getting stuff reviewed (Page 1 of 5)

I disagree with this! Get on stage man!

in my decade-long career of putting out music and pushing it as best i can, i have got to say, this is the #1 hardest thing. from what i can see, it has nothing at all to do with the quality of the music. ask kaneel about how hard it is to get simple blog reviews of an admittedly fantastic album. it seems like what's lacking here is a pool of writers who have a passion for the material - in essence, proto-music journalists who are more inclined to expound on the virtues of sound art than seek a promotion towards a paid writing position at a hypemachine-focused blog which places adsense dollars and distro feature placement payola above actual music journalism.

...i guess you can say this topic makes me angry, a bit.

Shot videos of yourself playing. But good and well-produced music videos, not shitty ones with the laptop camera and external audio.
Make an image to sell, you have to enter to the market, make people notice you. Contact designers and people that can make that for you, but under your specifications.
PLAY LIVE. No matter how, that's the best publicity, if people don't hear you, they won't see you either, not talking about them to write about you. Play as live as you can. You have some friends on a semi-pro electro rock band? Ask them if you can open their show, do something.
Imagery is like 70% of the music industry these days. Most of the people won't even notice the music, they'll know you because of your DMGs and awkward sound.

Assuming this isn't just a troll, I am going to take a more serious swing at this and PLEASE don't think I am trying to be negative here but you did ask.

1 - You seem to be going out of your way to keep your self anonymous, this isn't really conducive to serious blogs going out of their way to review you. Also you seem to do it in kind of a petty / silly fashion for example. In your cm.org profile:

"no more uploads to 8bc or chipmusic. try and find me =F"

and your about page is absolutely content free, beginning with the rather off putting

"Zan-zan-zawa-veia is a one jerk chiptune project"

Lets compare another site by someone with a recent good album. I can find out Kaneel's name, general location, music history in under two minutes and use this as a basis for an article.

Reviews are partly going to be a critique of your music and partly an introduction to you as a musician. Pretending to be Banksy doesn't make you more appealing, just more work for a potential reviewer when there are acres of chipmusicans who have all this information readily available.

2 - Your online presence is badly organised. for example

- Your website doesn't link to your bandcamp page
- your website and cm.org profile both link to a dead twitter account.
- Your current twitter http://twitter.com/#!/zanzanzawaveia isn't linked to by anything and has (I assume) a fake name and location on it.
- Your website looks awful, but judging by your EP covers you have contacts with some good graphics people.

3 - You don't play live, this isn't essential but it does drastically reduce the amount of exposure you get. Trust me if people will watch 2 1/2 hours of the Mars Volta they will watch 1/2 an hour of you.

So I think in conclusion, if you want to be reviewed more often present a much more coherent and professional front to the media, play a few shows and put up some personal information for reviews to use as a basis for article. Hope that helps!

You could always make some sickeningly uplifting music and maybe Feryl will review it.

You might even get into the 8bc charts if you compromise your artisic vision in order to appeal to a larger audience but then you would cease to be an artist.

Last edited by Jellica (Nov 4, 2011 9:23 am)

Fair enough, but that's exactly the kind of site that is needed.