A few days ago, 105 beautiful CDs arrived. Feel free to order one from my Bandcamp. I am currently based in Auckland so local pick-ups are possible too. Also if you do / have something that you think I might like we can exchange too.
Aucklandia CDs have arrived!
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in NEWS and tagged as album, auckland, aucklandia, cd, czech, korea, kubatko, new zealand, sky tower, south korea
Why I love Bandcamp
I simply love Bandcamp for all what it brings to the music “industry”. They started simple, they are keeping it simple but they also continuously bring new features.
A few things that matter to me the most:
- Easy to set-up an account for an artist.
- Easy to upload songs/content for an artist.
- Bandcamp takes only 15% from anything that you sell in there. Which, if you think about it, is quite a small amount considering all the support they give you.
- As an artist you can sell pretty much anything (merchandise, CDs, digital). Everything is nicely done and orders are easily trackable.
- Stats are easy to understand and viewable.
- Clean design.
- You feel like they care about the artists. For example every artist can select three other albums on Bandcamp and so when someone buys their album on the download screen they will see album that the artist is recommending. Really cool little feature.
- You don’t have to register to buy music.
- If you are registered user anytime you buy something you get it added to your nicely done collection.
Bandcamp Collection
How many plays on Bandcamp do I get?

Bandcamp Plays
How many sales do I get?

Bandcamp Sales
Put all into context – on Bandcamp I would get 131.40 / 5906 = 0,02 USD/Play.
How much do I earn from a play on Spotify? It’s about 0,002 USD/Play. Thanks god for Bandcamp 🙂

Spotify Play
Which is quite nice, again I don’t do it for the money but the fact that I earned 131,40 USD in two months will help me cover some of the cost that I spent on Aucklandia.
If we don’t count my time that I spent on the album the total cost of the Aucklandia album was:
80 USD – Distribution
327 USD – Mastering (USD = around 22 CZK)
297 USD – 105 CD Albums
total of 704 USD
after taking 131,40 USD that I earned – it’s just 572,6 USD to get to 0 cost.
Quite cool.
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in BLOG, INTERESTING and tagged as album, aucklandia, bandcamp, blog, cd, cost, distrubution, mastering, spotify
Some of my music picks for 2014
I enjoyed quite a lot of music in 2014 so here is my bit. Please if you have a minute, have a listen to these artists I am sure you might find some of them fun to listen to.
Czech:
- Lanugo – 2014
- Prodavač – Malý ráje
- Monikino Kino – Prazdniny
- Subject Lost – Expo Nova
- Zkrat Kratochvíl – no album but songs on SoundCloud
- Lenka Dusilová – V hodině smrti
- Lake Malawi – songs on YouTube
Rest Of The World:
- _yi – IDEO-POP!
- Dark0 – Fate EP
- Hanabi – NEET
- Mr. Bill – IRL
- Ohheejung – Set Adrift
- POMO – songs on SoundCloud
- Primula – Aquarius
- San Holo – Cosmos EP
- The Walters – Songs For Dads
PS: now when I look at the list it doesn’t seem that exciting any more but I am sure there was more I just can’t remember right now.
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in INTERESTING, MUSIC I LIKE and tagged as 2014, kubatko, music, picks
Podcast for XPLAYMIX
I have made a new mix of a podcast called XPLAYMIX. Enjoy this mix of different house sounding songs featuring four songs from my upcoming album.
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in NEWS and tagged as dj, fullmoon magazine, kubatko, mix, xplaymix
Aucklandia T-Shirt design on Threadless
If you would like to wear the design of my new upcoming album on your chest please do vote for it on Threadless.
Thank you!
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in INTERESTING, NEWS, Uncategorized and tagged as album, aucklandia, cd, shirt
Don’t Die in Media
Thanks to Radio 1 for putting “Don’t Die” to their charts:
It got to 11th place in first week and to 12th place this week. If you like this song and you like listening to Radio 1 then please support this one with a vote.
Also, thanks to musicserver.cz for giving 8/10 to this song and promoting it on their page.
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in INTERESTING, NEWS and tagged as aucklandia, kubatko, musicserver, ohheejung, radio1
Kubatko – Don’t Die feat. Ohheejung
After two years I am very close to finishing my fourth album. This is a second track from it called “Don’t Die” featuring amazingly talented Korean singer Ohheejung
If you like you can vote for this song in Radio 1 charts. Thank you!
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in NEWS, RELEASES and tagged as album, aucklandia, czech, electronic, korean, kubatko, ohheejung
Kubatko Live @ Shadowbox, Radio 1 05/01/2014
My January mix was uploaded to SoundCloud for easier sharing. Before my album goes out, have a listen to this mix from the beginning of this year when I was back in wintery Prague (on Radio 1 – Shadowbox show). If I DJ then this is what I currently play.
Tracklist:
1) Baby (feat. MNEK, Sinead Harnett)by Rudimental
2) Incoming by Celsius
3) Running (Disclosure Remix)by Disclosure; Jesse Ware
4) Holdin On by Celsius
5) No One Has To Know by Squarehead
6) Jaws (Original Mix)by Lxury
7) No To Love (Todd Edwards Remix)by Jessie Ware
8) Beg (Hot Since 82 Future Mix)by Yousef
9) Smile Feat. Kendra Cash (Shur-i-kan Future Vox)by Joey Negro, Mistura, Kendra Cash
10) Close by Sub Focus & MNEK
11) Everybody Wants Something feat. Alex Mills (Joey Negro Strip Mix)by Joey Negro Akabu, Alex Mill
12) Terminal by Kubatko & Thomas Bare
13) Mellow Summer (Sole Unity)by Dave Horne & Leanne March
14) Do Better (Spiritchaser Remix)by The Layabouts, Portia Monique
Posted by Jakub Holovsky in NEWS, TRACKLIST and tagged as dj, kubatko, mix, soundcloud
What am I listening to?
I love “Bandcamp” that is where I find music most of the time and where I buy music most of the time. If you are interested check out my latest bought album on Bandcamp that I really like:
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