Music of Sound

Thanks to everyone who has been supportive of my little music project, the response has been fantastic! I didn’t have any short term goals other than getting it started but the project has only been online for a week and it’s already reached more people than I imagined possible. When I think back to last time I released music the only real indicator of people engaging with it was via gigs – I remember playing the New Years midnight set in the drum&bass zone at The Gathering & thinking wow there must be like 800 people in here! Having had this blog for three years now I have slowly become a statistics addict, partly because it is so easy to access data but also as it is encouraging…. so I thought I’d share a few stats with you..

So DUB45 Stats for the first week from 03.03.2010 -> 10.03.2010
Unique visitors to DUB45.com = 1,082
Hits to DUB45.com = 4,079
Soundcloud playback of DUB4501 Track B1: 397 plays
Soundcloud playback of DUB4501 Track B2: 301 plays
DUB45 Promo Video via Youtube: 2,649 viewings
DUB45 Promo Video via Vimeo: 1,164 viewings

In starting DUB45 I fully subscribe to a theory presented by Gerd Leonhard that the biggest obstacle nowadays is overcoming obscurity so these statistics are incredibly encouraging, especially considering it IS only week one, of many…. The response to the video has been the most surprising – thats over 3,500 screenings in a week! And it’s been invited to screen at a film festival, which makes me glad I finished it to 1080p resolution. And its also inspired me to invest in Dragon Stop Motion software & commission a little spaceman built on a proper stop motion armature, so expect to see more of him sooner or later..

I’ve also had some welcome emails from people interested in collaborating on tunes for the label in the future (either whole tracks or doing overdubs on mine) which I will also pursue. One of my favorite aspects of the album I released of drum&bass all those years ago was getting the hugely talented Mark De Clive Lowe to play rhodes on a few tracks, and Matt Gruebner to play double bass. Like film making, collaboration is one of the joys of the process….

And the weirdest incoming link to DUB45.com? This one: audiopr0ncentral – well I thought it was weird until I went & had a look, its actually a great site and I’ll add it to the links here…

Thanks again – I have three contenders for the next release well underway… and ideas for another short film… onwards!