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Sidney Swift has produced records that won Grammys, holds a US patent, and now runs Recoup, where labels and rights companies come when they need an AI strategy that works. This conversation was recorded months before we started working together, and it is the origin of the way we operate: a long, specific conversation first, the contract later. We cover what a producer learns about leverage, why most music-tech pitches fail the people who actually run catalogs, and what it takes to build something a finance team will trust with royalty data.
Recoup designs and builds the systems behind conversations like this one: catalog data, royalty operations, and AI agents for labels, publishers, funds and management companies. recoupable.dev
Today's episode features my favorite musician in web3: Sagrado.
Sagrado was one of the early artists to release music nfts on Mint Songs.
Now, Sagrado is experimenting with CC0 Licensing for his beats.
This is the first episode in a series we're doing with Sagrado around CC0 licensing for music nfts.
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Nick Merich ran growth at Mint Songs while it went from a first release to a second protocol version on Ethereum. Fresh from NFT NYC, he lays out the parts of growth that were repeatable: how the team chose which artists to launch, what a release week looked like operationally, which metrics they reported to investors and which they ignored, and what a platform owes the artists who trust it with their first sale. A candid account of building distribution from zero, from the person who had to make the numbers move.
Nick Merich: X, Mint Songs
Recoup designs and builds the systems behind conversations like this one: catalog data, royalty operations, and AI agents for labels, publishers, funds and management companies. recoupable.dev
Kabuki Links
Every wave of technology reaches the music business the same way: a few operators move early, the rest wait for the case study. Kantor has been on both sides. We talk through how an established artist evaluates a new platform, what a label's finance and legal teams need to see before they sign off, where the traditional distribution stack still wins, and the difference between a technology that changes the economics and one that changes the press release. A clear framework for anyone deciding what to adopt and when.
Kantor: X, Facebook
Recoup designs and builds the systems behind conversations like this one: catalog data, royalty operations, and AI agents for labels, publishers, funds and management companies. recoupable.dev
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