Bagel
09-03-2012, 01:22 PM
744 is my music branding. (The pronunciation is "seven forty four".) There's a (pretty dumb) story behind the name, but suffice it to say that it's just a sequence of three digits that I notice a lot, probably because I'm looking for it. As far as this thread goes, I'd just like to know what you peeps think about the music (preferably in more detail than "great!" or "this is bad and you should feel bad." :p )
While I know of a few scattered people who do enjoy this stuff, it'd be great to get some more meaningful responses from a slightly wider audience on specific things (I've been thinking of doing some real advertising soon instead of making annoying forum threads, probably looking at project wonderful.) At any rate doing this has been a major learning experience and at least feel like I've improved over the last eight years, though I've got literally hundreds of unfinished songs and some really bad things sitting around taking up disk space. Sometimes I've been able to salvage some of those.
Constructive criticism is great, but I won't tolerate "this sucks" with no explanation (no one should put up with trolls.) However, if it's not your cup of tea, that's absolutely fine! I've actually gotten some amazingly vitriolic hate mail before. If it's more like your cup of Pepto Bismol, that's okay too! :P Music is not a competition; if you don't enjoy electronica, then listen to something else. :p
This is not a thread intended to drive any sales. I price things at "name your price" because I realize that a lot of my audience is younger people who don't have much/any money (or even a payment method)... and because this is not supposed to be a primary revenue stream. (sales are still awesome though)
If things won't play, allow Flash to run on bandcamp.com (bandcamp is cool stuff dude), or use a browser that supports HTML5. Apologies for disallowing full album free downloads, but I only get 500 free downloads per month (and I've come pretty close to going over a few times because of bots downloading things, then uploading them to Chinese sites like Baidu's music service, and claiming they were made by someone else.) After that, they go up to 99¢ whether I want them to be or not.
album 1, finished in 2010:
blink (http://744music.bandcamp.com/album/blink) (contains the best of stuff I wrote from 2004ish through 2010; generally more melodic and/or cinematic)
album 2, which has been completed as of 9/2:
reality (http://744music.bandcamp.com/album/reality) (stuff made in the past year and a half or so, a bit more experimental and shorter)
While I know of a few scattered people who do enjoy this stuff, it'd be great to get some more meaningful responses from a slightly wider audience on specific things (I've been thinking of doing some real advertising soon instead of making annoying forum threads, probably looking at project wonderful.) At any rate doing this has been a major learning experience and at least feel like I've improved over the last eight years, though I've got literally hundreds of unfinished songs and some really bad things sitting around taking up disk space. Sometimes I've been able to salvage some of those.
Constructive criticism is great, but I won't tolerate "this sucks" with no explanation (no one should put up with trolls.) However, if it's not your cup of tea, that's absolutely fine! I've actually gotten some amazingly vitriolic hate mail before. If it's more like your cup of Pepto Bismol, that's okay too! :P Music is not a competition; if you don't enjoy electronica, then listen to something else. :p
This is not a thread intended to drive any sales. I price things at "name your price" because I realize that a lot of my audience is younger people who don't have much/any money (or even a payment method)... and because this is not supposed to be a primary revenue stream. (sales are still awesome though)
If things won't play, allow Flash to run on bandcamp.com (bandcamp is cool stuff dude), or use a browser that supports HTML5. Apologies for disallowing full album free downloads, but I only get 500 free downloads per month (and I've come pretty close to going over a few times because of bots downloading things, then uploading them to Chinese sites like Baidu's music service, and claiming they were made by someone else.) After that, they go up to 99¢ whether I want them to be or not.
album 1, finished in 2010:
blink (http://744music.bandcamp.com/album/blink) (contains the best of stuff I wrote from 2004ish through 2010; generally more melodic and/or cinematic)
album 2, which has been completed as of 9/2:
reality (http://744music.bandcamp.com/album/reality) (stuff made in the past year and a half or so, a bit more experimental and shorter)