Music producer looking into Steem as a future publishing platform

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Hey there! I am lums, I've been producing electronic music for over 5 years now.
About 6 months ago, I got into the habit of uploading a new production every week to Soundcloud.

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I got interested in the crypto space after watching a bunch of Andreas M. Antonopoulos videos, in which he outlined new decentralized payment models that were unimaginable before the invention of Bitcoin. I still can't wrap my head around what the future holds, but seeing Steemit and dTube in action completely blew my mind!

At this point I'm not sure what my best strategy would be. I want to keep creating music (because I enjoy doing it), but now that I've seen the possibility of getting paid for creating content (holy shit, right?) I don't see much use in uploading to a platform which I even have to pay money for (Soundcloud Pro).

Soundcloud is great for getting discovered. During my weekly upload schedule I noticed that my view/follower/like count kept increasing over time. I've looked into resonate, which has an amazing streaming model, and Steemit is already proving itself. I've paused what I was doing to focus on an EP release next year, but when I get back to my weekly schedule I'd love to host it on a decentralized network which seems to respect artists a lot more than traditional services.

What do you think? Is there a demand for this type of stuff on Steemit? Would it make sense to share private links with downloads here, which would only be available to the community? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, as this is a really exciting topic to me.

PS: My character design was done by Pectin, who is part of the indie game team Boys Laugh +. I'm hoping to get them on Steemit as well, if I can figure out the best way for them to get rewarded for the months of work they are currently putting into their game. :)

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