Geo Track ID monitors its first festival
- PublishedTue, May 5, 2015, 09:14
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- After collecting playlist data to submit to GEMA at last month's PollerWiesen event in Cologne, the project will head to Nachtdigital later this summer.
- Future Audio Workshop's Geo Track ID system has come back from its first festival. When we last checked in with GTI—a solution for providing better data to performing rights organizations like Germany's GEMA, so that they can more equitably distribute the money derived from fees paid by clubs and festivals—they had just brought their technology out of the lab for a test run at Berlin's Prince Charles nightclub. GTI's boxes "listen" to the music played by DJs, fingerprint the tracks with over 90 percent accuracy against a database culled from such sources as Juno's catalog and user-submitted releases, and securely transmits the IDs to an encrypted database. They have now made it into six clubs in Germany, including Robert-Johnson outside Frankfurt and Harry Klein in Munich. And GTI has just announced that they monitored the season launch of PollerWiesen in Cologne, an event with 9,000 attendees headlined by Nina Kraviz and Marcel Dettmann. Off the success of the PollerWiesen test, GTI will compile data at PollerWiesen's next event, in Dortmund, and at the highly regarded Nachtdigital weekender later this summer. "Geo Track ID simplifies our work with performing rights organizations because we don't have to chase after track lists any more, which could be quite time-consuming," said PollerWiesen's Lars Mueller and Michael Kastens, in a statement. "It makes sure that the right artists get paid for their work and allows us as a festival organization to concentrate on other things." You can read more about GEMA and German nightlife here.
- Sun, May 24, 2015
Pollerwiesen Festival 2015
Marek Hemmann, Len Faki, DVS1, Blawan, Lexer, Roman Flügel, Mind Against, Adana Twins, Einmusik, Dirty Doering, Pusch, De Sluwe Vos, Anton Pieete, P.A.C.O., Juliet Sikora, PAJI, Ante Perry, Ahmet Sisman, Julian Bomm, Junge Junge
- Fri, Jul 31, 2015
Nachtdigital 2015
Andy Stott, ATEQ, Barnt, Joy Orbison, Ben UFO, Prosumer, Carlos Valdes, Sandrien, Chino, DJ Dustin, Electric Indigo, Helena Hauff, I-F, Karenn, Blawan, Pariah, Konstantin, Lena Willikens, Steffen Bennemann, Luke Abbott, Map.ache, Mix Mup, Mo Probs, Monolake, Neel, Pachanga Boys, Rebolledo, Superpitcher, Polo (DE), rRoxymore, Rude 66, Traxx, Young Marco, Wolf Müller, Credit 00, CVBOX, Rekorder, Leibniz, Esclé, OneTake