I joined Reddit recently. I've known about it for years, but my early experiences with it showed it to be a platform for racist ideologies, so I kept my distance. There are a lot of forums on it, though, so it's nice to interact with like-minded individuals who share the same ailments and issues as me. One forum/subreddit I joined is called r/Psybient. It allows you to link to your releases, so I linked The Dream Merchant. As it turned out, the album received enough likes to earn it a place in a Spotify playlist called r/Psybient | Top Weekly Posts. Not bad, huh? Why am I excited by that? Because the list contains artists who are well-known in the psybient world, artists I look up to, like Kaminanda, Maiia, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Desert Dwellers, etc.
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...and I can hardly wait. I'm also nervous because I don't know what it'll sound like mastered by someone else. I trust in the fact that Melusine has been in the business for 20 years, with artists who've played huge festivals worldwide, and will come through with a truly professional-sounding album. At least the cover is impressive.
I signed the publishing and recording agreement for Melusine Records from Bucharest, Romania to release Astrologicus which they'll do after mastering it. It should go live Feb 1. I'm excited because E-Mantra/Melusine has a long and proven track record in the psychill field. They've performed at festivals for years so they're quite aware of what works and is accepted in the genre. Plus, they've released a few of their albums on The Psychedelic Muse, the YouTube channel that is, to the best of my knowledge, the most popular curator for psychill, ambient, downtempo, and psybient music. And since they'll be professionally mastering the project, it should sound better than the mastering I did here. I can't wait to see their artwork, too. Should be interesting.
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