Machine Shop: Hype Machine Team Blog

IT IS HERE. The Hype Machine iPhone app is on sale at the App Store right now.

We’ve created a seamless Hype Machine radio experience so you can tap on, kick back, and listen to a neverending stream of great music, complete with artwork and blog posts.

Read about all of the features at http://hypem.com/iphone, and, oh, you’ve waited long enough—try it!

Flavors.me is the easiest way to take control of your identity on the web, and one of its most notable features is the ability to display snippets of your public activity on many excellent web services.

The Hype Machine is now part of that list! Add us to your Services, and easily include your loved tracks, your listening history, and your favorite blogs in your digital self-portrait. Check it out:

Anthony’s favorite blogs

Dustin’s loved songs

Zoya’s listening history

With this integration, you are now one step closer to having a complete .you.

(photo by Matthew Ogle)

Seems like it’s taking us longer and longer to recover from Austin’s week of music and mayhem every year. We’re finally ready to share some beautiful photos and videos with you now, though!

Clock Opera opened our After-Hours showcase at the Purevolume House around midnight, and the party would keep going well into the early morning.

Jonquils brought their top brass:
and played a cover of The xx’s “Infinity”.

Jamie Woon‘s soulful crooning continued to set the after-hours mood.

(photo by Nina Mashurova)

And perhaps no one was more surprised than Mount Kimbie themselves when Shwayze jumped on stage with them for an impromptu collaboration! Check the last video here to see this real-time remix.

Thanks for coming and partying!

UPDATE June, 2013: The album premieres have received an amazing overhaul, more info in a newer post here.

Since the fall of 2010, we’ve been running album premieres on Hype Machine almost every week, so I wanted to share all the mysteries about how they work.

They are rather simple: one week before the album’s release, it is streamed in its entirety on the site, and we tell the whole world. We do this via Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and by featuring it in multiple places within the site (link in sidebar of all pages [6M pv/week], and on the artist search page). These premieres are usually embeddable, so you can easily share them – while some sites demand to be the exclusive streaming destination in order to give a new record attention, we know that’s not how the Internet works. The goal behind these is to have as many people find out about the upcoming release as possible.

Typically, these albums are streamed via our partner SoundCloud, which provides the excellent shareable player that we’ve customized (it works on an iPad via HTML5!). But technology is no barrier, as long as we get a working streaming player, we are happy to work with other solutions as well.

We don’t get paid for running these features; they are just artists whose work we enjoy. Here is the eclectic list of the albums we’ve premiered so far. You should check out all of them, they are interesting.

If you are working with an artist on an interesting record, do get in touch with us.

It’s not every day that we get a photo like this with the brief note, “My tattoo.” But there it is! The Hype Machine phonograph and speech bubble, looking glorious.

We’re beyond flattered. Thanks, Brett (& the tattoo artist, Alex) <3