The best way to make money in the music business is to sell musicians the hope that someone will listen to their music. Amateur, unsigned, and naive musicians are often easy targets for spammers, faux record companies, playlisters utilizing bots (to fake streams), and marketing funnels.
#SoundCloud peeps! Just discovered the tags on SoundCloud actually matter (thought it was pretty much dead based on some #Reddit convos we had). Make sure that you are using good ones everybody so your awesome tracks get listened to
Digital audience
gazing into screens
Wandering through playlists
Shuffling their streams
Digital busker, laying track after track
Sharing his beats, never looked back
Take after take, gotta get that mix jumping
Drop that beat! Feel that bass pumping.
He’s not on the radio
No records, tapes, CDs.
He broadcasts on the Internet
It’s all done digitally
Digital busker, laying track after track
Sharing his beats, never looked back
Take after take, gotta get that mix jumping
Drop that beat! Feel that bass pumping.
Thoughts he plucks from his mind
get played right in your brain
Digial sounds in the bits he writes
What we think becomes the same
Digital busker, laying track after track
Sharing his beats, never looked back
Take after take, gotta get that mix jumping
Drop that beat! Feel that bass pumping.
“Trying to find something good on Soundcloud is like panning for gold in a sewer.”
~ Ancient Soundcloud Community Proverb.
The Dgar List is a playlist of some cool nuggets I have found on #Soundcloud.
No self-promotion here - every song on this list is by another Soundcloud artist trying to find their own audience. And there’s some really different and interesting tracks here too.
If you’re interested in trying out some cool indie music that you’ve very likely never heard before, try this out. You might find something you really enjoy.