PEAKING: a rap symphony in six movements

not really. someone should have just told him that he's not allowed to start threads to promote his own work and then a mod could have locked the thread and that would be it.

We could move it to the I Make Music sub-board. Kid might get more helpful critiques from that group.

^^^

yeah that seems like a good idea

Doing it. Thread will take a few minutes to move to the new location.

hah it's okay, i'm a big boy, i can handle internet hostility. i'm aware i was spamming. i understand that negativity comes with that territory. honestly didn't expect to get any replies at all, so when i got 40 i was pretty impressed, let alone some positive responses.

i'm already working on my next album. this music was coming from a very specific perspective and it's not meant for someone who's just feeling cynical and clicking through real casually. and i'm aware people will do that and i'm 100% a-okay with that. honestly laughed at most of the responses, especially the muppet one.

thanks to those who were willing to take a chance on this and anyone in the future who wants to take a chance on it. you won't be disappointed. unless you are, in which case, there's plenty of more conventional rap that you can entertain yourself with :)

I was convinced this was an ilx regular who had stumbled across a random soundcloud, registered a sock in the name of its creator and was trolling us, but having read a bit more of the profile I'm starting to think this is the real Andrew JD :(

again, it's fine, lol
most of the negative comments in this thread came from the same people. the people who liked my tunes told me so on soundcloud

People like me
This I know
For my SoundCloud
Tells me so

(whereas the people who clearly have some vendetta against me post 4+ times to make sure i hear their complaints. if you think this is the first time i've dealt with people trying to make me feel bad....)

go on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtuoFv4dcwM&feature=kp

or another 'think' coming?

so where've you been professionally reviewed? Sputnik or cdbaby.com?

RapReviews.com.

We've reached the point where compact discs are now what vinyl records became 20 years ago - COLLECTIBLE.

ok lol

At this point, you don't think CDs are a novelty?

being that I'm looking at a stack of them sitting on my bed that I've bought in merely the last week, no, I don't.

yes, sales are significantly down ffs and we will eventually get to the state where this is true but reviewer majorly jumping the gun.

ffs there's a Black Sabbath CD reissue that's barebones coming out in two weeks that metalheads are already clamoring over...and it's not even NEW, it's a RE-RELEASE of a previous out-of-print reissue.

Well, CDs are definitely STILL ALIVE, yes, but I think for many internet audionerds CDs are just what you rip the digital music from. Most 'normal' people seem to be cool with Spotify / Pandora / Streaming services and the Vinyl culture only continues to grow. Kanye West's "Yeezus" -- the album artwork was said to be "I want you all to look at this one last time, because this is the last time you'll be seeing this [a CD] for a very long time."

Obviously they still exist and people still buy them, but I think things are pretty up-in-the-air right now. The main advantage CDs will always have is the quality of the digital music within, and the ability to perfectly rip the music from said CDs. So I think they will always be around in some form, but more and more musicians are posting their music digitally, first, and then the CD seems to be of secondary concern.

*of secondary concern, released later in the week/month, after the digital release.

Yes but cds are no way a 'novelty' at this point like vinyl was after cds came out.

Headed there, yea...but not even close to 'novelty' yet