I make pretty ok electronic music. I put it out on my own and release it to bandcamp along with all the other streaming services like Spotify/Apple Music/Tidal whatever. It's there.
I feel like my music is fairly decent. It's experimental, sure, it's a bit out there but I enjoy that when I listen to music. Would anyone listen to Aphex is he played it safe?
I guess what I'm getting to is how do people like Aphex and Brian Eno or an album like Earth 2 get in the spotlight even though these are all heavily experimental? I know for fact these people have nothing to do with PR or self promotion. I just don't understand how these people, even if widely ignored by most of society, go on to achieve the level of fame and success that they do have. You know...we've all heard of them here right? So that's something. All these artists are on essential charts a few times over.
I constantly battle with making my music more listenable or taking it somewhere far left of center and neither seems to make any difference. Do I just need to sink a shit ton of money into PR just so five people can listen to my music and like it?
>how do people like Aphex and Brian Eno or an album like Earth 2 get in the spotlight even though these are all heavily experimental? because they were innovative for their time
Levi Lewis
Sup. What software you make music with
Ryder Miller
This, they got big by attracting critical attention with innovation. People know who they are because of music critics. Having a label would be a good start, there's such a huge sea of self-released music nowadays that getting any nationwide attention is a matter of pure luck. If you were on a respected record label they'd take care of getting your music reviewed by critics.
William Hill
FL / Audacity / VDJ Mostly FL
Sebastian Sanders
>FL Ah, carry on then, there's no chance you're making anything worthwhile Don't get me started on the other two, while Audacity is actually an essential tool for many audio editing tasks it's not for making music
William Turner
I'm guessing you don't make music? They're just tools user, FL can do anything other DAWs can do. It comes down to the person using it.
Noah Smith
What do you use?
Nolan Fisher
That's pretty much what I use Audacity for. Mass normalizing predominantly because it's faster than doing it in Edison in FL. VDJ is simply for weird sounds and effects that I use sparingly if at all. I mean you're probably right though. It most likely isn't worthwhile.
Alexander Collins
-Continued- But it's the only way I can make music with the budget that I have.
