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Epitonic to relaunch
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 19 August 2010
Music discovery site Epitonic.com is to relaunch, it has been announced.
Set up in 1999, the site worked with record labels to provide free MP3 downloads. All tracks were hand selected by the site’s team of writers, attaching the music to impassioned editorial content and also making available in streaming form.
Although that all sounds pretty standard now, it certainly wasn’t at the time. This and the fact that Epitonic was brilliant helped to make it highly successful. But as traffic grew, the site hit hard times, and was bought by Palm Pictures before falling quiet in 2004.
Now co-founder Justin Sinkovich has announced that he and his original team have re-acquired the rights to the site and plan to relaunch it later this year.
Sinkovich said in a statement: “I never really thought I would be proudly announcing that I will be relaunching Epitonic alongside many of my partners and friends from the original site. I was elated – and honestly a little shocked – to reacquire the rights to Epitonic, and it has been amazing to reconnect and reformulate a launch plan. Everyone I’ve talked to in the music and online communities has been incredibly supportive and excited to see Epitonic come back to life”.
But before they can do that, they need some cash, which you can give to them here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1096570561/epitoniccom-relaunch-by-the-original-founders
Or for more info, check out www.epitonic.com
