André Allen Anjos, who is better known as the crypto-friendly artist RAC, and David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound.xyz, a web3 music platform, analyze the current state of the web3 music scene and discuss how artists can leverage web3 tools to get paid at fair market value for their art.  Show highlights: RAC’s experience in the traditional music industry why David believes music is the most undervalued sector in the world – and how Sound and crypto can help value it correctly the different types of NFTs with which musicians like RAC are experimenting what Sound.xyz is and how it is helping artists unlock their fanbase and community why David is so passionate about creating a social experience when it comes to music NFTs Sound.xyz’s decision to allow artists to deploy their own smart contracts what RAC has made in NFT drops compared to Spotify streams why Sound.xyz was built with “editions” as the most common format for NFTs sold on the platform what makes blockchain technology well-suited for the music industry RAC’s crypto adventures: $TAPE, $RAC, and more … how the famous “Amen Break” sample would work as an NFT what artists will be measured by in the NFT world   Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021      Coinchange: https://coinchange.io    OnJuno: https://onjuno.com/    Episode Links   David Greenstein LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreenstein/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgreenstein1?lang=en RAC Twitter: https://twitter.com/RAC Website: https://rac.fm/ Crypto Adventures RAC Token https://etherscan.io/address/0xc22b30e4cce6b78aaaadae91e44e73593929a3e9 https://v2.info.uniswap.org/pair/0xf744417d0a5fd18b5b18726ce1b48f931dfa32ea https://blog.ourzora.com/home/introducing-rac https://www.billboard.com/pro/rac-nfts-social-token-platform-racos-web3/ Music NFTs (w/ Sound.xyz embeds) https://rac.fm/nfts Discord https://discord.com/invite/rac Tokenized cassette tape https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/64760/ethereum-tokenized-cassette-dj-rac-zora-grammy Sound.xyz Website https://www.sound.xyz/ FAQs https://soundxyz.notion.site/soundxyz/Frequently-Asked-Questions-1-0e39e44edccb42f8b3c3ca5d93c703a9 Recent raise https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/15/sound-xyz-raises-5m-from-a16z-to-explore-how-web3-can-upend-the-economics-of-the-music-business/ Recent drops that are fun Bored Ape Yacht Club Band https://www.sound.xyz/boredbrothers/drip Snoop Dogg https://twitter.com/soundxyz_/status/1516896676077744128 https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/1516481234464960513 Music NFT Content Good overview: https://momentranks.com/blog/music-nfts-explained-transforming-music-sales https://twitter.com/MonsterDaoNFT/status/1517164757534580736 https://twitter.com/fascinated/status/1516539250661117966 Cooper Turley Content Weekly blog https://thisweekinmusicnfts.mirror.xyz/ Music NFT tweets https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1516598888114831360 https://coopahtroopa-eth.medium.com/musicians-meet-audio-nfts-aa495cfd2996 https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1460062843244408833 https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1469789186131587073 https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1475609928865705988 RAC Content: ETH royalties compared to Spotify https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1516578113634725890 https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1517168623772602368 RollingStone profile https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/rac-future-25-1179443/ Likes the 1/100 NFT drop https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1516178179886510083 Coinbase listing of RAC? https://blog.coinbase.com/increasing-transparency-for-new-asset-listings-on-coinbase-e06f2edb095e How the Sinners drop would have worked over time https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1512560530761809921 Thoughts on music NFT metrics https://twitter.com/RAC/status/1509213081594855425 Royal https://twitter.com/join_royal Jesse Walden write-up on Sound.xyz https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1471148257892044812