BeatPick.com is an active co-operator with REFF (Roma Europa Fake Factory), an open contest dealing with music remixes (and for this purpose we are providing participants with tracks from our catalog), literature, design and architecture. The factory was actually born as a boicot version of Roma Europa Festival’s factory, protesting against the restrictive copyright clauses within the well known festival’s contract with artists.
However in less than three months from its’ birth, REFF has had such an amount of praise and particpants that it has caught the public eye to the point of being invited to present its’ programme and ideas on copyright in… The Italian Senate!?!

Tomorrow morning BeatPick.com is part of the panel presenting the project in the Senate. Useless to say we’re honoured and excited!

To view REFF’s full programme, click on this link:

http://www.romaeuropa.org/

With the new website on a full roll, BeatPick.com’s ears are ever more open in search for the hottest new sounds around. So far, three great new artists are already on the site, awaiting to be discovered all our fantastic readers and listeners…

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UK based songwriter Michael Hartnett is an exciting discovery for all modern Rock lovers, mixing a MOD/British taste for melody somewhat close to Paul Weller with Electronic contaminations from the new Millennium.

From Pensacola, Florida, comes Robin Stine. Meet her seductive voice and Jazzy grooves, tributing and innovating Jazz songwriting all the way from Ella Fitzgerald to Norah Jones, in what is an exceptionally mature and refined debut album, “Daydream“. A new super-favourite in the BeatPick listening department!

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BeatPick.com takes pride in discovering young and lesser known talents alongside more established Indie authors. This is the case of young composer Zeynep, our latest finding. Combining the atmospheric and tense orchestral solutions of Vangelis with John Cage and Aphex Twin’s prepared piano experimentations, her debut EP “The Empty Bedroom” is bound to capture the attention of all avant-garde, contemporary Classical composition lovers’ attention.

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Enjoy!!