Join us in our first CD project.

[Moon]

OK, we're doing our research and some maths and came up with a solution!

If we manage to get the mastering done for free, we need 10 artists willing to contribute 80 euro's (that's 108 dollar). This together with the personal sponsoring of Kara and Moon who (40% of the total cost), will cover the expenses for pressing the CD's (we don't want duplicated CD because of the quality issue).  If we're lucky to sell some more CD's, we hope to come to the scenario in 2008 to do this for free !!! But we must get it going the first year.

When we manage to get more sponsors, the price to participate will drop further. So keep following this thread and sign up!

[Moon]

Also, if I committed, I'm really not sure, personally, what I would do with the other 9 CD's

a) Impress some girls 
b) Make your mother happy
c) Send it to your local radio
d) Use it as decoration

Serious now: I get your point! We'll keep looking for sponsors and see what we can do to minimize the costs.

[Oren]

First of all, I'm in.

The $120euros is already waiting in my Paypal account, and I've approached rharv about a song for the album. I volunteer to master the finished songs to disc - I've already re-mastered one CD release.

My concern is the environmental impact of all the manufacturing, packaging and shipping entailed in traditional music distribution.

This crew has a tremendous amount of technological know-how, and I feel we can assemble an "album" of excellent music mastered to high bit-rate compressed format, and make it available for download to anyone who wants to sample what the Kara-Moon community can do. We can be the originators of a new trend in digital music distribution, that I feel will eventually be the industry standard. I'm happy to master the submitted .WAV files to MP3 or ogg vorbis, and this format will allow us to present many more tunes for our prospective audiences enjoyment.

If Great-aunt Matilda wants a disc in her Christmas stocking, just convert her favourite tracks to .WAV files, and burn her a copy. Put some original artwork on the disc, or perhaps someone here can create a downloadable CD cover and disc art package that would work on the average laser printer.

It only makes sense to do what we do best, and create a web-based offering - the first of many.

Your thoughts?

[Laguna Rising]

Also, if I committed, I'm really not sure, personally, what I would do with the other 9 CD's

a) Impress some girls 
b) Make your mother happy
c) Send it to your local radio
d) Use it as decoration
 

mmmhhh... I'm seriously considering the A) option 

[Laguna Rising]

I volunteer to master the finished songs to disc

I like the idea of a web-based offer although a traditional product has got positive sides: quality of the product (artwork), suitable for a gift, I don't feel a self-mastered disc with printed cover could be used as a formal gift in many occurrences, apart from friends. On the other side the easy distribution issue with the downloading must be considered, too.
I think we should think of the possibility of using both. 

Let's wait other opinions 

Cheers

[Fred S]

Also, if I committed, I'm really not sure, personally, what I would do with the other 9 CD's

a) Impress some girls 
b) Make your mother happy
c) Send it to your local radio
d) Use it as decoration
 

mmmhhh... I'm seriously considering the A) option 

I would too, except my wife doesn't impress easily, and the fun with the "girls" will be over once they see me

Rony & Moon; I haven't really changed my position/opinion; but if you get nine, I'll be the 10th and throw in for the 108 bucks to get it off the ground.

[Moon]

Good news !!!

Yesterday, I've invited some associates to a restaurant. We discussed many things, and we also talked on what I was doing with the Kara-Moon project. I won't bother you with the details, but we finished with a very nice deal: I'm going to build a forum for them (which got nothing to do with music) and they will sponsor part of our CD project. Kara and myself already agreed to sponsor a part of the project as well, and Oren is also helping. All together, we allready have around 75% of the budget we need to get this going and I'm still waiting some feedback from other people I know.

Meaning: we have a CD project:
- Artist can participate for free ! They will also get 1 CD for free.
- We are going to set up a downloadable version of the CD for our members: for free !
- People who want a real CD with finished artwork can order one for the very democratic price of 8 euro / 10.75 dollar
- Sponsor in return will get CD's they can offer to their relations: meaning our music will be heared outside this forum!

I really did my best to find the best formula for this initiative. I am now hoping for many artists to join this project and will open a thread where you can sign up!

Moon

[Laguna Rising]

Hey Moon, these are really good news 

[Marc JX8P]

Sounds like a really cool project. I'd like to contribute some music and I'll purchase several cd's too. Great initiative!

[rharv]

Way to stick with it Moon.
 I'm willing to help with mastering too.
 Also will work with Oren on getting a song ready for it.
 I also have a couple ideas for marketing this project, let me see how it goes..
 may just have wings. End result would promote both this site and the artists..

I'm thinking I'll have some free time here shortly to toy with this.

[Moon]

Way to stick with it Moon.
 I'm willing to help with mastering too.
 Also will work with Oren on getting a song ready for it.
 I also have a couple ideas for marketing this project, let me see how it goes..
 may just have wings. End result would promote both this site and the artists..

I'm thinking I'll have some free time here shortly to toy with this.

Great ! You're making me very curious !

[kara]

Thanks for helping us with this

Way to stick with it Moon.
 I'm willing to help with mastering too.
 Also will work with Oren on getting a song ready for it.
 I also have a couple ideas for marketing this project, let me see how it goes..
 may just have wings. End result would promote both this site and the artists..

I'm thinking I'll have some free time here shortly to toy with this.

[tERMoBLUe]

i also can definitely sell a small means of payment contribution...cu

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[kara]

Thank you !

i also can definitely sell a small means of payment contribution...cu

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[petrudamsa]

 I know that it is maybe late. Is there a chance to join this project?
With some personal music, of course.
Beggining with July, my spare time will grow significantly, so I'll got plenty of it to contribute to this.

waiting for a (positive) answer 

Cheers, Petru