Starfrosch Bonus Track Newsletter

Starfrosch is not only a blog, we also produce music tracks. Subscribe to the Bonus Track Newsletter and receive sporadic tracks delivered to your mailbox. Exclusively produced and published under a creative commons license.

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Here is an example soft dubstep track. Ophelia’s dubstep with vocals from Musetta.

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Paléo Festival 2011

For swiss standards this 27. edition of the festival at the Lake Léman brought off another real extension. Beside other numerous main acts, six different stages and a special theme zone about Caribbean Culture it was the fact to have both Portishead and PJ Harvey live on the main stage Wednesday and Thursday that stole this swiss festival summer. PJ Harvey had her last swiss concert  in 2001, and Portishead partly appeared one or two times in the same period. And considering further important criteria, as the infrastructural management,  this leads to the widely objective statement that this festival is second to none in this country.

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How to self-promote your music


So you are an artist and have a new album. You want to make yourself heard, but nobody, absolutely nobody has waited for your release. Your missing a fan base. Build a fan base. Collect e-mails with your newsletter, run a blog and collect RSS subscribers, don’t forget Twitter and Facebook. Try it at MySpace. Play gigs at your local community (that’s the best) and sell your CD’s there.

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How to create a hit

Here’s an interview with the Belgian producer Paul Van Haver, better know as “Stromae” and he shows us how he created his hit “Alors on danse”. Quite interesting but little bit messed with the Propellerheads Reason commercials.
The message is simple: Buy Reason and you can create a hit. You know it’s creativity not tools.

Thanks for the image smemon

Swiss netlabel transforms

The swiss netlabel alpinechic with lots of Creative Commons licensed music transforms to a new label: fictional island.

fictional islands sets off, where alpinechic has stopped, but focuses on artists, bands and musicians that play real instruments, sing real songs and live real lives with true emotions.

fictional island will release indie, alternative, electro rock and all of their relatives.

Have listen to Le Zero

Le Zero – Dive by fictionalisland

Good luck guys.