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We Are Hunted co-founder launches new SoundCloud-powered discovery service
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 23 September 2014
A website that works out the 99 most played tracks on SoundCloud in the last month and then aggregates them into a lovely wall of images? What a wonder!
Or, rather, what a wonder.fm. It’s the new music discovery service from Stephen Phillips, co-founder of We Are Hunted, the briefly popular music data and recommendation set up that was acquired by Twitter in 2012, mainly so the social network could morph it into something less good in 2013, and shut it down completely in 2014.
Discussing life since Twitter, and his new venture, Phillips told Gigaom: “I am an entrepreneur to my bones, so ultimately, the call of the wild came for me again, and here I am. I just couldn’t help myself – I’m an obsessive music hacker!”
As for wonder.fm, he added: “My hope is that music fans seeking cool sounds outside the top 40 might find it a really fun app”.
Wonder.fm, which pulls in audio from SoundCloud in a pretty seamless way, enabling you to play the top 99 at the click of a button, also allows you to delve a little deeper into SoundCloud data, with more functionality being planned. Which is all kinda cool; though long term success may be reliant on SoundCloud sorting out its licensing issues with the labels and publishers.
