SITES FOR YOUR MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
MESSIAN DREAD REPORTS FOR STUDIO DUBROOM
WWW, July 2014 - During these last months, the Dubroom has been releasing new
original music in a new original sound. This music has been put on the Dubroom
website, and equally -without too much noise on the Dubroom about this- put on a
variety of sites that enable producers, artists and/or labels to present their
music online. Why? Just to see what these sites are doing in themselves for your
average online (DUB) Reggae artist. Messian Dread reports how over 10,000 of ads
on sites only led to 8 free downloads...
Let's call them free Online Music Distributors or OMD's for the sake of this
article, shall we? For that is what websites like SOUNDCLOUD, REVERBNATION and
others we're going to take a look at, actually do. You upload your MP3/WAV
file(s), some pictures and write a little bit of info and voila, there's your
page. Ready to be viewed by what many sites call "fans", your music
available for download and/or streaming and/or purchase.
This is exactly what I've been doing during these last months. I've been
uploading the new Dubroom music to a number of sites, just to see what would
happen. An experiment, of which some results are not yet available which in
itself makes a point. Yes, that first. There is no website that will instantly
give you "fans" or even views. You'll have to use the OMD's as part of
your own route, like they do with your music. You see them as distributor of
your music where they see you, us, as content provider for their websites.
Nothing wrong with that, but nothing to overlook either.
Indeed: gone are the days where just one website could boost an artist and
could even become a threat for established musical industrialists. Gone are the
days where you could reach out to that large audience by committing yourself to
one OMD. This here is a scattered Internet, where listeners have to look for the
good music using all kinds of websites and we, music creators, have to do the
same. We have to use all the websites or at least three or four, and we have to
have a website for ourselves as well. Even a facebook page won't do.
With all this in mind, I took a look at some websites. Just because I hadn't
released a track in years, even the websites where I already had an account
needed some serious work. It was kind of an opportunity to see the various
websites through the eyes of a new artist. Other websites needed me to make an
account, so there was my chance to get a quick discovery look at them. Here they
are, in a particular order:
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