#ampwall — Public Fediverse posts

Had a fun idea tonight to add generative AI policy markers to the music platforms in #unstream search results

Shield = generative AI music banned
Flag = the platform detects & flags AI music

Deploying in a few minutes

#unstream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic #ai #bandcamp #mirlo #ampwall #bandwagon

Had a fun idea tonight to add generative AI policy markers to the music platforms in #unstream search results

Shield = generative AI music banned
Flag = the platform detects & flags AI music

Deploying in a few minutes

#unstream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic #ai #bandcamp #mirlo #ampwall #bandwagon

Had a fun idea tonight to add generative AI policy markers to the music platforms in #unstream search results

Shield = generative AI music banned
Flag = the platform detects & flags AI music

Deploying in a few minutes

#unstream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic #ai #bandcamp #mirlo #ampwall #bandwagon

Had a fun idea tonight to add generative AI policy markers to the music platforms in #unstream search results

Shield = generative AI music banned
Flag = the platform detects & flags AI music

Deploying in a few minutes

#unstream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic #ai #bandcamp #mirlo #ampwall #bandwagon

Had a fun idea tonight to add generative AI policy markers to the music platforms in #unstream search results

Shield = generative AI music banned
Flag = the platform detects & flags AI music

Deploying in a few minutes

#unstream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic #ai #bandcamp #mirlo #ampwall #bandwagon

"... sounds and images created by AI are not welcome on Ampwall. If we see it, we will ask you to remove it; if you don’t remove it, we will remove it for you or we will have to part ways."

https://docs.ampwall.com/AI-is-not-welcome-24cf9feec6a880bb8f85f4dc629f0f8e

Good on you @Ampwall. This is the value of community-centred and human-scale curation. DataFarming corporate platforms don't have the capacity to do this at their scale, and more to the point they have no incentive to.

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#MOLE #AI #Ampwall

New #hardcore, #frenchcore and #gabber album Hard Moon Shock now available for pre-ordering on #Bandcamp, #Mirlo and #Ampwall!

All links: https://djomni.page/moonshock

New #hardcore, #frenchcore and #gabber album Hard Moon Shock now available for pre-ordering on #Bandcamp, #Mirlo and #Ampwall!

All links: https://djomni.page/moonshock

New #hardcore, #frenchcore and #gabber album Hard Moon Shock now available for pre-ordering on #Bandcamp, #Mirlo and #Ampwall!

All links: https://djomni.page/moonshock

New #hardcore, #frenchcore and #gabber album Hard Moon Shock now available for pre-ordering on #Bandcamp, #Mirlo and #Ampwall!

All links: https://djomni.page/moonshock

New #hardcore, #frenchcore and #gabber album Hard Moon Shock now available for pre-ordering on #Bandcamp, #Mirlo and #Ampwall!

All links: https://djomni.page/moonshock

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#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com $10/yr per 5h
#Bandwagonfm https://bandwagon.fm $10/mo soon
#Subvert https://subvert.fm alpha
https://formaviva.com
https://acidnation.com
https://audius.co crypto
https://ninaprotocol.com same
https://djpool.club/ $5/track
https://sonica.music
https://share.stream
https://artists.even.biz/
https://ratio.fm

My 2024 release, Fragments, now avail on #Ampwall ... #electronicmusic #ambient

https://ampwall.com/a/humblety/album/fragments

@ftmf I’d like to promote a stunning new track by the wonderful @hellomidlands, released today.

I’ve written a review of it on @nham: https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/wendy-by-hello-midlands-2/

Here’s the track on #Ampwall: https://ampwall.com/a/hellomidlands/album/wendy

🤍

#FairTradeMusicFriday

Sediments came out a year ago today... a collab between me, Philamelian on piano and @elifyalvac on electronics. It's a very precious release for us. To mark the day, here are some yum codes for you, dear fediverse friends, from TimbreWorks label Bandcamp and Ampwall.

#Bandcamp
hm4x-6mld
hbph-kz5c
4x7s-g6nw
445s-3kq4
4s7e-ck6a
Redeem at: https://timbreworks.bandcamp.com/yum

#ampwall
Z7N-9RQ- I73
1TZ-IF0-3WN
I5T-KHH-YSF
1EL-V1L-LRD
L13-RZM-AAQ
Redeem at: https://ampwall.com/lfg

Stills in the video by Dobbin Thomas

#piano #electronics #ambient #classicalmusic #electronicmusic

🔥💥OUT NOW 🔥💥

Our album 'Monument in Time' is officially released TODAY on limited edition cassette via Black Metal Archives (UK)! 🥳🖤

Only 100 hand-numbered copies available — don't sleep on this one.

✨ What you're getting:
• Recycled clear frosted cassettes
• Full colour on-body printing
• Jcard with 3 fold-out panels
• 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Grab yours while they last:
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/monument-in-time
or
http://ampwall.com/a/blackmetalarchiveslabel/merch/preorder-beyond-the-pale-monument-in-time-limited-edition-cassette-100-hand-numbered-copies

#metal #metalmusic #bandcamp #ampwall #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmetal #newrelease #newreleasefriday #releasefriday #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettecollection #metalcollector #tapecollection #tapecollector

🔥💥OUT NOW 🔥💥

Our album 'Monument in Time' is officially released TODAY on limited edition cassette via Black Metal Archives (UK)! 🥳🖤

Only 100 hand-numbered copies available — don't sleep on this one.

✨ What you're getting:
• Recycled clear frosted cassettes
• Full colour on-body printing
• Jcard with 3 fold-out panels
• 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Grab yours while they last:
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/monument-in-time
or
http://ampwall.com/a/blackmetalarchiveslabel/merch/preorder-beyond-the-pale-monument-in-time-limited-edition-cassette-100-hand-numbered-copies

#metal #metalmusic #bandcamp #ampwall #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmetal #newrelease #newreleasefriday #releasefriday #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettecollection #metalcollector #tapecollection #tapecollector

🔥💥OUT NOW 🔥💥

Our album 'Monument in Time' is officially released TODAY on limited edition cassette via Black Metal Archives (UK)! 🥳🖤

Only 100 hand-numbered copies available — don't sleep on this one.

✨ What you're getting:
• Recycled clear frosted cassettes
• Full colour on-body printing
• Jcard with 3 fold-out panels
• 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Grab yours while they last:
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/monument-in-time
or
http://ampwall.com/a/blackmetalarchiveslabel/merch/preorder-beyond-the-pale-monument-in-time-limited-edition-cassette-100-hand-numbered-copies

#metal #metalmusic #bandcamp #ampwall #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmetal #newrelease #newreleasefriday #releasefriday #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettecollection #metalcollector #tapecollection #tapecollector

🔥💥OUT NOW 🔥💥

Our album 'Monument in Time' is officially released TODAY on limited edition cassette via Black Metal Archives (UK)! 🥳🖤

Only 100 hand-numbered copies available — don't sleep on this one.

✨ What you're getting:
• Recycled clear frosted cassettes
• Full colour on-body printing
• Jcard with 3 fold-out panels
• 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Grab yours while they last:
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/monument-in-time
or
http://ampwall.com/a/blackmetalarchiveslabel/merch/preorder-beyond-the-pale-monument-in-time-limited-edition-cassette-100-hand-numbered-copies

#metal #metalmusic #bandcamp #ampwall #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmetal #newrelease #newreleasefriday #releasefriday #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettecollection #metalcollector #tapecollection #tapecollector

🔥💥OUT NOW 🔥💥

Our album 'Monument in Time' is officially released TODAY on limited edition cassette via Black Metal Archives (UK)! 🥳🖤

Only 100 hand-numbered copies available — don't sleep on this one.

✨ What you're getting:
• Recycled clear frosted cassettes
• Full colour on-body printing
• Jcard with 3 fold-out panels
• 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Grab yours while they last:
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/monument-in-time
or
http://ampwall.com/a/blackmetalarchiveslabel/merch/preorder-beyond-the-pale-monument-in-time-limited-edition-cassette-100-hand-numbered-copies

#metal #metalmusic #bandcamp #ampwall #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmetal #newrelease #newreleasefriday #releasefriday #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettecollection #metalcollector #tapecollection #tapecollector

Artister uppmanar till bojkott av Spotify

https://www.friprogramvarusyndikatet.se/okategoriserade/artister-uppmanar-till-bojkott-av-spotify/

Hello #MusiciansDay! 🎶
We're a 4 piece #moonshine infused #altcountry #americana band from the Netherlands. With #banjo #mandolin #doublebass #percussion and #guitar

https://makertube.net/w/4fAxomBJm21BYE2nfYnCWs

Our #music and merchandise is hosted on:
* @mirlo https://mirlo.space/moonshine-brigade/

* @service https://bandwagon.fm/@moonshine-brigade

* #AmpWall https://ampwall.com/a/moonshinebrigade

I haven't done this lately, so I'd like to put in a plug for the relatively-new music platform Ampwall. It's about on par with bandcamp but without the corporate overhead.

They're getting a lot of high-profile flak right now for rejecting a very vocal anti-trans artist. AW sets healthy standards, as do many Mastodon instances. I want to see them succeed, and not just because I have music there. It's going in the right direction.

https://ampwall.com

#ampwall

We are now on #Ampwall !

- Bipolar Explorer https://ampwall.com/a/bipolarexplorer

- Tremosphere https://ampwall.com/a/tremosphere

This is a fantastic interview about what makes Ampwall special.

They really are doing something very different from Bandcamp, even though they also tick all the boxes you expect a Bandcamp alternative to do. The focus on user experience and building community shines through everything they do.

#Bandcamp #Ampwall #IndieMusic #IndieArt

https://unlockyoursound.com/chris-grigg-ampwall

@angrymetalguy great article 🤘
Thanks for mentioning #AmpWall 😃
Maybe add @mirlo as well?

Btw, are you by any chance related to Glenn Fricker? He's one angry metal guy 😅

Angry Metal Guy Speaks: On Spotify

By Angry Metal Guy

Recently, in the Phantom Spell review, a number of people commented that the great new record from Kyle McNeill is not on Spotify. This is, indeed, the case. Phantom Spell is part of a nascent movement of musicians who are divesting from the platform because of Daniel Ek’s involvement in the development of AI war tech. A decision like this is never an easy one to make. Spotify, due to having a free option, is extremely hard to leave behind. It has an enormous listener base, and for bands who are trying to reach as many people as possible, it can seem like an impossible thing to do.

Yet, there are good reasons to leave Spotify behind. A startling bounty of reasons to give Ek and his streaming service the boot, one could say. We here at Angry Metal Guy are pro-musician. I think we all agree that musicians should be fairly compensated. We love music, we want music to flourish, and I think I speak for all of us when I say that it is sad that the industry as we understood it has perished. I’m going to argue here that supporting Spotify is probably not the best way to accomplish music’s future flourishing. And if we want to do that, then I think we need to make some different decisions. So first, I’ll tell you why. And then I’ll suggest some alternatives.1,2

Spotify pays artists less than almost anyone. Spotify pays an average of $0.00318 per stream. That means it takes over 314 streams to make a single dollar on Spotify. Start to break that down, and even artists who have a million streams will only earn $3,180. By contrast, Tidal pays $0.01284 per stream ($12,840 per million), while Apple Music pays between $0.008 and $0.01 (8-10,000 per million). Want to earn the minimum wage from Spotify? That’s 350,000 streams per month to do it. And remember, these are gross figures. Musicians net considerably less than this because there are a lot of grasping hands that come between the payout from the streaming company and the artist. Spotify’s model prioritizes volume over value, which takes me to the second point.

And Spotify keeps trying to pay even less by suppressing royalty rates, developing new ways to underpay artists, and withholding pay from obscure artists. The first of these, suppressing royalty rates, has to do with a lawsuit that first appeared at the end of the last decade. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (USCRB) has a fixed royalty rate.3 In 2018, the USCRB raised the “mechanical royalty rate” for songwriters to 15.1% of revenue, gradually set to increase to 15.35% by 2027. Spotify, along with Amazon, Pandora, and Google, appealed this increase, fighting to keep songwriter royalties lower.

Then, in 2024, Spotify quietly reclassified its Premium subscription as a “bundled service,” which includes audiobooks. That allowed the company to apply a lower royalty formula, and that cut the songwriter’s pay by 30-40% overnight. They were, of course, sued by the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC)—which, be honest, did you know that there was a Mechanical Licensing Collective?—which alleged that Spotify underpaid creators by over $150 million. Spotify won the case, but the US court system siding with moneyed interests isn’t exactly an unexpected outcome. And the ethics of this are pretty fucked up, in my opinion.

Also in 2024, Spotify officially implemented a policy stating that any track with fewer than 1,000 annual streams will not generate royalties for rights holders, even if it has been streamed. Spotify defended this move by claiming most of these payments never reached artists due to distributor payout thresholds and thus redirected those funds to more widely streamed tracks. According to critics, this demonetized between 60% and 87% of all the tracks on Spotify, with an estimated $45-50 million in lost royalties during 2024. So, even if the infrastructure has a bit of a dystopian vibe where the ostensible payout just lands with some other entity, anything earned could still eventually be paid out if something takes off.

You probably heard about this guy who made a fake band called The Velvet Sundown recently and garnered over a million listeners in a short period. While that’s dystopian, what’s worse is that Spotify has increasingly embraced the use of anonymous and AI-generated music. This isn’t a fringe experiment; it appears to be a deliberate business strategy. Investigations have revealed the existence of Spotify’s internal “Perfect Fit Content” (PFC) program, which fills popular playlists with tracks by pseudonymous or entirely fabricated artists. These “ghost artists” are often produced by stock music firms and earn Spotify higher margins because they circumvent royalty structures. A Swedish investigation uncovered over 5,700 fake artist identities linked to just 20 creators, with some garnering billions of streams. And while The Velvet Sundown turned out to just be straight-up fakes, AI tracks falsely attributed to deceased artists like Blaze Foley—a country singer who died in 1989—were found on their official Spotify pages, which raises a ton of questions about how these are curated.

All of the foregoing examples point to the cheapness of “content” in a streaming world, and it seems like Spotify is leaning into that for music, like Netflix did for films. They are creating generic brands to fill out playlists, thus keeping royalties in house through company-owned, algorithmically optimized content. And they think—probably rightly to some extent—that listeners won’t notice or care.

Spotify’s headquarters are in Stockholm, but in 2023-2024, when Swedish unions asked Spotify to sign a collective bargaining agreement—which is literally how labor law works here—Spotify refused. When Swedish courts denied Spotify’s request to make engineers work overnight shifts (which is against Swedish labor law), Ek and co responded by moving hundreds of jobs abroad, instead of negotiating. So, not only does Spotify treat musicians and listeners poorly, but it’s also setting a precedent of labor hostility here at home.

Most recently, Spotify has come under intense scrutiny for the ethical implications of Daniel Ek’s involvement in military technology. Daniel Ek, through his investment firm Prima Materia, led a €600 million funding round in the German military tech company that specializes in shit like AI-powered drones, underwater systems, and—I find this one to be devastatingly frightening—battlefield decision-making software. Ek is now Helsing’s chairman. In response, bands that I have never fucking heard of like Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu have announced they are removing their music from Spotify, viewing participating in Spotify’s capital accumulation as akin to being complicit in Spotify’s monetization of both data-mining and war technology. There have, predictably, been calls for an artist-led boycott.

People have different preferences, but the two primary alternatives to Spotify—if you intend to stay in the streaming game—are Apple Music and Tidal. They both pay better than Spotify, and Apple Music has the added benefit of allowing its subscribers to upload and stream personal files that are not in Apple’s catalog. This latter thing, in my opinion, is among the very best features, and it is the one that has kept me with Apple Music even though I don’t use it for real streaming very much.4 Tidal, on the other hand, pays the most per stream of any major platform and has experimented with direct-to-artist payments and different payout models that I honestly don’t understand very well. The point is, both of these options are heads and shoulders better than Spotify (or fucking YouTube Music or Pandora).

But you’re here at Angry Metal Guy Dot Com, which means you’re a fucking music nerd. And that means you almost certainly are aware of Bandcamp and Ampwall, where you can support many of your favorite artists directly. Spotify—and even Tidal and Apple Music—pay fractions of pennies. Bandcamp pays 80%+ of the sale price. You buy something for 10 bucks, the artist gets 8.5 Ampwall, which is newer and was formed after the sketchy Bandcamp buyout a couple of years back, when half the staff got fired. I have less experience with it, but my understanding is that it’s artist-owned, transparent, and committed to ethical monetization.

Even if you think AI weapons systems are the way of the future and hey, why shouldn’t Daniel Ek be trying to break up the collective bargaining system in Sweden, there’s a pretty solid case to be made that if you are using Spotify these days, you’re making a choice that isn’t to the benefit of the artists that you love. The solution that I have chosen, in part because of Angry Metal Guy, and my ability to be able to listen to promo on the move before it’s been released, is Apple Music. It’s a great service that does everything I need it to. It’s full of cool features they don’t advertise, and I strongly recommend it. It’s system-neutral—yes, it will work on your Android phone—and Apple has not taken part in things like the lawsuit about the USCRB that most of the other big names in streaming took part in. Tidal is even more generous, however, even if it doesn’t quite have the features that I’m looking for. And many of my friends who are moving on from Spotify have moved to Tidal.

No matter what you choose, this fucking timeline is the stupidest timeline. And one way to express your dissatisfaction with this stupid af timeline is by telling Daniel Ek to suck it. He’s certainly been telling us that for years.

#2025 #AI #Ampwall #AngryMetalGuySpeaks #AppleMusic #Spotify #Streaming #TheVelvetSundown #Tidal

https://www.ottorask.com/blog/giving-ampwall-a-spin

#Ampwall #Bandcamp #Indie #IndieMusic #Music

Article in German, about the new indipendent music distribution alternatives. Imho, this is a "Rough Trade" moment, indy dist. might gather enough momentum to carve a viable niche. As a tool maker, live performer and sound designer, I do almost never make tracks suited for sharing, but I know a lot of people struggling bc. of the streaming industries effects.

#mirlo #ampwall #subvert #catalyticsound #soundcloud #rokk #djlab #spotify #streaming #music #business

https://www.dj-lab.de/ungerechte-streaming-wirtschaft-was-tun/

Article in German, about the new indipendent music distribution alternatives. Imho, this is a "Rough Trade" moment, indy dist. might gather enough momentum to carve a viable niche. As a tool maker, live performer and sound designer, I do almost never make tracks suited for sharing, but I know a lot of people struggling bc. of the streaming industries effects.

#mirlo #ampwall #subvert #catalyticsound #soundcloud #rokk #djlab #spotify #streaming #music #business

https://www.dj-lab.de/ungerechte-streaming-wirtschaft-was-tun/

Article in German, about the new indipendent music distribution alternatives. Imho, this is a "Rough Trade" moment, indy dist. might gather enough momentum to carve a viable niche. As a tool maker, live performer and sound designer, I do almost never make tracks suited for sharing, but I know a lot of people struggling bc. of the streaming industries effects.

#mirlo #ampwall #subvert #catalyticsound #soundcloud #rokk #djlab #spotify #streaming #music #business

https://www.dj-lab.de/ungerechte-streaming-wirtschaft-was-tun/

Article in German, about the new indipendent music distribution alternatives. Imho, this is a "Rough Trade" moment, indy dist. might gather enough momentum to carve a viable niche. As a tool maker, live performer and sound designer, I do almost never make tracks suited for sharing, but I know a lot of people struggling bc. of the streaming industries effects.

#mirlo #ampwall #subvert #catalyticsound #soundcloud #rokk #djlab #spotify #streaming #music #business

https://www.dj-lab.de/ungerechte-streaming-wirtschaft-was-tun/

#Bandcamp alternatives

#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
#Artcore https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com $10/yr per 5h
#Bandwagonfm https://bandwagon.fm $10/mo soon
#Patrontape https://patrontape.com UK/EEA
#Formaviva https://formaviva.com
#Evenbiz https://even.biz
#AcidNation https://acidnation.com/
#audius https://audius.co blockchain
#nina https://ninaprotocol.com same
https://catalog.works
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#Bandcamp alternatives

#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
#Artcore https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com $10/yr per 5h
#Bandwagonfm https://bandwagon.fm $10/mo soon
#Patrontape https://patrontape.com UK/EEA
#Formaviva https://formaviva.com
#Evenbiz https://even.biz
#AcidNation https://acidnation.com/
#audius https://audius.co blockchain
#nina https://ninaprotocol.com same
https://catalog.works
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#Bandcamp alternatives

#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
#Artcore https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com $10/yr per 5h
#Bandwagonfm https://bandwagon.fm $10/mo soon
#Patrontape https://patrontape.com UK/EEA
#Formaviva https://formaviva.com
#Evenbiz https://even.biz
#AcidNation https://acidnation.com/
#audius https://audius.co blockchain
#nina https://ninaprotocol.com same
https://catalog.works
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#Bandcamp alternatives

#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
#Artcore https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com $10/yr per 5h
#Bandwagonfm https://bandwagon.fm $10/mo soon
#Patrontape https://patrontape.com UK/EEA
#Formaviva https://formaviva.com
#Evenbiz https://even.biz
#AcidNation https://acidnation.com/
#audius https://audius.co blockchain
#nina https://ninaprotocol.com same
https://catalog.works
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If you want to purchase the 6 albums not directly on Kunaki, then it's possible to do so on #Ampwall and #Bandcamp (and soon #Mirlo) as well, but only a few countries are available.
https://ampwall.com/a/dreamofomni/merch/kunaki-pack-6-albums
https://dreamofomni.bandcamp.com/album/magic-all-around-hardcore-edition

The ElasticStage versions of the albums are still obviously available, but are more expensive.

https://elasticstage.com/dreamofomni

Name change update:

#Website URL is now https://dreamofomni.page
#Ampwall: https://dreamofomni.ampwall.com
#Mirlo: https://mirlo.space/dreamofomni/
#Bandcamp: https://dreamofomni.bandcamp.com

All my discography including singles and EP are available on my #Ampwall and #Bandcamp pages:
https://djomnimaga.bandcamp.com/
https://dreamofomnimaga.ampwall.com/

Opekmno is one of the three #eurodance-inspired and piano-infused #happyhardcore tracks included on my upcoming album Magic All Around: #Hardcore Edition. It is now available for listening below:

#Mirlo - https://mirlo.space/dream-of-omnimaga/release/magic-all-around-hardcore-edition/tracks/11435
#Bandcamp - https://djomnimaga.bandcamp.com/track/opekmno
#Ampwall - https://ampwall.com/a/dreamofomnimaga/album/magic-hardcore (Track #9)

Today I am revealing one of my upcoming album tracks: Ultra Unicorn, featuring a classic 90's #HappyHardcore sound.

#Bandcamp https://djomnimaga.bandcamp.com/track/ultra-unicorn
#Mirlo https://mirlo.space/dream-of-omnimaga/release/magic-all-around-hardcore-edition/tracks/11436
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com/a/dreamofomnimaga/album/magic-hardcore

Also for #BandcampFriday , or rather from today until sunday I am discounting my discography further (the package includes a pre-order of my upcoming album, which arrives on June 1st).

Also, if you followed my Ampwall, you would already know about this release because I've been releasing everything #OnAmpwall early! 😇

I really dig what they're doing and want to encourage people to look there for releases.

https://ampwall.com/a/raccoonfink-electronic/album/upon-the-unlikely-discovery-of-a-ghost

Plus, this is maybe my favorite cover art I've ever done. It just fits the vibe so well.

#Ampwall

[Read in full on NHAM]

Fair Music platforms can be defined by those which directly support musicians in a transparent manner. Ideally they are open-source collectives. In this article we delve deeper in to the good, the bad and the ugly in music distribution platforms, from the artist point of view.

The Good

• Ampwall
• Bandwagon.fm
• Faircamp
• Funkwhale
• Jam.coop
• Mirlo
• Resonate
• Subvert
• Wavlake

I am sure there are some I’ve not yet discovered. If you know of any please do send me (Sam) a message on Mastodon.

The Bad

The following platforms, within the part of the music industry does not work on behalf of musicians, won’t be linked from this website if I can help it. Those which serve ads and trackers. No, thank you.

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Soundcloud
• Spotify (read more below)
• Tidal
• Youtube Music

The Ugly

Once renowned for supporting underground music, allowing fans to buy downloads and physical media direct from artists and labels, and only taking a small fee themselves, Bandcamp has recently been through two large buyouts, with staff lay offs ensuing. It is neither open-source nor a collective. For these reasons I’d ideally like not to include it. However, I do understand that a lot of small and indie artists still rely on the platform and at present they do still get to take home a decent 80-odd percent of the sales fees, which is still a pretty decent return.

Hopefully in time more artists will be able to direct people to their profiles on the platforms listed at the top of this page.

What’s so bad about Spotify?

1. None of the mainstream streaming services pay artists more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market. Spotify pay the lowest.
2. Spotify changed their payout system in April 2024 to only pay artists for their streams once that track is streamed at least 1,000 times in a calendar year.
3. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI technology for the military industrial complex and Spotify hosts several podcasts that support it.

The info above is from a thread by Kydia which goes in to more detail.

Revenue Share

While Spotify pay from nothing to peanuts to indie artists, here’s how the recommended platforms compare:

#Ampwall #article #Bandwagon #Faircamp #FairMusic #Funkwhale #JamCoop #Mirlo #Resonate #resource #Subvert #Wavlake

[Read in full on NHAM]

Fair Music platforms can be defined by those which directly support musicians in a transparent manner. Ideally they are open-source collectives. In this article we delve deeper in to the good, the bad and the ugly in music distribution platforms, from the artist point of view.

The Good

• Ampwall
• Bandwagon.fm
• Faircamp
• Funkwhale
• Jam.coop
• Mirlo
• Resonate
• Subvert
• Wavlake

I am sure there are some I’ve not yet discovered. If you know of any please do send me (Sam) a message on Mastodon.

The Bad

The following platforms, within the part of the music industry does not work on behalf of musicians, won’t be linked from this website if I can help it. Those which serve ads and trackers. No, thank you.

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Soundcloud
• Spotify (read more below)
• Tidal
• Youtube Music

The Ugly

Once renowned for supporting underground music, allowing fans to buy downloads and physical media direct from artists and labels, and only taking a small fee themselves, Bandcamp has recently been through two large buyouts, with staff lay offs ensuing. It is neither open-source nor a collective. For these reasons I’d ideally like not to include it. However, I do understand that a lot of small and indie artists still rely on the platform and at present they do still get to take home a decent 80-odd percent of the sales fees, which is still a pretty decent return.

Hopefully in time more artists will be able to direct people to their profiles on the platforms listed at the top of this page.

What’s so bad about Spotify?

1. None of the mainstream streaming services pay artists more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market. Spotify pay the lowest.
2. Spotify changed their payout system in April 2024 to only pay artists for their streams once that track is streamed at least 1,000 times in a calendar year.
3. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI technology for the military industrial complex and Spotify hosts several podcasts that support it.

The info above is from a thread by Kydia which goes in to more detail.

Revenue Share

While Spotify pay from nothing to peanuts to indie artists, here’s how the recommended platforms compare:

#Ampwall #article #Bandwagon #Faircamp #FairMusic #Funkwhale #JamCoop #Mirlo #Resonate #resource #Subvert #Wavlake

[Read in full on NHAM]

Fair Music platforms can be defined by those which directly support musicians in a transparent manner. Ideally they are open-source collectives. In this article we delve deeper in to the good, the bad and the ugly in music distribution platforms, from the artist point of view.

The Good

• Ampwall
• Bandwagon.fm
• Faircamp
• Funkwhale
• Jam.coop
• Mirlo
• Resonate
• Subvert
• Wavlake

I am sure there are some I’ve not yet discovered. If you know of any please do send me (Sam) a message on Mastodon.

The Bad

The following platforms, within the part of the music industry does not work on behalf of musicians, won’t be linked from this website if I can help it. Those which serve ads and trackers. No, thank you.

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Soundcloud
• Spotify (read more below)
• Tidal
• Youtube Music

The Ugly

Once renowned for supporting underground music, allowing fans to buy downloads and physical media direct from artists and labels, and only taking a small fee themselves, Bandcamp has recently been through two large buyouts, with staff lay offs ensuing. It is neither open-source nor a collective. For these reasons I’d ideally like not to include it. However, I do understand that a lot of small and indie artists still rely on the platform and at present they do still get to take home a decent 80-odd percent of the sales fees, which is still a pretty decent return.

Hopefully in time more artists will be able to direct people to their profiles on the platforms listed at the top of this page.

What’s so bad about Spotify?

1. None of the mainstream streaming services pay artists more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market. Spotify pay the lowest.
2. Spotify changed their payout system in April 2024 to only pay artists for their streams once that track is streamed at least 1,000 times in a calendar year.
3. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI technology for the military industrial complex and Spotify hosts several podcasts that support it.

The info above is from a thread by Kydia which goes in to more detail.

Revenue Share

While Spotify pay from nothing to peanuts to indie artists, here’s how the recommended platforms compare:

#Ampwall #article #Bandwagon #Faircamp #FairMusic #Funkwhale #JamCoop #Mirlo #Resonate #resource #Subvert #Wavlake

[Read in full on NHAM]

Fair Music platforms can be defined by those which directly support musicians in a transparent manner. Ideally they are open-source collectives. In this article we delve deeper in to the good, the bad and the ugly in music distribution platforms, from the artist point of view.

The Good

• Ampwall
• Bandwagon.fm
• Faircamp
• Funkwhale
• Jam.coop
• Mirlo
• Resonate
• Subvert
• Wavlake

I am sure there are some I’ve not yet discovered. If you know of any please do send me (Sam) a message on Mastodon.

The Bad

The following platforms, within the part of the music industry does not work on behalf of musicians, won’t be linked from this website if I can help it. Those which serve ads and trackers. No, thank you.

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Soundcloud
• Spotify (read more below)
• Tidal
• Youtube Music

The Ugly

Once renowned for supporting underground music, allowing fans to buy downloads and physical media direct from artists and labels, and only taking a small fee themselves, Bandcamp has recently been through two large buyouts, with staff lay offs ensuing. It is neither open-source nor a collective. For these reasons I’d ideally like not to include it. However, I do understand that a lot of small and indie artists still rely on the platform and at present they do still get to take home a decent 80-odd percent of the sales fees, which is still a pretty decent return.

Hopefully in time more artists will be able to direct people to their profiles on the platforms listed at the top of this page.

What’s so bad about Spotify?

1. None of the mainstream streaming services pay artists more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market. Spotify pay the lowest.
2. Spotify changed their payout system in April 2024 to only pay artists for their streams once that track is streamed at least 1,000 times in a calendar year.
3. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI technology for the military industrial complex and Spotify hosts several podcasts that support it.

The info above is from a thread by Kydia which goes in to more detail.

Revenue Share

While Spotify pay from nothing to peanuts to indie artists, here’s how the recommended platforms compare:

#Ampwall #article #Bandwagon #Faircamp #FairMusic #Funkwhale #JamCoop #Mirlo #Resonate #resource #Subvert #Wavlake

[Read in full on NHAM]

Fair Music platforms can be defined by those which directly support musicians in a transparent manner. Ideally they are open-source collectives. In this article we delve deeper in to the good, the bad and the ugly in music distribution platforms, from the artist point of view.

The Good

• Ampwall
• Bandwagon.fm
• Faircamp
• Funkwhale
• Jam.coop
• Mirlo
• Resonate
• Subvert
• Wavlake

I am sure there are some I’ve not yet discovered. If you know of any please do send me (Sam) a message on Mastodon.

The Bad

The following platforms, within the part of the music industry does not work on behalf of musicians, won’t be linked from this website if I can help it. Those which serve ads and trackers. No, thank you.

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• Soundcloud
• Spotify (read more below)
• Tidal
• Youtube Music

The Ugly

Once renowned for supporting underground music, allowing fans to buy downloads and physical media direct from artists and labels, and only taking a small fee themselves, Bandcamp has recently been through two large buyouts, with staff lay offs ensuing. It is neither open-source nor a collective. For these reasons I’d ideally like not to include it. However, I do understand that a lot of small and indie artists still rely on the platform and at present they do still get to take home a decent 80-odd percent of the sales fees, which is still a pretty decent return.

Hopefully in time more artists will be able to direct people to their profiles on the platforms listed at the top of this page.

What’s so bad about Spotify?

1. None of the mainstream streaming services pay artists more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market. Spotify pay the lowest.
2. Spotify changed their payout system in April 2024 to only pay artists for their streams once that track is streamed at least 1,000 times in a calendar year.
3. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI technology for the military industrial complex and Spotify hosts several podcasts that support it.

The info above is from a thread by Kydia which goes in to more detail.

Revenue Share

While Spotify pay from nothing to peanuts to indie artists, here’s how the recommended platforms compare:

#Ampwall #article #Bandwagon #Faircamp #FairMusic #Funkwhale #JamCoop #Mirlo #Resonate #resource #Subvert #Wavlake

#Bandcamp alternatives:

#Mirlo https://mirlo.space
#JamCoop https://jam.coop
#Artcore https://artcore.com
#Ampwall https://ampwall.com
#Bandwagon https://bandwagon.fm (soon $10/mo to sell)
#Patrontape https://patrontape.com (UK/EEA country)
#Formaviva https://formaviva.com (admin approval)
#Even https://even.biz (same)
#AC55ID https://www.ac55id.com (same & $10/mo)
#audius https://audius.co (blockchain)
#ninaprotocol https://www.ninaprotocol.com (same)
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My 23rd album "Hatansion II: Hardcore from Satan" is now out everywhere, featuring #UKhardcore, #frenchcore, #gabber and #happyhardcore, all infused with some makina influences.

https://doomni.page/hatansion.html

#Mirlo #Jamcoop #Bandcamp #artcore #Ampwall

I am on this #Ampwall compilation! Cranked To 11: An Ampwall Community Mixtape is a compilation of many artists from the Discord server, spanning many genres, and everything on there is great to listen to: https://ampwall.com/a/team/album/cranked-to-11-an-ampwall-community-mixtape