Hanging Dong - Death By Memes Fourth album in this collabor

AHOY

>>53004050

eyyyy

>>53004056
there really isnt much to do right now, where is dong

>>53004073

in some alleyway buying pot with the bandcamp money

>>53004087
I can't believe he won't let us clean the pool house. How could he be so cruel house?

which songs are finished as of now?

How is everyone doing tracks wise? Admittedly I'm not as far as I'd like but getting there.

any firm release date yet? also heard talk of possible interludes? hoping to see this by thursday/friday

>>53004666
i got my track up there already

i saw a few others

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>>53004968

alright cool

>>53004008

>the life of an impressionable young lad who suffers a downward spiral from popularity to social pariahism at the hands of internet culture

Are we making an album about Dev?

hey guys

>hanging dong
>viet cong

>>53005201
Has Dev killed anyone yet?

>>53005149
this is awesome. vinyl release when

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yes i'm bored

>>53005318

we should just do it for the banter
imaging showing your mates your "Hanging Dong" collections when they come round

>>53005312

No but where in the description OP gave does it say the protagonist kills anyone?

And who the fuck knows, maybe he has, I wouldn't have a clue

>>53005381

The problem is having a one-off vinyl double LP mastered and manufactured could cost nearly £200

>>53005482

Yeah I'm looking for quotes and it's not looking good so far

I want in on this. Are all the tracks claimed already?

>>53005662
yeah but wait a bit so we can confirm that a few people have given up

>>53005482
To get 300 print run of a double album would cost closer to £1200?

We could crowdfund it through kickstarter?

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>>53005538

This is best I've found so far, unfortunately minimum is 300 albums and each would end up ~13 bucks. Anybody found anything better?

>>53005829
why would you go for a vinyl release thats so expensive for what this is. just make tapes

>>53005781

You can find that with jackets included? 4 pounds a record wouldn't be bad, that's much more possible to do a kickstarter for.

>>53005862

Eh people were joking and I thought it would be funny to look up how much it would be, never even looked before

>>53005149
This is great

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I'm cumming just thinking about what it would look like

>>53005909
yeah vinyl is soooo expensive

tapes you can get printed, duped, and packaged for 1.50-4 dollars a tape depending on the amount you buy from 20-100

>>53006023

How much for CDs? I mean we already basically have the packaging sorted out

>>53005149
>you've got a friend in me
s/me/meme/

>>53006055
a bit more expensive, it will cost alot for the full color printing, but the finished product has the small chance of looking very cheap tapes are the cheapest, then CDs then records

unless you literally go buy a peg of cd-rs and mail them

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>>53006092

whoops

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>>53005878
Turns out it's actually closer to £1800 but that still works out at £6 per disk. If you were to crowdfund it, you could charge £10-11 (so you can cover shipping) and everyone would get a double album for half the price it would cost instore.

>>53005720
I hope that ends up being the case. I really want to make some dank stuff for this album.

>>53006147
actually here

http://www.deltamedia.com/instant-quote.html

its not as bad as i remember for cds

>>53006196
i can second this, if anyone gives up ill put something together im the one whos talking about the cds and cassette dupe

Personally, I think if we're going to pay out to have the album made, we should get it done on vinyl.

>>53006181

such a shame they charge so much to make with printed sleeves

>>53005720
I'm still working on Track 2. I'm having trouble doing a lighter sound though. Have gone through 3 songs. On my 4th attempt. Will work till I have something good.

>>53006198
>>53006147

also heres a cassette quoter

>>53006181
>£6 per disk
Sorry, I mean, £3 per disk or £6 for the entire album.

>>53006253
http://www.duplication.ca/quotes/canada/english/cassette-packages.php?MMCF_gcusa&gclid=CJyrtYXunsMCFdQ9gQodypYACQ

forgot the link

>>53006236
Might be slightly cheaper to get them printed by someone else but really, we're still taking £10 for a double album at the end of the day.

>>53006181

Ah so this is just two separate jackets, not a double gatefold? It looks like that's making a big difference in price.

Also sorry I'm trying to do dollar-pound conversions in my head and am just starting to get the hang of it

>>53006279


>>53006272
>>53006198

>>53006308
I guess but getting a record printed feels a little more meaningful. Also, I meant £10 including P&P

>>53006283
Yeah, think I fucked up there. Hold on.

>>53006256

Do you think we could do better if we can find a double wallet instead of the double jewel case or two single jewel cases? There would be no plastic so maybe cheaper? Trying to look for some myself too

Any free tracks?

>>53006364
im not gonna burst ur bubble if you want a vinyl release just understand that for a cheap record you need to buy in numbers, which will still be over 1g for production, unless one of you can shell out that amount youre going to need a kickstarter or something.

custom printing is very very expensive for your meaningfulness

thats why i say it makes no sense to go that route unless you are entirely sure you can sell all of them

>>53006401
No

>>53006444
Well, that's why I suggested the kickstarter in the first place. If we don't meet the target for the pressing, it doesn't happen. Simple as.

>>53006526
how many do you plan to print

OP, is it possible to extend the album so us late shits can take part in it?

>>53006564
where we mostly done tho, their wouldn't be much of a point

u snooze u lose :^)

>>53006603
I snoozed..........

I losed...........

Are there any songs yet to be done?

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For CDs, I have a double-wallet with color graphics for ~$5 per CD for 100 pressings, can we do even better?

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>>53006549
300, double LP
Gonna call around tomorrow if there's actually interest in this and see if I can beat the price back a little but really, it only adds £1 more to each disk. So even at £12 (including P&P) you'd have a 2x140gm album with fully printed gatefold.

>>53006679
NO! WHERE NOT SOME LAME CD BAND GODAMNIT! THIS IS FUCKING HANGING DONG, THE REAL FUCKING DEAL!

>>53006697
i feel like youl be stuck with 250 lps at the end of all this

>>53006679

Actually, if the total lengths of the tracks means that we can fit it on one CD, this will be significantly cheaper. So maybe this whole exercise is premature.

But it does make me want to start a record label.

Um, does anyone happen to live near any vinyl record manufacturing plants?

>>53006745
I'm not going to bother printing anything if I can't sell all the records first.

Let's for reals give a Kickstarter a shot. Can't hurt, right?

>>53006819
15 posters in this thread, i hope yall got 1300 between all of you

>>53006819

No it wouldn't hurt, but will 300 people pledge £10-£15 each?

The least it could do is stir mild interest and make it easier to achieve at a later date.

Listen along/new official thread when?

>>53006920
i think hanging dong will come back shortly, at least an hour right? he'll give us an update

Please don't let this an autistic pipe dream of seeing a Hanging Dong LP alongside your other LPs in your collection. Remind yourselves this is free music made for free. We should only think about physical releases at all if this album we produce actually gets listened to by people other than /mu/tants

>>53006903
honestly i dont think so, ive been following the progress, still super early the dicklick brigade had a few more releases before the first printed album came

i dont see whats wrong with cassettes, it would look dope on a pink shell

>>53006987

*don't let this become

>>53006997
its also easier for the community to fund as a 30-100 tape run will be 1-200 dollars

>>53007034
>>53006997

cassette is very reasonable to start off with

>>53006817

Yeah I'm the poster you were replying to and after this research I agree we should wait until the record is actually complete first, then we can think about this further. Sorry for jumping the gun.

>>53007049

check this

>>53006272
check the color options and everything
and you can make small orders

also if you want to go the bulk route do a 100 run order
http://nationalaudiocompany.com/Duplicated-Imprinted-Boxed-with-Insert-and-wrapped-Cassette-Packages.aspx

By the way, what's our status so far? Anything anybody else can do in the meantime to help or just sit tight?

>>53007164
SICK TIGHT? OH BOY THAT'S MY FAVORITE 311 - DOWN SONG!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1896838322/698947185?token=6d6daca0

Drafted an demo kikestarter, fwiw. Might host it on a different site though, since kickstarter take 10% and then another 20% from VAT is lost.

>>53007179
*Assuming we actually do push for a vinyl release, of course.

Made this trip just for this thread, I'm working on the website, does anyone have the original text logo? Pref in a format with background transparency (PNG PSD etc)

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>>53007383

Hue/Saturation for different colours

>>53007417

perf

>>53007417
I can't get over how cool this logo is

>>53007594
:)

>>53007664
(:

>>53007179

Oh shit didn't realize the VAT was that fucked

>>53007705
Yeah. Plus you're paying VAT on the production as well, or else it could be done for £1800 rather than £2100+

>>53007820

What exactly do they do during production? I'm super naive about this so I thought we would simply provide them with tracks the way we wanted them to sound and then they would press them.

>>53008092
>>53008092
most press companies have a production team you can pay a few extra for them to look over your music

as easy as it is to just give them your flac or wav files alot of the time the quality doesnt transfer over, they take your tracks usually edited together in long format (one track for side A with all side A tracks together, one for side B)

they listen through it, EQ it and make it sound good for an analog format.

they then make a test press and send it in to you for approval before they begin mass pressing

>>53008165

Oh interesting, I didn't even think that they might have to do things to make it sound ok on analog. Thanks Anon

>>53008216
well we are talking about going from digital to analog

they do the same with cassettes, its def worth getting them to look at ur work because then you know that youre getting something put out the right way

Any sign of HD?

>>53008641
HD is kill

>>53008693

no

>>53008700
yes ;)

>>53008481

Yeah you make a great point, I just keep seeing in vinyl threads people talking about how it's pointless to put digital recordings on analog, it's really interesting to know that it's a lot more subtle than just blindly pressing it.

>>53008893
yeah, people say that because at its base you want analog on analog because it just fits well with the warm sound. same goes for CDs in respect to digital music. but theres no real problem with a digital to analog format, collect what you want on whatever format you wish. youl enjoy the sound of it regardless

Very temporary FTP account:

ftp.servage.net
U: HangingDong
P: 4ChanMuHangingDong
Port: 21

if anyone has any assets, zip files of the prior albums, previous album cover art, etc, anything I should put on the site or otherwise use, feel free to UL it there (or if you'd rather give it some other way thats cool too of course)

Still workin on Track 8. If possible I'd like to claim another track

this talk about pressing the album on vinyl is interesting but probably not feasible

>>53009315
im still waiting for an opening anon so i can claim a track

>>53009298

Port? I don't internet very well

>>53009382
dude. it's rite there 21 :/

>>53009382

21's the default for FTP, so if there's nowhere to put port or anything itll just go to it automatic

>>53009409

ah ok

Still working on track 13. Working on lyrics atm. I just hope it isn't too lame. I always get nervous that my music will be boring, especially when the chord progression is relatively simple.

>>53009339
ah well I hope you get it

>>53009454
thank you anon. maybe just have to see if anyone drops out

Is there an actual mega link to download the albums or something?

>>53009623

I'm putting the discography on the ftp

I'm sorry if you took a massive hit in your bandwidth, edgy. I'm putting 400MB of music which is the whole discography

>>53010053

thanks man, not a worry, this is my backup web server and does a few terabytes of bw a month, they wont even notice

>>53007383
O shit, screencap what the website looks like so far

all you have is a hanging dong

>>53010197

im chopping up an old dynamic corporate template

once it looks like something ill post screencap

itll be useable and published late tonight (est)

>>53010296
:)

>>53010397
Alright, because I know HTML/CSS somewhat well, so if you need help I'll be here m8

>>53010453

ah, cool, thx man

>>53010397

what do you mean by late? midnight?

i can wait an hour or two it's just i'm in risk of pulling another all nighter

>>53010570

Couple hours -- I'll link the albums on the placeholder page though before then

>>53010596

Aight cool that's fine.

Just dl'd the three albums, cheers for that. looking forward to the 4th

>>53005829
Dude do it and set the price up like 2 dollars for each LP and put it up for sale, all I know is that I would buy one, and im sure there are at least 299 anons that would also, you would profit.

>>53011065
not with 21 unique posters in this thread

>>53011065

such a shame we can't then get it in all fancy printed packaging though

http://www.furnacemfg.com/duplication/index2.php
This printing service for CDs seems decent. We could print a minimum of 100, and it'd cost $254. So, that means $2.54 for each CD. Huge profit idea right there.

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>>53011576
What I selected

doesn't seem worth it when you have to split it between 21 people

also it's only going to be huge if you sell them all and many, many more

just saying, I wouldn't be thinking about profit with this stuff just yet hey

we done nothin today dong pls show nigga

>>53011668
thats why a limited run cassette release is the cheapest route to go in

>>53011869

cassette is good for now it's all we have a chance of possibly affording.

Maybe instead of all the fuss of pledging the money ourselves we should allow HD to receive revenue from our Bandcamp and put it all towards the cassette release on our behalf.

>tfw this album loses more momentum the longer we wait
>tfw no sign of based Dong
>tfw listen along thread where half of us are missing

>>53004008

finishing up 5 soon, is that the cover?

>>53012187
>tfw this might be Hanging Dong's equivalent of Weezer's "Songs from the Black Hole"

>>53012187
>momentum

haven't you put up like 3 albums in the last week or some shit? momentum is fine lol

>>53012236
naw itll get finished

just pray

>>53012276
im still waiting on someone to drop out so i can come in and pick up the slack

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>>53012224

de facto, yes

>>53012552
what ya feeling for a tape shell color?

>>53012552
purple

>>53012626

pink one side black the other

>>53012552
dam that look nice

More is done than this, but just to show what its looking like so far:

http://www.hangingdong.com/herro/hdtest.html

the main logo is a video background, so if its not loading maybe tell me what browser you're using

its a bit sterile but we can dress it up over time

working on the albums bit now

i thought it might be fun to do fake reviews from pitchfork and shit and link them there; trolling/marketing?

the email address is legit and active, but @hangingdong is taken, we can think of something else (@xhangingdongx ?)

>>53012858

hnnnnnng

>>53012858

oh and dont mind the chronos loader at the beginning im ripping all that out

>>53012858
@hangingdongficial
@hangingdongofficial

either/or

>>53012858
@thehangingdong

>>53012858
For the albums section, just link to the Bandcamp.
Also, you're forgetting we have a Facebook, and the email is [email protected]
I will try to write up the about section

>>53013065

Ah right, what's the facebook link? If Dong ever gets back we can have him route the @hangingdong.com email through his gmail...

Didn't we want to have .zip downloads right off the site because Bandcamp was charging?

About section will be good

>>53013122
- https://www.facebook(MEME).com/pages/Hanging-Dong/309806615895057
- We'll have that in the Bandcamp descriptions, hopefully.
- Writing it

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this cover is better lol

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>>53013499
this one*

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zips of albums are uploading to main serv

are these funny or nah? they're cut up from infamously shitty reviews from when pitchfork was new

>>53013607
nice

>>53013607
Got to give an A+ or A from RC at the end of that spiel.

>>53013607
I lol'd

>>53013699

lol ok

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spotted our first fan :)

Like most bands formed by /mu/, Hanging Dong was established when The Meme Friends and Best nu Mewsic drank too many memes and had a one night stand. The result was Hanging Dong. Although Hanging Dong at first jumped out of the blue and confused many fellow memers on /mu/, they started to realize the full potential of Hanging Dong. Within 3 days, Hanging Dong had already released 3 albums, acquired 200 free downloads from Bandcamp, and already had 12 followers on Facebook.
Hanging Dong may be limp, but in the future, this Hanging Dong will be an Erect Dong. Of love. Fuck this weird comparison that relates to our potential success.

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TShirt maybe?

>>53013974

seriously this is good