Hey y'all. I have a few questions regarding 'the mixtape'. What are the basic guidelines, if any, to stick by when starting out putting together one of these? I notice a lot of mixtapes are like one continuous arrangement of songs run together like a dj would do at a live show or something. i.e. no breaks and all beatmixed in at around the same tempo (guess thats why they call them mixtapes). I'm wanting to know because a bro and I have about 8 songs nearly finished and we are wanting to get our music out there and have been told 'the mixtape' is the way to go. We have only been doing this for just under a year and have been getting quite a bit of people interested in us (believe it or not). Although I have experience with playing various instruments and some production skills (still a newbie tho), I have no dj'ing skills whatsoever and am wondering if this is necessary for producing a mixtape. Or is getting a free CD out there with our songs including interludes, intros and outros blah blah simply enough? Just seems to me 'the mixtape' name to it gives it more appeal in the underground scene today. What do you think?
By the way, all the beats we create are all our own music created from scratch on various instruments/software minus the individual sounding samples like drum sounds and effects etc obviously. You can check out our 1st three tracks we did at www.k54.co.nz/index_old.html if you want. The production is a little on the green side but all tracks there have since been changed anyway. It's like everyday you learn something which makes you think, "ah thats how I should have done that back then", so they've kind of evolved. We used to keep all our tracks online for free download but found people were getting annoyed because we would take about 2 months to finish a track just because we didn't have the time. So we thought it'd be better if we took everything off and waited until we had more material. Some feedback about this would be nice also. How to best bring your material out. Mixtape or no mixtape in our case?
By the way, all the beats we create are all our own music created from scratch on various instruments/software minus the individual sounding samples like drum sounds and effects etc obviously. You can check out our 1st three tracks we did at www.k54.co.nz/index_old.html if you want. The production is a little on the green side but all tracks there have since been changed anyway. It's like everyday you learn something which makes you think, "ah thats how I should have done that back then", so they've kind of evolved. We used to keep all our tracks online for free download but found people were getting annoyed because we would take about 2 months to finish a track just because we didn't have the time. So we thought it'd be better if we took everything off and waited until we had more material. Some feedback about this would be nice also. How to best bring your material out. Mixtape or no mixtape in our case?
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