I'll keep everyone posted about Monthly EPs once it's all ready to go. I'll post here and on the FB page Phil made.

Drumur: Coming to the WB party in Melbourne? YEEAHHHHH

So just an update:

I have 5 people interested (with a 6th pending) just from my Facebook friends.

I great idea mentioned is to use BandCamp for the releases. If you want to participate then you sign up to BandCamp (free) and upload your release there on the last day of every month. We can then have a Monthly EP website as a blog which acts a digest and publishes every release as a post. With BandCamp you can embed a release into a post, so instead of travelling to every artists BC page you'd be able to access all of the participants releases from our community page in the one go. It's an idea I like a lot.

They can't rewrite this site because people are joining to try the challenge for 2013. All that really needs to happen is the weeks and submissions reset (and archived?) and the name changed to WeeklyBeats2013.

If we want to do Monthly EPs then we need to have an offshoot site for that. We've left it quite late obviously, but if we have the website running before the first submission date (Jan 31st) then we're allowed some delay time. The alternative there of course is to just make a group on Facebook and have our submissions there. I don't like that idea because I don't like Facebook, but it will absolutely work if none of us want to make a website.

Given it was my idea to try a Monthly EP, I'm more than happy to contribute to the creation of this spin-off site - I'm just not very good at making websites. The website itself can just be a crude Wordpress site with an upload function for people to submit their EP. On the last day of every month the EPs are released as a post on the main page. Easy enough. Obviously the nature of the website will be as good as those contributing to the back end, so if it's just me doing it don't expecting anything better than a blog .

I do like the idea enough to:
a) Just do it myself and post my results to my own Website
b) Join a Facebook group if more people want to do it as well, but not want to make a sister-site to this.

Monthly EP?

Have 3 or 4 tracks that you're happy to release done in a calendar month. Similar to a track a week but without the constant deadline pressure. A 3 track EP done in a 4.5 week month is far less stress. You can compensate for that by coming up with the cover art yourself too. Spend more time on the mix and mastering. Put more emphasis on the production to make it a legitimate release that you're happy with.

This is definitely something I'd like to do.

Gotta get to Melbourne somehow lawl

Skype it up yo.

It's 'Dark Week'.

I have plans.