“Tha Throwback” is FINALLY out!

By now most of you already know that the Cartel – Tha Throwback, is finally available for download (www.universalindie.com). I can\’t describe how happy I am to finally get this music out there since it\’s was supposed to be released about four months ago. Yea, I know that four months is nothing, especially in the major label machine, but, as an artist; when the music is done you want it out there.

I remember being on mastering guys back to hurry up and send me the finished mp3s. Not that I need to be because David does a hellva job, but because I couldn\’t wait to upload it to my site and Jamendo. Now I love Jamendo but if you\’re using a Mac, uploading to the site is painful process since you can only upload Wav, Aif or Flac files which are 100% times larger than an mp3 file (an exaggeration I know). Windows users can download a Jamload application which speeds up the upload process considerably. A Mac app was promised but has yet to materialize in the two years that I\’ve been a Jamendo member. Once it finally uploaded, it was pretty smooth sailing setting up my page for the release on both my site and Jamendo\’s. I must also mention that I love the widget that Jamendo provides for your website. It allows your music to shared on other blogs and webpages as easily as you can embed a YouTube Video.

With that done it was time to begin the first part of my promotional campaign, sending out the press releases alerting those in the know to my project. Already a few have already picked up the release:

MI2n.com
Laptop Rockers
British Hip Hop
Top 40 Charts
Marc Dollarz Music

I\’ve also conducted two new interviews which I\’ll post up as soon as they\’re live and received some constructive critisism by man dude at MixTapeShow.net which caused me to make some adjustments to my site. Thanks Dex.

So it has been an eventful first few days and I\’m already thinking about next week where I\’ll focus on promoting on Myspace and trying to get a few album reviews as well. The beautiful part about being an indie is that you shouldn\’t be concerned with first week numbers. The Wu-Tang worked \”Protect Your Neck\” for a full year before Loud picked them up. Too many of today\’s fans and artists alike assume that if you don\’t do a certain amount by a certain time that your project is a failure. As an indie, you have the luxury of not have to conform to such idiocy .