I’m free(mixed castle)
REMIXED CASTLE, the track-for-track reimagination of my last album (RUINED CASTLE), is finally out today on every digital platform on which you can listen to music.
It’s been out technically since mid-March as a Bandcamp exclusive, and I’ve been trickling out each remix gradually as singles as a nice gesture to each of my wonderful collaborators. Those collaborators are:
- Badyears
- Mo-Rice
- egrets
- flat.moon.society
- Thousand Gardens
- Loopsnake
- SuperScience
- Okayden
- Knucklebutt
- ilyBBY
The last 4(!) months of slowly releasing each of these singles, while nice, has been a slog. I assumed it would be to a degree when I took it on, but releasing to Spotify and the other streaming services has gotten pretty easy. What I underestimated was the time I didn’t have to really properly promote any of these remixes, and the anxiety I felt because of it.
I’m not going to release like that again. Even for a great collaboration like this project was. It’s too much on any single artist. I don’t want to release more than 3 singles maximum to promote an album. For something like this that’s purely collaborative and made for the reason of joy, it’s not worth the infinitesimally small possibility of a single track “blowing up” and instead it’s been far more rewarding to simply have the album out in the world. Which happened back in March. It raised a few hundred bucks for creators. That’s the success story, not this 4-month ordeal of singles that didn’t really do much to lift any of the artists involved.
So now that it’s out, I’m free. Time to slow down a little. Onto the next thing. Probably faster than you think. (Wait a minute…)
