Digital Hunter Interviews Our Co-Founder Gilles

When it comes to finding out about style, design, and life as we know it, Digital Hunter should be added to your bookmarks. This French site, based in Paris, trolls the web to dig sparkling gems out of the rough entanglement of content, brands, music, and trends. Yesterday they carried an interview with Whyd Co-Founder Gilles Poupardin, who shed a little insight into his life and the plan to help people organize the music of the web. 

Translated from original French into English. The original article can be found here. 

1. Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your background?

“Hello! I’m Gilles, I am the co-founder of Whyd. Before this, I worked on an emotional search engine. I love to create things relating to art, technology, and people.” 

2. You are the co-founder of Whyd, an online music library platform. Can you give us more details about the project?

“We want to resolve the simple problem facing all music lovers: how to play music between different streaming platforms like YouTube, Soundcloud, blogs, etc. Tracks are dispersed and too often lost.” 

3. How do you position Whyd in relation to existing social networks and other music services? 

“Whyd is first and foremost a tool to allow listeners to keep and play tracks from YouTube, Soundcloud, etc, in one place, thanks to our player. You also have the possibility to create playlists in a matter of minutes. Sure, sharing is important, but for now our priority is to create a useful service for people to keep and play their songs. The social dimension is being developed and will be released in a few months as the number of users grows.” 

4. Today marks the launch of the first version of Whyd. What are the coming features that you have planned?

“Now we have opened our private beta testing. We invite passionate music lovers and professionals to Whyd (bloggers, artists, labels, concert halls, etc). We are taking advantage of the summer to improve Whyd and create a truly amazing experience for all music lovers.” 

5. To launch the old Whyd, you went to San Francisco, is it possible to do the same thing in Paris?

“We spent almost three months in San Francisco with our whole team. The energy and creativity that pulse through Silicon Valley are fascinating. But Paris is great too. There are many ambitious and innovative projects launching here. We have talented engineers and more and more entrepreneurs who think globally. There aren’t barriers to the web. We can launch a project from Paris and reach a world-wide audience. If your product is good and people like what you do, you will succeed no matter what. True, the ecosystem of Silicon Valley is so powerful and stimulating that it requires us to stay close to it. And I miss running in Golden Gate Park!” 

12th July 2012

Camp Bisco 11: Starts Tomorrow

Photo courtesy blowthescene.com

The upstate region of New York state made music festivals famous when a guy with a big farm opened up his land for the gathering that would define outdoor music: Woodstock. Since then, the forests have hosted many other music events, and for the past eleven years, for a few days in July, the trees can be found shaking their branches to unconventional electronic jam music. Welcome to Camp Bisco.

The event has come to be a wildly popular place to escape the urban heat of summer in NYC and to deshackle the chains of tradional pop music. This year’s line up includes powerhouses such as Bassnectar, Skrillex, Atmosphere, and Lotus

Listen to our Camp Bisco playlist on Whyd to get a feel for the music, and if you are in the Northeastern US, convince one of your buddies to let you borrow his car, hit the gas, and don’t brake until you hit Albany. 

11th July 2012

Calvi On The Rocks (And In The Sun)


The 10th annual Calvi On The Rocks music festival has been rocking out this week in Corsica. It is not the only cool place to see good music in France this summer, but it is certainly the only place with sun! 

Listen to this Whyd playlist of artists featured this year at Calvi On The Rocks, and mark your calendars to buy tickets for next year! 

10th July 2012

Sweet Electronic Music Lovers Release Party

A Facebook group of music lovers started casually by friends Etienne, Vincent, Nicola, Mathieu, and Clement has been growing over the past year. Now it encompasses an active community of over 1,700 fans of sweet electronic music. Emboldened by the sheer amount and quality of music, especially among new, emerging artists, the group at SEML put together their inaugural disc: a collection of completely new tracks

On a rainy Saturday night this past weekend, they hosted a release party at Antipode, a Parisian river boat disco, featuring a meet and greet, exotic beers, followed by more inspired partying — all while listening to live sweet electronic music. 

Learn more about the group at www.semlovers.org

And listen to their stream on Whyd at www.whyd.com/seml

9th July 2012

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REVERIE Festival - The Parisian dream

REVERIE festival starts tonight. Paris is gonna be electronic for the next two days.

Close your eyes, dream and listen to REVERIE tracklists

And if your are around tonight, you can still make it come true - Buy your ticket here

6th July 2012

Whyd: A New Music Experience

Welcome to Whyd: all your streaming music in one place. We are a group of music lovers who are addicted to finding new music and sharing it with our friends and the world. 

We are currently building the best possible platform to keep, play, and share all of the free tracks that can be found online on sites like YouTube, Soundcloud, Blogs etc. 

This summer we are going through our beta testing phase. If you are passionate, music-dependent, and out-going, we would love you to join our beta team!

You can request an invite to the beta here: Whyd

3rd July 2012