You may know by now I manually curate and review - in a small team - music related posts, every single day. We try and spot the best posts of the day which we then reward with a nice upvote, from maybe 10$ up to 60$.
Going through all the posts, we've noticed a growing number of music publications, from original to none-original music. We also see quite a number of "how to learn to play xyz instrument" and "why music is good for us".
Rarely we detect posts talking about music in a review style, or sharing your experiences when attending some concert or dance party.
image: mainstage Wildeburg festival 2017 (the Netherlands)
Call for Music Reviews & Event Reports
I would love to see more of such kind of posts in our community! Such posts bring a personal touch to the music experience. It is your opinion and/or your experience you share with us, which will bring extra value to the community.
Music we can discover everywhere, YouTube/Soundcloud/Mixcloud and numerous other places, but personal opinions and reviews on songs/tracks/albums, and event reviews/reports sharing your personal experiences is a bit harder to find on the Big Internet! Steemit is a perfect channel for such kind of publications. Needless to say that Steemit is designed for writing, more than it is designed for posting audio and video.
Journalist/Writers with a Love for Music
We have several professional journalists in our community working in the music industry and writing about music on Steemit, or working outside the music industry but still write or vlog about music and publish on Steemit.
People like @fourfourfun @rawselectmusic @theneedledrop @carolinaigs @cmp2020 @antonireviews already writing/vlogging about music in review style quite a lot.
I'm pretty sure we have more users in the community doing the same. Please come forward and let yourself know to me and others in the community.
image: Mysteryland 2017 (the Netherlands)
Driving a Holistic Music Community
Wouldn't it be great when:
- We develop a music community covering all aspects of music?
- The (semi-)professional journalists start publishing even more music reviews, opinions and interviews at Steemit?
- More (semi-)professional writers start publishing about music?
- Original music posted at Steemit gets reviewed in a (semi-)professional manner?
I call for all those who love to write and have a love for music, to jump on the boat with all of us music lovers, creators, producers, and fans
and Jointly Create a SUPER COOL Music Community!
Although I don't have a project in mind yet, I already keeping lists of users and what they do. I like to extend these lists to include - ultimately - all music contributors and fans in our community!
Knowing we will get community features implemented in our backend database - the Steem blockchain - this year, I'm sure the activities I'm doing right now, will support enabling more connected music communities, now and for the (near) future when community features are enabled.
Its a pleasure to be on that TEAM !
Glad to have you in the team!
It's kind of funny to find one of my very first music related articles on steemit last year 2016!
Not my Best but a good start at least
Payout was : 1.94
https://steemit.com/music/@mammasitta/miles-davis-femi-kuti-and-jazz
Wow! :)
This here got already more
https://steemit.com/massivevibrations/@mammasitta/my-past-life-on-tour-and-on-stage-with-miles-davis-and-femi-kuti-photo-taken-in-italy-1984-music-is-my-passion
:)
And meeeee :)
My pleasure!
Great idea, @edje, just gonna throw my name into the hat. Pretty new account, but I write about all things House and Techno, mostly on a deeper, techier side.
I have a daily Tune of the Day posts where I write mini-review of each track I want to highlight, the focus being on lesser known artists. I crate dig music for my DJ series on Mixcloud (which I also now make available for download on dsound) so my posts are very consistent and I tend to have a rather high standard for picking the highlighted tracks. I have also been mixing House and Techno for several years now and have developed a ear for good stuff, which, of course subjectively, might resonate quite well with people who love the genre.
That's an elevator pitch of sorts, thanks for any consideration. Cheers!
This sound super! I think I came across one of your blogs and as far as I remember, it was well written. I've added you to my list of music writers and reviewers :) And will check you blog later this week.
Wrt, uploading music to the Steem blockchain; Just make sure whatever you upload to DTube or Dsound you own the rights of and it is made clear (I wrote an article about this the other day: https://steemit.com/curation/@edje/qualifying-for-high-value-votes-how-to-provide-evidence-you-are-you-and-your-music-is-yours
Thank you, much appreciated.
As far as the uploads go (dsound and dtube), that stuff is all original content, the review posts all have Soundcloud embeds and I make it clear in the post that this is music that has been curated, not my own work.
For now dsound stuff is DJ sets I do, but given that it is original work and all music featured in it is available for free download (and the tracklists are transparent), I hope that covers the rights attribution.
I remember that article and loved your explanation and all the conversations surrounding the topic in the comments.
Thanks again, look forward to being part of the music crew here on Steemit in whatever growing capacity :)
Super! I think your way of handling the blockchain is how it should be, no breaking of copyright laws, although some may debate the fact that embedding Soundcloud or YouTube in a new publication and earn money with it, may infringe copyright laws, but I personally debate such law, since one can argue that this is not more than providing a link (whether it is in fact a link or embedded code) and when using it for some new work, a self written article, maybe with more links and images added to it, the work becomes a complete new work and the value is not in the link provided, but the publication as a whole. I do very much the same as you do: I embed the code for Soundcloud or YouTube in a Steemit post, and provide a link to the source under the embedded code window, or in a separate note at the bottom of the post.
An interesting call to action idea 💡
I’ve actually been contemplating reviewing specific steemit users who i’ve been keeping an eye on for months/some since my beginning on Steemit.
Tbh, it’s been a daunting project bc writing about a user on the whole would take a lot of time and careful research in order to do it effective and accurately.
However, tour idea gives me an idea 💡
Perhaps if i were to focus in on a specific music performance or track release from a specific Steemit Artisit, that might be a more realistic approach for success and sustain...
Would this be in line with what you’re trying to instigate?
JB
Reviewing an artist is possible, but I would think it is indeed easier and at least as useful for others to review tracks and albums; Guess on Steemit more tracks, but some do post albums to eg DTube, or publish here from YouTube or Soundcloud. It would be awesome if you could do that indeed!
Ya, I meant I'd pick a track to focus on, or a particular compilation from a Steemit artist. Not necessarily their entirety... that was my issue with the previous idea lol. Waaaay too much to got through lol.
Hahahaha, hardly any journalist takes the whole oeuvre of an artist in mind when reviewing a new EP/LP :) Per track sounds super cool to start with!
I'm not a professional but I do write ups of songs, artists and genres and usually add a personal element into it. I've always wanted to get into writing but music but I didn't, then my friend introduced me to Steemit and I feel it's the perfect platform! I also talk about the festivals I go to occasionally and if I've seen a set by the artist . I'll expand my writing to talking about events and festival experiences as well! Thanks for the outline of what you'd like to see more from the community
Great you writing and you like music and even more great you already combine the two and like to expand on it! I need to think about a format in which we can bring these reviews together.
Great idea. For independent artists, like myself, reviews of albums etc. would be great! I'd love for someone to review some of my original music. I'd be interested in reviewing as well - I'm a bit of a Simon Cowell I'm afraid. Considering I'm a singer, it's probably best for me to review movies. LOL. But I love the idea of creating more of a community. I'm having a hard time finding like-minded folks. This would definitely help.
That is cool indeed, artists who also like to review others. Movie reviews we can use more as well, but the good ones I suppose :) That said, I didn;t look at movie posts at all last so many months, so maybe a lot is out on the blockchain, not sure to be honest. But yeh, why not write about music? I'm not familiar with Simon Cowell :( I actually have the idea music is quite spread out on Steemit, except maybe OpenMic. Music is also very diverse and that doesn't make it easy to come closer into a music sub-community. I need to start thinking about some projects, but for sure the planned community features may help to get all music enthousiast closer together.
you should contact @theneedledrop to see if he wants to get involved.
Thanks. He is already in my list indeed :)
Awesome! Also "Needless to say that Steemit is designed for writing, more than it is designed for posting audio and video." I'm not sure if you know about it or not but MUSE is in the process of being built. It is a fork of steemit made for the music side of the world. You will be able to earn MUSE like you earn steem but instead it will be for streams instead of upvotes. museblockchain.com for more info. @cob is the brains behind it and you can find him here on steemit.
I kinda know of Muse indeed. Looking forward what it will bring. In music and blockchains a lot is happening, especially for video and audio. But indeed, for textual, not so much yet available, other than Steemit :)
The cool thing with MUSE is that it will be able to be integrated with other steem apps where artists can earn steem for upvotes and muse for streams. I do like the idea of the music community here and getting it more organized. I am getting ready to start putting up some of my original music here. I'm still trying to figure out how to easily find the like minded people on steemit. So if that is something you can incorporate into what you are doing that is cool.
We have several sub-communities. No idea what your music is, but for song.songwriter a lot of Steemians do things with OpenMic. For electronic music there is the Discord based SMA community with several projects running: https://discord.gg/jHKFUwY
I knew of the open mic but did not know about the discord community. Thanks!
Found via an @mammasitta resteem. Hello @edje, here is a brand new user (@herbertholmes) that I felt did a very fantastic review of Black Merde's music from the early 70's .
Thanks for the share, indeed a pretty cool article.
Yes, I agree we need more reviews of albums/songs. I´ll check out the people you mentioned. Peace
We also need more people who are actually more interested in such articles.
Cool
nice
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good post
This music is very nice..
I appreciate dear...Thanks for sharing..
Really? Did you Read the Post?! No Music in the post. That is why I gave you a flag, since this is simply a SPAM COMMENT!
Yes I realize this..Actually this post had spam..Next time I am not spam post.but you get one flag in my post....Surely this is my fault ..Ok my friend if you can ..You will withdraw your flag...
Why would I? You say literally "This music is very nice..." while there is NO music at all in the post and you didn't had the decency to vote for the post while you are asking me to remove the flag?! Well, change your behaviour, and the flag is to get you thinking how you shall treat others in the community. I would have expected more from someone having a Reputation of 51.
Ok dear no problem..I avoid this behaviour and this time I conscious ..
See you letter my friend...
Go ahead...
support my steemit plz
Really? You counter a spam comment you placed with a flag? This seems the world upside down. It is NOT done to ask for support you posts, vote for vote, for follows, for follow-4-follow and so on. For sure not when not responding to a post or comment with a relevant comment. And this is not the only post you use such comment on, and even after I warned you, you continued to place such comments on other posts. We have services like @steemcleaners who can take care of comment spammers; And to be honest, you dont want to be on their lists!
Sorry, I'll not react to this type of requests and consider it spam commenting. Therefore a flag!
sorry sir
nice post
follow back
I guess you are asking to follow you; Well I will NOT! This is spam commenting, and you deserve a flag.
I flag !