8/10/2023 0 Comments Signal path tourSo swapping out music for contact info seems like a pretty fair trade. They’re just going to pirate it anyway, right?Įxactly, so why not try and control your release, right? These are your fans who are downloading your album, who are interested enough to download it and listen to it, will probably be interested when you’re coming to town and playing shows. It’s great that people at your shows are already familiar with your music. I believe that giving away music should be a substantial part of any independent artist’s plan who wants to get their stuff out there. We would eventually like to get to a point where we are selling music, but for now it’s all about playing shows and focusing on the live element of what we’re doing. If you’re on a label who’s investing in studio time, marketing, publicity…etc, then it only makes sense to sell your music since so much is going into it. Being able to release some content online for free really helps in terms of tours and generating interest in your music. I think every artist should be making some of their music available for free. It’s a better business model for us instead of launching this campaign and a national tour.ĭo you feel that more people should be giving away their auditory art nowadays? Ticket sales by far are the life blood of the musicians, so we figure putting out the music directly into the hands of the fans and we would have the fans decide where we play. We spend thousands of hours working on these records and when they come out we can focus on touring where people are excited to see us. Since we trade music for emails, we have a pretty big network now where we can see who is downloading albums and commenting and base our tour where people want to see us, you know. You look at where the electronic scene is right now, and even the industry as a whole, and we are of the mindset where we want to put the music before all of the marketing as opposed to coming up with a release and pushing it hard through a big marketing campaign. What influenced your decision to make Imaginary Lines a free download? Ryan’s production studio is here as well as some very supportive friends in the scene. Not to take anything away from Montana ~ I absolutely love that state and I still try to get up there a few times a year. It’s got a great music scene, mountains, and it makes traveling a lot simpler. That, and also being here is a pure pleasure. So it was just easier for you to be in that area? Colorado has an amazing electronic music scene that we’re inspired by daily, and as you can probably imagine, touring out of Montana is very difficult doing it full time. Ryan (guitar/production) had moved to Denver a few years ago with his family, and it made sense for me to come down to join him as we started transitioning into Signal Path full time. The band was formed in 2001 in Missoula, Montana and were “officially” based there until the Colorado move. You relatively recently relocated to Denver. We also really try to work with our promoters in each city to help get the word out about the releases through their networks as well. This allows us to release everything for free in exchange for e-mail addresses that we fully protect. We release everything ourselves through our website at, plus some digital distribution through online music stores. Regardless of the fact that you create these sickly innovative and original soundscapes, it proved very difficult to find basic information about Signal Path. Damon Metzner from Signal Path recently took a time out to chat with MXDWN…
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