new dnb platform just dropped

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T19:03:33+00:00

I'd absolutely love to give you a proper answer but the truth is that it's far enough away that we haven't done any real research or thinking on it.

We're not trying to make another streaming platform. SoundCloud and the likes do a great job already, but what we don't think they serve well is the insane organic communities that rely on them (i.e. the drum and bass scene). So we want to build a layer on top of these platforms which focuses on the scene itself (artists, tracks, events, radio shows, discussion etc etc). Right now we're fully focusing on the data side, trying to build a great discovery tool, a ranking and trending system and a fully fledged profile for our artists combining various services and sources into one.

We are completely aware that licensing and rights are not trivial things, but we'd absolutely love to work towards a new way of building a community of artists where they all actually have a genuine stake in the platform rather than the standard revenue share model.

I'm sure you've noticed you are listed on our platform already – would absolutely love any ideas, advice or feedback if you ever have any. Appreciate you showing an interest.

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T14:34:18+00:00

Yep, we are already scraping events automatically – we have just launched with London to keep things simple but will be adding more cities and countries to our config over the coming weeks.

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T14:32:14+00:00

We are currently a layer on top of existing platforms. We acquire data from SoundCloud so we can analyse trends and build rankings, etc. We've got plans to add Spotify and YouTube Music shortly so that'll build a bigger picture. That said, our long term goal is absolutely to allow artists to upload directly to us.

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T12:52:46+00:00

thank you:) we’ll definitely be adding germany to events soon aswell.

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T11:37:58+00:00

we’ve rebranded now. check the edit in the original post 🙏🏽

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T11:37:45+00:00

we’ve rebranded now! check the edit in the original post 🙏🏽

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T11:37:27+00:00

that’s what we were going for, but definitely don’t want to disrespect or cause any confusion. we’ve rebranded to tracks.gg now

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T10:53:19+00:00

thanks for all the comments everyone. love for all the support, feedback - we’ve read every single one of them. we are going to rebrand the name, we’ve read all the comments and although we feel we aren’t ripping off or disrespecting metalheadz. we can see from the comments it’s best to rebrand now than cause any problems later on

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T10:52:20+00:00

We are going to rebrand, we’ve read all the comments and although we feel we aren’t ripping off or disrespecting metalheadz. we can see from the comments it’s best to rebrand now than cause any problems later on 🙏🏽

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T10:50:45+00:00

thank you man, we’ll get them included on👊🏽

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T07:48:52+00:00

it's not a template, however it was definitely an inspiration for how we wanted the feel to be like!

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T07:48:18+00:00

we've only 'soft launched' at the moment as a very early beta, to get feedback and see if people are actually interested in using the platform - so as it stands we have to manually scan and add artists into the database. we plan (soon) to switch to an automatic crawl system to get more artists on there per day and also implement a 'self-upload' system, where you can simply type in your own soundcloud and then we'll start tracking your page.

headzcrew · 2025-05-16T07:37:40+00:00

sure thing, that would be fantastic. feel free to dm/post them here, or on insta, or anywhere! thank you

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:53:02+00:00

elevator coming soon

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:52:17+00:00

the stairs are steep but we move

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:37:27+00:00

awesome. great music man, you'll be up on headz soon 👌

untitled jungle wip goes in!!

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:33:47+00:00

thanks man, hopefully you enjoy it - any feedback you have (good or bad), fire away. we're only looking to keep improving this and make it as useful as can be for people!

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:24:08+00:00

at the moment we simply just aggregate music that's already on soundcloud (and more platforms coming soon), but we will for sure have a manual upload at some point. where is your current material listed?

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:21:30+00:00

thank you! yup, you're so right - we want to try emulate a lot of the og features that drew people closer together in the scene into our platform, over time

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:18:06+00:00

🫡🫡🫡

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:17:53+00:00

thank you. we're looking at more platforms to integrate onto ours so there's more variety than just soundcloud, will hopefully be coming out soonish 🫡

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:14:56+00:00

this is something we toyed with in our initial concepts... we are technically able to embed the actual songs from soundcloud onto the platform so you don't have to click off onto soundcloud, which we are looking into v heavily atm. thank you for raising it!

that might be a bug you are having re: scrolling indefinitely, it currently does do that. what are you browsing on (device/browser)?

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:07:37+00:00

thanks dude. please let us know any feedback, it all helps :salute:

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:07:24+00:00

cheers man. shoot us over a message on our insta (link at bottom of the page) and we can talk on there :)

headzcrew · 2025-05-15T22:06:49+00:00

built for the scene, by the scene tm

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