Mar 09: New song uploaded old song
tantrum's Advice to Users: Work Less, Earn Less, Spend Less and Do More, album released in 2005 had 2 tracks dropped from it during the last year of its making (it did take 9 years to make) anyway, one of them 'Spent Too Much' is now available here to download. It was never properly finished and we never got Nikki to sing on it so there are lots of different guide vocals going on. Why release it then? Well you know what with the current clime etc.. blah blah, but i've always liked it. Think i might put up the other one as well soon.
Feb 09: OMG the CD is dead, long live the cd (and book). they are not going to last much longer if Nintendo DS is going to become the book reader of choice for the next generation. get what you can now before they're gone..Which reminds me the Fake Tan album is finished just still putting together the cover artwork.if you would like to pre-order a email us. thank you and goodnight.
October 08: New Boris Boogaloo Album out. Life and Times. Will start to upload tracks very soon.
October 08: New music sharing idea from Bandcamp which looks great, (see below). Click on share and you get code to drop into your website to play our music! Which actually, when you read that sentence looks slightly less enticing. Well use it to share your own music then. Still, i like it.
October 08: New Website design coming along slowly - you may have noticed that its powered by joomla.
Click on the Share button below. Or buy the album or individual tracks in the file format of your choice and at a price you chose (though i don't think it goes under 50c and who knows what that means in pence or euros at the moment, we did try to set it to zero, but i don't think we can).Yes, you could end up selling our music from your site and yes you don't get any money for doing that. Is that so bad?
Floppy Records
Floppy Records has been giving away music online since 1997.
Floppy Records was set up in 1991 by me to release the Audrey Hepburn EP by Tinkerbell’s Dope Ring (which i played in along with Mik Wheeler, drummer, of Gasgiant fame and a lot of bass players including Scott Shaw (now XFM Scotland), Sue Allen, Dave, Robin, Arthur Finlay, Deke Patton (DJ Outlaw), and others. We released a few things for Tinkerbells, none did well, so i obviously have a great deal of in-experience to talk about these matters. Nikki and i then formed tantrum and fake tan, gasgiant release stuff and we found boris. All are bands and musicians based in Scotland (and on the whole Edinburgh, though Floppy Records has moved to the Borders).
Our hope was to sell 5000 albums a year. Thats not going to happen is it. Perhaps i should re-define this to sell 1000 tracks online from various music sites.
Actually its not that at all, its to keep writing, recording and releasing music, the rest just doesn't matter. Which handily explains why i can't be bothered with the important stuff of music business business ie: promoting and selling. Probably one of the many reasons we haven't sold much in the past is not organising distribution so they weren't available to buy anyway - things like that seem obvious but i never thought about them.
BANDS
Floppy Records is the record label for 5 bands: Tinkerbell's Dope Ring, tantrum, Fake Tan, Boris Boogaloo and Gasgiant or maybe we just sell their albums, its up to them, ooh and now the wonderful Blab.
Videos and remixes - we have some and we've uploaded the remixes, just not the videos yet, and if anybody fancies having a shot at doing some please do, we would love to see/hear them.
Demos
Please don’t send us your demo. We set up our own label to sell our own music. You could consider doing the same thing.
How to set up your own Record Label:
Record labels, setting up a record label, making and selling albums, distribution, free mp3 music websites, copyright, and publishing companies and more. All somewhat innaccurate (probably) but not intentionally misleading, but there you go. More on setting up your own record label>