- important note -
SlipstreamPresents.com is currently available for browsing only. The store is not open for business and the audio clips are gone. For more information on your favorite SlipstreamPresents.com artist please visit the artist's home page.

how to reach us
Please feel free to contact us with questions, suggestions, and propositions. Artists and record labels who would like to have their music considered for inclusion at SlipstreamPresents.com should mail a CD to our PO Box. Please do not email MP3 files. Thank you.

regular mail:
SlipstreamPresents.com
c/o Matthew Sabatella
PO Box 220743
Hollywood, FL 33022

phone:
305.753.1850
fax:
772.382.8065

who we are and what we do
SlipstreamPresents.com is an Internet-based music company that features the work of a select group of independent recording artists. These special artists carry on the tradition of the great songwriters and creative entities in a world largely uninspired by what the traditional music industry is currently offering as rock and pop music.

We have a unique relationship with our resident artists, for whom we provide a platform to share songs and videos with Internet technologies such as MP3, Liquid Audio, and RealMedia. We also provide secure online ordering for their CDs, cassettes, T-shirts and other merchandise. And through our compilation CDs (Slipstream Records), live events and a monthly online radio show, we actively promote and cross-promote the music.

Unlike the music mega-sites (MP3.com, IUMA, etc.) who don't filter their content, we maintain a cohesive and loyal base of fans who have grown to trust that SlipstreamPresents.com means great music.

It was founded in January of 1999 by Miami-based singer/songwriter Matthew Sabatella as a way to achieve wider exposure for the independent artists and music for which he has great love and respect.

from the beginning
Matthew Sabatella began performing and recording his own music in 1987 with the South Florida-based Broken Spectacles. The band recorded one album (yet to see the light of day on CD) before their break-up in 1994. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and pianist, Sabatella forged ahead in various musical configurations, from solo acoustic to five-piece band. In 1997 he formed Slipstream Records and released his debut CD Where the Hell Am I?

A constant in his life throughout these productive musical years has been a dedication to the music of other songwriters. He has contributed (and still contributes) his instrumental and vocal abilities to performances and recordings by a wide array of talented artists including Amanda Green, The Curious Hair, Maria Marocka, Diane Ward, Sixo, Mary Karlzen, Brian Franklin, Angela Patua, and Jolynn Daniel.

It was in 1998 that the perceived promise of these and other great artists combined synergistically with the notion of a music industry unswayed by quality and the increasingly apparent potential of the Internet to connect artists with audiences. The result of this brew was the concept for the company and web site we now know as SlipstreamPresents.com. The goal was to bypass the traditional music industry, finding fans one at a time and cross-promoting the artists to this growing fanbase.

The only thing now was to build a varied, flexible and friendly web site for both music maker and music fan. Sabatella had virtually no money and a combination of a computer and computer knowlege so limited that he could do little more than word processing and using email. With a lot of time, learning and work the site went online in January of 1999 with only Liquid Audio downloadable tracks and a dozen or so artists. A slow and steady development ensued thanks to a pooling of the design efforts of Frank Lamprea, Alison Chambers, Joseph Sabatella and Neil Schlossberg, the addition of inspired music by dozens of other like-minded independent artists, and the faithfulness of fans of great rock and pop music.

SlipstreamPresents.com is still growing.

press
Many kind things have been said of SlipstreamPresents.com and our music over the years by the press, for which we are very grateful. Links are provided below for the newspaper articles that can be read online.

City Link Magazine Best of 2000 Issue (scroll down the page): The Best of Beast & Company (our first collection of music by resident artists) named "Best Acoustic CD".

New Times: SlipstreamPresents.com releases Do Something: A Holiday Collection (classics and originals performed by resident artists) to benefit the Mentoring Resource Center.

Sun-Sentinel: General overview of SlipstreamPresents.com and review of 18 Great Songs from SlipstreamPresents.com (a compilation CD featuring 18 songs from 18 albums by 18 resident artists).

New Times (scroll down the page): Review of 18 Great Songs from SlipstreamPresents.com.