wavWRLD's Weekly Wavs 🌊🌐🎶 Issue #28
Your Guide to the Best Emerging Artists & Songs in Music x New Internet
Ahhhhhh spring. Things are mellow right now. There’s a ton of great music dropping: of course on Sound and Catalog, but increasingly on Beats and Decent as well. Each platform offers something unique for creators, and the stronger of a cross-platform ecosystem we can build, the better-equipped artists will be to pursue their creative journeys. That’s a win-win.
People are in *checks notes* LA this week for NFT LA or Miami for Miami Music Week? Last night, Jadyn Violet threw an event with Sagealina in LA, while KarmaVioletta played a secret set for MMW. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. SXSB flew by last week, and we need to send it to Sir Lenny for some on-the-ground reporting:
There you have it. Shouts out to Campfire for holding it down for web3 music—We cannot wait to hear what comes from those sessions. Iman Europe was featured in VIBE Magazine—They named her and FAT RON’s performance as one of the top 10 BEST SHOWS AT SXSW this year. The Boys Club x OpenSea party was also HOT, with web3 baddie Mija on the decks!
But besides that, it seems as if the music NFT scene was apparently dead in Austin, replaced by ~AI music~ as the next technological trend to capture the hearts and minds of the hype train. Of course, it’s nothing new to us. We’re very familiar with the generative/ AI conversation at this point. But for normies? Imagine the possibilities.
No, we have managed to find ourselves in the opposite camp—that of the passé. NFTs, and music NFTs are dead !!! Which brings me to my final point for today: don’t believe the damn hype.
At the core of creation and curation is the practice of giving in to intuition. You have to trust that you can make the best decisions for your own good, and then you have to train your ability to make those decisions consistently. It’s about finding the balance between thinking and doing.
If you can keep a clear head as you make decisions, your efficiency will improve. From there, your output improves. Quick math.
THEREFORE if you make decisions based on what you see other people doing—or based on what others will think—you are inherently preventing yourself from reaching your full potential.
It’s a thought. DMs are open.
wavNEWS 📰
We want to kick it off by giving props to our man Daniel Allan for raising a $1,000,000 seed round. He’s realizing our collective dream: making it as an independent artist by leveraging tools only made possible by web3. Daniel has modeled a path to success for the rest of us.
It’s also news that begs for context. Like the $10 MM investment in Coop Records, $1 million is hard to conceptualize as an individual. It’s nearly impossible to count two for one. But it can come across as such a distant milestone that it could even be discouraging to feel like you’re not anywhere near that level.
That is a bummer, and that’s what I hope people don’t take away from this news. Remember, this is not $1,000,000 cold ones deposited cleanly in his bank account for him to burn, he has obligations with these million dollars. The point is it’s a line item on a balance sheet that he is going to have to deal with for a long time. And he’s got people who gave him money that will have questions about the whole affair.
But Daniel Allan understands this and is ready for that responsibility, and that’s the thing for us to take away: we need to prepare ourselves for the larger responsibilities of artistdom. As we grow, the numbers will get bigger—it comes with the territory.
Also lets pull up the receipts from wavLETTER 26 please:
Here’s another piece of the puzzle.
Listen to Ep 01 of the Invest in Music podcast, where Daniel shares his story, on Spinamp. Watch Adam Levy’s Mint podcast episode where he interviews Daniel, Cooper and Brett.
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Beatport, online music store for DJs and electronic music aficionados, has made the warp to lightspeed and landed a marketplace on the Polkadot blockchain. Here’s how they put it:
“Through the platform, it will allow artists, producers, and labels to sell NFTs, including exclusive content such as unreleased music, discounted tickets, and other perks to fans.”
What great utility! Read the whole article.
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Bonfire and Decent have teamed up for a huge collaboration: now you can import Decent contracts into Bonfire to create custom mint pages for your drops. This news comes in tandem with the announcement that Decent now offers a 1155 contract that enables USD pricing, cheaper minting, and more. Amazing! The more tools at artists' disposal, the better.
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Week after week they’ve got us saying Oohlala! It’s time to get your cheddar up, because Oohlala has just shipped the Oohlala leaderboard where you can see what whales are dropping the most crypto on music NFTs. Oohlala.
wavLIST 🎶
Fresh wavs & what we’re listening to this week from the WRLD:
Twinny’s highly anticipated first official song release of 2023—dance hit “ALWAYS”—as a limited edition digital collectible on Decent.
100 editions for .01 ETH
Flav.io’s “All a Joke” on Beats x Lens. When ur sad, confused and heartbroken—Was it all a joke?
5 editions at 2 wMATIC
TAROT x LNRZ’s track “Way Back” on Sound—Her voice of gold shimmers and glitches out over this banger produced by Clear eyes.
Open edition for .005 ETH
Domino’s song “RETURNLABEL” on Sound. A full res music video will be open to purchase for .15 to whoever holds the golden egg 24 hours after closing <3
20 editions at .05 ETH
wavALPHA 👀
Upcoming drops & projects that you need to know about:
Bloody White announces MODERN ROMANCE—His most ambitious body of work to date. It’s available on spinamp, SoundCloud and Audius. Each cover art links back to its corresponding Sound drop. Preview & mint here!
Brokeinvstr announced his biggest web3 move yet: He’s launching Own The Sound and moving all his existing editorials there. He invites you to join him in shaping and building this brand - Let's own the sound and the culture together!
Elcee the Alchemist dropped 1 track per day for 7 days from his project “The Odyssey Vol. II,” beginning with a FREE OE on Decent. Collectors are getting airdropped additional (and unreleased) tracks, depending on how many songs you collect. You can still listen to and mint most of the songs on Lens or on Beats.
On Thursday, March 30th at 3pm, serboy releases his Sound genesis of song “CRAZY”—A gift to the love of his life.
25 editions for .02 ETH
wavTIPs 💡
Remember to vibe out this spring y’all. It’s the best time of the year when it just gets warm again in late March. Things are blooming right now, it’s time to put on some country music, grab a beverage, and kick back to take it all in. Cause it’s gonna get hot reeaal soon …
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Disclosure: Writer Fred Riko & Curator/ Editor Violetta Hyland may occasionally own the NFTs of certain artists mentioned & certain platforms/ protocols highlighted. Their wallet holdings & activity can be viewed openly on the blockchain. We prioritize featuring wavWRLD members & contributors.