AJPHLOTE.XYZ
The Vision The music industry is broken and ripe for disruption. Since 2017, I’ve been focused on finding ways to get artists paid at scale. In 2019, I discovered Tokenized Curated Registries (TCRs), one of the most disruptive idea to emerge from Web3. While NFTs were promising, they have not developed a market. TCRs, however, offer a real pathway to transform how value is created and shared on the internet. A TCR is a system that monetizes curation by creating a high-quality, community-drive...
AJBlurb for 8th Grader
About Phlote: Phlote is a new kind of music platform built for artists. It lets any group of artists to join forces and run their own direct-to-fan music store as a collective —targeting other creators. On Phlote, artists share free-to-remix tracks. Fans and fellow artists pay to download and create with them. How it works:Artists upload tracks to our paywalled site.They earn money each time someone downloads their track.Members can remix, collaborate, and build new songs together.Unreleased ...
AJAndy Warhol’s Factory and Its Contribution to Its Era
Andy Warhol revolutionized art and culture, transforming everyday objects into iconic statements that shaped pop art. A visionary artist, Warhol’s Factory became a cultural landmark in 1960s New York City, a magnet for artists and celebrities eager to experiment and push boundaries. The original Factory opened on East 47th Street and moved twice, first to the Decker Building at Union Square and later to East 33rd Street, adapting but always maintaining its aura of daring creativity.The Power ...
Dad. Artist @ Phlote. From Jersey.
AJPHLOTE.XYZ
The Vision The music industry is broken and ripe for disruption. Since 2017, I’ve been focused on finding ways to get artists paid at scale. In 2019, I discovered Tokenized Curated Registries (TCRs), one of the most disruptive idea to emerge from Web3. While NFTs were promising, they have not developed a market. TCRs, however, offer a real pathway to transform how value is created and shared on the internet. A TCR is a system that monetizes curation by creating a high-quality, community-drive...
AJBlurb for 8th Grader
About Phlote: Phlote is a new kind of music platform built for artists. It lets any group of artists to join forces and run their own direct-to-fan music store as a collective —targeting other creators. On Phlote, artists share free-to-remix tracks. Fans and fellow artists pay to download and create with them. How it works:Artists upload tracks to our paywalled site.They earn money each time someone downloads their track.Members can remix, collaborate, and build new songs together.Unreleased ...
AJAndy Warhol’s Factory and Its Contribution to Its Era
Andy Warhol revolutionized art and culture, transforming everyday objects into iconic statements that shaped pop art. A visionary artist, Warhol’s Factory became a cultural landmark in 1960s New York City, a magnet for artists and celebrities eager to experiment and push boundaries. The original Factory opened on East 47th Street and moved twice, first to the Decker Building at Union Square and later to East 33rd Street, adapting but always maintaining its aura of daring creativity.The Power ...
Dad. Artist @ Phlote. From Jersey.
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Untitled is creating a nice tool the is pushing into the creative. If successful, they will create a new more efficient way for creators to make and share music. But where does all this music go?
Most will likely stay on the app forever, making [untitled] the unofficial archive of creators on the app. Right now, that archive is not available to the public. But what if it was? They could allow artists to publish right on the app and share broadly, which would be interesting. It does not seem as though their plan is to become a music content platform, but they have the opportunity.
Spotify is already a bottleneck for music. There are too many songs getting too little views as it stands. Too many great artists getting lost in the shuffle. As the primary consumption point for listeners, this is not good for them either.
At some point, artists may see the benefit of more curated music platforms that give both the artists and curious music fans a more bespoke experience.
This is where labels could make a come back. As curation platforms, labels will be extremely important going forward. Their primary job will be to find talented artists and give THEM a platform. The roster will turn into the community of artists. Instead of one Spotify, there could be many platforms that simply give members of their community better visibility and as well as better economic terms.
New labels can be their own source of distribution. For example, they could release music as open source content, like sample packs, that intentionally invite collaboration, spread, and serendipity as a new lever artists can use to unlock value from their music. Labels could own their own clubs and digital venues. They could be infrastructure providers and make their tools available broadly for a price or operate more discretely. They will likely work on more equitable terms, seeing themselves as collaborative partners within their community and seeking to create win-win scenarios instead of what’s available today.
Untitled is creating a nice tool the is pushing into the creative. If successful, they will create a new more efficient way for creators to make and share music. But where does all this music go?
Most will likely stay on the app forever, making [untitled] the unofficial archive of creators on the app. Right now, that archive is not available to the public. But what if it was? They could allow artists to publish right on the app and share broadly, which would be interesting. It does not seem as though their plan is to become a music content platform, but they have the opportunity.
Spotify is already a bottleneck for music. There are too many songs getting too little views as it stands. Too many great artists getting lost in the shuffle. As the primary consumption point for listeners, this is not good for them either.
At some point, artists may see the benefit of more curated music platforms that give both the artists and curious music fans a more bespoke experience.
This is where labels could make a come back. As curation platforms, labels will be extremely important going forward. Their primary job will be to find talented artists and give THEM a platform. The roster will turn into the community of artists. Instead of one Spotify, there could be many platforms that simply give members of their community better visibility and as well as better economic terms.
New labels can be their own source of distribution. For example, they could release music as open source content, like sample packs, that intentionally invite collaboration, spread, and serendipity as a new lever artists can use to unlock value from their music. Labels could own their own clubs and digital venues. They could be infrastructure providers and make their tools available broadly for a price or operate more discretely. They will likely work on more equitable terms, seeing themselves as collaborative partners within their community and seeking to create win-win scenarios instead of what’s available today.
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