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Guys, I've been listening to this on repeat and it's awesome. Definitely deserves more hype than this.

LOL!

man I'm tempted to release the album right now just to end the suspense but I'm gonna stay strong. goodnight y'all

that one time I played a chip DJ set at a basement party in Montclair, I went to Montreal the following weekend with some friends and just happened to run into a couple guys that were in the audience that night. They totally recognized me and were like, "hey, Decktonic! are you playing a show here in Montreal?" and I had to be like, "no sorry guys I'm a nobody I am just here for vacation"

it was kinda ca$h though.

oh, i just realized you were talking to auxcide and not me. oh well, i think the following still applies, kinda:

what I'm saying is that traffic from chip forums still makes up only a small fraction of the traffic to the actual release page, when you have other avenues of promotion. you can get a lot more from blogs that are relevant to your genre, or from a facebook page with a lot of fans.

and it helps to promote your release continuously for months, and follow up with more releases. in my case, it wasn't one of those flash-in-the-pan things where i had 200 downloads in the first week. i probably had 50 within the first month, and a steady trickle since then, with the biggest jump happening after the mention on create digital music.

anyway, just my $0.02 worth of advice.

there aren't many outlets for all this good chipmusic either... there's a few chip shows that are only able to book a fraction of all the great artists releasing music right now, there's a few radio shows, a few blogs, no podcasts, hardly any DJs taking this stuff to clubs, etc. etc.

the points have been made a few times on here, that chip musicians should send their stuff to blogs and other outlets outside the chip community (stuff that is genre specific, and don't bother telling them it's chipmusic, they don't care about that). it's good advice. i was able to get a lot of attention for my dark mode EP, which I released myself, considering it's pretty mediocre compared to a lot of other music I see on this forum. it was covered by some dance music and synth-nerd sites, and then got featured on create digital music, which was pretty cool. it's about to top 300 downloads, which is nice, and most of that was not from my handful of posts on chip forums.

along with that, it's essential to find gigs with non-chip acts, rather than just hoping your local monthly chip show will finally book you. to be honest, this is hard, but not impossible. it helps having friends who are making other kinds of music... it's all about networking. if they are getting shows and they like your stuff, they might invite you along.

all that being said, I think this is endemic of a lot of music these days, not just chipmusic. I see lots of great releases get some heat on the blogs and such for the first few weeks after they come out, and then so much new stuff comes along right away that it's all forgotten. it's just part of the reduced barrier to entry and the ubiquity of the web. record labels have dominated the major radio stations and distribution platforms for the sole purpose of extending the longevity of popular music, guaranteeing that the same handful of catchy songs are heard over and over for months, to maximize their profit... it's a lot easier than monetizing the long tail. living outside of that bubble, it's up to the artist to take their marketing into their own hands and keep pushing their best music, and build a dedicated fanbase that will continue supporting their work. sometimes that's more work than the actual music.

but some people just do this for fun and don't care to promote beyond the occasional forum post. to each his/her own.

sorry if this was tl/dr; just this is a topic I'm very interested in and I'm glad zzzb brought it up.