AmaderGaan.com was an online music portal of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
. AmaderGaan also was the only legal
online music shop of Bangladesh.
History
AmaderGaan was founded by Faysal Islam on 31 July 2002. Safwan Khan joined later that year. Initially a website was conceived that would be a meeting place for discussing and sharing music. It Provided free
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
mp3 for a long time as there was no proper legal system in place back then. In following years, many musicians and music lovers joined the community such as veteran musicians like Maqsoodul Haque (Mac), formerly of
Feedback
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to ''feed back'' into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled ...
and currently with In Dhaka and musicians from Rockstrata,
Cryptic Fate
Cryptic Fate is a Bangladeshi heavy metal band formed in 1993 in Dhaka. They are one of the pioneers of Bangladeshi metal music. Since 1993, they have released four studio albums and several singles in mixed albums. The original lineup consists ...
,
Arbovirus, The Watson Brothers, Zefyr, RaaGa, and
Artcell. With the assistance of Mac, amaderGaan took on a major jump from the virtual to the real world in 2004 with the arranging of a charity concert for Abdur Rahman Boyati, an aging folk musician famous for singing in the style of bauls and boyatis. In 2005, the organization started a 24-hour online radio station in Bengali. amaderGaan took up the cause of 35 solo musicians and bands to promote and host their websites. In 2005, sharing of music was stopped and the first online shop was set up to promote the purchasing of music legally. In 2006, amaderGaan and ''
New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...
'', a daily newspaper of
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
, began jointly publishing a biweekly chart highlighting sales of the top-selling Bengali albums. Recently, NewAge has also been publishing articles written by amaderGaan members on its paper.
''.Loud''
In 2006 AmaderGaan along with Sound Machine Ltd, a leading sound equipment sales and rental, audio and video production and musical event management company in Dhaka started a project titled ''.Loud'' (dot loud) to promote musicians all over Bangladesh and around the world via Internet and various other activities. Several artistes and musicians who became a part of the .Loud project will be receiving free web hosting space and domain from amadergaan.com with a 20% discount on recording costs and practice pads at Sound Machine and even official promotion of the respective bands.
Current Status
Currently AmaderGaan.com is inactive. No news or anything else is known about how long it would be inactive.
Some band members hope that it'll be active soon.
References
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Online music stores of Bangladesh