Selling a gigantic album, opinions (or onions) appreciated
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I recently decided to dissolve all of the "albums" I had my music grouped into on bandcamp and to re-organize every song I've ever posted into one "album". Even more recently, I decided I'd consider this "album" and actual album and have renamed it to "2011 Works". This album is a total of 67 tracks, all made since early February up to early November.
In the spur of the moment of doing this I quickly got honest opinions from friends, even ones who don't like my music at all really, and they all seemed to agree that pricing it at $20 was a great deal (for the entire album). Additionally, I've priced every track individually from free (remixes and extremely minor songs) to 99 cents and everything in between, based off of how much I think they'd be worth. I haven't made any sales yet, so in this time I'd appreciate FP's opinions on the pricing and the music in general. Should the price be lower? Should I add anything extra? I have about 13+ visual pieces I've done for my music, should I add those in as bonus files? I'm rather shy about [I]selling[/I] music as I don't like to offend by pricing my music more than others may think it's worth.
Anyways, I'd also like some general opinions, possibly on the entire album if anybody has that kind of time. I'll post a few samples of my styles of music:
[B][U]Ambient
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[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/utopia"]Utopia[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/mouse"]Mouse[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/1"]#1[/URL]
[B][U]Acid[/U][/B]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/bird-acid"]Bird Acid[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/sunday-night-acid"]Sunday Night Acid[/URL]
[B][U]General Electronic
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[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/1932-dub"]1932 Dub[/URL] (Quite proud of this one, though nowadays I kind of cringe at how I handled the intro)
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/zepolete"]Zepolete[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/synth-death-rip"]Synth Death-Rip[/URL]
[B][U]Remixes
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[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/carl-craig-its-a-shame-andy-lajeunesse-remix"]Carl Craig - It's A Shame Remix[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/afx-elephant-song-andy-lajeunesse-remix"]AFX - Elephant Song Remix[/URL]
[B][U]Minimal
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[URL="http://andolaj.com/track/sodium-sword"]Sodium Sword[/URL]
[URL="http://andolaj.com/album/2011-works"][B]THIS IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS[/B][/URL]
You will also find a few music videos for my songs on my youtube channel.
If anybody's wondering, the vast majority of my songs have been made using iPad-based software synths. Ambiance is mostly done with the nLog Synth Pro, while minimal stuff was mostly the Korg iElectribe, and the best non-ambient stuff (in my opinion) is was mostly done with Korg's iMS-20. A small portion of tracks were done with the Moog's new Animoog, but ehh that has some user-friendliness problems. I use Audacity for mastering the songs (if any is necessary), put together layers (if it was done on the nLog) and for making remixes, etc. I'm very into the thick, not-so "crisp" sound these software synths have, and the amount of shit that can be done with them is so satisfying once you get something decent sounding finished.
Utopia reminds me of ZPS.
$20 is too much. Maybe $10. Remember you're just selling digital files. I've bought 99 song albums for $9 dollars before, the number of songs really isn't important.
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