A significant role of the SoundCloud that I&#x27;m most familiar with is as a distribution platform for mixes and performances by musicians for whom the _sale_ of their music is not a significant revenue source; these performers (and I&#x27;m talking about dance music, in all its varieties) almost exclusively make their living performing live, and release mixes mostly as a sort of marketing.<p>This obviously isn&#x27;t the _only_ type of artist on SoundCloud, but they&#x27;re a huge part of what makes SoundCloud culturally significant.