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See the evolution of Vol.3 on one page. With tons of music, photos, videos and interviews!
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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
Through our high-end online platform, founded in 2018 by the non-profit Swiss Beyond Foundation with support from Tina Turner, we connect the dots of talent world-wide and bring together professional musicians, composers, singers and songwriters of all cultures and musical styles. We inspire them through the ability of exploring completely novel groupings of collaboration. Artists are given instant access to colleagues in some of the most far-fetched locations, using some of the most exotic musical instruments. The level of creativity and innovation puts audiences in awe. Beyond Music nominates among the most unusual music formations and provides annual prize awards of up to 80,000 US dollars. Moreover, the best pieces of music are being released on Beyond Music albums, under the guidance of some of the world´s most famous producers.
See the evolution of Vol.3 on one page. With tons of music, photos, videos and interviews!
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It’s here! Our new album Beyond Music Vol.3 - Conflict is out today, along with a video and the new single There Must Be A Better Way.
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The third Vol.3 single Wororo is out now, featuring a string arrangement by Juan Andrés Ospina and a new music video.
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Brand new single and music video Chand Ke Phool released today – upcoming album Beyond Music Vol.3 will be out on June 17th.
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Out now: Hold Oss, the first single from our upcoming album Beyond Music Vol.3 - Conflict!
Watch the music videoThe ongoing virus pandemic continued to restrict the lives of artists. Thanks to our online platform, the Beyond Music Project was able to proceed unimpeded. Given today's diverse challenges, the five-time Grammy Award-winning producers of our Vol.3 album, Michael League & Bill Laurance, chose "conflict" as the guiding musical theme. Artists were asked to apply this concept to every element of the musical creation process. "Conflict" was to be used as a creative and inspirational tool to think about all kinds of struggles and reflect those experiences in their music. We received 140 pieces of music from 850 artists of 54 countries. 16 of these songs were selected and newly produced.
When in 2020 the virus pandemic hit and artists around the world were isolated and deprived of performance opportunities, we continued to enable our community to create new music together. For our album Vol.2, we called for the most unusual collaborations across all borders and musical styles, with "Songs for the Planet" as the leitmotif. The Beyond Music artists were supported by three outstanding Mentors: Elina Duni, Manu Katché and Yaron Herman. 600 artists from all over the world submitted 193 pieces of music. The 16 songs selected for the album were produced by legendary drummer and composer Manu Katché. The tracks are about climate change, protecting our children and women, and a new awareness of interacting across borders.
The submissions were based on the idea of compassion to symbolize "an axe for the frozen sea inside of us" (Franz Kafka). 110 collaborations were submitted and 10 songs were chosen. 27 artists from 21 countries were invited to meet for 12 days at one of the world's leading studios, “La Fabrique” in the South of France. The recordings took place under the direction of multiple Grammy winning producer Larry Klein. Klein assembled a studio band of A-list musicians including Dean Parks (Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder), Ed Harcourt (Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull), Adrian Utley (Portishead), Manu Katché (Sting, Peter Gabriel), Clive Deamer (Radiohead) and Dan Lutz (Melody Gardot).
Create your profile, describe what kind of artist you are and connect with professional musicians, composers, singers and songwriters from all over the world.
Read MoreSearch for artists by instrument, vocal technique, genre and cultural background, and get in touch with them. Exchange ideas and create something unique.
Read MoreUpload your collaborative music to the Beyond Music Project, held each year with a specific musical theme. Let your creativity run wild and surprise us with unusual teams and outstanding music pieces.
Read MoreThe best 16 collaborations will be awarded with cash prizes worth a total of 80,000 US dollars. In addition, their winning tracks will form the Beyond Music albums, which will be newly produced by alternating world-renowned producers.
Read MoreOur latest album Beyond Music Vol.3 - Conflict was produced by musical masterminds Michael League and Bill Laurance. The five-time Grammy Award winners have taken the world's concert halls by storm with their world-famous music collective Snarky Puppy. For our Vol.3 album, Michael and Bill set the musical theme of "conflict" and selected 16 tracks from 140 compositions, which they then reproduced with the winning 54 artists from 40 different countries. "The potential of Beyond Music is limitless," says Michael League. And Bill Laurance adds, "This is the platform I've always been looking for". The result of their album production is a genre-bending, innovative collection of songs.
Due to the impact of the virus pandemic, we were suddenly at home more than ever before. But thanks to our digital community, we were able to stay in touch with the outside world at all times and continue doing what we love most - music. We asked our Beyond Music members to introduce themselves as artists and their homes, and from their contributions, we've created over 300 video portraits for you to watch. Meet our artists from around the world, learn about the diversity of their musical styles, instruments and cultural backgrounds. Get inspired for future collaborations. Or write to us if you feel like becoming a part of Beyond Music and this unique community.
Stories & News from our Artists, Ambassadors, Supporters
After four years of Beyond Music, 443 collaborations of you spanning the globe and three albums released, it's time to look back and resume our movement.
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Our new album Beyond Music Vol.3 - Conflict has been out for a week. We are over the moon and playing your fantastic songs non-stop.
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The wait is over: our new album Beyond Music Vol.3 - Conflict has arrived. It’s out today, along with the new single There Must Be A Better Way and a new video.
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A great diversity of musicians, music legends, producers, artists, and global innovators represent our ambassadors – they are encouraging musicians from all over the world to take the chance to collaborate and create unique music together!
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"Music is the strongest superfood for the soul. It heats, supports and lifts up."
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“Music can do miracles - it can save, heal, bring people together, preserve or create peace.”
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"Music is a beautiful tool and power with which lives are changed and barriers are broken."
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"Bringing cultures together with respect and knowledge is the gift of our time."
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"Music is the expression of the unspeakable, the universal language of the human heart."
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“It is one of the main challenges of the world today to combine the ancient and the modern.“
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"I love collecting elements from diverse music cultures and forming them into a unique style."
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"I was simply in the right place at the right time when my particular skills were needed."
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"In music and life I always try not to mix up confidence and ego. One is driven by trust, the other by greed."
Read moreBeyond Music is made possible by the Swiss non-profit Beyond Foundation, whose mission is to connect world cultures through music to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue. "The time has come to experience ethical values that reach beyond any culture or system of belief. Music is the universal language of unity." Regula Curti - Founder
