- Anotherblock will make the track Big Boy" accessible through its player
- The tape dates from July 13, 1967, when Michael Jackson was eight
- Anotherblock has worked with music superstars like Justin Bieber, Rihanna
Blockchain music platform and royalty marketplace Anotherblock, which is based in Sweden, will release the first-ever studio recording of Michael Jackson on blockchain as a “digital vinyl” on December 7. The recording had been hidden for more than 50 years, Cointelegraph wrote.
The demo dates back to the 1960s
The platform will publish the track “Big Boy (One-Derful Version)” and make it accessible through its player alongside song stems and images of the master tape. It will be available for four days as a limited and an open edition.
The tape dates from July 13, 1967, when Michael Jackson was eight years old. The recording is of him and his brothers in their first studio session at One-Derful in Chicago.
The blockchain revolution in music
The release of the historic record is the outcome of a collaboration between Anotherblock and Recordpool, who own the recording. Anotherblock has worked with music superstars like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, The Weeknd, and others. Its CEO and co-founder Michel Traore told Cointelegraph:
Doing this drop as a digital vinyl on-chain makes it possible to build stories and community around the song and elevate it beyond being just a commodity. Some songs, and this one in particular, deserve a special home where they won’t disappear in the sea of hundreds of thousands of tracks released every day. This new format gives us a chance to craft more stories around the music.
Traore added he was enthusiastic about the release, which he sees as an occasion to stir things up on the music industry’s digital ownership scene.
Music heritage, digitized
Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine expressed delight at the news and was quoted as saying that musical heritage recordings have discovered “a new rhythm” for the digital epoch, testifying to the fact that her family’s story is timeless, just like its music.
Digitized music has crossed over into NFTs, which have proven more lucrative than the music itself on some occasions.
