MattCoops wrote:But yo, False Tropics, you had vinyl pressed up?
What release was that? Where did you sell it?
after saving up for a few years, i pressed up 250 copies of a record in 2011. i figured no one gives a shit about the cdr you hand them or the download you tell them about, but an lp that's actually good might get noticed. it's the self titled one on my bandcamp. pretty much my first beats ever made, all on mpc 4000, all old by then. fat beats distributed 90 copies, and got them to stores all over the world, and on websites like ughh.com. turntable lab sold twenty copies at their stores and online. other than that, i mailed some out as promo (there's even an online review where the critic mentions my pitiful hand written note), a friend gave mr. len some copies, and i trade it for tapes sometimes (most recently with GENN BO of lithuania. "there are no miricles" is an amazing cassette! peep it
http://dubartis.com/releases/genn-bo-there-are-no-miracles/)
i met some homies online cause of it, like the artist who did the cover of my new tape (which came out great and will be posted soon). he picked the lp up in a shop in germany and got in touch offering to draw me something. i didn't get famous, and i'm still sittin on a crate of em in the basement, but overall it was worth it. learned a lesson though: cassette is the easy way. they don't sound as great, but youre not taking such a bath if it doesn't blow up.
