nah nothing technical, getting to grips with it. Just seems the drum beats I tap out on a table do not translate to the MPC pads. I’ll get there. Got to say though, I was layering pads last night and managed to accidentally create something rather ambient, shame I didn’t save it
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Xmas present to myself. Used West Pest, £155
Probably going to be for bass mainly. Started a dnb project with a mate so should be good for some sound design stuff, through some distortion pedals
Wow. Didn’t watch the whole vid but that thing looks fun and pretty versatile too.
Look forward to hearing the results.
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(Reluctantly) got back on insta for my musical doings.
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I seem to be the only person selling mpc system disks (floppys) in UK / Europe on ebay. Sold 2 today. Must have sold 20 or more total. £14 a pop. Unexpected side hussle.
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@jimvo
an unrelated Bandcamp question:
do you get stats on track listens if they’ve been bought and downloaded?
Erm… good question. You mean downloaded to the app, or logged in account. Youd think so. I’m saying yes you get stats on any plays on the platform but it doesn’t break down to that level of detail (preview plays v bought plays) just a number of plays
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thank you
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You got summat on there?
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naw, i’m just curious as to how it works.
the idea that artists could get specific details on their listeners, on what of their music is hitting, is rather nice
The skip rather than play all the way through stats are a bit off putting at first but I think that’s the same for everyone. I hadn’t actually checked the most played on bc before. This one below at a mere 2500.
Only 75,000 plays overall which would earn you about £200 on Spotify. If they pay out at all. They only pay out if you reach a certain number per quarter. Michael Fabricants. On Bandcamp it made £1800 through 1250 paid downloads and donations (priced at £1 an album).
While I’m on a stat binge, it’s weird how my stuff purely gets listeners in UK, Ireland (#1 location) then Europe and USA coasts. No USA in the middle, zero south America, Russia, Africa, zero Australia or NZ
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Yeah you get all sorts of stats. Bandcamp is a really good platform if you’re savvy. I am not so things stay dormant.
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In other geek news, NI has gone bust. Got to hurt if you’re invested in their software or dj stuff
@jimvo wow, thats rad.
i’ve got the Glytek Audio album 
@notactuallyhere
please post a link to your BC page
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Like I said, it’s dormant until I finish more music which I still make just feel weird about putting effort into releasing it into the void with zero promotion, because i’m awful at that stuff.
Similar to me and my GF’s project, we did this for some congress concert things and a handful of fun gigs then didn’t promote it. We’re hoping to change that this year though.
Nods to Anon and fam for featuring on this.
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I hardly got any listens, and no purchases for years, it only picked up a couple of years ago when I started putting stuff up monthly or bi monthly. And that was cos I had a big backlog of tunes I made during covid, which has run out now. If you don’t put out a lot regularly, everything drops to zero again.
Also the £1 thing worked, if you make it free 95% won’t pay anything, but stuff only gets shown in followers feeds if its paid.
As far as social media promotion I think its not actually very useful, people might like something but actually leaving Instagram or whatever and looking you up somewhere else just doesn’t happen much. But it can find the odd person so I do a little bit, just putting up clips of tracks occasionally
You probably don’t feel the need but there you go in case it’s useful in future.
Your stuff sounds interesting, a lot more original than mine but probably a harder sell
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@notactuallyhere
Murakami Sessions is wicked, somewhere between Lloyd Miller and 2562.
thank you
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That’s ace thanks. It was really fun to do. We have done another one based on the film Dogtooth as well but we haven’t gotten around to recording it properly yet. We played the Murakami one at an EMOM to see if it even worked and it was sureal. Everyone just being social but very quickly everyone was staring and deadly silent. By the end we had bunches of beardy blokes coming nearly crying saying it was transformative.
I wouldn’t have gone that far haha.
We really need to get back on this project asap.
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Not sure whether you’re replying to me or Smoke. If me then yeah, totally. I have just let it bury itself and didn’t push it at all. I am such a twat. Thanks and yeah my stuff is a hard sell, I mean I feel it’s pretty accesible melodic wise but it’s stuff you have to penetrate. It’s probably too busy to find it enjoyable on the first listen. Takes a few listens I reckon to get used to the ever changing noises. Weirdly, a few mates who don’t even like this music had randomly decided to persevere, maybe out of respect and somehow broke through and said they love it. Still not sure if lying ha.
It’s good on mushrooms too.
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