Sound Mixing and Master for the song "Time Machine" LA based producer Matt Lange originally garnered attention with his glitchy Telefon Tel-Aviv influenced IDM beats: But over time he started making Progressive House, now more Techno influenced songs and has scored himself an appearance on Mau5trap, deadmau5’s own label. Kristine Veta as CELESTE Instead, work with music that people enjoy – even if you, yourself, are more interested in tracks that aren’t quite as popular with your audience. Let’s explore some tips on how to nail this…. Along with all the benefits of cross-promotion this will also give you extra social media content, killing 2 birds with 1 stone. If you’re posting a live set, mention the club or location where it was recorded. Make sure you ‘upgrade’ your best work with visuals; it will go a long way. An added bonus of using private posts for this reason is that if you ever wish to publicly release the tracks you can simply change the post’s settings. The platform’s got 175 million active listeners – twice as many as Spotify – and they’re hungry for quality content.

Songkick will also appear in your SoundCloud sidebar once connected: SoundCloud has a lot of merit, but it still isn’t perfect. A great tool you can use to follow-gate your content is Gleam Rewards. It hosts everything ranging from music through to science and even comedy.

The same applies to your own listeners, who you should always reply to.

We recommend focusing on major networks like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, as well as your personal website. There’s no other service that allows you to do all these things while reaching out to music fans – and this is why SoundCloud is so uniquely effective as a marketing tool for musicians. That’s why you get the option to sign up via Facebook: SoundCloud expects you to use other platforms.
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Sometimes the best way to initiate a connection with an influential user is simply by messaging them.
Your spotlighted tracks are likely to be where you make your first impression with listeners, so we recommend using this section to highlight the music that has been the most well received by your fans. Look for active and influential SoundCloud users, and follow them. Bear in mind that SoundCloud streams your tracks in 128kbps, so if you want users to hear it without quality then you will need to enable downloads on that track (which isn’t always an option).

You’re also going to have more and more music, no matter how much quality filtering you do. While you might not be able to rely on email to embed your tracks, you can always count on websites. AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND EVERYWHERE ELSE!!! If you can provide it, you’ll find hordes of fans. If you make a Facebook post or send out a tweet from your personal accounts your friends are likely to listen, and you may just gain some new fans because of it. That’s why it’s important to be a SoundCloud user in addition to being a marketer (and a musician/A&R/sound engineer/producer).

If you’re a band or musician, go with your stage name. Cross-Promotions can be as simple as asking a music content curator to spin your records in exchange for you helping promote them, or participating in a musical collaboration that allows you to create excellent new content. Take a look at this simple yet elegant album cover from Mauro Valdemi. If a song isn’t getting listens over a period of weeks or months, you may want to remove it. All you need to do is open the track you want to post in the SoundCloud app, open the menu in the bottom right corner and select Share > Share to Instagram Stories. One thing we don’t recommend is buying listens. You may like to experiment as an artist, that’s understandable – but it’s still important to present your body of work in a coherent way that people can enjoy. Loud Luxury - Body (feat Brando) remixes.

It can also pay to commission a piece from an artist, just like this Reddit user did. Now that you have this sorted, lets talk about how other social platforms play into the success of your SoundCloud profile…. SoundCloud is an exceptionally convenient platform for sharing and discovering music, and it has helped several big-time artists like Fetty Wap, Kygo and Post Malone get discovered…. Sometimes it can take a while for you to find your place in the world of music, at the same time some producers find that having to produce the same genre for every track can really cause strain on their creativity. © In addition to these core social platforms, there are numerous other pages you can link to boost your marketing efforts. Once you’ve started uploading a substantial amount of music you may need to start filtering it.

If it’s only a preview, throw (Preview) into the track name. If they’re an artist you could ask them if they would be interested in a collaboration, or even to play your track.

As a SoundCloud user, the best way to direct traffic to your other social accounts is by adding links to other platforms to your profile. BRANDO's biography. Just enough to tease the audience, but not enough to use the track without paying for it.

Just take a look at how he uses the comments to thank the promotion page who shared his track and interact with his fans.

Another excellent feature SoundCloud offers to SoundCloud Pro subscribers is the ability to spotlight tracks and playlists. Brando Body (dzeko Remix Zippyshare. A level of success that would be unattainable without their finely polished, high quality tracks.

On top of that, SoundCloud is a place for: What this means is that SoundCloud is an excellent place to find connections, team up with like-minded people and build your following by attracting influencers. British producer Araxis has proven to excel at this. The more awareness you raise the better! Mitchell Davis as COLTON Hugely successful artists like Chance the Rapper understand the importance of consistent musical experiences, and endeavour provide them as a result, just check out these two tracks to see how he has crafted a consistent style which still provides room for a unique and differentiated musical experience.

Especially when the majority of artist searches happen on Google first. Consider Marshmello, an artist that has rocketed to the mainstream over the last few years with a Pseudonym that ended up overtaking the main artist, except no-one knows quite who the main artist is – or do they? Remove any works that aren’t performing well. Just make sure not to sell anything you haven’t cleared with the appropriate copyright owner! If you can’t rank your SoundCloud profile for your own artist name then you’ll be missing out on followers that heard your gigs or songs elsewhere. For an example, take a look at this track from Soda Klop which can be downloaded for free pending completion of a few simple tasks that will do wonders for gaining exposure and building an audience. Pay for some distribution services to send your tracks to their members, Run regular giveaways for fans to reward them. Consider SoundCloud as the primary place that you’re hosting your music. Brando Crawford serves as Executive Director of The Language and Music School (see www.internationalmansion.com) an educational establishment offering private lessons in language, music and academic tutoring and a progressive "homeschool in school" PreK- 8th Grade program.

Soul Society Your spotlighted tracks will be immediately presented to users who view your page, so if you have any songs, playlists or albums that you want to be prominently displayed then this is the way to do it.