I’m necroing this thread for an update on what we’ve learned since I initially posted.
We have made a bandcamp page, tried to be a bit more active on social media, etc. We’ve also learned that “indietronica” is a suitable description for much of what we are doing.
However, our most interesting discovery has been submithub.com. This is a page that makes it easy to submit music to lots of music blogs at once. If you pay for “premium tickets”, the blogs have to listen to your track and then either accept your submission or write a short comment on why they don’t like it. Getting lots and lots of thumbs down and comments telling you how much you suck can be a bit depressing, but as a whole, the feedback has been useful. Particularly when several responses are pointing to the same problems.
We’ve spent aprox $50 total, spread on three different tracks. A couple of blogs have accepted a track, either writing a bit about us and sharing the track on the blog. Or more often, the track gets added to a soundcloud playlist, which has resulted in a small bump in listening numbers. A couple of really big blogs showed an interest, but unfortunately that hasn’t amounted to anything yet. The feedback has been valuable, though. And a bit surprising. Everyone “hated” this track (that we like):
…while this one that we weren’t all that pleased with was generally well received:
https://soundcloud.com/gallerine/let-it-go-free-download
All in all, I’d definitively recommend submithub. One lesson learned is that a submitted track appears to fare a lot better if it “gets to the point” quickly.
Do anyone know of other web sites or services worth knowing about? Some decent mixing/mastering service perhaps?