What is the most effective and the best way to promote my music?

[undergroundsurface]

Hello everyone,

I'm new in this forum, so I write a little bit about myself.

I'm 14 years old from Lithuania. I'm started producing music about 3 years ago and I'm using Ableton Live 9. I was thinking to promote my music. However, I don't know how to do it. I really don't have much money for advertisements. So it would be better to advertise as cheap as possible. I created my own Youtube channel about 3 weeks ago. I don't know whether this solution worked for me, because is it very difficult to receive constant support. I need to build the audience somehow. I was planning to release an album or EP. Because within 3 years of making music, I have created lots of music. I produced music such as electro house, deep house, ambient/chill, chill house, house, deep/dark/minimal, techno, dnb. My music is very diverse. So I really need your advices, what should I do with advertising.

LINKS:


https://www.facebook.com/undergroundsurface
https://soundcloud.com/underground-surface

Thanks for the advices

[DJ Warmonger]

There are two ways:

1. Become famous by playing idiot in front of camera, like Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus.

2. Just make good stuff and stay active. Posting your works everywhere in the internet will pay back, as long as it's not just spam and you have some quality to show.

Soundcloud link didn't work for me, but youtube music is promising.

[V0RT3X]

Yah spamming people won't help. One thing that will is getting a name out there for yourself. But don't do it by posting spam on every forum you see, or by telling people to check your stuff out on youtube or soundcloud. I mean you COULD do this but i think it's kind of tacky.. and if your stuff isn't that good to begin with your just gonna be digging yourself a hole.

Even if you just go and DJ and occasionally play your own stuff along side others stuff it will help you locally. Eventually people start talking and your "fame" will grow, the trick is to keep on doing self promotion.

Do DJ Gigs for free at first because if your a nobody, then nobody will pay you.

Promote your own stuff by playing a song of yours at the end of the show? Get a facebook page, bandcamp page, etc and use social media to help keep you connected to people who might be interested.

[Sendy]

Stop thinking in terms of genres. Do some serious blue sky thinking about your "voice", what you want to say with your music. Make a statement! This will take time - some of us have been at this for decades and are still finding our voice (myself included).

Creating art that attracts people on it's own merit isn't something to be taken lightly or undertaken with a "fast track" mindset. Look at all the iconic people of electronic music - Squarepusher, AFX, Skrillex, BT, Oneohtrix, Burial, just some top-of-my-head examples. They're all people who broke the mould and make some people just go WTF

[highkoo]

Contact your local Illuminati office and see what they suggest.
They will likely have a handy press packet ready for you which will include the proper media for album covers and stage shows, and this years secret-hand-gesture hierarchy. Also instructions on the right kind of spectacle to make of yourself to achieve proper ranking in the new world order.

[undergroundsurface]

Soundcloud link didn't work for me, but youtube music is promising.

I have corrected my soundcloud link in this thread. Now it is already active.

[marioisaac]

Stop thinking in terms of genres.

+1 on this.

You are very young; if you completely forget about a genre and just concentrate on sounds by themselves, you will start to become aware of aspects of sound that were unknown to you.

Even when not making music, be constantly aware of the sounds surrounding you; your blender, the screeching sound when opening the faucet that precedes the sound of the dripping water over a glass. cars, engines, closing your backpack opening it. If you have a cel phone; record these sounds, sample them, amplify them, play them in different pitches, just out of curiosity.

Play the blind man, close your eyes from time to time when you are in a restaurant, the park, just to remind you are immerse in an intense sonic universe, and draw your attention towards it.

Listen to bugs, birds (great musicians). Listen to silence, you might be surprised that there is nothing but an intense symphonic universe there, and sometimes it might get very loud!

Check this out:






Learn to play an instrument (your voice, piano, guitar, flute, accordion, etc) whatever, study traditional music, scales, etc. Don't rush on this, it will take years to master any instrument.


People tend to forget, but the electric guitar had to wait almost 40 years to be touched by Jimi Hendrix since it's invention.

We could say that computers as a music tool for the masses, has roughly 20 years of existence, and the possibilities are enormous; humans haven't even scratched the surface of what can sonically be done with computers.

Impress us kid, create something that we humans haven't sonically experience yet, and show it to us.

[undergroundsurface]

Stop thinking in terms of genres. Do some serious blue sky thinking about your "voice", what you want to say with your music. Make a statement! This will take time - some of us have been at this for decades and are still finding our voice (myself included).

Creating art that attracts people on it's own merit isn't something to be taken lightly or undertaken with a "fast track" mindset. Look at all the iconic people of electronic music - Squarepusher, AFX, Skrillex, BT, Oneohtrix, Burial, just some top-of-my-head examples. They're all people who broke the mould and make some people just go WTF

As I understand, now I need to sort all my tracks to the albums, EPs, singles. It doesn't matter that these releases haven't been released yet or aren't planned to release. I understand it, when I saw your comment. My music is very diverse. In my opinion, it's a bad choice to upload all my music to YT with only one artwork. Because it confuses people.

[undergroundsurface]

Check this out:






Learn to play an instrument (your voice, piano, guitar, flute, accordion, etc) whatever, study traditional music, scales, etc. Don't rush on this, it will take years to master any instrument.

I don't understand what you wanted to show me when you threw the links. I don't know whether it's worth learning to play any instrument. Because this is not my music.

[Sendy]

Great stuff, very inspiring!

[marioisaac]

Check this out:






Learn to play an instrument (your voice, piano, guitar, flute, accordion, etc) whatever, study traditional music, scales, etc. Don't rush on this, it will take years to master any instrument.

I don't understand what you wanted to show me when you threw the links. I don't know whether it's worth learning to play any instrument. Because this is not my music.

i'm just sharing information. And no matter what kind of music you want to play, playing an instrument will definitely bring new ideas to the table when composing music.

[marioisaac]

Great stuff, very inspiring!

Glad you found it inspiring

[Johnni Lightning]

I must confess I have been rather guilty of making, rather than promoting my own music. But people have always handed out CD's to consumers. And the best thing as an EDM producer is to run your own DJ night and create your own scene. Even as a 14 year old. Ask around, get some decks and a speaker. Make some flyers. I know I would have liked to be somewhere cool as a 14 year old.

Oh yeah, before I forget the track "The Street" was excellent. Computer game soundtrack in a good way!

[undergroundsurface]

I must confess I have been rather guilty of making, rather than promoting my own music. But people have always handed out CD's to consumers. And the best thing as an EDM producer is to run your own DJ night and create your own scene. Even as a 14 year old. Ask around, get some decks and a speaker. Make some flyers. I know I would have liked to be somewhere cool as a 14 year old.

Oh yeah, before I forget the track "The Street" was excellent. Computer game soundtrack in a good way!

My track "The Street" is not really computer game soundtrack. It sounds like, but I do not associate with him creating any game. So it's just a simple track, not any soundtrack.