May 10, 2004 01:36 pm No way, congratulations! I'm sincerely happy for you!
My labels first release is released!
Posted on May 10, 2004 01:34 pm
coolo
Frisco's Most Underrated
Member Since: Jan 28, 2003
Whew, finally, got in the compilation album that is going to serve as Paraphan's (my label) first release. Sunday School presents Electric Halo is a diverse album focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area underground hip hop scene, with a bit of experimental trip hop and livetronica thrown in for good measure. My group Vox Machina has one track on there and I mastered/remastered all of the tracks (my first attempt at mastering songs that weren't mine). Anyways, now the task comes to selling the album. Our website isn't updated yet, but will be soon. If anyone is interested in a copy, I'd be happy to sell one to you, but no pressure. The CD packaging is 4 color printing on everything and was professionally replicated. I'm selling them for $10 S&H included. I almost forgot, we have t-shirts and stickers too. When the website gets updated we should have some images of those too. Stickers are free and t-shirts which only come in XL and XXL for now, are $10 plus S&H. Email me if you are interested in any of these ([email protected]).
Oh, and thanks for the support throughout the journey so far. I've definitely learned a ton here and hopefully some have learned a bit from me as well. Step one in my 8,000 step plan to take over the world is complete.
dB, if this is too much of an advertising type plug, I apologize. I will not be offended if you delete/edit this post. Thanks again.
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May 10, 2004 01:36 pm No way, congratulations! I'm sincerely happy for you!
May 10, 2004 01:46 pm too much of a plug? have ya seen how many times i mention flamemusic.com (thats flamemusic.com - for all your free indie needs)?
congrats though man!
May 13, 2004 01:07 am Thanks guys. I'm already starting to get some bites from stores willing to purchase some copies, or put it on consignment in the area. If anyone knows of any stores, local to them, that will purchase professionally done, independent label releases, especially hip hop, I'd be indebted if you would share that info.
Oh, and I'll let everyone know when the website gets updated.
May 13, 2004 04:22 am Wow! Go coolo!
I'm seriously impressed, damn good work...
Keep up the good work, and make sure to keep us all updated on the stuff that goes on with this...
Good luck with all of it. :)
May 19, 2004 09:36 pm So, we now have the website updated to reflect our current situation. Check out www.paraphan.com if you have a chance (though if you wait til Friday there's a chance we may be offline for a couple of days). We should be up at a couple of internet retailers by next week, including cdbaby and undergroundhiphop.com.
thanks again
May 28, 2004 01:49 pm Just to keep you updated, we are now available at cdbaby.com, www.cdbaby.com/sundayschool. That and our record release party is tonight in San Francisco. www.craigslist.org/muc/32356813.html
Jun 01, 2004 12:52 am Sweet, we are now available at mobileunderground a cool little electronica/hip hop online record store.
www.mobileunderground.com/electrichalo
Jun 01, 2004 12:23 pm nice one!
how are ya going about getting listed by these online things...sending demos or what?
id be interested to know about some of the business side of things - its something im gonna look into myself in a bit...
Jun 02, 2004 02:15 am Basically, I've been looking around for sites that sell CDs online (specifically hip hop) and choosing the ones I like and sending them an email letting them know that I have a record label that is releasing an album. I give them the website and let them listen to the audio if they're interested. If they're interested, they tell me what I need to send them. So far, all of the online stores are taking product on consignment, but heck, I want to get them out there however I can, so I'm down. Oh yeah, and I tend to like the ones that don't have a setup fee and are at least somewhat choosy. CD Baby is not, but they are pretty much the biggest one for indie artists and I got a coupon that waived the setup fee, so we went there too. I'm going to a Tower records store tomorrow to put some on consignment there. We're in a few stores, but sales are still slow, but I guess that's expected for now.
Jun 02, 2004 02:25 am Congrats coolo !... and good luck ! The first-born is always the dearest.
Jun 02, 2004 05:39 am Yeah, good luck with it dudas... Really! :D
Hope you get it funking!!
Jun 02, 2004 03:06 pm congrats man..nice work!
if you want any uk promo work done fella....
also, if you want some dope jazzy beats drop me a line!! (oh i'm shameless!)
Jun 02, 2004 08:18 pm coolo, I know I am way late in getting to this post so apologies. I am bummed I missed the big event though. I am however really gald to hear you got it done and out there. I know how hard you worked for this. I for one will be visiting the site for sure and gettin me at least a couple copies of the CD. T-shirt too I am thinking, maybe a couple as I am sure Tuna will get into that and bragging about hearing your stuff before any body else up here.
I will definately make a couple of stops at the shops around here I know distribute indie, and hip hop and such. Now that I think of it, there is a small independant radio station in Minneapolis, KMOJ that plays a lot of hip hop and might be willig to pop it on. The DJ I am thinking of is always playing something new everyday. He would be glad to get bragging rights to something fresh from the west coast.
Again I am really friggin gald to hear you got it done.
Now to get me some of them bumper stickers to hang in the studio, and the car, and the garage, and the boyz room.
Oh, by the way I stopped by the website. Man you have been busy. It looks great.
Jun 02, 2004 10:05 pm pixel that reminds me, and you too will, and anyone overseas, hell basically anyone anywhere,if you want to work out some sort of reciprocitive (if that's a word) promo deal, I'm definitely interested. Don't know what we could do, but if we think about it for a second, I'm sure we'll come up with something.
pixel, you're beats are usually cool, so yeah, I will drop you a line.
noize, and everyone else, thanks for looking out. I do appreciate it.
Jun 03, 2004 01:08 pm coolo, i wil get in touch with my record company , cone records. www.conerecords.com , they're a little indie over here dealing with leftfield electronica etc, and maybe we could sort something out like that? at least it's proper and professional then!!! plus we got a cd compilation coming out soon too, so there's scope fo' sho!
i also know some people that do buying for shops (fopp, mainly) so maybe i could help that way.
drop a line to [email protected] and we can discuss further if ya like mate.
Jun 03, 2004 04:03 pm Coolo, congrats! where did you get the cdbaby coupon?
Jun 07, 2004 08:26 am thats some interesting info coolo...thanks for your help!
Jun 07, 2004 12:55 pm el mus,
I got the coupon as part of the deal with the company who replicated our CDs.
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