Birthday thounds for John Lennon
October 11th, 2010
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Birthday thounds for John Lennon
A few days ago we asked our community to record their own very special thound for the anniversary of John Lennon birthday, and we have then received so many good tunes we want to share.

This is a selection of our favourite submissions so far :
Omaoi (Italy) – For John: Duetto
Bon Yuki (Japan) – happy birthday john
Omaoi (Italy) – for John: JEALOUS GUY unplugged
Yuriy Tymochko (Ukraine) – 70 is not a limit, John
Kaworu Fu-jin (Japan) – He is alive in the mind
Matte Green (Italy) – For John from another john..lee..
Kaworu Fu-jin (Japan) – John Lennon/imagine 70birthday
Kroman Celik (Italy) – I love John Lennon – imagine
Giuseppe Antonio Mazza (Italy) – A penny for Heaven…rip John.
Francesco Fraioli (Italy) – instant karma – happy birthday John
Nicolò ßeta (Italy) – Working Class Hero
dokidokidaisaku (Japan) – 宇宙をひとまたぎ

Want to add yours? Never too late, just reply to this with the page link of the thound you recorded.

What’s in the Settings panel?
August 4th, 2010
Giovanni Cappellotto

Did you know there is quite a few functions in it?
Like customizing your profile URL with your nickname or connecting your Facebook and Twitter account, selecting what notifications to receive by email, etc

A more detailed overview:

Profile public URL
get a short url like http://thounds.com/alldrums instead of the long standard http://thounds.com/users/34293 (both examples)
the name can be 8 to 16 characters long, A-Z, 0-9 and “-”

Notifications and Reports
Select or unselect what kind of notifications you wish to receive by email, amongst friendship requests, friendship confirmations, new messages, new lines on your thounds, etc

Connections
You can connect your Thounds account to those on SoundCloud, Facebook and Twitter you have.
Connecting with SoundCloud allows to export your music from Thounds to SoundCloud.
With Facebook you will get automatic status updates when you record new music and same with Twitter.

To control such settings find the link above on the right or click this link

This week our choice is for Psychedelic Disco Angels, an amazing duo from Jersey now collaborating on Thounds too: http://thounds.com/users/41811

Previous thounders of the week:
Brendan Landis (USA), Juan Esteban González (Chile), Tommaso Rodari (Italy) and Dokidokidaisaku (Japan)

Making of a thound: Tommy Rodari
March 17th, 2010
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The first of a series of DIY footage videos of how thounders have recorded their own tracks.
Tommy Rodari is showing how easy is recording a good music idea on Thounds with just his kazoo, a pc … and snaps:

Add your music to this thound here: http://thounds.com/t/ee53d6 and don’t forget to befriend Tommy: http://thounds.com/users/34341

Do you want to submit your video? E-mail us for directions.

Thounder of the week: Brendan Landis
March 12th, 2010
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Have you noticed we are picking our favourite thounder every week?

If not, you may want to visit Thounds homepage and get to discover Brendan Landis from Berkeley (USA) who is recording lots of avantgarde and inspirational snippets.

Find Brendan Landis page on http://thounds.com/users/41481

Other thounders of the week so far:
Juan Esteban González (Chile), Tommaso Rodari (Italy) and Dokidokidaisaku (Japan)