A good friend to DubFiler, Joe Breaker, just made us very happy with this awesome radio spot he created, just for the fun of it. Drum-n-bass is not dead! Thanks, Breaker!
A DubFiler radio spot from one of our customers!
January 11th, 2010
A holiday gift for any musician: Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer from ThinkGeek
December 10th, 2009
c4e1 bliptronic 5000 led synthesizer
the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer
For only $50, this cool little synthesizer will inspire any musician. You can tweak the sounds and infinitely change the pattern it plays. Then link a bunch together. Too cool! Definitely on my list.
Watch the video:
Blip Fest promo video
December 4th, 2009DubFiler sponsors Blip Festival
November 24th, 2009
Woohoo! Blip Festival 2009
DubFiler is a proud sponsor of the Blip Festival here in Brooklyn this year. If yre not familiar, Blip Festival is the biggest annual gathering of the world-wide chip tune scene. You thought Gameboys were dead? Not a chance. They’re being used to make some of the most innovative music.
Check out their Kickstarter campaign which is going strong, and ends in just a few days. Support a good cause!
And then come out to the festival! They just announced their line-up and it looks amazing.
Blip Festival 2009
December 17 - 19
The Bell House
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.blipfestival.org
Introducing 8barloop.com and a few great links
November 17th, 2009
Tutorials for music on the web | 8BarLoop
I’ve started a site for tutorials about music on the web called 8BarLoop. It will help you get your music on your website or blog, stream your music, sell your music, and more. Please let me know if you find it useful, and any tutorials you’d like to see on there.
And then here are a few random links that I think are worth mentioning:
47 Sites Every Recording Musician Should Visit – Just a great collection of links
Studio Noize – Recording – Production – Tips – Reviews and Mostly Chatter
hypebot.com – Music. Technology. The new music business.
Announcing dropboxes – let people send you tracks!
October 21st, 2009Send me your tune!
A sample DubFiler drop box badge.
Today we announce Dropboxes for your web site. If you’re a DJ or a label, people are sending you their tunes to check out. Let them upload their tracks to your DubFiler account, instead. We’ll send you an email when you get a file, and you can audition all your tracks in one place.
There are lots of other updates under way. Stay tuned!
Average PayPal sales under $12? Lower your fees.
October 19th, 2009
PayPal’s standard fees are 2.9% + $0.30. Which means if you sell a lot of little things, like MP3’s for a dollar, you are losing a lot of money. Selling something for $1 results in a $.33 fee! That’s 33%! (Check out the PayPal Fee Calculator by Ryan Olbe).
What PayPal doesn’t advertise anywhere is that they offer a different payment scheme for “Micropayments” that’s much cheaper for any transaction under $12.
Buried in their site, with a single “sign up” link, is a page explaining that they offer a “Micropayments” merchant account at 5% + $0.05. For our $1 example, the fee is onliy $.10! 20% less. You will save money on every transaction under $12.
If you are setting up a new PayPal account to sell MP3’s, albums, or anything that’s likely to be under $12, use their Micropayment account registration form. If you already have an account, switch your account here.
Read more about it on the Paypal site under Micropayments.
Great podcast for DIY musicians from CDBaby
October 16th, 2009I’ve used CDBaby.com for years to sell my albums, then to get on iTunes. I’ve used them less in the last few years as a I don’t really make albums anymore, but check into their artist resources area once in a while. Some how I’d missed the podcast they started. I’ve listened to a few this week and it’s great. A few talking heads but also some great discussion about DIY music creation, marketing and promotion. Check it out.
Landing pages are here.
September 21st, 2009
Sample EP landing page
DubFiler has had lots of little changes this weekend but I think they make a big difference. The biggest has been to ‘folders’ which are now called ‘pages’. Once you’ve uploaded a bunch of tunes, samples or ideas, you can create a landing page for them. Add an image or album cover and include a description and some links to the press release or your mySpace page for more listening.
What other features would you like to see?
We Love Percussion Lab
September 10th, 2009
Percussion Lab
This is one of my favorite types of posts. An old friend named Praveen Sharma did a radio show in college called Precussion Lab. We met because he booked me to be on it, and I booked him to play my weekly here in New York City. Then Percussion Lab became a 24/7 streaming internet radio station. There were live peformances, regular shows, and lots of streaming music. A few years ago, he moved to the city, and has recently redesigned the site (with Sougwen Chung) to feature more mixes their “collective” likes. Basically they’re extending their excellent taste into selecting mixes for you. The site is beautiful, easy to use and full of great content. Go spend hours on PercussionLab.com.
Helping spread good music is so easy because you love it, but it’s also so important. This is what the web is for. I look forward to what Praveen comes up with next.
