Soundcloud, Myspace and Facebook
There’s a lot of good music on Soundcloud these days, and it makes me wonder whether your average music lover is heading over there to listen to their favourite band and find their latest tracks, rather than going to Myspace. When I first started putting my own music online, it was Myspace where I got all the plays and all the messages from other musicians and potential fans. Now very few people play my tracks on Myspace, and I get all my comments and feedback on the tunes on Soundcloud, and all the chat and other interaction with listeners on Facebook.
I guess it’s that Facebook is so popular and pretty instantaneous that it’s more likely to attract people to comment on my music and the things I’m upto. Myspace just seems like a drag to get access to music these days. Although it’s been streamlined recently, with new themes and stuff like that, most of the band pages still take ages to load because they’re crammed with Youtube videos and silly little gadgets that you don’t really care about. No-one posts comments on there about my music anymore – they’re just posting links to their own new release. I don’t mind it when bands and artists I know quite well do that, but when people I ‘ve never heard of post links, I think twice about allowing the comments. Grumpy old me!
So, it looks like Facebook for interaction; Soundcloud for hosting my tunes, and Myspace for ‘erm…..
Talking of Soundcloud, I’m eternally grateful to the person or persons who are still playing my version of Happy Birthday. It’s had over 600 plays in 5 months, which isn’t a lot by most people’s standards, but it’s still a boost. The track that was featured by Future Music magazine in August, Half Past One, is also doing quite well too – over 200 plays so far and some great comments. Have a listen to Happy Birthday and Half Past One here if you’ve missed them…
I was planning to release a “mistrust remixes” EP this Autumn. Nothing major, just something on Bandcamp or somewhere, that would feature some of the remixes I’ve done for other people over the last couple of years. However, I’ve had to put the release back until early 2011, as Big Chill have released “Earplay: The Remixes”, by Animat, which happens to feature my remix of their track “Deep Space Lament”, so it’s not too disappointing after all! You can buy the EP on Amazon, iTunes, and loads of other places. You can play it here too….
Animat – Earplay:The Remixes by theonlym
Talking of Soundcloud, I don’t usually plug other people’s music on my own website, but I just thought I’d give a nod to a couple of people: someone who I’ve only recently “met” online, and someone who was a big help in giving me plug on the Electromancer music site when I first put my music on the internet. These are Steve Cooke and Tokyohunter, both of whom are well worth a listen…..
More mistrust news soon….
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