Groovy! :3

I'm very much in love with this track. Please can it be available to buy somewhere 🥺
I promise to put it on a *REAL* mp3 player and listen to it in the car while I taxi my loved ones around all Christmas so they all feel compelled to do the same🙏

are aliens real? bestie idgaf peter thiel is real

Will it get someone to buy smth on bandcamp? I'm up to nearly 300 artists found through Orbit and only a handful use bandcamp. So, no.

But, the daily ritual of exploring, and sharing finds has got several friends crate diving alongside me, and also out to shows by the artists we've found!

Cons: The entire dataset is British, and submitted to traditional radio, so there's certain selection bias that means a lot of styles don't appear.

Pros: It's hand-selected by skilled, paid staff, constantly updating, with the option to access a truly random new selection of snippets at any time.

I've been enjoying BBC Orbit - www.bbc.co.uk/orbitmusic

It's a database of new music recommended by local presenters for national play through the BBC Introducing programme.
It just allows you to play snippets, and gives you the ability to reveal the identity of five pieces of music a day.

live version

this was the first time I'd done 2xLSDj on stage. The voice you can hear heckling is lilybellevedere of the Brizzle Boys.

#chiptune #chipsky #lsdj #gameboy

YESSSSSSS THIS GOES SO HARD :O :O

She’s literally right here we’re replying to her right now :P

I really respect how Pilot shares her comic ^ I’ve been following since not long after the beginning, and her marketing has always exemplified creativity, and what can be accomplished when you pay attention to what works well.

Yh when I see a tide rising I tend to look for whose money is behind it and what they hope to accomplish

Yeah it’s also like … art communities are so big and give so much to any curious newcomer, contributing back feels like the obvious thing to do.

A functioning gift economy truly is a magical thing ✨

Despite knowing nothing about you or your situation, I’m going to call you out on that.

I highly doubt ~you personally~ are forgettable. For everyone’s self esteem, might I pose that ~for reasons beyond your control~, ~content you posted~ ended up being forgotten?

Or even just “moved on from”.

I used to assume the same opinion, but I’m no longer super convinced by The Community™️ as a good long term strategy.

On one hand, I wasn’t there (I only learned to draw in 2019)
On the other, by your own admission it’s platform dependent, and artists whose audience is artists are a minority.

I guess I have two points there.
One is that there are different kinds of connection - I’ve spoken to so many unhappy fan artists with ambitions for success in original work who regret their life choices, which feels similar to your point.

But also artists can’t be your only audience?

He gives a mountain of practical advice, whereas I feel like I’ll die on much less helpful molehill of “look after yourself, be critical of people who tell you to work super hard, successfully marketing a brand new thing from scratch (which art always is) is a collective, collaborative effort”

I’ve been recommended it a few times, and I’ve had the sparknotes for sure. As I understand, his emphasis is on doing whatever builds long term meaningful connection - so, creating opportunities where attracting “shared influence” is likely, but not necessarily counting on it as a silver bullet?

I'm sorry this isn't especially actionable, but if it makes acting on any of the ~good advice~ you get any easier, or takes the edge off of any of the uncertainty I know this subject always gives me, I'll take that as a win 😅

Tech startups *live and breathe* on their press coverage. Specialist PR firms have been minted and textbooks have been written and sold on *every kind and phase of coverage that there is*.
If marketing makes you uncertain, frustrated or sad, or it feels like an uneven playing field ... *YES*