Music Update: 1st Single Out Now, New Music Coming Soon
Greetings, fellows and female fellows. I’ve been all over the place this month in Seattle, PhilIy and New York with little time for a formal blog post, so I thought I’d take a minute to update everyone on what’s happening with the release of my new material and upcoming EP. Right now I’m trying to deliver some new stuff to y’all free of charge (with option to donate). However, the music service I’ve established myself on, Bandcamp, is making this very difficult, as they’ve recently decided to start limiting and charging artists for free downloads.
Bandwidth is obviously a legitimate concern, but unfortunately, this sudden and poorly thought out paradigm shift to mandatory monetization has made me realize that using Bandcamp as a distribution platform (as snazzy as it is) will be virtually impossible for an EP release.
I’m currently finishing recording and looking into other options, but in the meantime, I’m going to be putting up the first of my two single (which is half of the micro CD I started selling at PAX) on Bandcamp for free. If the free downloads start to run out, I’ll switch to a ‘pay-what-you-want’ download, with a minimum price of however low they’ll let me go without needing to buy more free downloads. This was not my original plan, but I’ve chosen to do it at least for a little while I try to break even on the physical printing and figure out how to best deliver my stuff to y’all. Thanks for bearing with me.
Also, if you’re an artist and find yourself similarly perplexed by Bandcamp’s new model, fellow chiptune artist Christian Montoya has written a concise list of alternatives for Bandcamp users who want to offer their fans free music.
You can grab the new single below. PLEASE donate, if you can!
Download: Zen Albatross - Masada Gestalt (single)
Note: The audio in the Bandcamp stream is garbled for some reason, but don’t worry: the actual MP3 download is clean as a whistle. Please pardon the dust while I figure out what’s wrong with the stream.
