Thursday, June 29, 2006

Big Big Mix Race

By now you will have no doubt noticed that we are now running a fantastic new remix competition on YourSpins. The track 'Big Big Disgrace' by Glideascope has already proved to be very popular on the site, but we expect to see a lot more remixes soon as the best mix of this track will win an iPod Nano. All existing mixes of the track will be automatically entered into the competition- which will be judged by Glideascope himself. More details soon, but you have to be in it to win it - so get mixing!

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Welcome Japan! - 歓迎された日本!

こんにちは日本からの私達の友人に。すべてここに会えたことはうれしい。私達はそれを楽しむことを望む! There have been many new members in recent days from Japan. This is a special welcome to them - supplied by the occasionally reliable Babelfish. I hope it has translated OK!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

London Calling

If any of you are in the London area at the end of this week, the YourSpins team will be present at the London Calling exhibition at Earl's Court. We will be spreading the word about our little site and getting artists to compose tracks in the di format. So please come along to stand 205 if you are around. We'd love to put faces to some of the more outlandish avatars on the site!

London Calling: http://www.londoncalling2006.com/

Smileys are here :)

At last we got round to designing some cool new smileys for the forum and chat on YourSpins. Please feel free to go around using the emoticons all over the place! ;-)

Friday, June 23, 2006

Getting the word out!



Message for everyone out there in YS-land - give this a listen! Junglist makes some of the best mixes on YourSpins and this mix is no exception. A lovely sunset vibe to this slice of Brazilian music. Perfect for drinks at the end of another hot day!

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

We're back!

Hi folks. We are back to normal again. Sorry about the downtime. We used the time productively here in the YourSpins office to get out into the sunshine for a little bit, but now we can get back to spinning! Kinath awaits your mixing skills... what are you waiting for!

Offline for an hour or so.

We are in the middle of an unscheduled outage at the moment. Many apologies for this. We should be back online within 90 minutes. Please bear with us while we have the relevant people whipped to within an inch of their lives and then whipped some more.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

New music from Brazil

We have a new track ready to upload to the site soon. It's a piece of mellow, laid-back pop from Brazilian band, Kinath - called 'Beatrugged'. It's perfect for summer and we're sure you'll enjoy it too. This, however, is just a teaser of what we'll be releasing on the site over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more tunes!

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Forums round-up

It seems we have been having quite a few postings about YourSpins on various forum sites recently. Some of the postings have been interesting as they have a fresh view on what we are trying to do. Some of our favourites this week have been: "To me, music is a story. A "choose your own adventure" story is in the kids section for a reason."
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=351515&forumid=48
">THE END OF INTELLIGENT MUSIC PRODUCTION<" http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?s=13e9701fe31cfc6a10ec9210685b81ac&threadid=406720
Please mail us with any other humorous postings about YourSpins. We'll offer some inappropriate prize to the winner. Maybe a YourSpins t-shirt?!

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Through the 1,000 mark

Today we pushed on through past the 1,000 membership mark. This is a significant milestone for the community. A key part of this phase of development was to check that we could do all the bits we wanted to without crashed and disruption. It’s gone better than we expected, and although there are still a whole lot more features we want to develop and offer, we now know we can do that in a scalable way and without disrupting service. We’ve got to this point because of a lot of hard work by the team, but there is one thing that has really been encouraging for everyone and helped a lot, and that is the enthusiasm of people who have seen YourSpins and wanted to get involved. This includes artists, members, bloggers: so, a big thank you to you all – you know who you are. Let’s keep welcoming new people and keep making the site a great place to spend some time. We don’t want to look too far ahead, but there are some great acts coming…. the more music we get, the more members will come and the snowball will continue to gather momentum. So, for everyone whose enthusiasm has helped get this going, we will be aiming to please you by making a great site with a broad mix of great music…. Thanks