ADSactly Music Initiative #15

The happiest of new year to one and all, it's 2019! It's just insane how fast last year flew by, and what an amazing year it was, ups and downs, and then more downs. Luckily there is only one place to go when everything is down, and that is up, and we have an amazing feeling about this 2019. We are hoping for a gradual growth of the Steem market back to where is should be, which in our humble opinion should be about $2 to $4. It's probably not going to happen over night and the sharp climb followed by the fall obviously scared off the masses and new investments, but this happened to BTC a few times, and it's still here.

So we hope you got all the rest you needed over the holidays and are ready to hit the ground running to do what you have a passion for, and that is to create music.

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"Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it." - Stevie Wonder

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Introduction

We got together and decided we wanted to do something in the music space, as there are so many budding, talented musicians on the Steemit platform. We noticed that, although there were a lot of people posting, it felt like some of the contributors could use a little helping hand. I mean, who wouldn't want a little helping hand, right?
So where could WE add value? We could use our own in-house production people to help develop music for fellow Steemians looking for that little extra audio assistance.

We'll be running an initiative whereby Steemians can post their links below, and if the criteria are met (please read the criteria), we'll dig in with them and help mix their track, or add some instruments that they feel are missing from their song, or some little production techniques. If there isn't actually a post that our producer can work with, we might even just decide to give one of the entrants a bit of upvote love.

As time goes by and we put together enough collaborated content, we will then upload this content to digital stores (iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, etc.) and release a compilation album.
The other avenue where we would like to add value is to sync the music to commercials to try and develop some additional passive income for the artists.
Where will this go?
....Only time will tell!

How does it work?

• Comment below with your Steemit post, DSound link or Soundcloud link (or another platform that you would prefer to use). Must be within 7 days of this post.
• Upvote this post
• Join the ADSactly Discord Community
• Please try make sure you have independent audio files that we could actually work with in production
• @ADSactly picks a winner (Please check back in the comments for this)
• The winner receives a consultation over discord to discuss the direction moving forward on the track.
• Our in-house producer does the work, sends it back to the winner, and they upload it to DSound with a guaranteed upvote from @ADSactly
• We'll report back with the results in the following post so you, our followers, can keep track.

Disclaimer: Sometimes it might the case that out of all the entries, there isn't a post that can be worked with effectively; whether its due to a winner not getting back to us, or there being insufficient or inferior audio separates to work with. In this case we'll pick a song or track to show some love to.

About the Producer

Our guy behind the wheel is @heypapalegend, a music producer with a PDM in jazz studies and a BMusHons with distinction. He has performed in a variety of music acts in genres such as punk rock, reggae, dancehall, hip hop, electro, pop, jazz, and more. @heypapalegend is co-owner of internationally award-winning HeyPapaLegend Studios (heypapalegend.com) which have facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg and has been in operation for roughly 10 years. Trust us, you're in good hands.

Check out our company website here

As well as some of the work we have done here

Our Previous Winner

We’ve decided that we would like to give some upvote love to @d-vine for her liquid funk track, "Just Be". Most of you in the music scene here know Elli all too well by now, not only is she a DJ, producer and audio engineer, she also hosts an epic music orientated show on the PAL discord sever called "SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTIST" along with @onemedia, @darrenclaxton. Her track "Just Be" produced using Studio One, felt like just the right tune for starting off 2019. Please go show her loads of support on her post here and definitely tune into MSP-Waves Radio when you get the chance, and find some really great artists on the Steem blockchain.

Please be sure to join our discord server and look out for the adsactly_music_initiative channel, where you can drop your music link as well as chat to us and others about all things music. We look forward to seeing some amazing new music tracks and projects, as well as meeting all the musicians who have come to Steem.

Now what are you waiting for? Go and get that music post and link it in the comments...Don't forget to check up in the "How It Works" section to make sure you submit within the parameters. Let's have some fun with music!

The ADSactly Music Initiative is by led by Ross Dabone & Mork Rock

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect the official policy or position of ADSactly

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