Coolest Cassette Tapes Released in The Last Few Years
If you’re thinking of making a few custom cassette tapes to add to your merch table, now is the perfect time. Despite the dominance of streaming when it comes to music consumption, vinyl and cassette tape sales have skyrocketed in recent years. In fact, during the first half of 2020, RIAA reported that vinyl surpassed […]
Five of the Most Elaborate Music Releases Ever
Today, when everything is downloadable, you have to be creative with your music release to get people to dig in their pockets and give you cash. You can release in a kick-ass CD packaging, custom USB sticks, or vinyl pressing in Los Angeles. Here are some of the most elaborate music releases of all time. […]
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15 ways to greatly reduce stress when releasing an album
They say music reduces stress. Well, they’re so right about that. But you know it’s different when you’re the one releasing it, right? So in this guide we put together, we’re going through fifteen essential tips—covering everything from using digital tools to finding the right partners—to make your album release stress-free (or at least less […]
10 ways to add more buzz to your album release
Recording an album is daunting. But so does promoting an album release. You have to take your vitamins and gather more energy because recording’s just the beginning! After that comes mastering, manufacturing, and last but not the least—marketing and promotion. Marketing is definitely a must and you should have started it months before recording. You […]
25 music packaging designs that are true works of art
In the digital age, buying physical albums has become somewhat of a hobby. Instead of “to be able to hear the tracks” as the reason for buying them, they are now treated as merch. What makes them a good item to collect though, is the design that they have, both the packaging and the physical […]
A Brief History of Music Formats
Music has long been a part of our life. Even before music formats were invented, music has been present with just the clamping of hands and chanting of people’s voices. As life progressed, music has become an industry—a necessity that people earn money while making them. Thanks to the geniuses who made these different music formats, there’s […]
Why everyone’s now obsessed with the vinyl record
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know that everyone’s either streaming or playing music using turntables these days. Here at Unified, we’ve seen this switch happen gradually over the years. Although we still get orders for CD replication, but since 2020, people come to us mainly for vinyl pressing and cassette tape duplication […]
12 Reasons You Should Still Release Physical Albums Even if There’s Spotify
You might be wondering if releasing a physical version of your album would be a successful one. You’re not the only one though. Many people from the music industry do, especially during this age of digital streaming. Digital streaming has been taking over music sales since 2005 and it surpassed physical sales last 2015 and […]
Will digital audio ever sound as good as analog?
Some people wonder why we still offer custom cassette tape duplication in 2020 and our answer is simple: many people still love the analog format. There has always been a never ending debate about which sounded better between the analog audio and the digital audio. The emergence of CDs, which are the first popular audio […]