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pyw fagit

>>50926095
congratulations, where did you start releasing ur music? on soundcloud or youtubetc?

What type of music?

>>50926095
Did you have any musical training before then? What genre?

>>50926095
grats anon, post your work! also BTC & index funds are unironically the best "set it and forget it" investments

>>50926119
Soundcloud only at first, now basically everything. Getting almost 50% of my plays from Spotify.
>>50926129
Modern hard techno.
>>50926152
No prior music training, just love for it.

Congrats anon YGMI

Hi, is this FILMAKER?

That's great anon, I hope you make it. Is it true that the only money in music is in merch now?

>>50926222
Checked
Love these OP
Godspeed and keep it up

>>50926222
>Is it true that the only money in music is in merch now?
Streaming revenue is really fucking low. In May my music was streamed about 75k times and I got paid just ~120€ for that. However, having popular tracks helps to score gigs. My last one paid 750€ + flight/hotel for 2 hours of playing.

>>50926341
Wow that's awesome. Since it's digital how do you "play" it live? Like, just use Ableton Live and some gear so you can play with it a little bit while it kinda runs on its own?
I hope this doesn't come across condescending, I truly don't know how it works but I like some electronic music like Madeon.

>>50926341
Do you have to pay taxes if you make money from streaming?

you ready to become a martyr?

>>50926200
careful OP don't answer that or you will be cancelled by Mr. Shekelstein and his niggers and sodomites. And congratulations.

>>50926095
Congrats, fren!

>>50926168
who are some stylistic contemporaries of yours if you dont want to post your work?

>>50926095
congrats anon

>>50926370
>do you have to pay taxes if you make money?

>>50926222
Always been that way. If you sign to a lwgit label, you get like 10% royalties. You make all your money from touring, and some from merch

>>50926361
I do hybrid sets, meaning I do a mix between DJing and performing live. Set-up is a macbook + Rytm MK2 right now.
>>50926370
Probably won't have to do so for this year under my countries tax laws, but next for sure but I'll just keep buying gear to write off as much as I can.
>>50926375
No intentions of doxxing myself. Would be retarded.
>>50926407
Not exactly my sub-genre but a good starting point for modern techno in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSkun1wICSc

>>50926370
Not if he sold the his music/trademarks to an offshore company owned by a trust, whose trustee are also conveniently located elsewhere.

>>50926095
congrats anon. always comfy to make it in some form

>>50926462
>If you sign to a lwgit label, you get like 10% royalties.
You actually get more. The current standard is 50% of streaming and sales revenue - expenses for promo and mastering and some contracts even run out after 3-5 years, meaning you get 100% after that. The problem is that soundcloud and spotify are paying fuck all while making billions.

How did you get labels to notice you?
Any advice to promote yourself on Spotify and SoundCloud?
The t-shirts are you selling them from your website? How did you direct traffic there?
Thanks

>>50926472
thanks for the reference. kinda gross that this driving gabber vibe is back. i had hoped the brutalismus 3000 hype would die off. happy you made it though, well done

>>50926095
>On a slightly related note, what do you think are good "put money in and forget it" kinda investments?
Assuming this isn't just a "appreciate me" brag-thread and you actually want this answered, I would recommend dollar cost averaging some money into ETH+MATIC every month. And hold it for at least 3 years without touching it.

>>50926532
>The problem is that soundcloud and spotify are paying fuck all while making billions.
The whole "content creation" thing is a good mine for the platform owners. Definitely be proactive about leveraging your success to create other revenue streams.

>>50926095
Post link or screencap OP, I am curious. Congrats btw

>>50926095
i'm genuinely interested in the music but that would probably dox you, what about uploading a track to a filehosting and then deleting the file after the thread is dead?

>>50926609
>How did you get labels to notice you?
Only had to contact a label for my first deal, after that they approached me.
>Any advice to promote yourself on Spotify and SoundCloud?
Focus on making high quality music and regular uploads. I've put out 1 track per month for the past 2 years. Don't fall for scams that charge money or shill yourself too hard.
The t-shirts are you selling them from your website?
Bandcamp, insta, captured emails.
>>50926611
Okay, Kobo is pretty normalfag-ish but I thought it would be a better fit for here. This is more my jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRoIVvvE7IU
>>50926627
Isn't matic and "eth killer"? Seems weird to invest in both. Thoughts?
>>50926628
>Definitely be proactive about leveraging your success to create other revenue streams.
On it.

>>50926751
The yt video in this post is very close to my style. 6ejou is one of the main artists that pops up in my "similar artists" tabs. >>50926753

>>50926753
>Isn't matic and "eth killer"? Seems weird to invest in both. Thoughts?
No, it's the opposite. Unlike other chains like SOL, matic positions themselves not as competition to eth, but as a supplement to eth, to help it scale. They are also developing key scaling tech for ethereum, such as the polygon zkEVM, built on zero knowledge proofs. DYOR.

>>50926892
>DYOR
Yeah, I'll do that. ETH is one of my main holdings, but I've never really looked into Matic. Thanks anon.

>>50926095
congrats and fuck you.
>put money in and forget it
stock ETFs, XMR, silver

>>50926920
>Yeah, I'll do that. ETH is one of my main holdings, but I've never really looked into Matic. Thanks anon.
No problem. As a side-note, I genuinely don't understand how you can listen to that crap. I went to some industrial techno shows while abroad, and it's literally just loud four-on-the-floor drums for hours. Also the crowds look like shit, and they're all drugged up and unkempt. I can understand tech house or deep house, but I refuse to believe that you can enjoy that industrial crap without being on ketamine or other crystalline drugs.

>>50926991
That being said, Evian Christ was good

>>50926095
>>50926168
>refuses to post his music
Go be a lying sack of shit somewhere else.

wow there is almost 600 euros of sales on this screenshot

it's not like you could do that in 24 hours buying BTC

fucking loser

>>50926991
>>50927015
I totally get why people would dislike it, but I love it. To each their own I guess.
>and they're all drugged up and unkempt
Well, that's just the nature of things. At a metal concert people are drunk and unkempt and at a hip hop concert then are stoned an unkempt.
>>50927042
Literally nothing to gain from doing so. Hide the thread instead of replying if it bothers you, newfag.

>>50927129
>it's not like you could do that in 24 hours buying BTC
Difference being that my sales don't have the chance to flip tomorrow.
>fucking loser
I somehow really doubt that you can consistently make 600 bucks per day, yet get triggered by me selling a bunch of shirts.

>>50927232
thank god i made way more than 600 euros per day on average during 2021

where do you think you are here? reddit?

kys loser

>>50927261
>thank god i made way more than 600 euros per day on average during 2021
How can you make this much money, yet still SEETHE at my comparably tiny success? Doesn't add up to me.
>where do you think you are here? reddit?
Judging by your post formatting that's where you think you are.

index funds 100% (as long as you are in it for the really long term 10+ years)

my father has over 500k in one of his 401k's just by contributing a small percentage of his check in his old accountant job, compound interest is no joke

>>50926753
brutal. reminds me of late 90s early 2000s. where's minimal at these days, like HATE or polegroup adjacent sounds?

>>50926095
good job anon. would be cool if i could capture the old school trance sound. will never attempt though.

>>50927232
>Difference being that my sales don't have the chance to flip tomorrow.
Yeah but EDM is a play once and done genre with no loyal fans, even in techno lol. I mean if you can get a residence at some nightclub in amsterdam that would be bad i guess.

>>50926095
Hell yeah man, happy for you. Keep up the good work, hope you make it big big someday

>>50926375
why would anybody care?

>>50926095
Gj anon, living the dream. Definitely invest, unless you're extremely talented and trend setting, you'll likely be out of a profitable job within a few years. As an older millennial, I have quite a few friends who had legitimate careers in music or entertainment that eventually fizzlee out and left them high and dry. They end up doing shit like teaching theater at the local community college, or teaching music, or working some hum drum corporate job that's adjacent to their former industry. They could have retired easily if they just funneled their money away but they blew it all and let literally millions slip through their hands and before they knew it, no one cared about their nu-metal/metal+rap hybrid/dubstep schtick.

Absolutely based OP, please keep us updated with finances, I'm sure the few independent dreaming poorfag music artists on /biz/ will appreciate the insight.

For bookings does it go through your label or your agent or you directly? How did the first gigs come about, did you have to negotiate for the price, where you paid anything upfront etc

>>50926753
good shit (2 mins in). I wonder where the opening audio came from.
Any recommendations for good music documentaries?
I liked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLlVVKRwk0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gzwTgXrvk
grats on your passive income

>>50926095
>hype labels
what are they?

>>50926095
Congratulations on your success, man

>>50926753
Nice link. You have good taste. Congratulations on getting some recognition for yourself too

>>50926472
some of tha tstuff reminds of me of 2007 peak Adam Beyer. Ahhhhhh man the times

>>50926341
I like you op, you're not larping and seem down to earth. Congrats and good luck in the future

>>50926095
can you give us your soundcloud? i want to check your music out

>>50926095
>what do you think are good "put money in and forget it" kinda investments?
bitcoin, bnb, eth sit on them for a few years until next btc halvening occurs then sell some the crypto market will probably be 4-5 trillion by then

well are you gonna show us the shirt or not fuck sakes

>>50926095
Anon give me a link
And what software you use?

>>50926991
>>50927136
It's demonic globohomo music, so it's subsidized, as in they throw black hole money at it, starting from venues to "DJs" to marketing and everywhere in between.

Love hearing of your success anon. Living the dream pal. Been djing myself for years and always fancied making some tunes and getting something released. This has inspired me to pull my finger out.

Oh and buy some TSUKA. It really is Ryoshi, don't listen to what any naysayers say. It's going to a multi billion dollar market cap very soon.

>>50926095
Based
I love hearing success stories and closer to setting up my side hustle every day alongside based wfh

>>50926095
NICE ONE
WAGMI

>>50933852
Pop and rap is demonic globohomo music

>>50926095
it better be binaural or atmos at least. there's no room for more stereo shit in 2022.

>>50926095
Congrats man, happy for you. :)
how did you start? any tutorials helped? I make beats, made some good money but not like this. I can simply jump to techno what will help me do that?
>XMR,ROSE and ETH are very good