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December 15, 2007 Update - Finishing Up Mastering, and Thinking about Promotion
Note: If your completed song is not in the list below, please PM me so I can add the link. Also, for uncompressed versions of your song that will be used for mastering the final cut for this project, please PM me a link for that as well so that lil smoke and I can start divvying up the workload for mastering.
Now that we're finishing up the mastering and getting ready to put the music up for all to download it's time to start thinking about promotion. FightyF has already made some good suggestions for promoting within NeoGAF with us all either having tags that link to G.A.M.E.'s web page, or avatars promoting it (or both).
I'm also looking at how we can promote this thing outside of GAF. The first thing that came to mind was to post something on Digg. I'm sure most of us here either have an account there, or can set one up quick. Since votes for links get posts to the front page if I post a mention of GAME there, post a link to said post here, and everyone pours in to vote for it we could easily get that post on Digg's first page and keep it there for a couple of day, especially if we can mobilize most of the NeoGAF community to help with that. Digg alone would bring thousands more people to check out our songs.
There's also legions of gaming blogs out there that we could email, asking to post something about GAME. We'll need to put together a comprehensive list of all these places, and I can get down to notifying them. Love 'em or hate 'em places like k0taku and j0ystiq could get a lot more people listening to our tracks, and there are plenty of other places worth trying like Evil Avatar, Blue's News, Shacknews, etc. Maybe we can even get some of the 1Up people that post here to put a quick mention on their site's news page, it's worth asking anyway. Also, are there any chiptune collectives worth talking to that may be willing to post a link to GAME?
If you guys can think of any Digg-like sites, or game blogs worth contacting to promote this project, just list them and I'll start organizing this part of the project.
One other thing I want to touch on is setting up a Torrent for GAME. I don't know a hell of a lot about these things, so can anyone walk us through how we'd go about seeding GAME, and getting a tracker on the web page. Having a torrent for this thing may help conserve bandwidth if the project gets a lot of people interested.
Web Space and Bios
Trip Warhawkins has been kind enough to volunteer some web space for this project. If we're going to have a site for this project it would be nice to see short bios for everyone telling a bit about themselves. If contributors could whip something up in regards to that, that would be great. It could be split into something more specifically about yourself and your music, and answer the following questions about your involvement in this particular project:
I would like to know when you guys post your songs the software/hardware used
What genre do you know/believe your song falls into
The inspirations
What did you try new or differently from previous songs?
What have you learned while making your song?
If you had more time what would do differently?
What is your favorite part of your song?
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Project Name G.A.M.E. (Gaming Age Musica Electronia)
Okay, it looks like Fighty got himself banned for whatever reason, so in order to keep this project on track I am reposting the OP, and we can continue discussion here for the GAF electronic music project. This is the only thread I actually post in regularly (usually I'm just lurking), so there shouldn't be any worries that I get banned and can't update this thread.
Anywho, we are now heading into October, so how about we all touch base on where we are with our tunes, and also start brainstorming an official name for this project.
What is this?
GAF electronic musicians have decided to band together and release a full length album of their music, available online for free! The music will be original productions created specifically for this album. Though the song themes will not be restricted, it is encouraged that the artists create songs that are videogame or videogame genre related.
How can I join?
Simply leave a message in this thread letting me know that you would like to be a part of this. If you are wondering if your music classifies as electronic music, feel free to ask. If possible, please include a link to previous works (ie. myspace, soundclick, or pure volume account). Song submissions are due Nov. 19, so obviously one cannot join thereafter.
When will it be released?
December 21st, 2007. Think of it as a Christmas present for GAF.
The current list of contributors.
alaria (http://oneblackrose.org/music)
Albino_Samurai
alistairw (http://www.myspace.com/littlemaths)
Allen
Animal - Song: Caturday (http://files-upload.com/files/630051/Caturday.mp3)
arena08
bggrthnjsus
davepoobond
DopeyFish (http://www.myspace.com/dopeyfish) Song: Nosebleed (http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5988785&q=hi)
Drozmight (http://myspace.com/donono) Song: Me Speak You Kinda
FightyF (http://www.myspace.com/nrxic ) Song Here: (http://www.punkistan.com/nrxic/GAFsongwav3.mp3)
Freest Rolexes
Fusebox Song Here: http://home.exetel.com.au/djfusion/html/Fusebox-Outrunnin-GAF.mp3
iced lightening (http://www.myspace.com/electricsalmon)
Karma Kramer Songs Here:Scotch Craackle and 1 AM
kitchenmotors
K0NY
lil smoke
LiveFromKyoto - Song - Moonless Dawn (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769569&content=music)
MikeOfTheLivingDead
Monchi-kun - Song: BAWS BATTL (http://idisk.mac.com/baka.saru-Public/BAWS BATTL.mp3)
Mr. Nash (http://www.myspace.com/jeffnashmusic) Song: Reflex Cannon (http://www.zshare.net/audio/5582836de4144d/
Orellio
Pharmacy
pixelated (http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp...=188473&T=7008 http://www.myspace.com/thebitmipsyndicatemusic)
relaxor Song - http://rapidshare.com/files/64463057/The_Future_-_Nelson_and_Eric_Present_-_Red.m4a.html
RSTEIN (http://www.soundclick.com/rstein htt...ce.com/rcstein) Song: Evilore
SD-Ness (http://myspace.com/nessjx)
SD-Zeta - Song: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music
shagg_187
silenttwn
Sweedishrodeo
Teknopathic - Song: L.N. Cafe (http://www.evildownfeathers.org/L.N. Cafe.mp3)
Timedog - Song: Mod Power Abuse (http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=10082)
Tr4nce - Song: Tr4nce presents Kings of the Sky - Nebula (http://download.yousendit.com/BC4C8CB6650C1C5D)
Tralfamadore64 (www.myspace.com/theholyromans)
Trip Warhawkins (http://www.myspace.com/rodweiller)
X5z - Song: Stage Run (http://www.cerealdome.com/shared_files/X5z - Stage Run.mp3)
Those who can help in other areas:
Kinesis: Vocals (http://www.myspace.com/therealmikecorleone)
captive: acoustic or electric guitar riffs
Lionheart1827: improvised or not-too-technical guitar solos for use in your songs (http://www.myspace.com/paulalbanesemusic)
CURRENT TO DO LIST:
-Come up with a timeline that establishes dates for release date, and song submission deadlines Done
-Discuss and choose a solution as far as mastering the entire album is concerned.
-Discuss and choose a solution for online distribution and webspace.
-Discuss and choose a name for this "collective", and a name for this album.Done
-Discuss and choose someone responsible for "cover art" and liner notes.
ATTENTION ARTISTS:
Please subscribe to this thread, to keep up with all updates. The top of the thread will note the last time this post is updated, so you know if you've missed anything or not.
Secondly, if you have a link to your past compositions, please share and I'll update this post with it.
If you are having a hard time getting started, and if you need some inspiration, look at the following list of game-related ideas to help get you going (note: your song needn't follow any theme at all):
-Make a song using something specific to games as your inspiration, without sampling any in game music.
-If GAF ever made the music for Final Fantasy battle scenes
-GAF memes, made into music!
-Racing music: GAF style - we could make music suitable for racing games, so that people can actually use it for their custom soundtracks
-If NeoGAF mad the next Ridge Racer, this is what the soundtrack might sound like.
-soundtrack for a 'shmup.
-Music to shag to. Modern grooves for a modern pron soundtrack.
-The theme could be like a soundtrack for a shoot'em up or a platformer. The tracks would be label as such: Level 1: Song Title; Level 2: ..
World 1 - 1: Song Title; World 1 - 2: Song Title; World 2 - 1: Song Title
-"Music Inspired by Game XYZ" where they're games that already have electronic music, or stuff that is reasonably electonic-esque. ie. Ridge Racer, WipeOut, Shin Megami Tensei, R-Type, Rez, Phantasy Star, Unreal, Beatmania IIDX
-"Games that Inspire Us" and we each write music based on a game that we personally like (can have it so everyone chooses their own unique game, or can choose whatever game they want with 2 or more artists possibly choosing the same game).
Feel free to post your work in progress songs if you would like feedback.
Also, feel free to discuss your opinions on various topics in regards to this CD. Though I have started this thread, I only plan to behave like a moderator, and not like a dictator. It is pretty much a democracy as far as how this album will come to be. All decisions will be made based on the posts here, so if you don't share your opinion, it won't be heard and factored into any decisions being made here.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
Oct 12: Finalize collective name, album name, and who will be doing the cover art.
Nov 19: Deadline for song submissions. 3 days grace is given only to those who have shared their work in progress on the forum numerous times. (Song submissions include relevant notes on the song, ie. inspirations, genre classification, etc). Mastering work begins.
Nov 23: Final tracklisting (order to be determined) finalized. Artwork for liner notes and cover are worked on.
Nov 30: Track order determined (by resident GAF DJs).
Dec 7: Album cover and liner notes finalized.
Dec 10: Deadline for the mastering of songs.
-buffer time in case any deadlines were missed prior-
Dec 20: Songs uploaded to our webspace.
Dec 21: Virtual CD release party over Sony's Home software on the PS3. We'll stream the music under a new user with the GAF collective name that would be decided upon. At that point, all download locations/torrents would be made public to GAF and the World.
Helpful Links for Musicians:
Discussion on Mixdowns and EQing
All about Equalizing
Mastering and Bass Mixdown for 4/4 Hard-Dance music
Side Chaining tutorial
Ableton tutorial VIDEO: Side Chain Compression
Note: If your completed song is not in the list below, please PM me so I can add the link. Also, for uncompressed versions of your song that will be used for mastering the final cut for this project, please PM me a link for that as well so that lil smoke and I can start divvying up the workload for mastering.
Now that we're finishing up the mastering and getting ready to put the music up for all to download it's time to start thinking about promotion. FightyF has already made some good suggestions for promoting within NeoGAF with us all either having tags that link to G.A.M.E.'s web page, or avatars promoting it (or both).
I'm also looking at how we can promote this thing outside of GAF. The first thing that came to mind was to post something on Digg. I'm sure most of us here either have an account there, or can set one up quick. Since votes for links get posts to the front page if I post a mention of GAME there, post a link to said post here, and everyone pours in to vote for it we could easily get that post on Digg's first page and keep it there for a couple of day, especially if we can mobilize most of the NeoGAF community to help with that. Digg alone would bring thousands more people to check out our songs.
There's also legions of gaming blogs out there that we could email, asking to post something about GAME. We'll need to put together a comprehensive list of all these places, and I can get down to notifying them. Love 'em or hate 'em places like k0taku and j0ystiq could get a lot more people listening to our tracks, and there are plenty of other places worth trying like Evil Avatar, Blue's News, Shacknews, etc. Maybe we can even get some of the 1Up people that post here to put a quick mention on their site's news page, it's worth asking anyway. Also, are there any chiptune collectives worth talking to that may be willing to post a link to GAME?
If you guys can think of any Digg-like sites, or game blogs worth contacting to promote this project, just list them and I'll start organizing this part of the project.
One other thing I want to touch on is setting up a Torrent for GAME. I don't know a hell of a lot about these things, so can anyone walk us through how we'd go about seeding GAME, and getting a tracker on the web page. Having a torrent for this thing may help conserve bandwidth if the project gets a lot of people interested.
Web Space and Bios
Trip Warhawkins has been kind enough to volunteer some web space for this project. If we're going to have a site for this project it would be nice to see short bios for everyone telling a bit about themselves. If contributors could whip something up in regards to that, that would be great. It could be split into something more specifically about yourself and your music, and answer the following questions about your involvement in this particular project:
I would like to know when you guys post your songs the software/hardware used
What genre do you know/believe your song falls into
The inspirations
What did you try new or differently from previous songs?
What have you learned while making your song?
If you had more time what would do differently?
What is your favorite part of your song?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Project Name G.A.M.E. (Gaming Age Musica Electronia)
Okay, it looks like Fighty got himself banned for whatever reason, so in order to keep this project on track I am reposting the OP, and we can continue discussion here for the GAF electronic music project. This is the only thread I actually post in regularly (usually I'm just lurking), so there shouldn't be any worries that I get banned and can't update this thread.
Anywho, we are now heading into October, so how about we all touch base on where we are with our tunes, and also start brainstorming an official name for this project.
What is this?
GAF electronic musicians have decided to band together and release a full length album of their music, available online for free! The music will be original productions created specifically for this album. Though the song themes will not be restricted, it is encouraged that the artists create songs that are videogame or videogame genre related.
How can I join?
Simply leave a message in this thread letting me know that you would like to be a part of this. If you are wondering if your music classifies as electronic music, feel free to ask. If possible, please include a link to previous works (ie. myspace, soundclick, or pure volume account). Song submissions are due Nov. 19, so obviously one cannot join thereafter.
When will it be released?
December 21st, 2007. Think of it as a Christmas present for GAF.
The current list of contributors.
alaria (http://oneblackrose.org/music)
Albino_Samurai
alistairw (http://www.myspace.com/littlemaths)
Allen
Animal - Song: Caturday (http://files-upload.com/files/630051/Caturday.mp3)
arena08
bggrthnjsus
davepoobond
DopeyFish (http://www.myspace.com/dopeyfish) Song: Nosebleed (http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5988785&q=hi)
Drozmight (http://myspace.com/donono) Song: Me Speak You Kinda
FightyF (http://www.myspace.com/nrxic ) Song Here: (http://www.punkistan.com/nrxic/GAFsongwav3.mp3)
Freest Rolexes
Fusebox Song Here: http://home.exetel.com.au/djfusion/html/Fusebox-Outrunnin-GAF.mp3
iced lightening (http://www.myspace.com/electricsalmon)
Karma Kramer Songs Here:Scotch Craackle and 1 AM
kitchenmotors
K0NY
lil smoke
LiveFromKyoto - Song - Moonless Dawn (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=769569&content=music)
MikeOfTheLivingDead
Monchi-kun - Song: BAWS BATTL (http://idisk.mac.com/baka.saru-Public/BAWS BATTL.mp3)
Mr. Nash (http://www.myspace.com/jeffnashmusic) Song: Reflex Cannon (http://www.zshare.net/audio/5582836de4144d/
Orellio
Pharmacy
pixelated (http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp...=188473&T=7008 http://www.myspace.com/thebitmipsyndicatemusic)
relaxor Song - http://rapidshare.com/files/64463057/The_Future_-_Nelson_and_Eric_Present_-_Red.m4a.html
RSTEIN (http://www.soundclick.com/rstein htt...ce.com/rcstein) Song: Evilore
SD-Ness (http://myspace.com/nessjx)
SD-Zeta - Song: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music
shagg_187
silenttwn
Sweedishrodeo
Teknopathic - Song: L.N. Cafe (http://www.evildownfeathers.org/L.N. Cafe.mp3)
Timedog - Song: Mod Power Abuse (http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=10082)
Tr4nce - Song: Tr4nce presents Kings of the Sky - Nebula (http://download.yousendit.com/BC4C8CB6650C1C5D)
Tralfamadore64 (www.myspace.com/theholyromans)
Trip Warhawkins (http://www.myspace.com/rodweiller)
X5z - Song: Stage Run (http://www.cerealdome.com/shared_files/X5z - Stage Run.mp3)
Those who can help in other areas:
Kinesis: Vocals (http://www.myspace.com/therealmikecorleone)
captive: acoustic or electric guitar riffs
Lionheart1827: improvised or not-too-technical guitar solos for use in your songs (http://www.myspace.com/paulalbanesemusic)
CURRENT TO DO LIST:
-Come up with a timeline that establishes dates for release date, and song submission deadlines Done
-Discuss and choose a solution as far as mastering the entire album is concerned.
-Discuss and choose a solution for online distribution and webspace.
-Discuss and choose a name for this "collective", and a name for this album.Done
-Discuss and choose someone responsible for "cover art" and liner notes.
ATTENTION ARTISTS:
Please subscribe to this thread, to keep up with all updates. The top of the thread will note the last time this post is updated, so you know if you've missed anything or not.
Secondly, if you have a link to your past compositions, please share and I'll update this post with it.
If you are having a hard time getting started, and if you need some inspiration, look at the following list of game-related ideas to help get you going (note: your song needn't follow any theme at all):
-Make a song using something specific to games as your inspiration, without sampling any in game music.
-If GAF ever made the music for Final Fantasy battle scenes
-GAF memes, made into music!
-Racing music: GAF style - we could make music suitable for racing games, so that people can actually use it for their custom soundtracks
-If NeoGAF mad the next Ridge Racer, this is what the soundtrack might sound like.
-soundtrack for a 'shmup.
-Music to shag to. Modern grooves for a modern pron soundtrack.
-The theme could be like a soundtrack for a shoot'em up or a platformer. The tracks would be label as such: Level 1: Song Title; Level 2: ..
World 1 - 1: Song Title; World 1 - 2: Song Title; World 2 - 1: Song Title
-"Music Inspired by Game XYZ" where they're games that already have electronic music, or stuff that is reasonably electonic-esque. ie. Ridge Racer, WipeOut, Shin Megami Tensei, R-Type, Rez, Phantasy Star, Unreal, Beatmania IIDX
-"Games that Inspire Us" and we each write music based on a game that we personally like (can have it so everyone chooses their own unique game, or can choose whatever game they want with 2 or more artists possibly choosing the same game).
Feel free to post your work in progress songs if you would like feedback.
Also, feel free to discuss your opinions on various topics in regards to this CD. Though I have started this thread, I only plan to behave like a moderator, and not like a dictator. It is pretty much a democracy as far as how this album will come to be. All decisions will be made based on the posts here, so if you don't share your opinion, it won't be heard and factored into any decisions being made here.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
Oct 12: Finalize collective name, album name, and who will be doing the cover art.
Nov 19: Deadline for song submissions. 3 days grace is given only to those who have shared their work in progress on the forum numerous times. (Song submissions include relevant notes on the song, ie. inspirations, genre classification, etc). Mastering work begins.
Nov 23: Final tracklisting (order to be determined) finalized. Artwork for liner notes and cover are worked on.
Nov 30: Track order determined (by resident GAF DJs).
Dec 7: Album cover and liner notes finalized.
Dec 10: Deadline for the mastering of songs.
-buffer time in case any deadlines were missed prior-
Dec 20: Songs uploaded to our webspace.
Dec 21: Virtual CD release party over Sony's Home software on the PS3. We'll stream the music under a new user with the GAF collective name that would be decided upon. At that point, all download locations/torrents would be made public to GAF and the World.
Helpful Links for Musicians:
Discussion on Mixdowns and EQing
All about Equalizing
Mastering and Bass Mixdown for 4/4 Hard-Dance music
Side Chaining tutorial
Ableton tutorial VIDEO: Side Chain Compression