Hi, all!

Feel free to do a quick introduction if you’ve joined this instance, or if you’re from another instance but interested in the communities here.

I’ll go first: I’m Beto, originally from Brazil but living in California. I started writing songs when I was 14 years old, and always loved making music.

I have a one-person band called The Fishermen & the Priestess, and I post all my songs (releases and experimental tracks) on a Funkwhale instance (which is another federated project).

My songs are usually ambient/downtempo and very hopeful. I love using cassette tapes, tape loops, and 4-track recorders, and I’m planning to release my next album on microcassettes.

  • RiotEarp@lemmy.studio
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    1 year ago

    That’s good to know. Seems required for Distrokid but not CDBaby. Have you used BeatStars at all?

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t need it for Distrokid, I just thought it would be cool to be able to assign the numbers to my songs at will. 😝 I haven’t heard of BeatStars, it looks interesting!

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        1 year ago

        Hahahah…that is pretty rad. I looked through some of the guides and saw you’re limited to 100,000 a year. Hope that’s enough :D.

        I suppose if someone was just cranking out generative tunes that wouldn’t be too hard.

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          1 year ago

          Ha, for sure, my record is 100 songs in a year, so I have plenty of numbers to spare. 😝