Beatblocs Blog Greetings

Beatblocs Blog. Hello. Thoughts and tings from the people behind www.Beatblocs.com.

I am Dan Berridge. I came up with the Beatblocs concept. I produce music as Broadway Project (www.myspace.com/thebroadwayproject),
One Divided Soul (www.myspace.com/onedividedsoul)
and write music for films and TV ads (www.danberridge.com).
Chris Berridge is the design and development brains behind Beatblocs. He's a successful web designer developer (www.chrisberridge.com).
And Nick Wheeler who is our lovely Java programmer/developer.

Beatblocs is our attempt to create a space that will feed the creative lifestyle for our users and ourselves. Based on our personal experiences (in music and design) and a kind of old-skool hip-hop aesthetic of freedom of expression, style and creativity, we've come up with this idea that is the “Beatblocs Beat Shop and Community”.

Beatblocs is a Beat shop. On the site you can browse and download beat files (Rex/Apple Loops/Wav) that can be dropped into any existing musical arrangement. Through current technology, the beat has become a universally exchangeable format.

We hope it will be new way for producers of electronic music to connect through that one universal factor in modern music. The beat!
It will be an opportunity for producers of all kind to tap into and to feed the genre melting-pot that is modern dance music.

Style and content are key to us at Beatblocs. The correct aesthetic both in design and music are vitally important to us and to our users (most of whom we expect to be creative professionals of one kind or another).

Where we live (in Bristol, UK) all around us in the studios and clubs, new genres of music are being created almost every week, some off-shoot of another style splitting off and creating its very own unique style and take. At the end of the day, some new BEAT!
Its organic and exciting… It exactly what we want to help foster on Beatblocs.... Creativity and technique. We encourage the freshest and most innovative Beats, supplied by those who know the scene; our user-base.

By the time you read this, the Beatblocs.com site will be live and running. Hopefully you and others will be be checking out the beats that have been posted and adding to the community with your own rhythms and your opinions and input. It's not just about buying beats, its about sharing and learning, pushing things forward creatively. Its an opportunity to check out new styles and genres as they happen and its an opportunity to add to the melting pot.

Feed the beat!

Dan