As you may or may not of seen I have been experimenting with torrent files of my own music to see how effective they are at being used as a way of promoting your own music. Torrent files are seen by many in the Music Business as something to hate, I on the other hand […]

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As you may have seen yesterday I started My Torrent Experiment to see whether torrents can be useful for unsigned and unknown independent musicians to help promote their music. I have a few tips for those who are starting to upload their own music through the torrent networks and sites such as The Pirate Bay […]

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Note: You can download my first torrent from Here. (It is electronica breakbeat/big beat music, you can preview it on the right hand side of this page)
I’m sure that recently in the media and on the internet, most of you would have heard about torrents and the online world of pirated music downloads. I have […]

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Recently I completed a remix as an entry into a remix contest. I haven’t done too much remixing before but I think I did pretty well with the track I remixed and thought I would share my thoughts, tips and ideas about the remixing process and what seemed to work well for me when remixing.

The […]

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I learnt something new today and thought I would share it with you. The other week I sent a few tracks off to TSM Radio, a radio station which is devoted to playing unsigned and independant artists. I was rather happy to see that they added 2 of my tracks to their playlist. (Thanks TSM […]

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You’ve made some great sounding tunes, now you want to get some people who aren’t your own family and friends to take a listen and start getting your music out there to be heard (That is why you created it right?). Well you could start off by trying my list below of 5 sites I […]

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This is a question I have been asking myself recently, mainly due to me releasing some of my own music independently without a label behind me and also because there seems to still be a high percentage of musicians and bands that still want to be signed even though there are some great facilities in […]

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Musicians block is the musicians equivalent to writers block and most people who regularly produce their own tracks or write their own songs will suffer with musicians block at some point. So if you are sitting in front of your instrument and/or equipment and no ideas are coming through, these tips and ideas may help […]

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This is one of the things that I have always had trouble with, getting my tracks out to the public and at the same time starting to receive some sort of income from any sales I make. I managed just that recently and thought that my story and experience so far should be shared with […]

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Too often today I see many musicians/magazines/web sites telling you about some amazing new piece of software or hardware thats going to magically make you into this amazing producer/sound engineer with this amazing new sound it can produce. Basically adverts trying to sell you equipment and I think a lot of musicians fall for this […]

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