This is for DJs and EDM musicians.
not only…many style
Anyway… not my cup of tea
You have reason…Most dancing style
but there is ambiant/experimental also on beatport
From my point of view…Very very globally ‘easy listenning’
A ‘chill’ form…LO tempo
i don’t get why people are still so gung-ho about distrokid, as opposed to cdbaby.
there’s no monthly payments to keep your stuf online with cdbaby, yet people still keep with distrokid.
distrokid immediately destroys your music out of everywhere, if you miss a payment, yet people still choose it over cdbaby.
i simply just don’t get it.
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If money plays a role it’s much more expensive. 10€ per track or album, while distrokid is ~20-30€ per year.
i get it… pay monthly is preferred over pay once. yes, i felt it was pretty steep when cdbaby were still charging $49 per album and for single. compared to that, 10€ per album or track is pretty great. but i still like the “pay once, keep forever” as opposed to “don’t pay one monthly due to issues with creditcard, lose everything” aspect.
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I’ve bought all my CDBaby releases at $5 each when they have a sale, I have maybe 15 unused releases waiting.
I would only use Distrokid when I’m earning a decent amount where it can pay for itself, i certainly don’t and will have to be lucky to do I think, it’s for the 1% of us.
So you guys pay, pay more and continue paying. The question is: How much do you get in return?
Do you get more than you pay? How high is your profit in percent compared to your costs?
You could simply release your stuff on Bandcamp yourself. I wonder what’s the point of paying somebody for releasing elsewhere. So how’s your profit? How many percent for Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple music, Amazon etc.?
Imho that’s very reasonable. Are you planning to use SoundCloud as another distributor (You’re already paying SoundCloud, right?), or do you simply want to just upload your tracks?
Yes, I wanted to use Soundcloud as a distributor, cause I already pay for it. However it’s not usable imo because every track is a struggle. I earned ~8 € in one year on Spotify (with taxes I got around 3€) and had around 10-20 listeners. That’s not worth it. I don’t need the money, it’s more about fun.
When loading the track to any platform, Bandcamp is probably the best imo.
What you want to say is that ‘Bandcamp’ is better for pure indie !?
underground plateform
Bandcamp is uncomplicated and it took all my covers and my tracks without complaints. Soundcloud is kind of kafkaesque when the algo kicks in and I heard you have to wait > 2 weeks for email replies if you are lucky and they reply at all
I don’t know the reality of all this problem as I never released something…
But from the way you say…Effectively some barriers sometime…I believe you
The barriers has to be understood clearly
Mainstream can be a good conformance reference sometime
Put yourself in place of a children or an adolescent sometime
I wonder if SoundCloud distributes the original uploaded file or a file that was changed by them. I mean, the sound on SoundCloud sounds harsher, the values (like LUFS, TP etc.) are messed up every time, sometimes there are small glitches and overall everything’s worse than the original. I wouldn’t want SoundCloud to distribute shittier versions of my stuff. If it’s not the original version, then better forego spreading. Bandcamp says they’re not touching your file, they leave it as it is. I wonder if that’s true, but I will know as soon as I’ve uploaded some of my stuff. I think this will happen within this month. I’m about to drop an Electro album.
Idk, just try it out. I heard the same about Bandcamp. The internet says they don’t answer, and if they answer, it can take even years. Well, I didn’t expect anything when writing to Bandcamp, but I received a reply within 16 hours. So in my experience the reality is quite different to what has been written in the internet…
Here I have chosen the soundcloud version, but you can upload a separate wav file also.
Hör dir Red Fumes and Rituals von Lilith 93 an auf #SoundCloud
You never make “transition FX”
Should I?
I could be a sort of ‘air’ for you until you find the ultimate groove…maybe more revenues in this period
More mainstream compliance
Wonder if this is a good thing 
Be ‘magic’
If your tracks are more agreeable…We all win
Be creative in transitions…Keep your "secret recipes"
Mark the essential timings on a score