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http://www.stompy.com
There is a lot of house music out there and more places than ever to find digital music online. There are sites with massive, watered-down libraries containing everything with half a beat and some vocals. But you’re looking for something else. You know what music you want, and you want to know where you can find it. You want an online store whose catalog you can trust to be filled with music that moves you.
Stompy.com is an online digital house music store for people who know what they want, and want to know where they can find it. Since 1992 Stompy has been synonymous with the deep, chunky front-edge house music that has come to be known as the San Francisco sound. From the beginning Stompy has been the trend setter in its music-first approach to events, a philosophy that has helped establish a strong native presence for deep house on the West Coast.
Now Stompy and the founder of Panhandle Records and Safe In Sound Music have joined together to bring that same approach to downloadable digital music. Stompy.com was made for people who dig on bumpin front-edge house music. Whether you are a headliner or a house head, Stompy.com’s got what you’re looking for - including the freshest cuts and exclusive music not available anywhere else.
THE MUSIC YOU WANT
Simply put, Stompy.com’s select catalog of music separates it from other generic electronic music sites. We’re not trying to be “everything for everybody.” We believe you shouldn’t have to sort through or buy tons of tracks you don’t want just to find something that moves you. Our goal is to make it easier for people who love house music to become house aficionados and to help DJ’s expand the digital tools in their repertoire.
What DJs Want
We’re dialed-in to what DJ’s want – flawless sound quality, no-bull browsing, and the latest tracks. Since Stompy.com was founded by DJ’s, we’ve created a whole range of features catering to your needs:
• CD quality 16-bit, 44.1K WAVE or AIFF files
• Intelligent search capability by multiple criteria including artist, label, and/or style
• Rip it & Ship it! burn to CD and ship option for users with slow connections
• Instant downloading
• Customer account with personalized services
• New releases
• Exclusive tracks not found anywhere else
What House Lovers Want
Music wouldn’t be much without the people who listen and dance to it. So Stompy.com has also been built with the house enthusiast in mind. Now with access worldwide, you house lovers can be connected to music you may have been cut off from for far too long. Some of Stompy.com’s features for consumers include:
• High quality mp3’s of every track in our catalog
• Licensed DJ mixes with individual track mapping
• Rip it & Ship it! burn to CD and ship option for users with slow connections
• Label Compilations
• Intelligent search capability by multiple criteria including artist, label, and/or style
• Top Tune Charts
• Mp3 players and other digital music equipment
• Customer account with personalized services
MORE THAN DIGITAL FILES
Our goal is not to replace the independent DJ record store. We’re just broadening the possibilities for people who love to play and listen to great house music. So we’ve taken a lot of cues from the offline experience.
We know that people want more than just an impersonal search engine, a digital file or a generic CD. Stompy.com offers enhanced features to reflect the creativity, uniqueness and sense of community you expect of a music purchase. The following are some of our stand-out features:
• Label-supplied artwork
For every track, compilation, and DJ mix in our catalog, Stompy.com will feature unique, label-supplied artwork that can be downloaded and printed on a CD label or CD printable.
• Monthly artist features
Each month, Stompy.com will spotlight an artist making noise in the house scene. This section will feature an artist profile, interview, new releases, track reviews, tour dates and other information about what’s going on with this particular artist.
• Label profiles
Stompy.com will be proud to feature several fully digital labels making their music available only on our site. For each we will include a label profile, latest releases, and searchable catalog with previews.
GETTING IT OUT THERE
Stompy.com believes in promoting the music. Nobody benefits if the tracks stay lifeless and hidden in our database waiting to be downloaded. So we’re getting the music out where it lives – in the clubs and on the airwaves.
Shortly after going live in the Summer of 2004, you will have a chance to see Stompy.com in action, up close. We will be launching a multi-city, interactive tour that will be coming to a club near you. You’ll get the chance to sit down and try out our download engine right there as well as get to know some of the tools available to the DJ for performance of digital music. DJs will be able to find the tracks they want in our catalog, burn them to disk, and walk over to the decks to start playing their set.
We’ll also be programming several one-hour shows each week on XM Radio’s dedicated house music station. Sponsored by Stompy.com, the broadcasts will exclusively feature tracks from the Stompy.com catalog, enabling listeners to purchase any or all of the tracks they hear, on the spot.
GIVING UP THE GREEN
Sometimes you reinvent the wheel, other times you just roll on it. And in terms of pricing, somebody has already cracked the code for making music affordable online. So from a nuts and bolts perspective we think Stompy.com’s got it down pretty standard:
• DJ Single (single track) :: Audio File - $1.99 :: MP3 - $1.49
• Compilation (multiple tracks) :: Available in a bundle at a discounted rate
• DJ Mixes (MP3 only) :: $9.99
• Rip It & Ship It! (time and materials) :: $3.00 (per cd) + shipping
BEHIND THE MUSIC
Stompy.com founders, Preston Lytton and Jonny Phelps, have been housing it up for well over a decade now. Preston started Stompy Productions a little over ten years ago, which has sponsored some of the longest running and most legendary clubs in SF and beyond, including such notables as Groove Kitchen, Boogie Buffet, and Stompy Hi Fi. Under the production names Jonene and Jonny Kaboom, Jonny has been releasing material and playing gigs at venues around the world, while also running Panhandle Records and Safe In Sound Music.
We’re looking forward to seeing you online. Welcome to the digital evolution.
Jonny Phelps : Music Director : [email removed]
Preston Lytton : Operations Director : [email removed] |
20 May 2004, 2:34pm