r/TripHopCreators

Honestly can’t believe this is happening! I’m absolutely floored so please forgive me for what i gotta admit is boasting. Going to do what i can make good on my previous offer of helping any other Canadian indie musicians here get their tunes on the radio. (I know some of you are already getting plenty of spins — saw our very own Bristol Manor topping the charts in Windsor not too long ago!)

Basically, you want to do the following:

- get your stuff up on the !earshot distribution database. It’s about $50 an album to do so. This is where campus and community radio stations in Canada go to find new Canadian music to add to their libraries and put on the air.
- fill out your SOCAN and ACTRA RACS and PANORAMA paperwork so that you’re registered as a Canadian artist and so that you can, in theory, collect royalties when your tunes are played
- start reaching out to stations (their music departments, specifically) and show hosts who you think might dig your stuff. Get one of those radio apps that lets you listen to stations across the country so that you can suss them out. When you send off your emails, include a link to the album on !earshot

Thanks to those who have contributed!!!
Really appreciate it and some amazing remixes!!
Here’s a vid for the Candlewax remix!

Will be posting to our bandcamp for free download for anyone that’s interested on 4th September! No physical release unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/NAWNBvwJ8Pc?si=8634tv2nn7qDar-n

Hey folks here's a track I've been working on called Blind Fantasy. Slow, downtempo, a bit haunted, influenced by Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky and Tom Waits. Give it a listen.

https://edwardcostello.bandcamp.com/track/blind-fantasy

Okay so originally I was planning on making a straight out of Compton cover using 808. but then I realized that I might as well let you all use this 808men break for your own projects first as i try and figure out how to make a 1-1 accurate version of the N.W.A. Hit song straight out of Compton using 808 software… enjoy :)

This project consist of 9 tracks and is my fourth album released. It would mean a lot if you checked it out!

Every project I try to have a central theme whether it's emotional or style, This project I decided to lean into the raw sample hip hop sound while adding my own synth and bass on a lot of the tracks. This project reflects a deeply introspective and lost state that I found myself in this past summer.

I love music and am particularly a massive hip hop head and try my best to create my own universe within my music as many did before me. I hope you enjoy this project and please check out my other releases if you feel so inclined!

https://drumusic6.bandcamp.com/album/cold-summers

I can hardly believe I’m seeing this! Bog Sorcery II: One Lip to Earth & One Lip to Heaven is charting, and not only charting but hitting NUMBER TWO on CFRU’s top 30, and NUMBER ONE on their Electronic chart this week! God, I love radio! And community radio I love most of all!

To any fellow Canadian artists kicking around here: get your tunes up on !earshot, and don’t be shy about sending out a few emails to various stations’ music departments. If you wanna hmu for a list of the stations that’ve played Bog Sorcery and might be receptive to other weird shit, my dms are open.

u/solsaul recently posted about mvsep.com - which provides extensive stem-splitting. For example, the mega 53(!) stem split contains strings, guitar, piano, saxophone etc. However, this website has a few limitations on the free plan: no lossless, queues, max quota, etc.

A few months ago, the mega 53 stem splitter was made open-source, so I wanted to write a quick tutorial on how you can run this (and other models) locally on your computer for free!

Requirements:

16GB RAM and an NVIDIA GPU (e.g. 3060 or latest) is recommended. Should work without, although may be slow.

This tutorial will be for Windows, although should work with other OS if you know your way around.

Setup (only need to do this once):

1. Install the latest version of Python (currently 3.13), and enable environment variables in the custom section of the installer.
2. Create a new folder, e.g. C:\Music\MySep.
3. Run PowerShell, and run these commands with your path substituted in

cd C:\Music\MySep

py -3.13 -m venv mvsep-env

.\mvsep-env\Scripts\Activate.ps1

python -m pip install --upgrade

pip python -m pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/openmirlab/bs-roformer-infer.git@main"

Splitting a track:

To list all currently available models, run this command:bs-roformer-download --list-models

To split an audio file, run this command:

bs-roformer-infer --model roformer-model-bs-roformer-mvsep-mega-53-stems --input_folder "F:\Example\Music\songs\Folder-With-Song-In-It" --store_dir "F:\Example\Music\songs\stems" --device auto

Substitute:

--model with the model you want to use

--input_folder for the location of the song (it will process every file in this folder!)

--store_dir for where the stems are output

And then you have 53 stems from one track!

It did take a while to run on my 3060, but as it takes a whole folder as input you could always run this on an entire library while at work/overnight.

Enjoy!