Posts from the ‘music’ Category
We have received many compliments on our XConnect logos – but we can’t take all the credit for it. The man behind the designs is Karim Awad of big time design and communication inc. – a design and development agency. big time design really considers your needs and applies feedback wonderfully. big time, thanks for [...]
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Host: Karim Kanji Producer: Chatelaine Chung Tunezy is a funded start-up which aims to change the way the traditional record label industry works. Serial entrepreneur Derrick Fung joined host Karim Kanji in the XConnectTO studio recently to chat about how the lessons he learned in corporate Canada as well as his experience as a former [...]
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Host and Producer: Karim Kanji Last week the international music industry descended upon Toronto for Canadian Music Week. And in this space we have endeavoured to cover music and tech over the past few weeks via video and articles. In this week’s feature interview XConnect and thirdocean co-founder Karim Kanji chats with Lanrick Bennett Jr. [...]
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Alan Cross could probably be best described as an historian of music. More specifically, rock music. Many people remember him from his days at Y108 in Hamilton and his stints with The Edge here in Toronto. But he’s best known for having headed up Canada’s (if not the world’s) longest music-focused radio documentary, The Ongoing [...]
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Host: Karim Kanji Producer: Chatelaine Cheung Corina Newby has spent the past few years heading up communications and social media for Supernova Interactive. If you’re new to Supernova that’s ok. Not many people outside of the industry have heard of them. But you’ve heard of their products such as the popular Battle Of The Bands. [...]
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Host: Karim Kanji Producer: Chatelaine Cheung Late last year we had the opportunity to chat with Mediazoic founder Greg Nisbet. Last week, we had the opportunity to have a second conversation with Greg. We discussed their new Studio In The Cloud initiative as well as their recent agreement with the Audio-Video Licensing Agency. This agreement [...]
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Host: Karim Kanji Producer: Chatelaine Cheung Special Thanks: HarthTV This week XConnect brings you our first interview since the completion of our BankConnect study. Sammy Younan joined Karim Kanji in studio to discuss music and technology. More specifically we discussed two initiatives of Sammy’s: The SampleBank and NewMusic Ten. What is The SampleBank? Here’s an explanation from [...]
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