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(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

pillow dance, loell, purple pond

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

As an artist:

1) Do you see any inherent worth to releasing your music through a netlabel?
yes. the bandcamp/twitter way of spreading music about doesn't really appeal to me much and netlabels are a good alternative imo

2) What are the three most important things you look for in a label?
good music, coolness of website, nice attitude

3) What are the top three labels on which you'd like to have your music and why?
*shrug*

4) What is the percentage of the money you think should go to the label?
money?? i dunno maybe it should all go to charity

5) What services should the label offer? (art, mastering, physical CDs etc etc)
arousing interest and hosting the thing online in a place where it might be somewhat visible for quite a long time are the main thing that i think netlabels are good for. i don't care about art, mastering or physical CDs for sure

6) Your feelings on exclusivity and copyrights?
fine whatever

As a customer

1) What, if any, influence does a label has on your purchasing habits?
i don't really buy music sorry

2) Do you prefer to buy directly from an artist, or through a label?
i don't really buy music sorry

3) What are you top three favorite labels and why?
so hard to answer but here is a random 3: kittenrock, chimera music, mp3death. they all have good functional websites and a distinct character and type of release that is not just "the least bad / most respected-in-the-detroit-metro-area lsdj musicians we could find" or whatever

4) What would you consider a appropriate price range for chiptune albums?
i don't think there is any particular reason why a chiptune album should cost less than any other album, but personally i won't pay money for them when there's so much good music available for free

5) Does the storefront (bandcamp, custom website, etc) influence your purchases?
i am not a fan of bandcamp, i don't think i much like netlabels that are just a bandcamp page or a page with links to bandcamp. also the harder it is to download the music the less likely i am to want to do it

6) Your opinion on physical copies? (cd, tape, vinyl, etc)
ok but unless the music is really good i won't bother. i have a goto80 cd and a zanzan cd but that's it

7) Your opinion on merch? (tshirts, stickers, garter belts, etc)
no opinion really, i won't buy it though

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(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

do you know what it actually is? there is not much info on the site

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(13 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

littlescale could make anything sound more superior

press ctrl-f12 a lot of times? there's nothing specific that needs to be done off the top of my head

this is the best aana release in yonks imo

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(39 replies, posted in General Discussion)

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(39 replies, posted in General Discussion)

it's fine, your mom is probably just worried you're going to use it to buy a chip maestro

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(41 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i don't think it is unreasonable to have higher expectations of famous people with record deals and big names and fact magazine articles about them than of random depressed teenagers who started making music 3 months ago

listen to loads of italo disco, ABBA, paula abdul and the top gun soundtrack

record some triad chords from the orchestra strings preset on your keyboard at 4000Hz quality and save them as COPYRIGHT ICEWOLF DO NOT STEAL.WAV

change your name to IceWolf^XFP^LRG^NRX^PTF^QNT

fair enough! i will probably download lots of things at once to save hassle, which is ok

i want to know what happened to the nice system where i could download the mp3 files by clicking on links to them without pretending i was paying for them and signing up for email confirmation!

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(44 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i'd be proud as heck of that song if i made it. it reminds me of failotron (was that the name) and also of minusbaby in a way. do a album m8

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(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

iiimaj7 downwards arpeggio every time

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(28 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Monotron wrote:

Guys, let's just make out

it's a good plan

chipmusic.org style!

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(44 replies, posted in General Discussion)

El Huesudo II wrote:

In that case, well... I can't guarantee 100% success yet because I'm merely starting to try it out, but keep a checklist of things you want to try to practice in a whole month. Yes, keep it to a month - you can even use a calendar. Divide your main goal in lots of VERY SMALL goals, and commit yourself to them in tiny timeslots (think 15 minutes); use as may days as you want for each mini-goal.

thumbs up to this, i do this one too and it works well