An Ideal Euphemistic, or, OMG FREE MUSIC

[suzumebachi]

I'm proud to announce that Wardriver has finally unleashed its first collective album and second release, An Ideal Euphemistic, which features a number of VGM community artists. You can grab it for free RIGHT HERE (http://wardriver.thasauce.net/releases/war002.zip).

You can also visit the Wardriver hompy (which is still under construction) here (http://wardriver.thasauce.net/). And if you haven't yet, you can also get the first Wardriver release, Tanasinn EP by OverCoat, here (http://wardriver.thasauce.net/releases/war001_overcoat-TanasinnEP.zip).

Have a news post (http://www.thasauce.net/modules.php?name=NewsTwo&file=article&sid=715)! Enjoy! Afk!

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[Ramaniscence]

Free music? ROX. Who are some of the artists I can expect to hear?

What is wardriver anyway?

What're you guys about?

[suzumebachi]

WARDRIVER is a netlabel hosted at ThaSauce for internet musicians in the VGM scene. It's basically just a place for folks to release their free works under a unified banner. An Ideal Euphemistic is Wardriver's first collective album, and as such is a showcase of some of the artists featured on the label, including Injury, PxFury, OverCoat, Skrypnyk, ILLiterate, Monobrow, and myself.

TOTALLY not a planted question or a shill or anything!

Also, look forward to more Wardriver releases in the future! And we'll probably have something to say and hopefully some CDs to give away at MAGFest.

[AMT]

This is really good, I enjoyed listening to it. Looking forward to more of this in the future!

[Monobrow]

Glad it is finally released.

[ILLiterate]

See this is irony because my song is right after Monobrow's just like my post is right after Monobrow's

Also nice album, something of such quality is great to be apart of

[AMT]

I just want to post again and say that this really is an awesome album. It's moved its way to the top of my playlist very rapidly. Good work everyone!

[atmuh]

i am impressed

this is coming from someone that lost interest in 90% of the music that hes come in contact with from this site a long time ago

so it must be really good

[atmuh]

fyi this is like my favorite free album

[Gollgagh]

Oh yeah, I meant to download this ages ago.

thanks atma

[atmuh]

ok this makes me kinda mad

you get all these tons of BUY MY ALBUM threads that get tons of support and posts by the other BUY MY ALBUM people and "important" people but then the really good free stuff like this or antipodes superscape (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17918) get no support from anyone
why the heck cant more "important" people take the time out to make posts to support stuff like this

i mean stuff like this is a significant part of the community and it will have a hard time growing if people dont do something about it

[Overflow]

So what, is this a way for up and coming artists to show of some of their work as well?

[atmuh]

no its just a really really good free album

[Gollgagh]

no its just a really really good free album

this

pretty much

[Monobrow]

I like this album, also I am on it, also my song on there has been updated a billion times since then and will never be done lol.

[OverCoat]

there is a new wardriver release that is even better

http://wardriver.thasauce.net/release/war004

see :3

[atmuh]

bible black oh god

[starla]

So what, is this a way for up and coming artists to show of some of their work as well?

Actually, yes. Thasauce news is all about keeping us up to date about the whole community, that includes original releases. Our news can also be used to self pimp or pimp others work. We are always looking for people to add to the Wardriver label for further releases. It's non profit and no one is going to steal your music rights or anything. So if you're interested in submitting to Wardriver, PM Tyberius or Ramaniscence or myself.

[Sinewav]

I'll check this out once I boot up my disk partition that has all my music files. I'm always up for some free music, especially when it's from talented artists like these.

[Jarvi]

I'll listen to these tonight after all my classes. I remember when Beatdrop released In the Dark, and I remember loving it, so let's hope I like this as well.

[atmuh]

there is a new wardriver release that is even better

http://wardriver.thasauce.net/release/war004

see :3

weird stuff

good stuff

[suzumebachi]

Hurray necro post. This should just be the Wardriver thread or something. We've got some stuff in the works, and I plan on overhauling (read: fixing) the site sometime in the near future.

[sgx]

ok this makes me kinda mad

you get all these tons of BUY MY ALBUM threads that get tons of support and posts by the other BUY MY ALBUM people and "important" people but then the really good free stuff like this or antipodes superscape (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17918) get no support from anyone
why the heck cant more "important" people take the time out to make posts to support stuff like this

i mean stuff like this is a significant part of the community and it will have a hard time growing if people dont do something about it

People don't respond as well to compilation albums. People like to support independent artists in the community, but generally have some favorites - its a bit more monumental when an artist puts out a whole album of material than participating in one song on a compilation of artists the listener may or may not like or know of. I put together a couple free albums where friends remixed some of my stuff and interest on those was way less than my normal albums.

Also, maybe the albums from "important" people get more attention because they are for pay. When you release an album for pay, especially when there is a physical version, the artist has invested not only extra time, but money to get the thing out there. In these cases, support is actually needed, not just wanted, and I think listeners respond to that.


I listened to this album and it is pretty rad. Thanks folks for putting this together. I really dug Treedom and Grizzly Adams, though they were both so short! Overall, it was a nice bunch of mainly chill tracks that were nice to listen to during my work day. Yummy

[OverCoat]

People don't respond as well to compilation albums

They totally should though, because I have a bunch of good free ones:
http://www.archive.org/details/BKTR007-VA_-_Larbre_dun_Train
http://www.archive.org/details/ronincollective025
http://camomille.genshimedia.com/cam100.htm
etc :)

[atmuh]

Also, maybe the albums from "important" people get more attention because they are for pay. When you release an album for pay, especially when there is a physical version, the artist has invested not only extra time, but money to get the thing out there. In these cases, support is actually needed, not just wanted, and I think listeners respond to that

except as i said these free compilations are a significant part of the community and should be recognized as such

[zircon]

Speaking personally, I tend to only post in response to music I'm really passionate about... such as the OneUps vol 2, Pendulum, Audix, to name a few recent examples. I don't know if I'm considered an "important" person or not. Free releases are definitely cool, and I don't know anyone who DOESN'T support them, but considering how many of them there are, and how the quality is often highly variable, even within a compilation, I don't post in all the threads because I'd rather not give out half-hearted recommendations.

I also agree with sgx that "free" still bears the stigma of "lower quality" for a lot of people, which may be why some people are less likely to click.

[RedFusion]

I don't know if I'm considered an "important" person or not.

Wut?
With you being a judge, a member of the community for over 5 years, with over 9000 posts, and a successful remix album of one of the most loved Final Fantasies under your belt with you at its helm, hmmm.

Nah, not important enough. You'd have to be at least DJP himself, or Chuck Norris.

o_O

Anywho:
I guess the thing with compilation, and/or free albums, is that consistency may vary across the board quite a bit. With compilation albums, you can't be sure if the genres will be similar, or if if turns out to be a rag-tag collection of songs from a handful of talented musicians plus some others.

Thankfully, after listening to Wardriver over the past few days, I must say that I'm still happily listening to it on my playlist.
The album's got a very chill feel to it, and whilst not being close to common 'chillout' tracks out there, it's still great music to have in the background, without falling into the 'ambient' or 'loungeroom music' category. Pleasant to listen to, and rewarding to pay attention to.

Personal favourites include Beaten Bishop's Treedom, and Suzu's Park City. The rest of the tracks complement each other nicely, and overall, Wardriver 002's sum of its parts make for an appealing and appreciated free release from the fellows at ThaSauce.

PS: Bumppitybump.

[Antipode]

Thanks atma! Stuff like that means a lot.

Yeah though pretty much I'm coming to realize that it's a really hard problem to solve. You make things for free and people can assume it isn't good enough to be sold, and if you start selling you risk limiting or losing the listeners you already have and or could have had.

My general plan is to make a couple more free things and put them everywhere I possibly can and hope enough people listen to them to make selling future things a reality (and only if that's likely to lead to more listeners).

All that said -

I love garden art! I remember when you put that out before and I still love it. Third, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth are my favorites (especially Fourth).

[atmuh]

I don't know if I'm considered an "important" person or not.

dont be so modest

[zircon]

Thanks atma! Stuff like that means a lot.

Yeah though pretty much I'm coming to realize that it's a really hard problem to solve. You make things for free and people can assume it isn't good enough to be sold, and if you start selling you risk limiting or losing the listeners you already have and or could have had.

My general plan is to make a couple more free things and put them everywhere I possibly can and hope enough people listen to them to make selling future things a reality (and only if that's likely to lead to more listeners).

All that said -

I love garden art! I remember when you put that out before and I still love it. Third, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth are my favorites (especially Fourth).

A happy middle ground might be doing what sgx did with his earlier albums (he might still do it, actually.) Release free MP3s of 192kbps or less of a number of the songs, perhaps putting up a new one for download as soon as you finish it, but then once you have a good number, put them all on a CD and add a few exclusives. People that want a good taste can download a good chunk of the album is slightly lower quality, and if they want to support you, get full WAVs and bonus tracks, then they can buy it.

[Gollgagh]

start selling the albums for a buck then let people give it to all their friends http://remod.cakearmy.org/images/smilies/icon_ninja.gif