1,169 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

(189 replies, posted in General Discussion)

this is an interesting topic. i think my initial thoughts on this would be that most of this:

Decktonic wrote:

Basically, I want people to stop saying "Neil Voss does amazing things with LSDJ" and instead say "Neil Voss makes great music."

...would only be thought about by people 'in-scene'. And so it depends on your audience. For instance, we make pop-oriented music with vocals, so understandably many (if not most) of our fans are actually totally outside of the scene. Some have no idea there *is* a scene. When we have a show, I actually often have people (who are familiar with our music online, bought CDs, etc) come up and ask me "so what are you doing with the gameboy up there?"

So, while this may not be the case for everybody's music, I would suspect that if you are getting a bunch of downloads and successfully doing shows / touring / etc, most people are listening "because its great music" rather than because they hang out on 8bc/CM threads all day.

/2cents

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1,170 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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droid-on wrote:

lets play this in the meantime: http://armagetronad.net/downloads.php
smile


i played the shit out if armagetron! for like two years it was that only MMO that my shitty DSL connection could handle respectably, LOL.

hell yeah

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1,171 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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http://www.fantasyfest.net/photo-gallery/

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1,172 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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WavFace wrote:


here here here gosh

well i certainly hope you were driving while eating that dmg and taking that picture, because that is pretty dangerawesome

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1,173 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

(87 replies, posted in Past Events)

sweet lineup homies!!

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1,174 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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10k wrote:

Have a look at that board as well... not spot for a battery. Does anyone get what this means?

yes: MAGIC. a magic usb cart.

AND ABOUT DAMN TIME IF YOU ASK ME.

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1,175 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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Rei Yano wrote:

what problem do you have with the smartboy carts?

Interestingly, I had problems loading/flashing with the smartboy programmer! Error messages and upload cancellations and such. Nothing big, but I havent had any issues with other carts in this regard.

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1,176 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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guys, guys, the acceptable way to notify us that you are coming... is [computer music device] IN MOUF PIC

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1,177 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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i have a smartboy cart & transferrer, 3 old EMS and 3 BB carts (2 USB) which all work dazzlingly. I have had load troubles with 2 EMS64 USB carts (sold them both) and the smartboy cart, but the smartboy *transferrer* is MUST HAVE. The way i work now is ultra paranoid, so i basically have 3 main carts and 3 perpetually updated backup carts and multiple-redundancy SAV files... I love you smartboy transferrer.

/2 cents

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1,178 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

(265 replies, posted in General Discussion)

quite amusing ruse, chaps!

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1,179 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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Battle Lava wrote:

^10k? Wow.  You guys must have worked hard on getting your stuff out there? Or is this mostly thx to your FOX television appearance? Can you tell?

good question! surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly?) the fox news thing doesn't seem to be a factor in downloads beyond an initial 120-something download spike on that day... and to be honest, i get the impression that it was mostly from people in the chip scene checking it out. Also, the EP that was available then (leather daddies) was our least successful "actual release", so other than some pretty crazy experiences and some elevated visibility, nothing crazy (to my knowledge) has come from as a direct result of the appearance.

I have some observations and advice on marketing that sort of detail how we went about getting stuff that I'd be happy to share with people if they want to PM me, but i don't want to make a huge post about it!

[edited to remove a bunch of numbers]

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1,180 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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man, carls birthday party was so awesome

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1,181 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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these should totally be this years blip trading card. or if not, we could at least use them for ok cupid accounts!

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1,182 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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OH MAN OH MAN THIS THREAD IS SO GREAT!!!! i got pix tomorrow I promise

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1,183 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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I'd be really interested to know what the "top-selling" chiptune album is. I would assume that its something by anamanaguchi, but honestly I'm pretty damn impressed with Disasterpeace's Obsidian figures...  I've worked at a record label before, and sales numbers like that are good for well-funded college radio rock bands, not obscure electronic music sub-genre weirdos! But that album rules, so I'm really happy its being appreciated in a ca$h money $ense.


Now, I was initially thinking that posting download stats is kind of a weird, awkward thing, like hanging out in a gym locker room or something and no good could possibly come of it... but after reading through, its pretty cool and refreshing to be having this kind of honest discussion and I think everybody has something to gain from honest discourse about something we all wish for: our music to be heard and enjoyed by more damn people.

So chip-peen: BP is nearing 10k downloads total for the year (split between 2 EPs and a single), with about 400 "sales" (physical CDs + download cards + we sell some backcatalog EPs on bandcamp). Im not going to include youtube hits or lastfm plays or compilation tracks or anything like that. Im not saying that these methods are invalid, its just not something we focus on so including it seems disingenuous

tl;dr- this thread is going much better than I expected

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1,184 Reply by BR1GHT PR1MATE

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10k wrote:
trash80 wrote:

Someone needs to give me a reason to go to NYC

SOMEONE GIVE THIS MOTHERFUCKER A SHOW.

I NEED TO SEE THIS MAN PLAY.

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