Free(mixed castle)
Hey it’s Brandon. Happy Saturday – hope you’re doing well.
REMIXED CASTLE, the track-for-track reimagination of my last album (RUINED CASTLE), is finally out today on every digital platform on which you can listen to music.
It’s been out technically since mid-March as a Bandcamp exclusive, and I’ve been trickling out each remix gradually as singles as a nice gesture to each of my wonderful collaborators. Those collaborators are:
The last 4(!) months of slowly releasing each of these singles, which nice, has been a slog. I sort of assumed it would be when I took it on, but releasing to Spotify and the other streaming services has gotten pretty easy. What I underestimated was the time I didn’t have to really properly promote any of these remixes, and the anxiety I felt because of it.
I’m not going to release like that again. Even for a great collaboration like this project was. It’s too much on any single artist. I don’t want to release more than 3 singles maximum to promote an album. For something like this that’s purely collaborative and made for the reason of joy, it’s not worth the infinitesimally small possibility of a single track “blowing up” and instead it’s been far more rewarding to simply have the album out in the world. Which happened back in March. It raised a few hundred bucks for creators. That’s the success story, not this 4-month ordeal of singles that didn’t really do much to lift any of the artists involved.
So now that it’s out, I’m free. Onto the next thing. Probably faster than you think.
Talk soon ✌️Brandon