Having been down for the better part of a month, Muxtape’s creator, Justin Ouellette, has announced that the service is springing back to life, albeit with an entirely new direction.
In his post, Ouellette chronicles his experience dealing with ambivalent record labels that simultaneously sought to shut him down and broker a business deal, as well as the suspension of his account by Amazon Web Services after receiving a complaint lodged by the RIAA, seemingly operating autonomously of the labels he was in talks with.
As a result of all this drama, Ouellette has elected to cut ties with the labels altogether for the moment and is poised to reposition Muxtape as a distribution platform for bands, with the altruistic goal of, “offering an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to thrive on the internet.” Good luck.
