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The BeatPick.com team is delighted to present it’s new-born startup, SoundReef! Now online in Private Beta status!

SoundReef.com is based on the idea that music can enhance images and images are a great way to promote music.

One one hand SoundReef helps users find music to be used in productions such as films, videos, show-reels, web radios, podcasts; on the other SoundReef obtains monetary compensation and/or promotion for all musicians who are inscribed to the service.

SoundReef.com’s approach is unique:  it is possible to pay for music licensing not only through monetary compensation, but also by fulfilling promotional activities for the musician. The idea is to find an ideal, “automatic” meeting point between a fair compensation for the musicians and many multimedia productions’ low music budgets.

If you  wish to view an explanatory video, that illustrates SoundReef’s completely new licensing system, click on the following link:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJHG28OsAo

At SoundReef.com Musicians who upload their music to the service always gain 75% of the earnings. They always know exactly when their music is being used, and who is using it. Joining SoundReef.com is free and easy; the agreement is 100% non-exclusive and may be cancelled by musicians in any desired moment.

All songs are licensed under the Creative Commons attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 3.0 license.

ATTENTION!

All artists inscribing within the 30th November 2008 will be rewarded, for the first year of inscription, with 95% of their earnings on SoundReef, instead of the standard 75%. So now’s the best moment to do it!!

We indeed have 100 invitations for musicians to join the Private Beta site: all those who do so by following this link, will automatically be included in this promotional offer!

Here’s the link, so get clicking:

http://www.soundreef.com/private_beta/promoterPage?o=13

Ultimately, a brief word about our fantastic partners at Emergenza Music Festival.

Emergenza Music Festival was founded in Rome, Italy, in 1992, by a group of passionate musicians wishing to give up and coming bands a possibility to express their talent in a music festival. Since then Emergenza Music Festival has become the world’s most prominent musical contest for emerging bands as far as international dimensions and coordination are concerned, covering 24 countries and having received inscriptions from over 60.000 bands.

This is why SoundReef.com is so proud to announce its’ partnership with the well-known festival. All bands inscribing to Emergenza Music Festival will also be offered the opportunity to join SoundReef.com, and will therefore be provided with even wider possibilities of seeing their music reach vast audiences.