Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

@musicman
212 Followers
159 Following
8.1K Posts

Lead shenaniganizer at @jjj and @friendsofccmusic

One of the owners of blocsonic.com

I'm not a particularly hard person to find online. I'm on Diaspora (maybe haven't logged in in a while), pump.io (maybe haven't logged in in a while), soundcloud, libre.fm, last.fm, ccMixter, and tons of other places.

My dog's name is T'Challa. He is joined a family of cats, is black (mostly), and is African (not completely, he's a mutt).

My labelhttp://blocsonic.com
Stravahttps://www.strava.com/athletes/40503008
Friends of CC Musichttp://friendsofccmusic.org
PronounsHe/him/GOAT

Oof. A massive spam attack just now on mstdn.social

A few thousand signups all accounts starting with "SAAR_"

I STRONGLY recommend admins to BLOCK this name from signing up 🚨

We are doing the time we are doing because @Cheesetruck can't do earlier and Viktor Van River can't do later. @blocsonic would love to have you, even if it is just to stop by and say hello to Vik!

@ryno @wiloma if either of you want to help get me set up so this is live on your stream, happy to take the time to make that happen.

I use #OBS though I am certainly not a wizard with it.

Well, #biketime is over so leaving it there

RE: https://mastodon.world/@friendsofccmusic/116284082317818496

trying to be better about using the #FCCM page for stuff like this.

The Listening Party is generally monthly on the last Saturday, but in April we moved it to the last Sunday (26th).

We may well have to move others. Saturday is often a bad day for me, but that is the day folks wanted.

The hope is this gets big enough that I don't need to be there.

Regarding the call to host your own, don't worry about spreading it out from 1pm US Central. Just do the time that works for you! Another thread.

32ish minutes left in #biketime

In general, I would like to focus on albums to give followers more music but not something I am going to be militant about. I think podcasts like @thebugcast / @bsots and streams like the one by @ryno are a great way to find singles.

Also, there are a couple of #ccmusic bots out there that are awesome, but the point of this project is that it is human curated and that it is not limited to bandcamp.

Going to cut it off there due to char limit. Happy to answer questions though!

RE: https://mastodon.world/@friendsofccmusic/116283978180112442

They do have a more recent release: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-here-with-me-woods-of-ypres

After doing a single last week though, I wanted to do an album.

If anyone would like to help with this project, the idea is to pick a new #netlabel release every week. How new is "new" I am not going to quibble about, but let's just say within the past month. If we limit to the week of we are going to miss some great releases. Of course we will still.

A short thread!

#ccmusic

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Brazzmatazz (40) Bob Reynolds (17) Venganza (15) Telesphorus (14) Glen Phillips (11). #myweekcounted 156 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Time for another Release of the Week (except when I forget about it and it becomes 17 days...)

Well, I was going to go with https://brazzmatazz.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-plank but then I remembered it was #netlabel releases so let's go with the homer @blocsonic pick of https://blocsonic.com/releases/donnie-ozone/she-got-lost-featuring-cheese/

This pick of Donnie Ozone gives me the opportunity to remind you all that @netlabelday is just around the corner!

Donnie has contributed at least a track to every #NLD since 2016!

Collect them all at https://netlabelday.org/archive/

Walk The Plank, by Brazzmatazz

track by Brazzmatazz

Brazzmatazz

Mike Duncan talks a lot about "Entropy of Victory" and of course one must define victory but I do wonder if that is the scurge that afflicts the #ccmusic and #netlabel community.

But like many of the revolutionaries that Mike discusses in his podcasts, I want more.

Again, like so many in his podcasts, I am calling for an Assembly....and again like so many, not for the first time.

May 9 will be the first of two. This one for netlabels and musicians on netlabels before @netlabelday in July

The code for netlabelguide.com is at https://github.com/blocglobal/netlabelguide.com and could easily be forked off of github, so that would be my suggestion for compiling those recognized.

I'm up for discussion about categories and nominees and such but my initial thought is just to start with "Lifetime Achiecement in Net Native Music."

#netnativemusic is a term I have been trying to make happen because there are non-CC licenses out there that do similar things.

2 of who knows...