Meteo Xavier

Thanks man, I appreciate all the support thats come my way and this topic is going better than I expected. Thank you all once again!

The Epub format is iBook, if I'm not mistaken. You can download a sample of it if you wish from the Smashwords site.

All I really remember for how it started with me was that I'd get into music as a way of getting into acting, that I'd be a superstar by 19 by sheer will alone and could get into movies. Now I look back and wonder what the fuck I was thinking. 8 years later though, I seem to accrued some skill and some success that I could turn this endeavor into something serious.

You are an extremely supportive figure in our networks and communities, JH - no one can ever take that away from you.

My name is Mud - not to be confused with Bill or Jack or Pete or Dennis...

I work in marketing is one reason for that, although my job is half marketing, half administration, I do stuff like that for a living. Anyway, awesome guys, thanks for your support! If you check it out, I hope you enjoy it.

I know we don't get a lot of book releases here and I know I ain't that popular, but I got the go-ahead to post this here for anyone who may be interested. Fiends! Womans! Invertebrate virgins! Lend me your eyes! I present you the accomplished goal some 15-16 years running as I, Meteo Xavier, also under further pen name, release a debut novel with Burning Bulb Publishing that is guaranteed to make you scream, "Holy fucking shit, Meteo, what the hell is wrong with you!? " Enter Vulgarity For the Masses, an anthology project designed to fight for your attention and offer a wide range of unique storytelling and insanity the likes of which you have rarely, if ever, seen. This is 9 stories, two of which feature the fictional Meteo Xavier himself, in the obscure genre of bizarro/black comedy/dark fantasy/horror/surrealist/lite Christian fiction, 246 pages of whatever that word is that's stronger than "insanity", that I've been further describing as taking a hit of acid and switching the channels back and forth from Adult Swim and Eraserhead. Now you're asking yourself, "How is a book like this even legal?" I don't know! But don't tempt fate - buy yourself a copy and judge for yourself who is truly the madman here - the author who produces the book, or the man who chooses to buy it. Don't worry, the answer to that question won't make any bearing on your ability to enjoy it. Buy a copy today so I can afford to eat something that wasn't growing off my bathtub. Enjoy! Amazon.com - Physical copy at $12.99+shipping. E-book - $3.99 in a variety of formats. Cover Art by Gustave Dore and my good publisher man Gary Vincent. As usual, if I've left anyone out who should be accounted for, let me know!

Yours was posted in the Judges topic, Brandon.

I have a question and I mean it as gently as possible, but I have a mix thats been in the Judge's Queue at 3 Y for the last, I think 3 months now. Ordinarily I wouldn't bother with bothering on the time frame, but I'm curious to see why it's built up there pretty fast only to brickwall there for several months, even after Liontamer and DJP told me they'd get on it. I'm curious what seems to be stopping it. Is there something wrong with the track or something I need to be doing about it? I know people are busy as always, but I'm getting this feeling something's wrong with the track or something. Thank you as always.

The basic premise of the project as it applies to OCR has still already been done and way, way too soon to really consider another in the same vein. It will be pretty difficult to get people on here jazzed up for another one.

I've never even seen that word before and it's going to be the hottest thing in 6 months? I mean thats common for me, but I thought I would've at least seen it somewhere before.

All these markets are flooded. Every single one of them. They're flooded with artists who are all desperately fighting for the smallest slice of pie because they all think everyone on Earth should hear what they've come up with. The supply far exceeds the demand and even when you do stuff that is genuinely unique or different... well, people in general don't want stuff that sounds different, they want new stuff that sounds like all the old stuff they like. I have accepted these truths to be self-evident and push on anyway. If I'm going to be in a flooded market, I might as well be in one that people are actively searching for. Thank you Ambinate for additional information that is exactly what I'm looking for. I think this is the most successful (in terms of accuracy) topic I've made yet. Thanks again guys!

Alright then

Excellent - that's exactly what I was looking for. I still hope to go above and beyond genre expectations (I can't possibly imagine people really enjoy House music by itself, it's one of the most repetitive and minimalist styles I've ever heard and I can only stand about 40 seconds of it) and I don't necessarily need to crack the Top 10, I just want to do a release that will attract more listeners. I've actually been leaning towards DnB and Chemical Brothers style breakbeat as well, but now my creative decisions need to reflect smart business thinking until I can get to a point where I can justify being more artistically free again. Awesome, thanks Raptor

I sent an artist guy your way to help with album art if that other guy wouldn't be available for a while. Did he contact you?

Howdy - I am seriously considering starting a 5-track EP within the next 6 months or so that would be much, much more focused and conventional than my last two album releases. I'm wanting to do a much more conventional electronica album that focuses on beats and what that genre is known for. The problem I'm having is actually choosing a genre to go with. I have no idea whats actually popular these days besides dubstep, and I want to avoid dubstep if at all possible. The real reason I want to do something more conventional, besides proving to myself that I can do something other than experimental ambient and VGM sounding stuff, is to help build up a fanbase for 12 Followers/Meteo Xavier. I'm signed to a record label in the UK (and the Wardriver Netlabel), and so far I've been pretty blessed with artistic freedom, but as I'm now part of a business with my music, that means its time to take some business-related paths. Experimental Ambient and SNES-style VGM is pretty hard to market and get people excited for. So basically I'm asking, what's pretty popular besides dubstep these days? What are people actually looking for on youtube and beyond? I'd actually like to do something kinda jazzy or downtempo/trip-hop, actually something closer to the Silent Hill 3 OST, as it would be easier for me to do than Drum'n'Bass or Breakbeat, but I fear it would be about the same issue as my other two releases - on paper it seems like a lot of people would love it, but reality makes that a lot harder than it seemed initially. Any suggestions, ideas?

Hell shit fire, man - you could create ambient music with nothing but a single low pad note with reverb and delay. Like everything else, you don't want to overload it, but bass and the drone is usually a fundemental part of ambient music. You're creating atmosphere with ambient music, so things that sound like a natural atmosphere with light melodies and movements and a beat is kinda what you're looking to do there.

Absynth is probably the best ambient synth ever, to the point where I don't know what anyone would Absynth for otherwise. Zebra 2 and Z3ta have some great ambient stuff for this too. For additional ambience, look up free SFX and play them at low notes with reverb and delay and have them build up the atmosphere. This takes a light touch, but thats a key component to it, at least in my experience.

**sus, it actually literally sucked the sound out of my right headphone. How the hell did it do that? That was crazy.

I figured that shit had to be crooked somehow, I just wonder why a site like Reverbnation would get into it. I thought it had some credibility.

I am on Reverbnation and a high school acquaintance of mine has me listed to receive emails from his website with all these label submissions and professional critique and A&R stuff called "Opportunities". For a submission fee of like $10-$50 (sometimes free, but rarely) or even more, some combination of music industry centered words like "A music A&R executive will submit your songs to top publishing firms for TV, Film, Game and Media." or even put your music in consideration to be remixed, or your band to play some show in Florida or California. As someone who has been submitting art to hundreds of "media outlets" on my own, for free, I have to ask - is this just a huge scam for moron musicians with too much money? Yeah, you can pay some "industry executive" $50 to submit your music, but does that actually improve your odds of your music appearing in something? In my experience, TV, Film and Game companies, to put a fine cap on it, "don't want your shit, we have plenty of our own." How would this improve with a $50.00 submission? I know Taxi is supposed to be pretty good, but I am curious - has anyone used any of these "opportunities"? Are they just scams or do they actually kind of work?

Trying to answer that without being snarky is nearly impossible, as it's about the same thing as asking what the difference between a TV and a DVD player are. A sample CD is, in its true definition, just a CD of samples for a prescribed format, like .WAV or .AIFF or something for one of Native Instruments programs, etc. VST is the program that facilitates those samples or synth sounds into a playable and recordable format - it's the actual instrument. About the only similarities they have is they both come with sounds and both come on discs (most higher end VSTs anyway).

Kinda offtopic, but worth mentioning that it hasn't been "Fruity Loops" for a few years now. It is now, and has been, known as just FL Studio. Yes, the FL still stands for Fruity Loops, but if you don't like that name, call it what it really is now.

There ARE guides to MIDI Orchestration. Check out my topic with that topic title - there are about 2-3 books listed specifically for that in there along with others for general orchestration.

I want a special vanity title too! Is "White Power" taken?