Does Anyone Give A Shit About.......

[dirty_bass]

Found myspace very useful.
Get lots of gigs and contacts through it.
Found a lot of good music that way too, much better music than via the normal mediums, ie download sites, record shops.

Lastfm, I`ve never really looked at.

[detfella]

i love last.fm its a great way to log what music you listen to, find other people that like similar things and discover more music. i have some of my own music on last.fm but havent really explored promoting it, i dont have a myspace for my music, just a simple web page. i would go the last.fm route to share my music (+ personal website) of any of those just because i like its philosophy. though i've stopped sharing new music i make because there is enough already out there and realised i had been making music for other people rather than my own ears.

[lunatrick]

I think it's still worth having a website.....myspace is cool but these kind of social networking sites come and go....whereas I expect in 18 months time you'll still be out there? I know what you mean about html and all that - I guess you need somebosdy to create you a nice site that is easy to update..

I know it wasn't anything to do with music but anybody remember how popular friends renunited was? anybody still visit it now tho? not really.....and I imagine myspace wil be the same. personally it crashes my pc for some unknown reason and having music on each page annoys me when I might already be listening to some tunes.......but thats just me...

[APC]

Balls.

I am new to the techno buying game by a longshot; but, there is so much shite to wade through on all them Myspacedonalds. I would much rather a producer had the confidence to just release a tune straight out onto vinyl rather that pussyfoot about with "oh will it be a hit?". I don't know what my major problem is though, as new artists using things like MySpace are using something that puts them in touch with all sorts of people but i just don't like using it for that.

Have confidence in yourself people!

[Si the Sigh]

Myspace?

Myspaz more like.

Waste of time IMO.

"Ooh! Please be my friend"

Jog on -->

[davethedrummer]

i like the point about having confidence in yourself
i think i was kind of getting at that too in my post earlier but i didn't know how to say it.
basically everyone seems so wrapped up in "putting up the new tune", "arranging the photo album" , "sorting out the background" and adding various videos and widgets etc etc ...
that the music doesn't actually go anywhere
or at least it leaves you with a sense that somehow the music is not as important as the flashy myspace that it's being played on.
and it does seem to have an air of desperation about it too doesn't it?
" please please look at me ....am i cool to????......please tell me i'm ok !!"

so yeah....get it the music out...write new tracks...move on and sod everyone else's opinions?

maybe?

[xes]

I don't give a shit about any of those sites,but then I'm not a producer or promoter. So I'd only be there for the social aspects.

To be honest,I've been a little supprised over some of the people I've seen on myspace.(I've looked,but like you say,it takes feckin ages for a page to load) There're loads of well known techno producers on there. Don't do it man,keep some credibility!! It's just a big f*ck off advertising/data collection scam anyway :)

[113]

Update your site Henry please
It was always really cool to go there for me (better than this myspace thing).

But updating it is the most important thing when you have your own site!

On the other side...for people who don't know artist it is much more easier to find artist on myspace and hear his music.I bought many great records because i heard them on myspace first...

The best resolution for me is to have myspace (just basic info without flashing banners and all this visual stuff + www site with all important info).

Simple

[rhythmtech]

i like the point about having confidence in yourself
i think i was kind of getting at that too in my post earlier but i didn't know how to say it.
basically everyone seems so wrapped up in "putting up the new tune", "arranging the photo album" , "sorting out the background" and adding various videos and widgets etc etc ...
that the music doesn't actually go anywhere
or at least it leaves you with a sense that somehow the music is not as important as the flashy myspace that it's being played on.
and it does seem to have an air of desperation about it too doesn't it?
" please please look at me ....am i cool to????......please tell me i'm ok !!"

so yeah....get it the music out...write new tracks...move on and sod everyone else's opinions?

maybe?

exactly..i have a 2 colour page - 3 tunes - 3 pics and its not been updated in months












..... possibly out of pure laziness!!! :lol: :lol:


but seriously, as evil/useless/boring as people think it is, theres no denying that for a "non-established" or hobby producer its a great way to make contacts, especially as getting gigs away from home isnt as easy as it used to be cause promoters are afraid to lose money (props to those that do take the chance). we used to make contacts thru gigs.. nowadays thats not a huge option.

[Si the Sigh]

Update your site Henry please. It was always really cool to go there for me (better than this myspace thing).

Yes please, and I agree. ^

[fatcollective]

i think myspace is very useful. so far i have received some decent gigs and 2 releases on 2 very good labels which are due to be released very soon.

i have also got to know a lot of people that i would never get the chance to normally. so for me its been a pretty good promtional tool.

[rhythmtech]

i think myspace is very useful. so far i have received some decent gigs and 2 releases on 2 very good labels which are due to be released very soon.

i have also got to know a lot of people that i would never get the chance to normally. so for me its been a pretty good promtional tool.

good advertising for renting your ass out aswell ste...

[fatcollective]

good advertising for renting your ass out aswell ste...

you got issues with my ass aint ya....im gonna tell Melanie

[RDR]

Balls.

I am new to the techno buying game by a longshot; but, there is so much shite to wade through on all them Myspacedonalds. I would much rather a producer had the confidence to just release a tune straight out onto vinyl rather that pussyfoot about with "oh will it be a hit?". I don't know what my major problem is though, as new artists using things like MySpace are using something that puts them in touch with all sorts of people but i just don't like using it for that.

Have confidence in yourself people!

Confidence is one thing.

spending 2g on a release PLUS in an environment you're not sure about is something else all together.

Vinyl HELD back musical development in new artists IMO. And distros were un-interested in that development as well.

[koma]

The best resolution for me is to have myspace (just basic info without flashing banners and all this visual stuff + www site with all important info).

i really hate profiles on myspace, where people put dozens of videos and twice more flyers from their gigs. often they use png format, not something more suitable for web.

and that goddamn flash animations all over, duh...

but same goes for some normal webpages, some people dont know shit about web and just because lot of surfers have dsl or other fast connection, they think its ok to put megabytes of shit on the page. it simply doesnt work that way.

[rhythmtech]

Confidence is one thing.

spending 2g on a release PLUS in an environment you're not sure about is something else all together.

Vinyl HELD back musical development in new artists IMO. And distros were un-interested in that development as well.

[Martin Dust]

edited due to racist content.

Proper moan-a-thon but what the **** is this ^^^ sweeping racist generalisation?

[RDR]

Cant that racist comment get removed please?

[Si the Sigh]

Cant that racist comment get removed please?

Dan, should be able to remove it if he's online. Or Mark.

[clubsynthetic]

if you cannie afford a website. set up a myspace. It just makes promotion of youself/productions far more accessable.

forget the stigma. stick your choons up and let people listen.