yeah, I submitted some tracks to it. IMO its rubbish unless you are peddling some generic pop, mass market rubbish.
Basically, as an artist you submit 3 tracks and they get reviewed, over the time, the reviews aggregate giving an average score and the artists with the best score go on to the funding part, where people offer to give you any amount of money. An artist that reaches a certain amount of money then gets 'funded' by slicethepie to make a record.
My problem is mainly with 2 things:
1. You also get paid miniscule amounts for reviewing tracks. But this just means that there are a lot of people not really reviewing, just trying to go quickly through to get dough.
2. Anyone reviews any music. Now, there are many great bands which dont appeal to everyone, in fact I would say there are very few 'universal' bands or artists (and the ones that pop to mind - such as coldplay - are pretty boring to me). So, if someone who loves hip hop reviews your indie track, no matter how good it is, they probably wont score it highly right? Meaning after a while your tracks will probably end up with some middling score. Check out the artists that make it through, you'll see what I mean - kind of middle-of-the-road, yet uber-produced songs, very radio 2.
For an example, my best average score is something like 6.1, my worst is like 5.1. For me the gulf in class between those 2 songs is obvious but of course they end up with similar scores.
Anyways, I guess 1 positive its got going is that it can be kind of fun, if you're bored...
