My EP released on iTunes today!

[Bastian]

And, NO, I will not tell you what "name" it is under or anything like that (I'm not here for advertising).

I'm freaking out. I'm excited, but also terrified. If it doesn't sell, then that means two years of hard work on only five songs was for nothing. :(

Anyone else here in a band or some such musical situation and has released something on iTunes or physically?

[Shlup]

*moves thread*

Uhm... My husband's band doesn't have anything on YouTube. They have an album almost done, but their manager fucked them over so it didn't get released. They have music on Facebook/MySpace/something else though. Their band is Blackbird Murder. I <3 them and not just 'cause the drummer is hot, I actually really like their music.

[Pete for President]

I'm curious about your music! Really understandable how exciting this must be for you!

In about two weeks my new project will go live. There will be no official releases yet, but to introduce ourselves to listeners, venues and record labels we will release our recordings, a music video and a website with a somewhat unique concept. Merchandise is on it's way aswell. It's quite awesome to see all those things come together.

There should be an official music artist thread to keep eachother updated.

Let us know how your EP's gonna do! Or PM me the name so I can find some info.

[Bunny]

Congratulations on your failure of a thread.

Also, why put quotes around name?

[Psychotic]

And, NO, I will not tell you what "name" it is under or anything like that (I'm not here for advertising).You're one of us! You're obviously not here just to advertise, so feel free to tell us what the name it is. It's cool, don't worry about it. :)

[Momiji]

Yeah, jeez-- what's the point of telling us that your band's EP released if we can't even check it out? :p

As for the topic, yeah, I wanted to be in a band. I think anyone with even a minimal grasp of musical theory wants to be involved with it in some way or another. However, I realized how irrational such a thing was for me, since I simply don't have the drive to commit to such things. Just another one of those 'could have been, but never will be' sort of things.

[Bastian]

*moves thread*

They have an album almost done, but their manager smurfed them over so it didn't get released.
That's awful. Managers can either be a godsend or a complete and utter hindrance. A friend's band had a REALLY successful first album but their manager fouled things up so bad that their second album barely got noticed. They had to fire her before the third album and just try to handle that stuff on their own.



In about two weeks my new project will go live. There will be no official releases yet, but to introduce ourselves to listeners, venues and record labels we will release our recordings, a music video and a website with a somewhat unique concept. Merchandise is on it's way aswell. It's quite awesome to see all those things come together.
Very exciting! It's awesome when it all starts coming together, yeah? It seems like you've been working on the music for so long that when it gets "birthed" out there in the world, it's amazingly exciting, but also terrifying! :P


Congratulations on your failure of a thread.
Thanks, Bunny!


Also, why put quotes around name?
Surely you mean: "Why put quotes around 'name'?"
I put quotes around "name" because it isn't my actual name.


Yeah, jeez-- what's the point of telling us that your band's EP released if we can't even check it out? :p
Honestly, it's less about how slimy it would be to be all "here it is! go buy my album now! do it!" but more that it is a very specific genre and it's not likely many people here (especially here) would appreciate it. :P

What instruments do you play, Momiji? It's never too late! :D

[Momiji]

If administrators are cool with it, I don't see why you're still holding back!

I used to play saxophone (selling it for college money now), and I started learning guitar, but stopped.

[Kirobaito]

I'm in the process of writing an album. I know the songs I want to be on it - I just haven't finished writing them yet. I spent an eternity writing songs, so it will be a while.

Not that I know what to do once I finish writing it, even if I'm able to record it.

[Bunny]

but more that it is a very specific genre and it's not likely many people here (especially here) would appreciate it. :P

god, i love when people post this egocentric drivel. post the name of your band or stop bragging about your CD that "nobody will probably like". you aren't an artist, get over yourself.

[guffman]

but more that it is a very specific genre and it's not likely many people here (especially here) would appreciate it. :P

god, i love when people post this egocentric drivel. post the name of your band or stop bragging about your CD that "nobody will probably like". you aren't an artist, get over yourself.

hahahaha HERE HERE! go ahead and post the name of your "band" dont worry i wont bring down your super indie image by checking you out. Stay underground and misunderstood guy. :|

[Bastian]

but more that it is a very specific genre and it's not likely many people here (especially here) would appreciate it. :P

god, i love when people post this egocentric drivel.
I find what you wrote offensive. I don't see how I'm being egocentric when I'm just sharing the thrill and the dread that comes with completing a project.


post the name of your band or stop bragging about your CD Well, first of of, it's not a band; it's just me. And second of all, I'm not here to promote myself. And third of all, I sincerely don't think many people here would enjoy the genre, so why would I make that sort of information available? The point of this thread was just about the excitement and the scariness of finally releasing something and seeing if anyone else experienced something similar or were involved in music in any way as well.


you aren't an artist, get over yourself.
Why are you so negative?



dont worry i wont bring down your super indie image by checking you out. Stay underground and misunderstood guy. :|
Ah, you misunderstand. But I can see why. The genre isn't indierock, and by no means "underground." I am not trying to protect any sort of i"ndie image." On the contrary. :)

But again, that wasn't my aim for this thread.

[Rostum]

That's cool dude, hope you do well. We just had an iPhone game released on iTunes and it got into the top 10 in Australia and Italy. :)

Anyway, something more relevant; I play guitar and have been in a few bands. We had recorded a few songs but nothing ever came of it. So yeah, good luck.

:D

[Loony BoB]

Bunny, don't be a dick. You can use a bit more tact than that at the very least. I know you have the brainpower for it. Don't slag people off for such stupid reasons as not letting you know the name of their band or whatever. Really, now.

Bastian, is there any reason you don't want to let us listen to your music? Isn't that kind of a negative approach? I'm sure that there are some people here who might enjoy the kind of music you make, otherwise you wouldn't be making it. EoFF has a very broad group of people. Sure, not everyone will like it, but that's life and that's music. If you have another reason behind not letting us know, by all means, let us know the reason at least! Maybe you'll get some sales out of it. :)

Speaking of which: I hope you get some sales! It's great that you've made something and you should be proud of yourself regardless of how many or how little you get out of it. I very much enjoy it when my projects are complete, although it is a rare thing to happen!

[Aydin]

That is so super cool! I'll support you (if I can ever pay off my 50 dollar Itunes debt)! Where on iTunes can I find you??

[Old Manus]

It's probably Goregrind or something

[The Shoeless Hobo]

You're a tool. If you told me your band I would have bought it. That was before i realised your toolishness.

[Aydin]

You're a tool. If you told me your band I would have bought it. That was before i realised your toolishness.

Sheesh... Everyone is sooo mean. :(

[Rantz]

Enough with the personal attacks.

[Bastian]

Bastian, is there any reason you don't want to let us listen to your music? Isn't that kind of a negative approach?
Honestly, yes. While I usually enjoy the snarky mocking attitude we engage in on EoFF, I wasn't so keen on having something that took me more than two years to finish mocked, so I wanted to keep the actual music private. But I did want to discuss with others about recording and releasing music. I just didn't want any attacks on my music, especially since the genre is so easily mocked. :P New Age.

And judging my most of the response, it looks like I made the right choice. I probably shouldn't have posted this thread at all.

But thanks for the kind words Loony BoB. :)


I'm in the process of writing an album. I know the songs I want to be on it - I just haven't finished writing them yet. I spent an eternity writing songs, so it will be a while.
The process of writing is probably my favorite part of the whole thing. That's awesome that you already have planned which songs you want to be on it, though!


That's cool dude, hope you do well. We just had an iPhone game released on iTunes and it got into the top 10 in Australia and Italy. :)
Wow! Top ten is awesome. What sort of game is it?


That is so super cool! I'll support you (if I can ever pay off my 50 dollar Itunes debt)! Where on iTunes can I find you??
Yikes! I didn't even know that iTunes debt was possible! :P $50 is a lot.


It's probably Goregrind or something
Close, Old Manus. Very close. It's New Age. :p

[Loony BoB]

I wish I knew what all these new age genres were. Like New Age.

[Aurey]

Genres are so wide, it's just too confusing for me to use/refer to. But according to wikipedia, artists that have fallen under the "new age" category include Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, and John Fahey. Huh. Not very frightening to me. But I suppose this is eoff and I understand your apprehension. Congrats to you anyway.

[Goldenboko]

Congrats and good luck future superstar :cool:



And, NO, I will not tell you what "name" it is under or anything like that (I'm not here for advertising).You're one of us! You're obviously not here just to advertise, so feel free to tell us what the name it is. It's cool, don't worry about it. :)

One of us, one of us, one of us.

[Rostum]

Wow! Top ten is awesome. What sort of game is it?

It's called Train Conductor if you're interested to see it (I was one of two artists).

By any chance can you tell us how you've gone now that a few days have passed? As in any reviews you are getting?

[Slothy]

Bastian, is there any reason you don't want to let us listen to your music? Isn't that kind of a negative approach?
Honestly, yes. While I usually enjoy the snarky mocking attitude we engage in on EoFF, I wasn't so keen on having something that took me more than two years to finish mocked, so I wanted to keep the actual music private. But I did want to discuss with others about recording and releasing music. I just didn't want any attacks on my music, especially since the genre is so easily mocked. :P New Age.

And judging my most of the response, it looks like I made the right choice. I probably shouldn't have posted this thread at all.

But thanks for the kind words Loony BoB. :)

I would give the community here more credit and say that I doubt they would mock your music. You might find some constructive criticism from those who are interested, or a "it's not my taste but congratulations," from those that aren't interested in the style but mocking? Have a little more faith in the people around here, and some more faith in your own music for that matter. If you can't handle even some well intentioned criticism than you shouldn't put your music out there at all.

And you're surprised some people have made joking comments about you making a thread saying you released an EP and not giving the information needed to download it? Not only should you have seen it coming a mile away, it's certainly not an indication that people will mock what you made. Have a little more confidence in your abilities. And even if someone did mock it, if you're happy with what you did then I fail to see why some comments from random people on an internet forum would bother you. You can't please everyone with your music, so as long as you're proud of it that is the only thing that matters.

[Bastian]

I would give the community here more credit and say that I doubt they would mock your music.
Have you not read this thread? :P


You might find some constructive criticism from those who are interested,
I'm not really looking for that here. It's perfect. :P

Seriously, I must have done a horrible job at describing what the point of this thread was to have been. I wanted a discussion amongst people who have released their music publicly about the contradicting emotions that surround it. I didn't want a thread where people could listen to my music and post niceties. THAT would be egocentric. Something I feel I was unjustly accused of by bunny.


or a "it's not my taste but congratulations," from those that aren't interested in the style but mocking?
Yes. Down right rude insults were posted on this thread, so I would expect nothing less should I have actually posted links to iTunes.


and some more faith in your own music for that matter.
Eh, you misunderstand me. I have complete faith in my music . . . verging on arrogance. I simply don't want to have Bunny or people like him posting oh-so-clever insults about it.


If you can't handle even some well intentioned criticism than you shouldn't put your music out there at all.
Again, I think you misunderstood the purpose of this thread. I'm not looking for critique on my music here, well-intentioned or otherwise. Honestly, I'm not looking for critique on my my music at all anywhere, least of all here. I'm not belittling this forum, but it's a Final Fantasy forum, not a New Age composers forum.


And you're surprised some people have made joking comments
Um, I don't know which comments YOU read, but I didn't read many jokes. I read insults. I'm not sure how "you are a tool" or "egocentric drivel" or "get over yourself" can be construed as jokes.


about you making a thread saying you released an EP and not giving the information needed to download it?
Again, I thought I set up pretty clearly in my first post that this thread was to have nothing to do with the music specifically, but about the process and the emotions in the process and for other musicians to discuss their similar situations. Apparently I hadn't made that clear.


You can't please everyone with your music, so as long as you're proud of it that is the only thing that matters.
On that we can agree. That's WHY I didn't provide links (well, amongst other reasons) . . . because I'm NOT here to get people's opinions. Had I provided links it would have been pages of "yay, good job!" and "new age is lameorama" and such. I'm not interested in that. I wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process of releasing.

My apologies to everyone if it came off as bragging or as if I wanted a thread all about me and people congratulating me for releasing stuff or whatever . . . nothing could be farther from the truth. I just wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process and emotion of releasing music.

[demondude]

I managed to find it, and it's pretty good.

[Slothy]

And you're surprised some people have made joking comments
Um, I don't know which comments YOU read, but I didn't read many jokes. I read insults. I'm not sure how "you are a tool" or "egocentric drivel" or "get over yourself" can be construed as jokes.

Some of them may have overreacted slightly and came off as too rude, but I think they were just poking fun at how your post came off sounding, which was kind of arrogant to be honest even if it wasn't your intention. As far as the "you are a tool" comment, I'm not sure how that post couldn't have come off as a joke. I really didn't see it as them trying to be mean as much as make fun of how you came off sounding. But then so much is lost in translation over the internet. I just know that if I said that in person in response to your posts I would mean for it to come off as being pretty tongue in cheek.



You can't please everyone with your music, so as long as you're proud of it that is the only thing that matters.
On that we can agree. That's WHY I didn't provide links (well, amongst other reasons) . . . because I'm NOT here to get people's opinions. Had I provided links it would have been pages of "yay, good job!" and "new age is lameorama" and such. I'm not interested in that. I wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process of releasing.

My apologies to everyone if it came off as bragging or as if I wanted a thread all about me and people congratulating me for releasing stuff or whatever . . . nothing could be farther from the truth. I just wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process and emotion of releasing music.

I fully understand your intention with the thread, but why can't we have both? You've had other people ask for the music and congratulate you on releasing something, while partaking in the topic at hand so I don't see where the problem is. Especially when you consider that some people aren't musicians but may come into the thread being interested in hearing not only what you released but what other members have out there. I fail to see why you think you can't share your music and have the discussion you want, or why you are so surprised that people could be interested in hearing your EP as soon as you mention you released one.

Nobody thought you were bragging or wanted a thread just to congratulate you (or if they did they certainly know that's not the case now). People just want to genuinely check out your stuff and support you, which is precisely the opposite of wanting to make fun of your music.


Anyway, as for the topic you wanted to discuss, I was only ever involved in a small way with the creation and release of an album at OCReMix. It wasn't officially released as an OCR project (since it wasn't) but remixer bLiNd was quite ill at the time (about a year and a half ago) and the idea was started to make an album of remixes based on Super Metroid, his favourite game, as sort of a get well present. Despite having about a month before submissions had to be in, I had about a week before I left town for a month long course so I busted my ass to hammer out my first remix I'd ever done in a much smaller amount of time than I usually take for a song. I tend to write bits at a time and tweek and agonize and revise over a few weeks at least, so I won't say it's my best work ever, but I think it was pretty good for being done so fast, while learning to use a new DAW and working outside of my comfort zone. I'll always be proud to be a part of that album just because of the intention behind it and because bLiNd is a cool guy and a great artist.

The album name was Reserve Tank: VARIAtions for those who haven't seen it and you can download it here if you're so inclined, and I recommend it since there are a lot of great songs on it (far better than my contribution): Reserve Tank - VARIAtions (http://reservetank.darkesword.com/)

Aside from that I haven't released anything. I have some stuff sitting finished and that I'm working on that will be part of various game soundtracks, but they are far from release yet.

[theundeadhero]

Good luck! I hope it does well. Sorry so many people here are being huge douchebags about it. It makes me want to swing the ban hammer.

[Shiny]

Bastian, is there any reason you don't want to let us listen to your music? Isn't that kind of a negative approach?
Honestly, yes. While I usually enjoy the snarky mocking attitude we engage in on EoFF, I wasn't so keen on having something that took me more than two years to finish mocked, so I wanted to keep the actual music private. But I did want to discuss with others about recording and releasing music. I just didn't want any attacks on my music, especially since the genre is so easily mocked. :P New Age.

You should really get used to people criticizing your music. And you honestly don't know everyone would have taken to your music had you posted it, but I respect your decision either way. :cool:

I don't record albums, but I've worked with people who are independent musicians or currently signed to a label. Making music videos and things like that.

[Bastian]

I really didn't see it as them trying to be mean as much as make fun of how you came off sounding.
Via pm one of them verified it was not a joke. Let's just leave this subtopic along, shall we?


I fully understand your intention with the thread, but why can't we have both?
Well, that's up to you or someone else, but I'm not interested in participating in such a thread. :P I just wanted to talk about the process. But you lot can start your own thread critiquing it all you want, but I won't be reading it; I'm not interested in that.


I fail to see why you think you can't share your music and have the discussion you want, or why you are so surprised that people could be interested in hearing your EP as soon as you mention you released one.
Let's just say it's very easily findable, and if people are so inclined they can do so. But I'm not interested in discussing it specifically.


People just want to genuinely check out your stuff and support you, which is precisely the opposite of wanting to make fun of your music.
While that may be true for most members, some want nothing more than to make fun of anything, in as base a way as they can, and I didn't want to provide anyone with th

[guffman]

this is the last thing i will say on this thread, everyone just shut up. if you dont want to tell us the name of your solo project than, smurf it, dont. just know that a lot of people will find you pretentious for doing so. now, he said the idea of the topic was to discuss people's feelings on releasing :bou::bou::bou::bou: into the media. now, discuss. if you wish. but i do not, i'm going to bed. it's like just after three here, :p

[I Took the Red Pill]

Congrats man, that's awesome. Best of luck with your musical endeavors :up: