Vinyl album is now available on #takemysats! https://www.takemysats.com/hpm

Zapped u - put us in coach!

Welcome back to new2demu Thursday! We are back woth The Velvicks! Consensual is the first song off The Velvicks' very cheekily titled debut album, "Greatest Hits". ---LISTEN HERE!--- on v4vmusic.com https://v4vmusic.com/?song=cmj1m7xss0005od0ii5ppkeu4 on Fountain https://fountain.fm/track/K1ChkVXziBQaw2gakrhg This track sets the stage for the entire album that's absolutely dripping in sex. The protagonist has an illicit lover. We all know it's wrong but they're kinky and don't care. She finds him irresistible. Hands tied asking for more, he's just doing her a favor. The story continues in track 2 with Hit Me Like Sugar. #demu #new2demu #newmusic #music #tunestr #musicstr ---some backstory--- Today's track has been long awaited by me to release. In fact, we started working on this album 2.5 years ago and only a couple songs have ever been released due to... reasons. We printed a ton of vinyl and then the frontman yoko ono'd to another country and band broke up before we could properly release... all streaming has been scrubbed except for a few low quality demo tracks they recorded long ago on spotify. This is it. physical vinyl or demu. I've been looking forward to this next series of releases because I'm personally very connected to this album in many ways. The events that led to the creation of this album are some of the major reasons why HPM exists today. The Velvicks were our first signing, our first major album recorded in a legendary studio, and our first go at creating something that can rival what the majors put out. Hopefully we hit the mark on the audio side of things but you be the judge! This album has a lot of IRL truths if you know the people involved. While no one fully knows a man's heart and mind but himself, the events described in this album are based on real people and situations. Those situatiins are the muse for an incredible album but also the pied piper leading to the fall of the band. It's all very ouroboros (you know, snake eating its tail). If only I could go back and rename the album...

For any musician out there complaining there isn't a solution... This show is 100+ episodes of proof the solution we have works and has been working. All you have to do is use the tools we've already built and help us make them better.

Thanks! Its incredible that we can create and fix these things without having to reach out to a corporate black box and start a social media petition and then hope the right person sees it so they tell someone else higher up who can then tell their boss who decides if they should then have a team of someone else's go in and not actually fix the reported problem. Nah, I just quick msg at 3am with a note shorter than this and I wake up and its good to go.

Yeah i like bandcamp and we do encourage our artists to utilize that as well. We certainly dont expect everyone to be demu only because its not at scale yet. But what says about v4vmusic.com applies to all things here and id expand on it to say... if people want/ask for something but dont use it because it doesnt work perfectly, how can it get any better? v4vmusic.com is being built by one guy in his spare time. Dont get me wrong, Im not bagging on you. Ive just seen this all day for years now. People come up with a theoretical solution to fix things. That solution is already implemented, but they refuse to use it because it doesn't work quite right. No feedback for improvement because people have been conditioned to have multi million dollar polished apps from launch. But after all, we are just a bunch of normal people in the world who love music enough to actively do something about it. We dont have major investment dollars or teams of staff. In fact, many of us are broke ass musicians too. We are just a bunch of guys creating what we want.

What do you mean it lacks essential fundamentals? What specifically is it lacking? And to be clear, v4vmusic.com isnt the spotify killer YET. It has potential to become a spotify killer because of the very fact it does have all the fundamental items you talk about in your OP. Not sure what you think is missing? Remember, features and performance are two different things. Yes the player is buggy at times but ive had plenty of bug-free sessions. Like I said, its in active development and has been released less than a month ago so things will break. But the key here is all the features you talk about are there and being implemented. Its a matter of time and testing to smooth out the bugs.

Oh and to your last line... check out v4vmusic.com Its not the "Spotify killer" yet but its in rapid active development and its pretty damn good.

The current self hosted implementations many of us are using already contain nearly all those components. A few others have already chimed in with details. You're definitely directionally correct. Just keep going a little further, we're the ones in the back waving at ya. Consensus is what everyone agrees to do. We are free to build on RSS how we like. And we've done just that, tailoring custom music-specific tags like the ones you described. Its all there, people just need to use it. Fountain and wavlake are great because it makes it easy. But as we all know, "making it easy" brings limitations. DeMu is the more sovereign flavor and you're free to pick the one that suits your needs best. Let us know if you have any questions or want to explore more with us!

Oh hahaha I meant if it was the "Some Girls" album 😆 But thats a great collection! Your father had great taste. Its awesome you can relive his memories through music like that

Very cool 😎 love to see it!

Dont pinch me cus I dont wanna wake up

Does Saifhouse do something like that? or maybe it was ? Idk coulda sworn one of em did a pleb pod svc but maybe im way off here.

First stop 🍄

Will hit you up on the irc after my triiiiiiiiip

Its snowy and cold outside but ill make a point to get out here in a bit!

Cool Stones album! Is that Some Girls?

Hey guys, they work! 10/10 would chill again.

At the moment im laying down listening to some Floyd. Haven't decided whats next, suggestions?

It was sporesedly a silly one sirrrrr

GM! Gonna be a good day #IYKYK