MMMM: Taking action, the power of listening, imperfections and banging it out
Things to make you go MMMM on Thursday
by Darien J
"To inspire and encourage electronic artists to make, manage and market music every day."
Three thoughts on making, managing and marketing your music and one on mine.
3 for you:
David J Schwartz in his book The Magic of Thinking Big on why taking action is so important :
“...action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.”
If there was a top 10 of best advice for improving your life this would be right up there in the top 3.
As H. Jackson Brown Jr. puts it:
"Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly."
This is something I think we all have trouble with when it comes to marketing ourselves (and our music). Especially in the age of Instagram and Tik Tok.
Ozan Varol (a regular in these newsletters) puts it beautifully:
“Give me your mistakes, your imperfections, your beautifully messy existence.
That’s the good stuff.
Because when you conceal what makes you human, you also conceal what makes you interesting.”
1 from me
The recording of The Social Stream in May is available in full on Mixcloud and I’ve also uploaded my sets separately to Soundcloud too for streaming or download.
I’m particularly pleased with the closing set as you can hear how much fun we’re having.
You can definitely tell it was a bank holiday weekend. It’s bangin’! 🤣
The Social Stream
All day Sunday-before-Bank-Holiday madness in Brighton.
Until next week
Darien J
Electronic Artist (deep/dance/music)
Please don’t assume my genre.
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pps If you’re in Brighton this weekend I’ll be closing the Berlin Beach Kollektiv - Summer Opening with Prismode & Solvane on Friday 7th July. IF you’re quick there may still be a few tickets left here.