Power of Truth Album Cassette USBs - Completed & OTW - Full Article, Video, & Plethora of Photos
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Welcome to the Truth-Hop Music Movement Arena!
The art contest/project I held on Hive for these was quite successful, yielding stellar results, and showcasing the myriad of talent the Hive-space has to offer. Seeing the manifestation of the immense collaboration, effort, and passion form into tangible, sacred relics, representing years of work from many talented souls, provides nothing short of immortalized pride and epic feelings of achievement.
"Future-Retro" is the new wave (very new), and I am likely within the first 1000 artists worldwide that have implemented this medium of album manufacturing, and there was only one other artist I have ever met personally that printed albums in this format. Since many describe my style as "old school" (rightly so), this item-type suites my music perfectly.
I ordered 500 copies to start, and will hopefully order many more when distribution ascends. These photos are from the manufacturer, as I have not yet received the items, but they will however be shipped out in the next few days. I expect them to arrive sometime between early to mid December.
It feels really good to have phase 1 of 3 completed for my album product medium releases. In addition to the physical cassette USBs you see here, I will also be printing a physical album book with all the art submissions from the associated project/contest, along with various forms of cover-art posters (prints). For the posters, I want to print a regular colored version, a metallic version, and a lenticular (image shifting) version.
Aside from the metal/lenticular prints (limited), I will only be asking a $10 usd donation (plus shipping if mailed) for each item (cassette USBs, album books, and regular prints), and will make powerfully creative and super inexpensive seasonal holiday/Christmas gifts for any of your conscious/activist/music-lover friends and fam. I will likely be accepting a few forms of Hive currency for the album-items, possibly including a few tokens like #leo, #proofofbrain, #XCHAOS, #index, #ape, #hivepizza, and/or #BXT. I may adjust the crypto/token pricing slightly depending on where these projects' values land upon release, no peak-dumpings - please support and do not exploit.
The official album release is scheduled about a week before Christmas eve (December 17th 2021), but many things must still first transpire to meet this deadline. I must finish writing/formatting my album book and publish the rest of the pages on Hive, publish an intermediate website to host the new album's audio files for digital download (likely just $5 for that) and a marketplace for the physical products, tag that site to the end of my completed 4k music video set to release with the album, receive the final two images from the winning artist in the album art contest for the lenticular prints, print all the posters, and of course have a publisher officially release my album on all streaming platforms. It sounds like a lot to do in two weeks, but it is totally accomplishable.
The most difficult phase of all this is finally behind me at last - achieving the finalized music files for the album's official release. The mixing stage was tedious and extremely time consuming (first time mixing my own album, I certainly learned a lot about production this year), but after just a few edits with the mastering studio (Foster Mastering - best mastering house in all of Oregon), I now have the final master tracks for Power of Truth ready for publication.
Although the USBs are complete, I must manually upload all the music and associated files to each drive once they arrive, which will take some time and teamwork. The following will be included on the cassette USBs: All song files for Power of Truth AND my debut album The Hex Wrecker in both WAV and MP3 formats, ELAmental Forces 4K music video file, a slew of images/photography from @ELAmental's journey, and a readme link-list to all associated Hive posts and artist blog links from the art contest.
The only thing left to consider is how to most appropriately utilize NFT's with this album release and my music/art in general. There is talk of possibly making an @ELAmental card in Hive's #RisingStar game, I am currently discovering how to harness the power of a couple newer projects - minting NFTs on @nfttunz & NFT Showroom. I will also be discussing music/art NFT options with @illuminaticongo and @kennyskitchen in the near future, including manifesting our own Hive-NFT project that we recently threw up on the drawing board (more on that later).
If you are interested in acquiring any of my album items and/or have any amazing ideas/links for how to mint and apply utility/perks to music and art based NFTs, please leave a comment below to start a discussion in the quest for artistic and mutually beneficial distribution evolution of our creative projects.
Bless the Method
Art printed on cassette-USB album are from Hive artists: @Yanes94, @Politeumico, @Feather.Art, @Kayrex, @LisbethSeijas, and @ELAmental - with the assistance of @baa.steemit & @EDX-Serverus.
Photography on album J-Slip paper insert by @Perkitory (SoCoLo).
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Free Single: Shift the Focus - from: Power of Truth
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Wow, you look great, the greatest success friend @elamental
Thank you for all the support. Your @abundance.tribe idol submission looks great on there! I had to make certain the main source of support over the years was represented well on the case - I think I did a good job formatting it all.
Excellent really fascinated me. A hug @elamental
@lisbethseijas - I replied to your email about your other design btw.
If friend in what you have ready ready to send again
I resent the email again. It should be at the top of your inbox now.
Nice put me down for 1!
10-4!
I did not create any nft market... The Meme marketplace was something I wanted help build but the meme community was dead set on copy and paste. Hopefully, you can further utilize the meme market place there. I personally prefer nftshowroom anymore. There are some cool metaverse music stuff happening I tagged ya in a post last week. https://nftshowroom.com/dynamicgreentk/collection/tygertyger_otr-portraits-20_elamental
Ah my bad, I just updated the post to reflect as such. That is a cool ELAmental mage NFT - kinda scary seeing myself in that thing haha. We are working on how to create more NFT's for our art and music ova here, its still on the sketch board, but we have some talented folks on the team to manifest.
Awesome! Have you seen https://tribaldex.com/openhive yet? I think @juliakponsford and @clayboyn should be able to be of great assistance at least in pointing yalls in the right direction as they are basically the Hive NFT peeps.
I have not seen openhive before... quite expensive to get listed there.
What is the best way to contact the folks you tagged there? Is there a Discord server you share with them?
https://discord.com/invite/Qta4usSMXu
Thank you, I am going to jump in the chat right after dinner.
great work and awesome art! ;)
Same to you brotha! Thank you for providing such an awesome entry that landed on side-B of the cassette USB! Congratulations, I am still working on finishing the album book.
I am so happy that you have finished this cool project. The cassette looks amazing. Looking forward to the NFT version!
Bro I am trying so hard to find the best way to harness NFTs for our art and music... I welcome any ideas here. I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the NFT concept, and also where to produce them effectively that also gives me parameters with specific options of what they can do. Will NFT Studios have functions like this for artists, or is it more geared towards gaming NFTs?
Eventually, yes. But we are still far away from that. This is a totally new field. I think the technology is ready, there are not just many people tapping into it. I have a lot of cool ideas about how musicians can monetize NFTs and cryptos.
I want to hear all of them... privately haha. Let's do this!
This is an amazing idea! I'm looking at physical copies of my debut album and this will be such a cool product to sell at gigs!
Great to have you on board at NFT Tunz too.
@nfttunz - Honored to be here on the ground floor on NFTs... just trying to find the best method to launch. I have a lot of questions, do you guys mint on NFT Showroom or do you use openhive?
Yes I definitely want one, well done Brother, so happy that all of this has come together, I know you still have some work to do, but great to hear you have a team with you to help out. Probably best to wait till after the crazy xmas period to get my send, this will be a great Solstice Gift to myself xxxxx
Thank you for the support sista! I see you have come far on Hive since the last time we checked in. Congrats! I am getting there...
HOLY BAGUMBA! I love it bro! It's so awesome! Congratz! that's a ton of hardwork you put in there...Rooting for more success and to accomplished more works in the future. 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks fam, we got something spicy cookin' up for you brotha... stay tuned and active.
Owwwoohhhhhh... That's sounds fun and exciting lets go!
This is great news, I'm really glad you are achieving your dreams and being part of it makes me very excited, this project really has a lot of strength!!! thanks for making me part of your world brother. Good luck and strength for what is to come, if it is within my reach I can continue to help.