GM nostr peeps. Beautiful day out in South East Asia. I have three shows before the new year, so making some new tracks to drop during the set.

Private bookings are always interesting, these are all sold out.

Will drop something on one of the nostr clients. Open to suggestions of course.

I was thinking to live stream the sets? Any idea how to go about that?

#grownostr #nostrmusic #wavlake #heuristic #techno #deephouse #breakbeats

My one track on nostr:nprofile1qqszy58kj62v9fpe98nhuh0q76np4e0r0g0wd44rhth3wphdnyqjfzcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakq4mjy0c has about 70 plays last I checked. No promo aside from throwing it u in a post on FB ,so that is pretty cool.

Any idea where I should publish other tracks? Is publishing the same track on other clients a good idea? So many questions lol.

White to move. Accelerated London opening. Any chess players out there? #chess #whereisgotham

I imagine there are some out there. I just got on here and released on nostr:nprofile1qqszy58kj62v9fpe98nhuh0q76np4e0r0g0wd44rhth3wphdnyqjfzcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakq4mjy0c to see what happened.

New track, only available on there at the moment. I just checked and it has 70 plays since I dropped it Dec 16th.

Pretty cool and it looks great.

On the nose too dead center my friend. I can speak to this front he perspective of both an artist, performer and venue owner -as well as from a label perspective.

I'm scared to jinx it. But Nostr space has all the makings of the protocol to change it all and I am glad to be a part of it, even releasing music through.

I direly dispise social media and basicy always have. I am not a promoter or marketer, but have had to play that role for way to long uncomfortabley to stay in the game.

Often this is how great artists get tangled in bad contracts with crap labels who have massive marketing power to build and destroy them.

Look up The Murder City Devils if you want to see the prime example of labels destroying something beautiful

#epicnote #heuristic #technomusic #breakbeatmusic #themsthebreaks

#themurdercitydevils

I can imagine. As a producer having a solid way to release music with some form of... Oh no, he didn't say... royalty structure would be step in... a direction.

Not saying the old models are good, but there are parts that could be salvaged and maybe updated.

I love the idea of v4v. It's an honest, if a bit nieve, way to receive support as an artist. I have a bones structure for what it could look like to take it a bit further and attach licensing options for zaps as a way to encourage that support.

Nostr is primordial ooze, so watching people add and take away from these concepts will be interesting.

So far my single has traction with tons of plays and downloads. So DJs are grabbing the track to add to their sets and people are listening, which is great.

That has yet to produce a zap ⚡. So with that many plays on Spotify I many only get $.000001 cent so far for instance. But that is value of some kind beyond being able to say "cool man, people like this."

Ultimately, this is not a gripe. Just note for people like you looking to attract investment in dev.

My label(s) would be happy to enter into a beta agreement with a dev and offer fresh releases while testing ways to monitize that build our sats, the devs sats and returns that value to the following.

Monitary systems are always complex, even more so when art is involved.

#nostria #wavlake #heuristic #stacksats

Thanks for the tip. Looks like my lightning ⚡ address is working on my end. But thanks for letting me know.

Maybe I'll drop a track on #wavlake then ...

I dropped a dance track on the16th. Was that a good time? This is oddly interesting. Maybe I will drop another on the 22nd....

Right on. Not really my thing so much. But I'm listening...

https://wavlake.com/album/cf2d1559-8c0a-45a1-9320-4e40b752e652

https://wavlake.com/album/cf2d1559-8c0a-45a1-9320-4e40b752e652

Labels do a lot more than release music. I am not signed to a traditional label anyway. Some of my masters are released through them, others are self released etc.

There are certain realities that will remain even in this space. The label offers me tours, marketing, manages advancing, covers costs and process for visas through trusted agents - to name a few of the services provided for their cut if they are a good label.

Some of this stuff is a lot more difficult than people think. I can't tell you how many artists get visas denied from countries because they werent advanced properly and ended up working illegally in the country thinking nothing of it when they were on vacation a decade ago.

The US is a prime example. People don't realize when they appear on a music lineup for a theme camp at Burning Man, the government considers it work even if they didn't get paid.

Immigration does a now super quick AI deep dive on you and those things pop up. Old twitter posts, YT videos the artist didn't even know were being taken posted by influencers who dropped their name in the description to get views etc.

Ultimately, a label is choice. If an artist wants to bootstrap, amazing. Go for it. The labels I work with are all either ditching web 2.0 models and garbage like Spotify or are being born in the nostr spacey people who have decades of connections and are tired of the industry the way it is.

nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyqt79zylhgqsy8gy3gfl6zappzknrsuryc54gcxzre5ug0agl0j32r5td2a will be interesting to see it release. I made an account on browser just now to check it out. I am interested to talk to a dev about a client I will create. I like nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqyfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9sldm58v , but there are some things about it, specifically it being off protocol realistically, that I don't like. This client would have that integration as part of it. But the UX/UI on wavlake is solid. I released a track on there to see what its all about.

https://wavlake.com/album/cf2d1559-8c0a-45a1-9320-4e40b752e652

I agree with a lot of this. I can say I was pretty disappointed that nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqyfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9sldm58v forces email usage to create a separate account to access the studio function and release tracks.

So the whole "followers" crossover thing dies there unfortunately. I know people can see your nPub and lightning wallet. Non-tech people can't be fucked to click through extra steps taking them to other places to complete a thing like following you.

That being said the UX/UI is nice on it. I dropped a track just to see how it works that was set for release on Spotify originally. Hopefully they figure that part out. The v4v thing is a great idea. Hard sell for a label right now though.

https://wavlake.com/album/cf2d1559-8c0a-45a1-9320-4e40b752e652

nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqpql5hwyh7saazz4gdhgp9fx4939e25asx74kq6dj9ahrx69lcfxulsd8fh2l you are correct. It shows people your lightning wallet and nPub so they can follow you and Zap. I released one of my new tracks the label was going to drop on Spotify there instead. Label was a little blindsided but went with it lol

https://wavlake.com/album/cf2d1559-8c0a-45a1-9320-4e40b752e652

If you ever tour Asia I can help with bookings in Cambodia and Vietnam. Probably Thailand and Malaysia as well.

This probably isn't the best place to ask. But I can't seem to use wavlake. When I sign in with nos2x it logs in and connects, then I try to do anything and it says I need to have a standard login or refers me to the login page again. Weird. Help if you know how 😃

For metal, you should check out Doch Chkae from Cambodia. Incredible. I will try to listen to this if wavlake lets me.