Space Yacht brings NFT art to electronic dance music scene
Coronavirus lockdowns caused the global event organizer to take a new direction, launching a record label and selling digital art. International party brand Space Yacht is preparing to drop its second collection of nonfungible token artworks on the Nifty Gateway marketplace on Wednesday.Titled the “Space Yacht Iconography Collection,” the NFTs feature three of the brand’s core themes: pizza, smiley faces and its trademarked motto, “WE ARE SO F☻CKED.”The artworks also incorporate original music from Space Yacht co-founder Rami Perlman, aka LondonBridge.Twelve months ago, Space Yacht was....
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This week Universal Music Group, the Dutch–American multinational music corporation announced the formation of a non-fungible token (NFT) metaverse music group called Kingship, which features four Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs. Following the announcement, the hit record producer Timbaland revealed the creation of a metaverse-based entertainment company called Ape-In Productions (AIP), which will also leverage BAYC NFTs.
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NFTs must evolve beyond PFPs and the Metaverse to stay relevant in 2022, and Monstercat CEO Mike Darlington explains that music may be next. Music-based nonfungible tokens are an emerging frontier in the crypto and NFT space, but the first questions that come to mind are: What are they? And what are their utility?Music NFTs are relatively new to the scene and cannot be pinned down by one definition. At the most basic level, however, they are verifiable digital collectibles, with a core component being the integration of a song.One of the first collections was “Audioglyphs,” which cemented....
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has been booming lately. It was just a few days ago that we covered the story of a few apes that teamed up with Universal Music Group to form a new band, ‘Kingship.’ Now, Grammy-award winning producer Timbaland is the latest to ‘ape in’ – and we mean that quite […]
The blockchain is inspiring a new generation of artists in and around the tech scene. NewsBTC's Andrew Wagner interviewed one well-known artist on BitcoinTalk.org to get the scoop. Andrew: What is your background, and how did you get into Bitcoin? Would you call yourself an enthusiast? Zoran Kutozovic: As a multimedia artist, I worked with several different media and materials during the last fifteen years. My paintings are based on wood panels together with wooden frames that I made by myself, thus creating a unique and original artwork. Working with audio and video media is in the....