Welcome back!
I would like to inform you guys that my first album, Fun Elevator Music is back online and in stores such as Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, YouTube, TIDAL, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Napster, and so forth. It was originally released through Stem Disintermedia on August 31st, 2018, and now it is back for you guys to listen to, as I have now re-released it through Routenote, as this is a 13-song version of this album.
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| The Offseason Hobbyist's "Fun Elevator Music" is back online in stores! |
Here's the list of stores you can find this at:
Spotify
iTunes/Apple Music
TIDAL
Deezer
Amazon
Amazon Music Unlimited
YouTube
iHeart Radio
Google Play
JioSaavn
WiMP
Also, you can buy my physical CD on Amazon, as it contains all 16 of my original songs, including your favorites that were included on Nina Stakz' Smoke Out Soundtrack.
Amazon CD Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Elevator-Music-Offseason-Hobbyist/dp/B07GP1RG3F
Curiously though, it's release date weirdly says "January 1st, 2018," when it should have said, "August 31st, 2018," but minor quibbles aside, let's move on.
I did leave three of my original songs off the album to cut it from 16 to 13, as I did not want to take chances in having those songs potentially being in a copyright claim dispute, since I had lent them earlier to a short film in mid-April of 2018 before I decided that I wanted to release and kickstart my first music album.
I know some of you guys will be bummed out that I decided to not put three of my more popular songs on the re-release, as one particular song, "Dreamt That It'd Be Something Like This" was especially a hit with my fans, but this will be a chance for you guys to listen to the rest of the tracks, and the two songs from me are exclusively in the short film, "
Smoke Out" by Onyx Theory Arts from director Nina Stakz on YouTube (songs then made under my actual name, Alan Lu) are still up on the web for you guys to hear forever.
Still, this album marks a celebration of the songs I made early in my music career, and this won't be the last album you'll probably see in stores. There also may be another album coming in late September, so for my fans, hopefully you guys will stick around for that.
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9/13/19 Update: My album, "Fun Elevator Music" went from being approved to be being back in review, because I wanted to change the original release date from the incorrect date of January 1st, 2018 to its correct release date of August 31st, 2018.
9/17/19 Update: Routenote approved of the changes, and now it should read as August 31st, 2018 as being the original release date, as that was when I had initially released this album when I was with Stem.
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9/17/19 Thoughts:
This summer, me and my team at
NBA Scouting Live have been busy trying to integrate Ezoic, and the process has been....hellish to say the least.
We've been trying to accommodate them to be able to use their software, as we went through a tedious and rigorous web hosting migration, as we changed web hosts from Wix to Siteground, as we had to manually re-upload nearly all of our old posts and re-link it for functionality's sake, and there's been issues in trying to finish the integration as we've had servers and SSL certificate/private key file issues, and the most frustrating part of all of this, is when we try to follow the steps, and the tutorial skips steps, and we're left trying to pick up the pieces to finish the installation.
We had two good years at running our site on Wix, and we had a good run with them, but unfortunately, we felt like it was time to say goodbye to them in the midst of the web migration process, but hopefully you guys will like our work with Siteground as the new web host.
It hasn't been an easy process for any of us, and it upsets me whenever the site is down, as it has happened a couple of times due to change-over and implementation issues. There's no telling if our site in the future will use Ezoic, and we're working with a fairly tight budget, as the programmers we've met with have either had outrageous demands, or were unreliable and didn't commit to work with us.
It's been a trying time right now. At NBA Scouting Live, we run a small operation, and we're hoping that over time, we'll be able to expand and grow. Figuring out how exactly to do that has been an area of difficulty, but through the ups and downs, and the curveballs we get thrown in life, hopefully this will all work out for all for us.
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Thank you, and thanks for reading.
