How to Release Experimental Music Independently: A Guide by RZRecords
Introduction: Why This Guide Exists We have been doing this for over twenty years. That is not a boast. It is a confession. Twenty years of releases. Twenty years of collaborations. Twenty years of watching platforms emerge, promise democratization, and then monetize themselves into irrelevance. Twenty years of explaining to friends and family that yes, the mess, screaming and feedback is intentional, and yes, someone actually purchased it. We have released harsh noise wall, avant-jazz, drone, dark ambient, electroacoustic improvisation, no-wave-noise-punk, and things we still do not have names for. We have worked with collaborators in Ukraine, Netherlands, Serbia, Russia, Japan, Philippines, Israel, Poland, and obviously the US, and basements everywhere that do not appear on maps. We have released albums recorded on answering machines and dictaphones, and albums recorded in professional studios. We have pressed CDs, burned CDRs that remain unsold and cassettes that sold out in h...