[APPROVED] Promotion, Printing and Mastering of Album

Heya :slight_smile:

You can find the agency & participants in the original proposal. @mwhyden is in contact with the agency for the onboarding & details for distribution are currently being discussed :slight_smile:

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Ok great! Maybe as we go along (I’m new to what’s been going on) members can link previous proposals (like a thread) in the updates or subsequent proposals to make it easier to find information that might not be in a post :slight_smile:

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Yes, agreed. You can find the infos here, in the first post of this proposal:

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Thanks! So the CDs won’t be exactly paired with the NFTs, they’ll be sold via my record label (sunshinecultrecords.bandcamp.com). But info on how to purchase the NFTs will be in all posts relating to the album (on Bandcamp, social media, blogs etc.) as well as the liner notes of the physical CDs. The goal is to have an individual NFT artwork for each track, which also will contain the audio of each track. This will create a different avenue for people to purchase and experience the album beyond Bandcamp sales :slight_smile: The NFT artwork has been created by my artist collaborator (who will be onboarded imminently!) artistically responding to each track, so the audio and visual are closely linked. They look really cool and I can’t wait to share them with you!

Regarding the PR, LazyBonesPR is an excellent PR company based in Belfast, Ireland and they specialise in alternative/indie/left-of-centre music. They have fostered great connections with publications like Noisey and The Quietus as well as BBC Radio and KEXP. Their goal here is to obtain coverage in these media outlets as well as many others, giving my album and in turn NEAR, Muti and the rest of the digital-cryptoverse aspect of this release lots of exposure! Brian from LazyBonesPR expressed a keen interest in getting involved in the NEAR side of things down the line and I fully intend on treating this project as an intro for him and hopefully bring these worlds closer together.

Sorry for the long response, hope this clarifies things :slight_smile:

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Awesome! Yes, thanks for the detailed clarification :slight_smile:

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@mwhyden Please post your 1st payout proposal for the 500 USD/ 62N (value of N at time of receiving the funds) to our Sputnik DAO & keep us posted :slight_smile:

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Hey @mwhyden,
funding came in, please post your payout proposal for the 500 USD/47.3N. Keep in mind our DAO is now on Astro: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/muti.sputnik-dao.near :slight_smile:

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So a little bit of an update, the promo is fully paid for and I just need to send over some press shots and other things to the PR company and they have all they need! I’m currently in the process of ordering CDs and cases and going over some logistics on how best to get them all together looking nice.

As for the artworks and future NFTs, check out this killer artwork from the artist! The Colour piece is going to be the Album cover and the other illustrations are inspired by each track of the album and are going to be the NFTs, as well as coming with the physical CDs, printed out and put together in a small booklet! These are works in progress but I’m loving them so far!


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Looking awesome, thank you for the update!!

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More updates! A close to final draft of some more artwork! Also, I’m releasing a track off the album tomorrow in the run up to the whole album being released on Dec 3rd :slight_smile: Not sure yet what platform but stay tuned! First picture is the CD cover template, without text, the second is artwork for the track being released tomorrow. The 7 images you see on the right hand side are the ones that will become NFTs!


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Awesome, this looks great!
Feel free to share the release in our channels too :slight_smile:

Looking forward minting the NFTs with you & the artist once it is ready!

Release day is nearly here! So last week I put one track from the record which can be listened to here: Stream I CAN SEE 3 PEOPLE by Kineograph | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Also, here’s the finalised NFT arts and cover art:








Release day is on the 3rd of December, the album fully mastered now and CDs have been made. Can’t believe it’s nearly time to put this out to the world! Thanks so much for the help and support, this wouldn’t have been possible to do without y’all!

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This looks amazing! Thank you for the update! Let’s schedule a call so we can teach you and your designer how to mint and get them a wallet :slight_smile:

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Yes! He’s super busy at the moment and really hard to pin down but I will continue to annoy him to schedule a call :slight_smile: Also, I have nearly finished putting together the physical copies! Here’s some not so great pictures! Album is fully ready to go for Dec 3rd!
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also, the album is available for pre-order here! CAPRICORN | KINEOGRAPH | Sunshine Cult Records

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The album is now fully released to the world!! You can listen and purchase here: CAPRICORN | KINEOGRAPH | Sunshine Cult Records

Thank you so much for all the help getting this project done! It’s already receiving lots of nice attention and a few people have already purchased physical copies, with only 8 left! It also got a premiere in Ireland’s biggest music publication, Hot Press, you can read the lovely review here:

Also, the Bandcamp page and physical copies have a lil dedication to muti as well :relieved:

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Wonderful!
Let’s get the artist onboarded & mint some nice NFTs! :eyes::purple_heart:

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And just like that this project is complete! So we successfully onboarded my artist collaborator kone1.near and we also minted a really lovely audio-visual NFT, that combines all the individual track artworks together, with a song from the album as well. Available on the muti mintbase store: https://www.mintbase.io/thing/d4ZjSd9SgkIyIYkM1WCSQAFz3FSPWY5YQVIKB0IGMXU:muti.mintbase1.near

The album is still getting lots of nice media coverage and radio play, hoping for a big review from a great blog called The Quietus soon. Thanks so much for all the support here, this project couldn’t have been done without your help! :heartpulse:

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muti is very happy to see the outcome of this & we are even more happy to see that you received so many positive responses :slight_smile:

Please request your payout of 650 USD / 71N in the Astrodao

Amazing thank you so much! Just to make sure, the final December payment was supposed to be $650, is this ok to request? :blush:

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