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As rap continues to rule the charts in Germany, Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth freestyle series into the market

Fire In The Booth Germany will be presented by DJ Maxxx
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Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.

Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album
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Shutterstock acquires stock video marketplace Pond5 for $210m, including a library of 1.6m royalty-free music tracks

Pond5’s customers include the likes of Netflix, Disney, NBC, BBC and Discovery Channel
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Tutorial: Daft Punk Style Vintage Sidechain Compression in Logic Pro

In this music production tutorial, Matt Mauldin, one of our Point Blank LA instructors, shows how you can create that distinctive ’90s pumping compression sound. Using the Alesis 3630 Compressor, this technique was made famous over a decade ago by Daft Punk and other French house artists. The pumping sound is created by using the kick drum to trigger […]

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Universal’s Web3 label 10:22PM launches NFT collection and virtual world for metaverse band KINGSHIP

Collection of 10,000 NFTs will access to virtual world, plus music, products and token-gated experiences
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