Download album
In fact this is a new Kratarknathrak album, but i stopped using that name, because it was too difficult for most people. "Higgs Foton" has a nice ring and is much easier to remember than that krkrkrkkt like most people say. So here it is. "The shadow". 7 songs of which two different versions of the title track, 4 new songs and one not-so-new. It lasts for about an hour, and i am currently uploading it to musiczeit.com, a nifty site i found where you can make downloads available for sale. I was long looking for something like this, but most of those sites require "maintainance fees" and stuff like that. Musiczeit doesn't and i like that for starters because i really don't know how digital sales go, though i suspect it is not as good as physical.
I have some stuff to release, and i tried the "free download" thingy, but i found that to be quite shitty. Problem is that most people assume that if you make it available for free that is must suck. And lets face it, with the crap the talentless myriad of myspace bands release as "FREE DOWNLOAD ALBUM", that's not even far beside the truth. And it adds fo further devaluation of music. Making it available for free is saying it holds no value. Well, it doesn't. I think what i make holds value, and though i experimented with the "free download" thingy (Kratarknathrak EP and album on Laidback electronica netlabel, and the Mixtape, cumulonimbus II and NCDFYS EP from tPROE) i find the results to be quite shitty, so i am not going there anymore.
Offcourse there is the illegal circuit, but i think by putting value on music, you make it worthwhile and thus desireable. So the musiczeit.com site is a new experiment i am trying now. I do not expect much from it saleswise, but at least it gives me the opportunity to do things like i want them to be. More or less, because i put up the album for the minimal EP price, but according to their standards it has to last under 30 minutes, and mine is a mere 20 minutes longer. meh.
Anyway:
http://www.downloadplatform.com/album.php?album=1103&Higgs+Foton+The+shadow
The result is pleasing imho. If i like what is happening here i will release digital versions of the self released tPROE CD's, and more backcatalogue stuff and the more difficult experimental tPROE side. And offcourse more Higgs Foton and assorted thingies.
Free downloads are soooooooo 2008.