Dance Music for Heroes
I spent the last three days attended CD Baby’s 2021 virtual music conference. On today’s episode I’m recapping many of the surprising things I learned about Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, branding, and more. I’m not going to try to cover all three days in one podcast (I took 17 pages of notes!), so instead I’ll highlight … Read more
Today on the Producer Life Podcast we have Andrew Sinclair, better known as Approaching Nirvana. Andrew is a full time musician supported by his amazing online community. In the last decade he’s released 17 albums including over 300 songs. He has over 130 million Spotify streams alone, and if you count all platforms his catalog has over 300 million streams, all independent and without a label.
Sandra Bullet is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Portugal who specializes in rock and cover songs. She has also been the voice for countless producers in styles ranging from EDM, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Trance, Country, House, and Pop because she is currently a top rated seller on Fiverr with over 1,000 completed projects from 40 countries around the world. Additionally, she is one of the most experienced streamers on Sessions Live and is PAID to livestream there. These two platforms have enabled Sandra to follow her passions as a full-time musician for the last three years.
This week we’ve got part two of our interview with Julian Gray. Julian is a techno, electro and progressive house artist who has releases on Mau5trap, Anjunabeats, Enhanced, Colorized, Zerothree, Gravitas, and more. He’s performed at major festivals such as EDC Orlando, Imagine, and Okeechobee. He has almost 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and another 37,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel where he offers Ableton tutorials and reviews.
This week on the Producer Life Podcast we’re talking about the big changes to Facebook’s Terms of Service which you DEFINITELY need to be aware of if you’re live streaming your DJ sets.
As DJs and producers struggle to adjust to the global pandemic many have shifted to live streaming. In this episode, I propose five principles for ethical live streaming.
YouTube is one of my favorite platforms as an artist. I post my original tracks as well as mixes and mashups all on my channel. Two months ago I also began live streaming there as well using Restream.io. I love YouTube because of the number of tools they offer creators as well as its reach. I also love its amazing content ID system which does a remarkable job identifying songs and giving rights-holders granular control over their content.
This is part two of my interview with Wade Sutton who runs the wildly popular Six-Minute Music Business Podcast. Wade offers incredibly practical advice for musicians in a short but entertaining format. Soooo… if you missed episode 11, please go back and listen to part one first because Wade offered some great advice on branding, using YouTube, and when you should talk about politics as a musician
Today we talk with Wade Sutton who hosts the Six-Minute Music Business Podcast, one of the two podcasts I listen to daily. Wade offers incredibly practical advice for musicians in a short but entertaining format.
Courtesy of Tom Cosm Ever wanted to get your vocals to sound like Daft Punk? They’re using a vocoder. Here’s a great intro video from Tom Cosm and some of my key take-aways: Vocoders modify one sound with another. You need a track for a carrier (the external signal that gets sent to the vocoder) … Read more
