Beatport launches Beatsource - online urban music store

Beatport launches Beatsource - online urban music store

11 September, 2007 | 3.13PM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: urban

Denver, CO (11th September, 2007) — Beatport, the recognized leader in electronic music downloads, announced today the upcoming launch of Beatsource.com. Launching winter 2008, Beatsource will be the first-look online music store for urban music fans and DJs. Modeled after Beatport’s success in the electronic music market place, Beatsource will provide shoppers’ access to high-quality, legal music downloads, with a focus on premium urban and hip-hop music content. 

The catalog will be built of music from both high-profile domestic labels and smaller international trend-setting labels. Track prices will range from $1.49 to $2.49 based on the music’s exclusivity and release date.

“Over the last three years Beatport has had a global impact on how DJs and enthusiasts purchase electronic music,” said Jonas Tempel, Beatport’s CEO. “Our goal with Beatsource is similar; provide DJs and fans of urban music the same quick and easy shopping experience from a catalog of music that represents the premier artists and labels from around the world.”

Beatsource will provide secure and legal downloads of urban music in various formats including 320 kbps mp3s, 192 kbps mp4s and uncompressed .wav files on a pay-per-download basis. 

Beatsource, catering to the performer, will also sell DJ-friendly acappellas, instrumentals, clean mixes, dirty mixes, and other hard-to-find remixes from the catalog.

Music will be filed in various style categories including old school, current hits, acappellas, instrumentals, underground, international and others to help the most educated shopper or novice easily find what they are looking for.  A number of features differentiate Beatsource and make it essential for DJs and music collectors.

All music files sold on Beatsource are non-DRM and can be used easily in all professional DJ software and hardware systems such as NI Traktor Scratch, Serato Scratch Live, Pioneer CDJ 1000, and on all leading portable music players including the iPod. Shop by visiting one of the many genre landing pages, browsing charts from DJs, browse labels, or simply search.

About Beatport/Beatsource:

Beatport is the online leader for electronic music downloads providing music to DJs and fans for personal use as well as playback on the world’s leading sound systems.

Launched in 2004, Beatport now gives customers legal and secure access to a library of 185,000 tracks from over 6,500 of the world’s leading independent labels, and is growing by as many as 100 new labels a month.

Beatport was awarded “Digital Music Store of the Year” in March 2007 by Music Week magazine, the premier music industry magazine for the UK.  Beatport is privately held and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA.

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