I’ve been helping build Overlap.org for a couple of years now and the site is well up to spec. It aggregates feeds using feedwordpress, takes advantage of wordpress plugins quite extensively, and has had many bugs squashed (many more are to be found and fixed too ;).
The good news is that the site is well ready for more users and also, it has some really great content on it from live releases from the past Overlap events, and some custom releases as well from Willits and more.
What I’m most stoked about though right now is the addition of the Symbiosis podcast. I’ve been into dubstep for the last year or so, and am super super excited to have a killer podcast on Overlap.org pumping out dubstep to the masses. I’ve also learned a lot about dubstep and how nearly everyone from dubstep participates in dubstepforum.com. It would be great if this community could use ccHost to have a ccMixter-like site for collaboration on mixes, etc. Also, it would push this brilliant content over into the realm of Creative Commons-licensed content and also help it get adopted and licensed for commercial-use faster. (If anyone is interested in this, please do comment on this post and I’ll point ya in the right dir…)
If you haven’t gotten into it, download this podcast.
I’m one of the artists featured on the podcast. Great to hear you’re into the sound!
I’m interested to hear more about Creative Commons licensing. Is CC suitable for an ‘underground’ producer looking to move up the ranks? If I release my music through a CC license, is it still attractive to labels?
Yes, totally. CC licenses are non-exclusive licenses. I would suggest selecting one like the CC BY-NC (attribution-noncommercial) which says anyone can use it, share it, etc, as long as they don’t make money on it…then you can cut any number of deals with commercial entities who can broker your reserved commercial rights…note, cc licenses don’t impact your copyright…you still have that…its a great way to show the world how they can use your tracks, like they are being used on this podcast