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Bainil wants to treat artists well, and that's why we offer competitive pricing.

Artists' albums will be offered as IAP(in-App-Purchase) on iOS and Android, and we give artists 72% of revenue after the IAP fee. 

If the artists sell $4,000 or more amount of music, then they get 86% of the revenue.

Don't you think this is awesome? We think artists would love our pricing.

Visit our website for more pricing information.

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Be connected with fans

With Bainil Publishing System, there are impressive features artists can use such as social media feature. Artists can directly have conversation with fans who bought their albums. Fans can follow their favorite artists and write a comment about artists' albums. Artists can also do the exact same interaction: Follow other artists & fans and start talking!

Bainil's social feature approachs passionate fans and artists face-to-face. If you want to have fun relationship with your fans, try out Bainil.

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How Bainil feels like

Bored of seeing just an album artwork? Then why don't you take a look at this?

Bainil wants to bring back how we used to treat and value music, and this is just a beginning. You can choose CD, LP or Tape theme while playing your favorite artists' music. 

Enjoy your music with pleasant interface. It feels different.

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We Support Long Play

When was the first time you got the music CD? What did you do when you got a new album of your favorite artist? We used to buy the physical album, put CD on a CD player, and read booklet and listen songs with lyrics on it whereas we download a song and just listen. 

Don't you miss old times? Because we do.

We believe music is more than just consuming songs. The whole album is the story artists want their fans to hear, and booklet connect us with them by providing exclusive content with the CD.

Buying music in these days isn't achievable anymore. We want people to hear the full story from the artist. We want the artists to be connected with their fans like before, but more developed with the current technology. That's why we are developing Bainil: where artists can publish their albums and their fans can enjoy and be close to them. 

Music should be more than just consuming. That's why we support long play. 

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The Best of Clazziquai Project: Recommended song for starters

I wrote about how amazing Clazziquai Project and how influential they are in South Korea. I also suggested few of my favorites and I realized, "It's not enough. May be I should create a new list just for my favorite Clazziquai songs." So here I am, going to introduce my favorites that you must hear from each album from Clazziquai Project. (I choose not to add Metrotronics and DJ Clazzi album since those are not technically associated with Clazziquai Project.)

1. Instant Pig (2004)

Novabossa: Such a calm but sweet song. You can enjoy acoustic side of Clazziquai Project with this song.

Stepping Out: My top song from this album. The melody instantly catches my ear. Very electronic and, most importantly, fun! I jumped so hard when this song popped out in the concert.

Cat Bossa: Novabossa, but based on a cat's perspective! This song is so much fun and I even like it more than the original song.

2. ZBAM (2004)

Futuristic - House Remix: I prefer this than the original. Remixed version is more catchy and dynamic. 

Come To Me - Mellotron Remix: The original song is "내게로 와" and has different tone. I love this song's mood which I think suits better than the original. One of my favorite songs from Clazziquai Project.

She Loves You: Very fun and lovely song. I love guitar sound a lot.

You Never Know - Soft Remix: Vocal in this song is so strong and sharp. Original version is still good though. I just prefer strong vocal.

After Love - Female ver.: My top song from the album. The guitar and Horan's voice... Wow! Such an amazing combination.

3. Color Your Soul (2005)

Beautiful Woman + Salesman: My top song from this album. So catchy! Fun lyrics! Great sound! One of few songs I never get bored of.

Fill This Night: This song always make me exciting. So much excitement in this song. Try out.

Cry Out Loud + Come Alive: Both songs have similar style. Fast beat with various electronic sounds gives me a lot of pleasure.

Be My Love (English ver.) (House Remix): It's already a remix, but I still love it a lot. 

4. Pinch Your Soul (2006)

Love Mode (feat. Tablo): Lovely song. This song is just a perfection with Tablo's rap.

I'll Give You Everything (Buoyant Remix) (feat. J & Bobby Kim): Fresh and unique voices are added to the original song. It has faster beat and more lovely sound than the original. And Bobby Kim's voice just works flawlessly in this song.

Sweety (Cosmo Remix): Probably a good example of how remix must be done. I love both the original and the remix. Different style, for sure. But Both are so unique.

5. Love Child of the Century (2007)

Prayers: I love this song so much. When I first opened the album and listened the first track, I thought I was getting absorbed into the song. Unique and powerful melody with great lyrics. One of my top tracks in my life.

6. Robotica (2007)

Freedom: SO MUCH ENERGY! Gosh! I feel like Im' going to explode when I listen this song. Fun and fast sound with great vocal. My top song from this album for sure!

Prayers (Shinichi Osawa Remix) / Shinichi Osawa (Mondo Grosso): To be honest, when I first heard of this song, it was very annoying to me. There is literally no lyrics. But after hearing few time, I like the style a lot. It's like a totally new song!

Our Lives (FPM Hyper Society Mix) / Fantastic Plastic Machine: It's a remix from "생의 한가운데" in Love Child of the Century. The original is not bad. This remix makes the whole song is much faster beat with more electronic sound. I just love fast beat with electronic sound.

7. Mucho Punk (2009)

Kiss Kiss Kiss: Such a fun song! Upbeat with fun electronic sound.

Tell Yourself: My top song from the album. Horan + Alex combination is the best, and this song proves.

Lazy Sunday Morning: Very acoustic song from Clazziquai Project. This song make me want to lay down at the couch and just do nothing.

8. Mucho Beat (2009)

Spinning The World (Voice Remix): The top song from this album. The remix turned the okay song to the best. I love how DJ Clazzi remixes his songs.

Flea (Jojal Remix -Audition Grandprix-): So much intensity going on in this song. I just love how it feels.

9. Blessed (2013)

Blessed: Very lovely song. 

Sweetest Name: My top song from the album. The sound is just so perfect. Ugh! I freaking love DJ Clazzi!

Like a Diamond: I love this song a lot. The sound and vocals are both so strong and harmonize so well. Keep repeating myself, Horan & Alex is a great combo.

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Clazziquai Project: The start of electronica in South Korea

The genre “Electronica” means various electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, and when I first heard Clazziquai Project, the sound was very refreshing, yet charming since I never heard of this genre but I already liked it.

I learned Clazziquai Project from the song “Play Girl” inside of Samsung phones in early 2000s. At that time, these phones were too expensive and I was too young to have own device like these. However, I heard this song from my friend’s phone, and I instantly loved it. 

With Clazziquai Project’s first album and its remix, they literally started the electronica genre in South Korea. Songs of the first album “Instant Pig” has been used as many commercial background music and soundtrack. Songs like “Stepping Out,” “Gentle Rain,” and “Sweety” were some of them and these helped Clazziquai Project to get some attention from people. In addition, Clazziquai Project received a lot of spotlight as two soundtracks, “Be My Love” and “She Is” from Korean TV show, My Lovely Samsoon, got really popular. 

Even though they became quite popular, their music still rock. They have released five albums and four remixes so far. I personally love every single album they released. But if I have to pick few songs, I would encourage yo try out "Stepping Out" from Instant Pig, "Prayers" from Love Child of the Century, "After Love - Female ver." from ZBAM, and "Salesman" from Color Your Soul. 

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Artist to check: Urban Zakapa

If you want to hear powerful vocals with great acoustic music, Urban Zakapa is one of the top vocal groups in South Korea. I learned about this vocal group because of its label, Fluxus Music. I have loved musicians inside of this company since I first learned about the group “Clazziquai Project”, and I have had faith that Fluxus Music has “good” music that always pleasant me.

My first approach to Urban Zakapa was through its second album, “02”. Through tracks inside of the album I was mesmerized; I could feel great melody, powerful and unique vocals, and well-balanced harmony. The songs caught my ears mostly inside of the album were “Back In The Day”, “Breeze”, and “니가 싫어 (I Hate You)”.

There are few interesting facts you might want to know about this group. First, the group name was combines with words “Urban”, “Zappy”, “Kaleidoscopic”, and “Passionate”. Second, Every single song inside of their albums are produced by themselves. I can truly call them genius; they can sing really well, and the write amazing songs.

Urban Zakapa has released three albums, two EPs, and four singles. Each song contains what I really love about them: unique vioces, beautiful acoustics, and perfect harmony. If you want to hear great acoustic songs from South Korea artists, Urban Zakapa will please your hears while their music touches your heart.

Link: Urban Zakapa

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Album of the week: 'Are you handsome?' by Handsome people

Combination of three highly renowned artists make this album unique enough. These include the vocalist Tei, guitarist Joohyuk Um and Youngho Choi.

The title track 'Woowei woowei' shows how the album maximizes danceable beats and its distinctive stylish sound. The song's name expresses exclamation that breaks out when one meets an attractive person of opposite sex. Thus, the song has a very witty lyric giving off the vocalist Tei's charm. 

Other songs including 'disco girl' and 'beautiful' will get you dance to the rhythmical music. 

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Artist to check: Eastern Sidekick

As distinctive this band's name sounds, each member has something of his own to offer for the audience. The band has Ko Hangyul, the leader and guitarist leading four other. Eastern Sidekick started off as an indie in the Hongdae area in Seoul, South Korea. It is the place widely known as a nest for urban artists and indie singers. They performed at various clubs there and participated in the festivals such as Pentaport Rock Festival, 2013 Summer Sonic in Tokyo and etc. In addition, they were named as 'Weekly Champion' by Fuji Television's Asia Versus.

Equipped with the outstanding musicality, Eastern Sidekick is seeking more than ever to extent its talent abroad. Why not give a try 

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Forgiving bootlegged fans

Prince initially sued more than 20 people for illegally sharing his music and distributing bootlegged concerts. But recently, he dropped his $22 million lawsuit against them less than two weeks after deciding it.

Asked why about his abrupt change of heart, Prince said "nobody sues their fans. ...I have some bootlegs of Lianne but I wouldn't sell them. But fans sharing music with each other, that's cool."

As can be noticed, this artist seems to be deep in love with his fans and he also announced he's hoping to charge "about $10" for some of UK shows. (10-02-14)

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Tracks of the day: 10-02-14

1. Tom Williams & The Boat - Hurricane

When thinking of the British indie rock or indie artists, we often associate them with the weather. Not too sure whether it's solely because of the stereotyped image of Britain but the image is still vivid in people's imagination. 

But check this band out! Tom Williams & The Boat uses its track title to show that the British indie rock can deal with the extreme weather as the main theme. Williams is giving a poetic touch to the song and it's a blues-driven riff, meaning its fresh as the title says so. 

2. Mo Kolours - Mike Black 

For Mo Kolours, rhythm is a significant, quintessential part of the music. Half-English and half-Mauritian, he uses his innate Eastern rhythmic and puts percussive tick with soulful voice of his in it. Mike Black, check this song out now

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Age of music subscription but with some criticisms

Throughout last year, downloaders were very much willing to subscribe. The figure of songs British streamed doubled and increased by 32% in the US. In the case of Pandora, the first nine months of fiscal year saw listeners hours increasing by 23%.

Although it is true that streaming service has gained lots of popularity over the course of the past few years, Spotify and Pandora are under criticisms from the artists who think they are not paid enough for their works. Thus, Spotify even went to create premium subscriptions and a website showing how its artists are being compensated for. 

It is assumed that the continuity of CD's sales fall will last for a while as it fell 14.5% in the US last year which is an acceleration of 12.8% in 2012. (07-02-14)

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Tracks of the Day: 07-02-14

The Bainil team thought it'd be quite informative and entertaining simultaneously to let our visitors be aware of which indie band's gonna reach the new heights this year. We've already started updating Album of the Week to share our opinions with you as to which one's worth listening to. But Tracks of the Day will let you further enjoy the new spectrum of music. So, here goes our first choices! 

1. Temples - Mesmerise

As the title says, the song will mesmerize you with a captivating sound. Definitely worth a try if you are a fan of the new psyche rock or want to start indulging yourself in a new genre.

2. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rain

Though this indie artist's got yet to release an official album, some have already titled him as the rapper of the year. Bainil would like to recommend you Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap mixtape while we all wait for his new material to drop. 

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This nice little quote here really hit home!

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Indie artists voice concern over Spotify

Some indie artists, including David Elfstrom Lilja the Swedish independent artist, have voiced concerns over the unfairness of Digster, Spotify's influential tastemaker list. They claim that Digster gives too much attention to the tracks from major labels. This phenomenon gets more problematic for a Swedish indie lable that earns almost all its income from Swedish fans as the streaming of Spotify accounts for approximately 70% of all revenue from recorded music. 

Given that there are many smaller independent labels acting as greenhouses for emerging talent that's not mainstream enough to get signed by major labels and are operated on a skimpy budget, the concern is expected to last for a while. (07-02-14)

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Streaming ascends while digital music sales drop

Interestingly but unusually, digital music sales fell 6% from last year and this is the first time since the iTunes store came into existence almost a decade ago according to the Billboard's year-end music report. 

What was once considered as the most traditional way of measuring commercial success declined with CD sales down 14% and total albums sales down 8%. On the contrary, the bright spots were vinyl (up 33%) and streaming (up 32%). 

It has become a social phenomenon that the number of likes on Spotify, Pandora and iHeartRadio is the indicator showing how the artist or music disseminates itself in the online world with more ways than ever to consume music. 

David Bakula, Nielsen's SVP of Industry Insights said "despite shifts in how music is consumed, we see continued growth in overall music consumption." (06-02-14)

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Artist to check: From The Airport

Formed of two distinctive members, Milo and Zee, this electronic pop group began its journey in 2012 with their first single 'Colors'. As a listener, it's hard to avoid the sheer energy stemming from a frantic sound that can be felt throughout their songs. Not surprisingly, From The Airport's 'Colors' was twelve in the weekly rankings and first in popular chart provided by Indie Shuffle, the renowned American indie portal site. 

With the past achievements and future possibilities, the band is going to contend for victory equipped with a lilting sound and plain message to the listeners. Their new album, Chemical Romance, is out on 6th of February. 

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