Posts by Dastardly Bounder
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Superstar Economy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sweet as Russell, I always appreciate your support...
And I think David Slevin is correct - curated music is the was I discover new tunes too. I maintain a list of relevant music blogs (www.fatberris.com is a fav) then follow artists on facebook (like trentmoller or lulurouge - who are on fatberris) and soundcloud, which often leads to supporting those artists on Bandcamp.
The artist has to be awesome though and to have proved their worth by giving me free tunes to hook me in, and then I'll buy something. I do the same thing; I'm basically giving away a tune a week in the hope that when I release my next album a small percent of those people who like what I do will share the love and pay a stipend.
Quite a convoluted path for the indy producer...
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As a producer unaffiliated with any labels I'm using the triumvirate of Souncloud-Bandcamp-Facebook to publish, publicise and moneterise my music. Unfortunatley 23 million bedroom producers and bands are doing the same thing, making it a very cluttered space. It's no suprise to me that the super-tzars with the backing of the media machine are still taking the lions share.
Small time bedroom producers and local bands are still in the same position they've always been in, and often need another organisation to create some leverage and visibility into the music market.
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Hard News: Oh, Auckland, in reply to Russell Brown,
excellent piece of infrastructure that was
My daughters were over the moon “we dont have to worry about cars”. More please Auckland Transport, NZTA.
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We had a quiet weekend, except for a bike ride along the SH16 cycle path to Phoenix festival. I was impressed by the crowd turnout, the awesome dry ice icecreams and like Russel the Rocksteady cover. Congratulations are due to Phoenix and the organiser Reece Jensen for a great free event - long may it last.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Both sides of…, in reply to Dastardly Bounder,
and a +1 also
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Hard News: Friday Music: Both sides of…, in reply to davesparks,
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
In those 'DJ like no one else is listening' moments can come subconscious pure genious. I'd love to see a track list for one of these sets.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Both sides of…, in reply to Dastardly Bounder,
The initial link wasnt working. A gallery of Michael's work: http://michael-day.deviantart.com/gallery/45983998
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Thanks for posting my tune Russel, and I must commend you on choosing one of West Coast Fruit's tunes. The fellow responsibel for the sonic crafting also makes amazing collectable robots. Check this one out as a great example of his style:
http://michael-day.deviantart.com/art/pOt-BelLy-The-r03Ot-402248796
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Hard News: Friday Music: Cinema 'Tron, in reply to bob daktari,
and I should have read Bob's most recent post too...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Cinema 'Tron, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's actually pretty hard to get a good clean recoding of cicada, without it sounding white noise. However I'm willing to give it another crack! Anyone with a good cicada sample please let me know...
