LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Decentraland, the world’s largest user-owned and operated digital social world, introduced immediately the sophomore version of Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF), together with confirmed expertise, new varieties of metaverse experiences, and extra. This yr, MVMF returns greater and bolder from November 10-13 with 100 confirmed artists (extra to come back) throughout uniquely curated neighborhood style phases, and with newly-created, Web3-enabled, immersive music experiences. Presented by digital asset platform Kraken, MVMF is free for all to attend, no VR, ticket or headset required.
In October 2021, Decentraland hosted the inaugural Metaverse Music Festival which hosted 80+ artists together with Web3 innovators Deadmau5, 3LAU, Paris Hilton, RAC, and Alison Wonderland, and noticed 50,000 distinctive attendees in the course of the 4-day occasion. Since then, main artists together with Jason Derulo and Grimes, labels and producers, have embraced digital performances resulting in MTV saying a brand new metaverse class at their 2022 VMAs.
Set in a cyberpunk metropolis of the long run, the 2022 pageant centerpiece is the Tower of Babel stage that includes Universal Music France’s Vladimir Cauchemar, award-winning Chinese idol group SNH48, CryptoPunk Rapper Spottie WiFi, Japanese woman group Atarashii Gakko!, London-based afro and funk band Amadis & The Ambassador, Finnish one girl orchestra Maija Kauhanen, area rock venture Handshaking, British DJ and producer Akira the Don, DJ Eddy Temple-Morris’ band Losers and Klezma (Web3 music launchpad) artists inc. Okay-Pop band 2AM, Israeli DJs and producers Erika Krall and Lian Gold and former Division One athlete PIP.
Metaverse Music Festival options curators who’re redefining IP possession and looking for to remodel the music trade by means of Web3 expertise and AI software program, together with:
- The Iconic Global touring metallic pageant OZZFEST which launched the careers of numerous new bands, together with Slipknot, Disturbed, System of a Down, Incubus, Lamb of God, and plenty of others, is coming to Decentraland with a confirmed digital efficiency from Ozzy Osbourne himself (contemporary from his international chart-topping new Patient Number 9 album) and thrilling acts which can be quickly to be introduced.
- Iconic music model LIMEWIRE will host one of many primary phases with an unique avatar efficiency and music video premiere from Soulja Boy directed by Grammy-nominated director Yasha Gruben, along with many different music artists throughout numerous genres.
- AR metaverse platform OVER will showcase experiences and performances DJ Regard, Morgan, Jamis, Nicola Fasano, Danilo Rossi and Azel.
- UNPAIRED, the staff behind the Party Degenerates NFT assortment, will inaugurate the OxArena, a novel venue with an open air stage, 3 indoor golf equipment, idea retailer and NFT gallery. Jump in for curated performances by Superf3st, Volta XR, Revealed Recordings, Fold London and others.
- Metaverse music label SOUNDR who’s stage options Junior Andre, Ellysse Mason, Tarune, Lil Yamaha, Miya Miya, and Soundr’s first AI digital band Skullz.
- RANDOM RAVERS, a metaverse music model, is presenting The Raverse, an immersive rave expertise that includes worldwide artists resembling Dead-Tones, Ray Kash, Kana Hishiya and NonCitizens amongst others.
- METATOKYO will current a stage that includes Japanese music acts and Metaverse artists and a particular set up – a huge dancing doll made in collaboration with Metaani, NFT Character and the enduring Japanese artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
This yr, Decentraland is doubling down on music within the metaverse. MVMF will showcase the most recent metaverse expertise that presents listeners with actually distinctive experiences solely out there by means of a digital world. Decentraland’s distinctive Emotes characteristic permits any creator worldwide to create customized strikes and gestures that deliver your avatar to life, and shall be a central a part of how live performance goers have enjoyable by means of dancing and self expression in the course of the pageant. New movement seize expertise can even be demonstrated on this international stage from Move.ai which permits movement seize with no fits and Kinetix.tech that goals to empower creators to make emote NFTs utilizing solely a telephone digicam. Presenting accomplice Kraken can even drop a collection of NFT wearables unique for festival-goers, unveil a pop-up NFT gallery in addition to host a particular pageant after get together.
Whether it’s selling an album launch, supporting an NFT technique, experimenting with metaverse performances, or searching for new methods to share their music with new audiences, Decentraland’s MVMF helps artists in a myriad of how. New fan engagement fashions – resembling wearables, NFT gated-experiences, and exclusives – have gained momentum during the last yr and are being taken to a different stage this yr. The artists enjoying at MVMF have labored with neighborhood designers in Decentraland to create one-of-a-kind swag choices and soon-to-be-announced specials.
For this yr’s pageant, famous person producer, songwriter and DJ Dillon Francis has collaborated with Vegas City to deliver a state-of-the-art Dillon Francis mega membership to Decentraland. Dillon will open the pageant with a really particular set that shall be projected on a number of screens all through the mega membership all weekend, making it a proper of passage of types for anybody who involves the pageant at any level. Attendees can even be capable of play Smash the Piñata with Dillon’s notorious piñata sidekick Gerald and chase him all all through the venue.
The Decentraland Festival District is showcasing an array of recent experiences and thrilling performances together with a Jerry Garcia Acoustic Stage, MultiNFT Techno Parkour Stage, an epic pop-up nightclub by web3 music community MODA DAO and importantly the OG stage that includes Decentraland’s most prolific musicians and occasion promoters.
Last however not least, Decentraland will introduce quite a lot of new metaverse experiences for customers to attend when their ears want a second of relaxation, such because the Portaloo expertise to the Follow the Rabbit to the Take the Blue Pill expertise. Other experiences are geared in the direction of creators and neighborhood organizers seeking to develop extra embedded experiences, showcased by means of the MadMax Decentrally race, a neighborhood dance contest utilizing the primary era of Emotes, and the Backstage Pass Quest.
Join Decentraland on the subsequent installment of Metaverse Music Festival by pre-registering at Event hyperlink. Follow us on Twitter at #DCLMVMF22 and be part of our Discord to be taught extra about particular experiences and still-unannounced artists that may be part of us at MVMF. See you on the present.
About Decentraland
Launched in 2020, Decentraland is a digital social world powered by the Ethereum blockchain and the primary decentralized metaverse. Within the Decentraland platform, customers can create, expertise, and monetize content material and purposes in addition to socialize and attend a variety of each day community-driven occasions. Decentraland is exclusive in that it’s owned, created, and ruled by the individuals who use it daily. Through the decentralized autonomous group (DAO) customers can submit proposals and even apply for grants for the neighborhood to vote on.
About Kraken
Kraken is without doubt one of the world’s largest digital asset platforms and the chief in euro quantity and liquidity. Globally, Kraken’s consumer base trades greater than 200+ digital property and eight totally different fiat currencies. Kraken was based in 2011 and was one of many first exchanges to supply spot buying and selling with margin, regulated derivatives and index providers. Kraken is trusted by nicely over 10 million shoppers and establishments all over the world and presents skilled, around-the-clock on-line help.”
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