Subtrack is a community platform for securely collecting, trading, and listening to rare, collector editions of records.

We call these editions "subtracks". Except for minor maintenance fees, artists and labels receive 100% on their initial sale, and choose a percentage that they'll receive on every resale, for ever.

The subtracks remain protected and intact for ever on the Tezos blockchain, even if our platform goes away.

If you’re an artist : you upload an art work along with all the bonuses that you want to include in your collector edition, we turn it into a secured subtrack that you possess.
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You can sell it - if you want - by setting a minimum price, and a percentage that you’ll receive on every resale.

If you’re a collector : you can acquire an artist’s subtrack by direct purchase or auctions. Once you own a Subtrack, you can enjoy all the bonuses included in your collector's edition.

A subtrack is a rare, unique digital object that an artist creates for his fans. It’s a key that gives you access to a rare original track, its history, and to anything else the artist chooses to provide for its owner : it can be technical explanations of the track, signed vinyl, rights of publishing, or even a ticket for his next gig.

The artist specifies what is included within the subtrack in the "Included" section.

By collecting it, you become the owner of this key and engrave your name on it. This subtrack, this key is a non fungible token (NFT) permanently protected by the Tezos blockchain, a low-consumption blockchain.

Think of a subtrack as a digital, unique key on which you write your name past to the artist’s. this key contains a rare track and gives you access to the artist’s world. Others may listen to a copy of the track, you own the original, in a unique art piece, which lets you enjoy everything the artist has inlcluded in it.

On top of being a priceless collectors object, a subtrack is the most significant and sustainable support a fan can offer.

Unless it's clearly specified, a subtrack doesn’t include the right of publishing or intellectual property.

There’s a climate change emergency. Ecological stakes are top stakes for Subtrack :

- We secure your subtracks on an low-consumption blockchain called Tezos.

- We allow artists to rely less on touring, by providing them a new remuneration stream that gives them a fair living out of their productions.

If you’re an artist or a music lover and want to know more about your ecological impact within music, we advise you take a look at the Music Declares movement. (@musicdeclares on instagram)

An artist or a label on Subtrack collects instantly and automatically two incomes :

1. The “direct” income : it’s between 80% and 100% of the amount of the first buy of any subtrack.

2. The “secondary” income : it’s a royalty that the artist or label collects on every resale, for ever. The amount he collects is a percentage of the selling price - called the “creator share”

To make this perfect for you all, we're starting with a small collection of underground electronic music releases.
If you’re an artist, fill our form, we’ll get in touch !
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Very soon, we’ll allow any electronic music producer to press a digital record on his own.

A blockchain is a decentralized, digital register that contains historicals of transactions and owners. It’s an unchangeable and unhackable transactions database that everybody can consult.

We use it to guarantee the originality and authenticity of the subtracks you collect, to lock their content safe until a collector buys it, and to ensure instantly, automatically and permanently the transactions & artist royalties.
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The blockchain we use is called Tezos. It’s a low-consumption blockchain that works with the Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus.

It’s a royalty, a percentage that a creator will collect on every resale.
When he creates a subtrack, the creator sets a creator revenue percentage.

By default, you agree with this share when you collect or sell a subtrack.

When a subtrack is sold, we take a minor fee for maintenance. The rest is split that way :
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- if you buy it from the creator (direct sale) :
100% goes to the creator (artist, label, covermaker, …)

- if you buy it from a fan (secondary sale) : A% of the amount goes to the original artist (A% = the creator share the artist first set), the rest goes to the fan.

The blockchain we use, Tezos, doesn’t pollute more than a normal website, thanks to its Proof of Stake consensus (PoS).

Most popular blockchains (such as Ethereum, or Bitcoin blockchain) use a Proof of Work consensus (PoW) that require a lot of energy to secure transactions.

Proof of Stake consensus (PoS) make blockchains consume 99.999% less energy than Proof of Work consensus.

You can contact us at contact@subtrack.fr. We'll be happy to help.