Sounds of the Week - 11/27/23
Magic Withdrawals, Angrybaby, Viral Drops, CERULEAN Supply, & more.
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We share viral sounds, top collectors, top curators, genesis drops, and more to help you navigate everything going on at Sound.
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Recent Updates
We shipped Magic Withdrawals.
No need to buy crypto or bridge ETH.
Artists can now fully engage with our tools without ever paying a gas fee.
It makes uploading your song to Sound as easy as Soundcloud or Bandcamp.
Read more about the new feature here.
Artist Spotlight with Angrybaby
Angrybaby is releasing his first track on Sound this week. We asked him a little bit more about his musical journey:
“Angrybaby is a 25 year old Asian-American electronic music producer from Albany, CA. He grew up playing the classical piano, and started to make hip-hop beats in high school using GarageBand. After moving home to San Francisco post-college, Angrybaby experienced a second awakening of electronic music when he was introduced into the culture of DJing and began throwing weekly community events in the Bay Area. Becoming a scholar of its composition, arrangement, and theory; he took what he learned from DJing, how dance music is composed, and applied it to his own craft. Coupled with his classically-trained foundation and love for electronic music, Angrybaby is crafting his own sound for tomorrow.”
Check out the song, “FLASHING LIGHTS.”
Viral Sounds
The top 10 tracks on the Viral Chart.
Fun Fact: Nessy The Rilla's first Twitch stream song went viral at #1 this week.
See what’s trending now.
Community Connections with RŌHKI
RŌHKI recently dropped their CERULEAN EP on Sound. Here’s some insight into their strategy with this drop:
CERULEAN is the last project before Season 2.
We wanted to create a cohesive body of work which demonstrates our experience visiting other worlds and showcasing our first collaboration with angelbaby.
After selling out the presale in 10 minutes, it was clear that our core community was eager and excited to unlock the full set rewards that we had initially promised at sell out.
Once the collection started to stall, we decided it was best to turn to our community to vote on what to do next instead of waiting to issue the set rewards to our collectors.
We've used Snapshot votes since very early on in the project to get buy-in and support from the same collectors on bigger decisions.
We set up a vote with a proposed new supply for each song, and made the voting weight the editions from the CERULEAN project. The vote passed with 99.7% in favor of the proposal with ~40% of the total supply voting on the reduction.
We see this as a net positive as the a reduced supply means more scarcity for our holders, more community alignment, and more value to set collectors.
Genesis Drops Making Waves
Top genesis drops on the Viral Chart.
E FOR EFFORT - OLOOTÙ - 61 mints
Parasite - East of June - 24 mints
Humble Ground - Cardios Then 33 - 15 mints
Better - sign crushes motorist - 15 mints
Genesis Artist Spotlight
We spoke to GHST about their new track “Thinkin' Bout You (feat. britta raci).”
"Thinkin’ Bout You" is a fun Bass House track with a lot of feels and energy. This song is definitely one for the books. Even though no labels wanted to sign it. But honestly, their loss.
If I am being completely honest, out of all the songs I’ve written as GHST, this song has to be the esaiest one I’ve written to date. If I remember correctly, I had the entire song laid out, without vocals, in about 2-3 hours. And not to toot my own horn, but the first demo sounded really good! For something to sound as good as it did and it didn’t take long at all to write was truly amazing. And now all that was left to do is write some lyrics & melodies.
I had a much tougher task when it came to trying to write the lyrics. I had only come up with the melody of the lyrics and for a section. I was originally going to perform it myself but at this point I chose to hit up the expert, Britta Raci. Britta really helped me out nail the lyrics, the first couple of takes she sent me had the hook I wanted and the rest of the lyrics were great! I got her to come over to my place and we recorded some magical takes!!
Check out the drop here.
Returning Artist Spotlight with R.E.N
We spoke to R.E.N about the release of her new song. Here’s what she had to say about the drop minting over the next 4 days.
“Having embarked on a music journey at the ripe age of 21 with zero musical background, runway model R.E.N lives out her pop star fantasies in her latest single ‘Roxy Ferrari.’ No label, no management, no following, no problem. With the help of seasoned producer LeKtriQue and bombastic co writer Zenya, ‘Roxy Ferrari’ is an ear worm bound to burrow itself into the souls of all who listen.
Check out “Roxy Ferrari” exclusively on Sound.
Featured Playlist
Curators on Sound can earn up to 5% on collects from playlists.
Here’s what Outro Selo had to say about theirs:
“'Dead, rock is not' is our first playlist. We love alternative, psychedelic, indie, metal, punk, and all things related to good old rock. We made it because we did not see much of it when we started collecting and curating. Surprisingly, we found some. Hope you enjoy it.”
Learn more about Dead, rock is not by Outro Selo.
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