Devoted To Pop: Interview with Bastien Rayno

Hello Bastien! Where are you from originally and what was your first experience with music? 

Hi guys, I am from Paris. I had my first experience with music via cinema, which to this day is still a big passion of mine. When I was very young I wanted to make it my job. I grew up on films and trailers and I compiled the songs that came with them. Then I would listen to this catalogue of artists on repeat and imagine the scenes or atmospheres for my next videos. For me it was impossible envision without the help of music. 

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The Paris Page Progresses

The Paris community has been rapidly expanding and the coolest music trendsetters are sharing their favorite tunes from Paris throughout the world. We’ve been very happy with the response so far, and our awesome intern Guillaume has been up to some serious rethinking of the way that we present you, our wonderful community. 

So we encourage you to check out the Paris page and click around to see what’s new, like the new cards for people, genre tags, and the idea to feature 3 playlists per day, resolving the issues of attaching too many playlists at one time with no description! The design will continue to develop, but we’ve come a long way! 

Let us know what you think! Send us your ideas for improvements to tony at whyd dot com and of course let us know which cities we should come to next! 

Paris: We Want Your Music — Whyd Paris Live Today

This post, written by our co-founder Gilles, explains everything you need to know about what Whyd is trying to do. 

Two years ago, I remember having a discussion around a coffee with fellow music diggers in Paris about the way we are used to discover and share songs today: music is everywhere but fragmented on many platforms like Youtube, SoundCloud, MP3 blogs etc…We didn’t have a place to gather and share all of our discoveries.

Our team of 5 music lovers — Including a DJ, pianist and epic drummer- started working on a simple and straightforward bookmarking tool to collect tracks from the different music platforms.

The prototype initially launched for a small group of 25 music diggers gained adoption in the vibrant Paris electronic community. 1,000 people joined the beta during the summer, while we were improving the tool. The amount of quality music shared everyday was amazing.

We started understanding how the power of community was going to revolutionize the way we discover music in the streaming era.

The launch of the Paris City Stream is a strong step forward in our mission: Empowering music communities to bring amazing music discovery to the world.

It’s not only a symbol but a tribute to the local Paris community who started the movement: bloggers, DJs, singers, concert venues, magazines, labels and all of the music lovers who come to Whyd everyday to share the tracks and playlists that move them. These guys are shaping the present and future of the Paris music scene. We want to amplify their voices.

For music listeners it also offers a fantastic new way to discover new songs and playlists. Push the “Start Listening” button and enjoy an endless stream of good music.

Whyd is now a growing community of 50 000 music lovers finding the best of the newest music everyday in 100+ countries around the world.

Paris is the starting point of our action. World, we want to hear your music.

Never stop jamming

Whyd Paris Party: TOMORROW NIGHT!

Final reminder to everyone in the city of light: tomorrow Paris becomes the city of sound. 

Party starts at 20hr00 at Le Dandy in the back room of the upstairs. Metro Pigalle. Official event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1484481048446731/

Come early as there will be homemade food to eat that we have already started preparing, but we’re guessing it wont last very long! 

The entry is free and there is a happy hour until 22hr where beers and such are 5 euros. 

Bring your friends! (Unless they hate music, but then they probably wouldn’t be your friends)

If you have any other questions, email: tony at whyd dot com.  

Can’t wait to see everyone there! 

Whyd Spring Playlist Contest: The Finalists!

Coming to a close tomorrow, Whyd's Spring Playlist contest provided an excellent context for musical discovery and enjoyment, with 22 entries and countless awesome tracks. If these playlists are any indication, 2014 is going to be a great year for music. 

Now, without any further ado: the three finalists are,

Meven Marchand Guidevay

Mélodie Lily

Kim Jacques

Thanks to everyone who participated, the winner will be announced tomorrow! 

Everyone Welcome Guillaume!

When the team split and we began our quest for world domination, we were feeling a little lonely with just half the team in Paris. So we decided to bring in some help, to develop the city pages, improve the experience of the Whyd community, and help us with the all-important growth hacking. His name is Guillaume, and he is a music lover.

He claims to love all music, and this is certainly a theory that we will test, but he is most passionate about 80’s funk, ripping off a list of artists and groups that we’ve never heard of before, which solicited a lot of respect, and intrigue. 

Guillaume will be here with us until June 20th, so make sure that you subscribe to him on Whyd for what is promising to be some very, very cool jams. 

From the Whyd team: Welcome Guillaume! Never stop jamming.