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The Mixcloud Story

Mixcloud is a London based startup, with a home in the warehouse pictured in West West London. We're friends old and new (many of whom met at Cambridge University) connected by our love for radio, problem solving and building exciting new projects.

It was through this intersection of interests that we realised there's an obvious problem on the Internet that we need to fix - that of connecting radio shows, DJ mixes and Podcasts to listeners.

We think all these forms of content offer a very similar listening experience - a "Cloudcast" - that is curated by a human enthusiast or expert. That's the important bit - we've always discovered great new things through people we respect, so we want to help guide listeners to those people more easily.

We also believe in simplicity. We love clean design, enjoyable user experience, intuitive navigation and clear information architecture.

Meet the Team

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    Nikhil Shah - Co-founder

    Nikhil has a background in Mathematics, music and marketing. He loves building and promoting brands and has been running clubnights since he was a kid! As a DJ and promoter, he got fed up with the MegaRapidrFileShare-nonsense, and realised there must be better ways to help DJs promote their shows and mixes.

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    Nico Perez - Co-founder

    Nico (aka Rez) is a web designer, radio show host, DJ, breakdancer and the guy behind the Mixcloud design. He realised that he spends way too long scouring the web to keep up with radio shows and Podcasts, and decided there needs to be a home for this content.

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    Mat Clayton - Co-founder

    Mat Clayton (aka The Daddy) is ludicrously good at building web apps, and even better, likes to build things quickly. He's got lots of experience with social media apps and knows Django inside out.

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    Sam Cooke - Javascript Wiz

    We dare you to challenge him in his bespoke brand of object oriented Javascript. He's also a pretty damn good musician and producer - watch this space for some of his obscure Aphex Twin-like productions.

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    Matt Rawson - Flash DJ

    Matt Rawson (aka Flash DJ!) is the prince of Flash and ActionScript 3. As well as being an awesome tech house DJ, he's very good at building powerful, easy-to-use and lovely looking Flash widgets.

Cutting edge R&D

Mixcloud has been awarded a grant by the Technology Strategy Board (sponsored by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills) and is collaborating with the Queen Mary University Centre for Digital Music on a Creative Industries Fast Track R&D project. We're working on several top-secret features with some very smart guys and gals in the lab.

Supporting Artists

Mixcloud is committed to supporting artists contained in any music Cloudcasts, and has an objective to provide a superior legal alternative to file sharing. As such, Mixcloud is fully licensed by the PRS for Music, and all playback of copyrighted songs contained within the tracklists/chapters on the site are reported so that the correct licensing royalties can be attributed to the artists.

Advisers

Mixcloud has a world class advisory team including: Reed Smith (legal advisers specialising in Digital Media), Paul Walton (CEO of the Value Engineers), and Christine Downton (Co-founder of Pareto Partners).