Acetic – One month later

  By glacial23 | 4/3/2012 - 12:45 am | General Leave a comment

As of the time of this posting, Acetic has been out for one month. Sales are still rolling in and folks are checking it out. Thanks for all the kind words from everyone who has listened to it thus far.

So what’s next?

My near-term plans are to get some much-needed studio upkeep & improvements done. I’ve already replaced the power amp and finally “finished” the first set of my DIY monitors. There’s also a new drum machine enroute and lots of little projects to complete.

Since split cassette submissions are coming in slower than expected, next up may actually be a quick companion EP to Acetic, with remixes and unreleased tracks and a couple of new ones (want to remix? Everything on disc 2 was multitracked, so stems for those can be made available upon request…)

Mailing List

  By glacial23 | 3/19/2012 - 8:33 pm | General, New Stuff Leave a comment

Since I’ve gotten requests for one, and news often gets lost in the activity streams of social whatnot, I’ve decided to break down and create a mailing list for announcements of label activity. So, if our ideas are intriguing to you and you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, you can now…

You can subscribe at this web page. I promise not to send too much spam- just notifications of new releases and the occasional show.  Probably once or twice a month at most.

Report of the Ides of March

  By glacial23 | 3/16/2012 - 12:29 am | General Leave a comment

Acetic has been out for almost two weeks now. In that time:

  • It’s had the biggest traffic surge to my Bandcamp site in the nearly two years it’s been in use. Both in plays and hits to the site.
  • Sales are coming in at a reasonable pace, including my first international sale! Going to have to start assembling the next sub-batch of ten.
  • Response has been largely positive.

I also did a live performance on WCSB last night- it’s likely to see release sometime in the future.

In theory, the next scheduled releases are the two planned split cassettes. I’m still waiting on material/submissions- I guess if I have to I’ll start working on something for one or both of them… There will also be a batch of contact microphones for sale in the next few months as well.

Also, if you want a free Acetic download code, I’ve been occasionally dropping them on Twitter and Facebook, so you might get lucky and find one that works :-)

Lastly, one of the tracks from the new album is on this compilation. All proceeds go to support Red Cross efforts in tornado-stricken West Liberty, Kentucky. I’ve got family in an adjacent county, so this is kind of important to me. Go check it out.

Corrections

  By glacial23 | 3/9/2012 - 6:45 pm | Catalog, General Leave a comment

1- It was brought to my attention that the levels on Acetic were somewhat inconsistent. In my rush to get it out the door by 3/03, the mastering was for lack of a better term, minimal. I’ve taken a couple of evenings to do the best that I can to straighten that out. The corrected versions have been uploaded to Bandcamp, so go ahead and give it a new listen.

If you’re one of the people affected by this, I will correct this by sending a new download code for those who have purchased the download, and replacement CD-Rs upon request. Luckily, I’ve only duped about ten physical copies so far and only distributed a few, so it’s not a huge loss/remediation effort.

2- Since people (radio DJ’s in particular) are always after me about including tracklistings with albums, I have broken down and purchased a laser printer. Physical copies of Acetic will now contain a fancy cardstock printout with the full tracklist for both discs, and a download code (if you bought it via Bandcamp and have the download already, just give the code to a friend or something).

On the positive side, this seems to be the biggest launch of a release so far- the Bandcamp hits and plays are the highest in a one-week period that I’ve seen since starting to use the service. I’ve also enabled per-track purchases on the album, so if there’s just one song that knocks your socks off, it’s yours for a mere fifty cents.

GLAC-25: Acetic

  By glacial23 | 3/3/2012 - 1:50 pm | Catalog, chiptunes, New Stuff Leave a comment

After much work in the last month, the acid collection is complete (on 3/03, no less!). It’s available via Bandcamp as an 18-track download and as a double CD-R. The CD-R version comes in a fancy tin and contains as a bonus my set at the Grog Shop on February 15th.

Unfortunately, I didn’t quite get around to the other two components of the release that I wanted to do- a mix containing all Ohio-based acid house artists I could find, and a KLF-esque road trip driving along the entire length of OH-303 today- I just ran out of time. They may still happen in the future, though.