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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 28, 2000
Vitaminic & Rapstation.com Mixing It Up
Chuck D and Company Target European Hip Hop Connoisseurs
[27 June 2000, San Francisco, CA] Vitaminic, Europe's first and largest music web community for music distribution and promotion, is taking its global hip hop show on the virtual road with Rapstation.com. Using Rapstation's platform, Vitaminic will offer all of Rapstation's 800+ artists for sampling, download and purchase, providing access to one of the most extensive directories of hip/hop rap artists ever made available in Europe and the U.S.
"Keeping in line with our objective for Rapstation to become an open forum for enlightenment, entertainment and empowerment for hip hop fans around the world, Vitaminic will play a key role in that journey," notes Chuck D, founder of Rapstation.com. "The first shots in the digital revolution of music have been heard around the world."
Through its strategic alliance with the Vitaminic music presence worldwide, Rapstation will feature tracks from hip hop stars -- and leading proponents of legal MP3 technology -- Chuck D and Confrontational Camp MP3 on Vitaminic's eight localized sites in Europe and in the United States.
"By bringing Rapstation aboard, Vitaminic is providing yet another new venue for innovative talent in the music world online," adds Gianluca Grechi, managing director of Vitaminic USA. "Such a showcase exposes the crème de la crème of the hip hop culture throughout Europe and the U.S."
About Rapstation
Founded in September 1999 by legendary rapper -- and Public Enemy frontman -- Chuck D, Rapstation.com is the definitive rap and hip hop culture website, dedicated to enlightening, entertaining and empowering the global hip hop community. Since its launch last fall, the site has created partnerships with some of the Web's most exciting and innovative businesses, including RealNetworks, House of Blues Digital, Palace.com, Tucows.com and New World Culture. Rapstation.com features free MP3 downloads, a television station, celebrity interviews, information for aspiring artists, and a forum for political expression and discussion.
About Vitaminic
Vitaminic is Europe's leading Internet community for the promotion and distribution of music in digital format. Founded in April of 1999, Vitaminic presently has offices in 8 countries: seven in Europe (Italy, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, The Netherlands and Sweden) and one in the United States. Vitaminic is a platform open to new standards and to the new wide band and wireless communication technologies, over which artists and record companies can promote and sell their music in digital format, while consumers can choose from a catalogue organised into over 250 music genres. The sites in the Vitaminic network generate an average of over 7,300,000 pageviews per month and 2,500,000 delivered songs. Since the start-up of business, over 300 record companies and more than 10,000 artists have uploaded more than 40,000 tracks and put them on sale over the Vitaminic network, while registered users currently number more than 220,000.
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For further information regarding Vitaminic USA, please contact:
Kimberly King-Burns or Julie Kibbler, CONVERGENZ/Solutions
Tel 818 761 5688
E-mail: info@convergenz.com
For further information regarding Rapstation.com, please contact:
Jolyn Matsumuro, The Brookes Company
Tel 323 653 4330
E-mail JolynMB@cs.com |
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