New Chillout Music from Terzasfera

This chillout group, Terzasfera was recommended to me by chillout artist Larry Knipfing. When I first heard their music, I was immediately smitten with the sound. They describe themselves as a mix of pop and chillout, but I just describe them as good ear candy. The lead singer has a smooth melodic voice (oh how I wish I could hit those notes) that compliments the music perfectly.

The group is located in Turin Italy, and communicating with them has been a bit of a challenge. However, I am more than delighted to deal with the slight problem in communication to have them affiliated with Taliferro Music. I also look forward to listening to their new music which is currently in production. I believe this chillout group will go far, and remember where you read it first.

The Distribution Journey Continues

I started the Taliferro Music label as an independent label back in February of 2009. Since, I have heard a lot of good music. Mostly thanks to my good friend and colleague Larry Knipfing (Loop Division) who is always on the look-out for quality music Taliferro Music can represent.

On a recent trip to Amsterdam I was overwhelmed at the number of independent record stores. I realized then I may need some help in distribution. Unfortunately my cries for help haven't been answered. I've called two distribution companies who specialize in independent label distribution, but no call back. Hopefully I can post good news about these contacts shortly.

Taliferro Music promotes electronic music, progressive house, chillout music, downtempo music, jazz and fusion, slow jams, and urban music.

Celestial Ceiling Criticism

I recently received some tracks from one of my new artist Celestial Ceiling who plays experimental electronic music. After waiting for months to hear his latest mixes, I download the new tracks to my iPod while traveling in Europe. Since I had the iPod on Shuffle, his tracks would be played so a comparison could be made with other tracks by other artists.

In the comparison (and I'm not as critical as other people) I noticed that the music lacked bottom (bass), depth and width. The music was excellent, the production quality was the problem.

This criticism was not received very well and I lost an artist. I guess I'm not as touchy as most artists because I welcome criticism - it makes my music better.

Music and the Radio

Since this is my only post for the month of August, let me rant about radio.

I used to love listening to music on the radio when I drive, now I drive with the radio off most times. The music being played is boring, lifeless and too commercial. I can't wait until the day when streaming Internet radio stations are available in the car.

The demise of Satellite radio will occur shortly, because even with so many radio stations to choose from, they don't have a clue. People don't want to listen to the same music they can hear for free, if I have to pay to listen to music on the radio, I want to hear something new, fresh - something I can only hear on Satellite radio. Like cable, I can't get HBO any else but cable. That's how Satellite radio should be, I can't hear certain artists anywhere else but on Satellite radio.

Sooooo Many Radio Station

When I think of radio stations, I think of my car or my clock radio. When I begin to think of marketing Taliferro Music to radio stations, I'm thinking of only these radio stations to contact.

Wrong!!!

With satellite radio and Internet streaming radio stations the amount of stations to contact is out of control. The task is mammoth. Frankly, I don't know if it can be done even if I did have the contact information for every station.

A new website I discovered called RadioSubmit acts as a hub for radio stations to download music. The site name is misleading in that they don't submit anything to the radio stations. They host your songs so that radio stations have a central repository for downloading music. I'm going to try them out - when I find time. Most all radio stations require music at 320Kbps. My MP3s are at 192Kbps, so not only do I have to convert them. Now I have to re-upload them. That's a lot of work.

Build Up Your MP3 Library FAST AND FREE - With Podcast Subscriptions from Last.fm

About 2 weeks ago I began subscribing in iTunes to Last.fm genres such as rock, downtempo, hip hop, chillout, slow jams, rnb, lounge and wow am I building on top of my MP3 library fast and FREE.

By subscribing to different genres in iTunes, I receive daily updates of free MP3s. If I click "Update Podcast" in iTunes, I'll get a whole slew of MP3s - FREE. The beautiful thing about subscribing is that you don't have to remember to go download free MP3s. Every time you open iTunes, it's done automatically.

The only thing you really have to do in iTunes is once the songs are downloaded, you need to get them in your library. You do this by selecting them all, then select "Create MP3 Version". This copies them over into your library. You can then delete the podcast (that's how they're downloaded - as podcasts).

So if you want to build up your MP3 library, I can't think of a better way.

Chilla iMix

Gonna try CD Baby

After releasing all the previous compilations through Tunecore, I'm gonna switch up this time and try CD Baby. Though I thought it was a good idea to stay digital, all the magazines and radio stations require CD submissions.This doesn't make too much sense since most submitted CDs wind up being used as coasters or thrown away.

One thing I noticed about CD Baby is the wide reach they have in various music catalogs. This may be of some benefit, I'll see.

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