/musicprod/ - Music Production

Not sure if you all will like it, but I released a split yesterday, for Ukraine's freedom.

SLAVA UKRAYINI!

https://abyssaldarknessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/das-terras-da-nova-gal-cia

>>1170

Ukraine's freedom from who, the EU or Russia?

>>1422

It mostly comes down to marketing. Without a real crowd pleaser or live shows for exposure, you can't expect anyone tostumble upon your music for any reason besides chance, and if someone happens to stumble upon your music, you also have to take into account that they didn't do so because they like the genre necessarily. I listened to a couple of tracks (no time for more at the moment) and thought it was really cool despite the fact that I listen almost exclusively to punk, orchestral and ambient music. Your problem is marketing.

>>1423

I don't have a way to perform live short of just throwing them on a CD and pressing play, so that's my problem. I am legit thinking about making a tumblr page for my music, and interacting with random communities and dumping music on there. I dunno, maybe they'll treat it like other art and do commissions "lol make a theme for my OC fan character shit here's $20" and then I can just crank shit out while experimenting and working on my next album, and then promote there once I have a following and boom.

buuut it's tumblr, and that's probably instant suicide. considering how hyper-critical of tumblr I am I'll only end up with a niche of a niche. what else am I gonna do, go on youtube and be like "yo, random youtube channel, I'll make you a theme/BGM" I feel like there just isn't a market.

I keep feeling like the music market is over-saturated.

>>1424

It sure is over-saturated, and it isn't much of a "market" at all for most of us. Even successful underground bands struggle to live on music alone, and because most music being produced today is electronic, electronic artists have it even worse, unless you're pretty big. I don't know what to tell you except try to make music you could perform live somehow. Find a way to make the performance flashy and manual, like playing synths on a keyboard and looping it, make it obvious that you're pushing a "big, red button" to initiate some effect and such. If you do that, your first gigs will probably be DJ-ing gigs, so you'd have to write music that you could dance to and stuff. Easier said than done if that's not even your style. Besides that, your only option is to write very good music and read tutorials on marketing online.