Hello! My name is Alan, and I’ve been running a small but passionate bedroom label, Coraspect, out of my spare bedroom since 2018. I just recently discovered TSMN and had to sign up.
If I can provide any advice to an artist looking to venture into the realm of physical releases (LP, cassette, CD, minidisc), I’m definitely happy to help. Also, I’ve made all the stupidest mistakes one can make when starting a one-person record label, so I can offer first hand advice on what not to do.
Hey hello Alan ! Please do share your mistakes with us 
i love myself good mistake stories 
Considers making a mistakes and “worst gigs ever” thread because I do too… 
I’m from Aotearoa, from the southern island, Te Wai Pounamu. Currently resident in the northern island, Te Ika a Maui, in the lands of Waikato Tainui, on the banks of mighty Waikato. I’m a child of the British diaspora in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, which calls the ocean the Pacific, these islands New Zealand, and the city I live in Hamilton. I’m known as Danyl Strype (@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz and strypey in lots of places).
I’ve been playing music for fun, going to and putting on live music events, and collecting recorded music, since about the mid-1990s. I’m a jammer/ tinkerer/ dabbler, fond of spontaneous garage/ spare room/ bedroom/ porch jams and drum circles. I helped to start Synth Obscura, a monthly jam night for people who pay electronic instruments like synths, beat boxes and keyboards, analogue or digital, bought or home made.
I bought dozens of recordings directly from touring artists I pay to see, to avoid giving most of that money to corporate intermediaries. About 20 years ago I was heavily involved in the global Indymedia network, and wrote up this attempt to apply a similar strategy to global music cooperation;
Around that time I got involved in creating a CreativeCommons localisation, which led to CC Aotearoa/NZ (now TohaToha). This led me CC music platforms like ccMixter, MagnaTune, Jamendo, Free Music Archive, and the NetLabels collection on Archive.org. Like a lot of anti-corporate geeks, I got very interested in the idea of using netradio and P2P file-sharing networks like GNUtella and BitTorrent to improve discovery of independent music.
A general interest in software freedom and decentralised networks got me signing up to the first fediverse service, identi.ca. A while later, again looking at CC music hosting, I stumbled on Libre.fm and the GNU FM software it ran, and then in turn, GNU social and the beginnings of the fediverse. I’ve been involved in fediverse development for about 15 years. So I’ve been watching with interest as projects like FunkWhale, Radio Free Fedi and BandWagon build infrastructure to support musical artists using fediverse tech. I’m very excited to see what can be achieved by bringing people from a bunch of these projects together.
Welcome! We don’t have many members from the Southern Hemisphere (but there is at least another one). If you add yourselves to the member’s map you will increase our current geographic range immensely. You can do this on your profile, in the Map Location section.
I’m Wolf a.k.a. Mr. X. I’m a musician living close to Cologne and Düsseldorf in Germany, focusing on synths. I stream live on Twitch from my home studio regularly and have gigs sometimes, too. Additionally I organise music events as a member of Open Signals in Cologne. Here are my links.
Hey hey Mr X! Nice to see ya here 
Thank you, Mel! It’s good to be here.
Hi, I’m based in the UK and have been making some kind of electronic music (broadly, atmospheric/ melodic instrumental electronica/ ambient) for quite a while. I was previously on twitter etc but moved over to Mastodon at the same time others did a few years ago and have made a few connections on there, including finding out about this forum. I previously put out a few albums and EPs, the most recent ones through a US-based label from about 2005 onwards, but it’s amazing how much I’ve forgotten since the last major release which was about 10 years ago! I’m trying gradually to get back into actually making music and getting a bit more involved in music communities as part of that- I used to be very active on multiple forums (fundender? soundclick? artist server? last fm?) which were absolutely vital to the development of my music project. If you’re interested I’ve put a link to my website in my profile, also active on mastodon if you’re on there. Looking forward to interacting more here!
Welcome Mr X to the zoo!
Hello! I’m fluffy. I release music as Sockpuppet and I also sometimes write software, including bandcrash which is a self-hostable Bandcamp-like music player to make it easier to sell music on platforms like itch and whatnot. I’m somewhat involved in the IndieWeb, and I am super into making the web and the world fair for actual people.
Well, hello there.
I just discovered this space here via my Mastodon feed and instantly signed up.
My profile page is already set up but I can also say something about me here as well.
I’m Christian, mid 40s from the Rhine-Main area in Germany, near Frankfurt am Main.
In the mid 90s I started creating (more naive and stupid) techno and trance music with trackers on my good old DOS machine. I did this for several years until I had a break from 2005/2006 on when the kids came into my life.
In early 2023 I rebooted myself creating music again and started to dive into the wide area of Ambient music. I’m tickling around with different styles between space ambient, Berlin School, downbeat, dark ambient and experimental stuff. Also sometimes I like to create some more legacy music like techno, acid etc. too.
For some time I released my music on Bandcamp but at some point I was a bit afraid of the future of it so I left.
From now on I put my music on my personal homepage, based on self hosted Wordpress and on YouTube.
My music can be listened here: https://ngc-224.de
Since I like to get my music heard in high quality I found a player which is capable of playing my 24bit WAV files directly in the browser 
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I’m curious about this community and looking forward to connect to other musicians.
Cheers,
Christian
Hi, my name is Danielle. I perform as the Blue Knots and formerly as Rio en Medio. I saw your post on Subvert. Looking forward to joining the discussion. My website: daniellestech-homsy.com and I recently joined Mastodon: Danielle Stech-Homsy (@DanielleSH@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
I’ll take a few seconds to welcome you both @NGC-224 and @theblueknots ! Thanks for joining (and @theblueknots thanks for mentionning female:pressure in another thread, great group of people)
Mostly posting because I want people to know this space is not dead, even if it’s a bit sleepy, which is fine by our slow growth / do with what we have standards.
For us folks at Mirlo, recent events happening over at discord might mean we’ll need to invest this space more to keep up to date with people who want to migrate off that particular platform and this space is great as an alternative.
So if some other newcomers recently joined, don’t hesitate to introduce yourself. I’ll try to make it part of my routine to follow up on what happens around these parts.
Happy new year social music networkers!
That’s a relief 
I know it can take a while for people to get back in the flow after the silly season, but I’m really looking forward to seeing some of the projects we sketched out last year start to move towards planning and action. I’m so excited by the potential of what we’re doing here!