using text to speech to keep it multi lingual)
Our text interviews are done using online forms which can be
translated to any language using Chrome.
Our focus is on small and mid-sized artists, djs and their teams that we see alot of potential in as well as more established artists that our audience loves and our artist & dj community can learn from. We also speak to digital music experts from all backgrounds. You´ll find club owners, booking agency pros, label a&rs, product managers, bloggers, influencers and tastemaker interviews... you name it. Our goal is to facilitate knowledge exchange.
What Our Guests & The Pros Say About Us...
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Our Interview Approach
We believe in the democratization of media and allow our community base to both influence the guest selection for our interviews as well as send in questions for future interviews. Anyone can recommend interview guests (obviously we also screen for quality) and send in their own questions. Many of our users become interview scouts and help us find new, exciting guests.
We have an innovative interview format that consists of "regular" interview questions, our crowdsourced community questions and (optional) Ask Me Anything sessions with your audience. 99% of our interviews are done in text form using online forms instead of emails.
We offer a 100% free service created by artists for artists. Traxx24 was founded by artists frustrated by the lack of support for smaller artists, djs and labels and as a reaction to the tactics used by big businesses to exploit the scene.
Scroll below to see testimonials, social mentions and read more infos on what you can expect as an interview feature guest.
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Who we reach
Our interviews and features are published both on our own platform and promoted on all our social media channels. Our blog currently reaches 50.000 unique visitors per month. That´s over half a milion music fanatics from all over the world reading our articles and interviews every year.
And while we´re small compared to the major media networks, our readers are true fans that spread the word in their local scences once they find something they really love. And we´re growing fast!
Through our partner network (currently work in progress) you´ll soon get exposure outside our own channels with the chance of syndication in streaming station playlists, repost networks and other music blogs.
You´re in good company... We have worked with hundreds of artists, djs and industry pros just like you that trust us and hold us high regard. Check the screenshots of interview guests, testimonials and social media mentions we collected in the last few months below
We already interviewed hundreds of artists, instrumentalists, engineers, producers digital music experts, authors, and curators, tastemakers from all over the world. Be it unknown upstarts or knowledgable underground veterans.
Artist/Industry Expert: Ari Herstand - an American singer-songwriter, author, actor, and blogger based in Los Angeles, California.
Herstand is a staff writer for Digital Music News and has also written for many of the top musician trade magazines and websites including Music Connection Magazine, American Songwriter, Playback Magazine, CD Baby, Tunecore, Reverbnation, Roland, Discmakers, ASCAP, Hypebot and others. He has been a featured speaker at SF MusicTech, SXSW, ASCAP Music Expo, CD Baby's DIY Musician Conference and Berklee College of Music.
Industry Veteran: Sly & Robbie - Reggea Legends that worked with Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Madonna and MANY MORE...
Sly & Robbie played & producer for everyone,from Bob Dylan to Abyssinians, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Sean Paul, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Grace Jones, Black Uhuru, Joe Cocker, Bitty McLean, Junior Natural, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Mayer Hawthorne, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, No Doubt, Nils Petter Molvaer, and about 2000 other artists. Overall they’ve played on more than 50,000 tracks
Princess Superstar at Perez Hilton's birthday party before performing.
Industry Veteran: Princess Superstar
World famous from her hits "Bad Babysitter" and "Exceeder/Perfect" Princess Superstar has worked with dozes of superstars and underground legends. Credits include: The Prodigy, Moby,Grandmaster Flash,Armand van Helden,Larry Tee, Arthur Baker, Junior Sanchez, Todd Terry, Di Might Mi and many more. She has tens of millions of views on Youtube, has recently worked with comedy superstars Amy Schumer & Margaret Cho and appeared on the Stephen Colbert Show. She was a crowdfunding pioneer and one of the early female mcs in the rap game.
Glockwize - Heavy Bass Newcomers
Northeastern Ohio's heavy bass music duo started producing together in early 2012 and has been consistently putting out quality bass tracks ever since. Both childhood friends and fellow producers combine their talents to make a unique style of bass music that is not to be limited by genres and is inspired by elements from various types of music from around the world.
Watch our About Us Video
(Using text to speech to keep it multi lingual)
Our text interviews are done using online forms which can be
translated to any language using Chrome.
Testimonials - Click to Zoom In
Sounds FANTASTIC? - What´s the Catch?
We offer many cool free services & goodies to grow our site and build up a knowledge base for the digital music community.
In that sense the "catch" is that we offer free interviews to learn more about the problems and challenges you're facing. We then use the data we are gathering through the community interview to build a knowledge base for around it. Everyone that helps us, gets free access to the knowledge base.
Anyone can help us simply by inviting others - we think it´s a very fair appraoch.
Social Media Mentions- Click to Zoom In
But why focus on the small artist?
The right question should be this one: Why do most media outlets focus on the big artists instead of the smaller ones? Here is why: Money. The cold truth: Big media outlets focus on the hyped artists to use THEIR popularity to sell ads. And once the hype is gone, poof - so is the media coverage. We simply don´t believe in the winner takes it all mentality most other blogs and media outlets work by.
Rap Genius
To quote Jay-Z: Rap mags try and use my black ass So advertisers can give 'em more cash for ads Fuckers, I don't know what you take me as Or understand the intelligence that Jay Z has I'm from rags to riches, niggas, I ain't dumb I got 99 problems,
but a bitch ain't one – hit me!
Our philosophy is sustainability. And we hope to achieve it by supporting the vibrant, creative, independent and underground culture.
That´s why we focus on the smaller and mid-sized artists, djs and everyone in the scene that makes it happen. This is why our approach is 100% community-driven.
Cost- & Time-efficiency
Another reason why we are able to offer free interviews and promotions is because we´re using a very cost and time efficient process for the interviews. By using text interviews with "self-service" online forms and many automated processes we try to optimize our processes as best as we can.
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What Our Guests & The Pros Say About Us...
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How does Traxx24 make money?
While we do run a tight ship, there are costs that we need to cover.
This is why we rely on two revenue streams:
1. Voluntary/Optional Donations (aka the paypal cookie jar here: paypal.me/traxx24)
2. Organizing free webinars and online classes with expert guests where we offer optional premium services. Anyone can join it for free and those who chose to upgrade gets a more personal experience & more content. Also note: We only offer those services only to people who explictly showed interest in them with non-intrusive advertisements.
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3. Sponsors & Advertising- From time to we might get a sponsor or advertisers on board.
Basically we rely on a small minority of our community to help us keep the whole thing alive.
Not interested in helping with the community? Just want to use the interview for your own promotion? No problem! In the end we just want to help you get out there!
Note: All of our interviews & artist promotion services are currently 100% free!
Screenshots of some our latest interviews
