A new music download service has been unveiled in Great Britain! Universal Music recently launched Lost Tunes, to focus on deep catalog and rare, exclusive and "overlooked" tracks. Based at www.losttunes.com and powered by digital media delivery company 7digital (iTunes main UK competitor), the site launch features 134 albums from Universal's catalog that are available exclusively for download. Tunes include the Walker Brothers' "Live In Japan" and songs by British acts such as new wavers the Comsat Angels and rhythm and blues favorites Nine Below Zero. An additional five hundred titles are to be made available for download in the next six months. On September 1, they will bring the first of Lost Tunes' exclusives,
a collection of previously unavailable tracks by early 1990s Liverpool band the La's. Fiction/Universal band the Delays are recording their four favorite "lost tunes" to be released on the site at the same time. The site will also mine the Trojan, Fiction, Decca and other label archives for future exclusives. Other Universal labels participating in Lost Tunes' are Verve, A&M, Motown and Stax. All downloads are available as high-quality 320kpbs MP3s and will work with all MP3-compatible devices. Individual tracks are priced at £0.99 ($1.96), with full albums priced from £5.99 ($11.85) and up. The site is designed to help music fans rediscover archive favorites and find new ones, with a "smart search" feature and music sorted in eight genres and 38 sub-genres. International versions of the site are planned to launch in the coming months.
Check them out and give it a trial..............................
Comments