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Amalgam Digital
Founded 2006
Genre Hip-Hop
Country of origin United States
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Official Website http://www.amalgamdigital.com

Amalgam Digital, Inc. is a new media outfit that was founded in 2006 as a privately owned company and launched AmalgamDigital.com in 2007. The site serves as the first genre-specific digital download store specializing in hip hop music with a strong focus on independent labels and artists, implementing a new user-generated content module that allows artists to upload content directly to the site for immediate purchase. Amalgam Digital also houses an exclusive independent record label by the same name, specializing in hip hop music and distribution. In an April 2008 issue, The Source proclaimed that Amalgam Digital has "its finger on the pulse of Hip-Hop's future."[1]

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AmalgamDigital.com Store

Founded in 2007, the AmalgamDigital.com store makes promotional, distributional, and PR services available to aspiring independent artists who register as vendors at AmalgamDigital.com, also enabling them to sell music, videos, podcasts, and other material through the online store. On August 21, 2008, AmalgamDigital.com launched its first Amalgam TV live webcast, which featured Joe Budden’s last studio session for his sophomore LP on Amalgam Digital, Padded Room. Over 80,000 visitors viewed the webcast, throughout which Budden interacted with fans and answered questions in real time via a live chat room.[2]

Amalgam Digital Label

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the Amalgam Digital label is distributed exclusively by Amalgam Entertainment, LLC, a one-stop wholesaler, label, and distribution company that offers additional services such as management, booking, consultation, manufacturing, marketing, and promotional services. As an independent label, Amalgam Digital is home to such artists as Joe Budden, Saigon, Curren$y, Young Riot[1], Max B, Peedi Crakk, Tash (formerly of Tha Alkaholiks), Kurious, The Juggaknots, Dj Benzi, and Tame One (formerly of The Artifacts and The Weathermen). Budden's Amalgam release Padded Room reached #42 in the Billboard 200 chart and #21 in the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in March 2009.[3] Since August 2009, releases by Saigon and Joe Budden are made in partnership with E1 Music (formerly Koch Records)[4]. BET named Joe Budden’s Padded Room and Saigon’s All in a Day’s Work as the #2 and #3 best independent albums of 2009, respectively.[5] In 2009, Amalgam Digital made Boston-based rapper Young Riot the label’s first previously unsigned artist.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://www.tame-one.com/acidtabvocab.html
  2. ^ http://wordonthestreetsmag.com/joe-budden-and-amalgam-digital-to-release-the-great-escape/
  3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts#/album/joe-budden/padded-room/1213714
  4. ^ http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=55048
  5. ^ http://www.bet.com/Music/photos/msc_fb_indiealbumsof09.htm?i=1
  6. ^ http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.9386/title.amalgam-digital-signs-boston-s-young-riot

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Amalgam Digital was founded in 2006 as a privately owned company and launched www.AmalgamDigital.com [1225] in 2007. The site was the first genre-specific digital download store specializing in hip hop with a strong focus on independent labels and artists. [1226] Amalgam Digital also created its own exclusive independent record label. The label currently includes artists such as The Juggaknots, Kurious Jorge, Tash (of The Alkaholiks) and DJ Benzi and distributed by Amalgam Entertainment, LLC.

Hip Hop’s First Digital Download Store
The Amalgam Digital download store[1227] can be accessed by visiting www.AmalgamDigital.com. All media files are DRM-free and of the highest quality, using a Variable Bit Rate (VBR) of up to 320 kilobits per second (kbps). Songs are priced at $0.89 USD. Song and individual track previews, thirty seconds in length, are available for free prior to buying a song. All albums cost $8.99 USD. Other formats available for purchase include MP4 video files and podcasts. The Amalgam Digital service is free to use. To make a purchase a user must first register with Amalgam Digital at no cost. The free download section allows registered users to download pre-selected albums, tracks, videos, and podcasts at no charge. The user-friendly relational database enables users to search by artist, album, track, label, and producer. Featured artists and DJs are linked to their respective artist pages which display all of their releases in all available formats. Weekly interviews with hip hop artists and industry executives, and a news blog are also added features.

The Amalgam Digital radio module provides free music programming to all visitors of the site.



Amalgam Digital Record Label
Ushering in the digital revolution, hip hop’s first digital download store went on to create its own record label under the same moniker, Amalgam Digital. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the Amalgam Digital label is distributed exclusively by Amalgam Entertainment, LLC

The label is credited for bringing hip hop luminaries The Juggaknots out of obscurity by re-releasing their highly sought after “Clear Blue Skies” LP and their sophomore album entitled, “Use Your Confusion”. “Use Your Confusion” was also the first independent hip hop release to feature a lenticular 3-D hologram for cover artwork.

Amalgam Digital followed suit by delivering hungry hip hop fans another lost classic in the form of Kurious Jorge’s “A Constipated Monkey”.[1228] The album was packaged with “The Demo Out-Takes” EP which featured several lost tracks that were recorded during the so called golden era of hip hop (late 1980’s to early 1990’s). This demo tape was once used to almost secure a recording deal with Def Jam and included a Prince Paul produced song called “Beans & Rice”. Kurious’ upcoming second release on the Amalgam Digital imprint, “Monkey Madness…The Real Prosperity” is rumored to feature MF Doom.

The label also signed Tash of Tha Alkaholiks who will release his first ever solo album.

In addition, Amalgam Digital introduced newcomer and Detroit native DJ Benzi. Benzi is a mixtape maven known for his unique work of pairing vocals from artists like The Clipse and Lil’ Wayne to original production from A-Trak, Diplo, Lo Budget, & Gerswin Porter.







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