Indaba Music

About Indaba Music

Indaba Music is a social networking website for musicians interested in collaborating on music projects online. The site was founded by Dan Zaccagnino and Matthew Siegel, who also founded Veritas Records while undergraduates at Harvard. Indaba Music provides tools that allow musicians to connect and collaborate on music projects with users around the world. Registration and use of the site is free and available anywhere the internet is accessible. The site is similar to other music collaboration sites like Jamglue, Splice, WeMix, eJamming, Mix2r, NinJam and YourSpins.

According to the company, "Indaba is a Zulu word that invokes the spirit of collaboration and community. It refers to a gathering or a forum for sharing ideas, and it embodies concepts that are central to the mission of Indaba Music." The site is part of a trend in digital music to provide artists with creative services beyond promotion and distribution. According to ABC News, "Anyone can upload a track — whether it's a beat, or a melody or a full-fledged song — and can solicit other musicians to record new or different parts. Similarly, musicians looking to add or build on other people's songs can search for these open "sessions," which are tagged by genre and instrument. They can ask to be invited to play and can send audition tracks."

In August and September 2008 Indaba Music hosted the Mariah Carey remix contest for her song "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" in conjunction with Island Def Jam and Live Nation. It was one of the largest remix contests ever held with over 1,200 submissions.