# Liner Notes 01 By [Catalog](https://paragraph.com/@catalog) · 2022-10-28 --- **Heads up: all past and future Catalog stories now live on our own blog, Liner Notes. Teleport there for new stories and updates. To sign up for our newsletter, add your email** [**here**](https://beta.catalog.works/about)**. Thanks for reading** 💽 Pictured above: This month’s Catalog cover story star, Ed Balloon Put Your (1-of-1) Records On ---------------------------- Hi friends, hope you're staying safe & inspired out there. Welcome to **Liner Notes**, a newsletter from the humans behind [Catalog](https://beta.catalog.works/). Once a month, we’ll roll through with community updates, programming recaps and sneak peaks, rare records, and occasional cat photos. We hope it makes you smile every once in awhile :) P.S. Independent artists have earned more than $3M from just over 1000 one-of-one records sold on Catalog. We’re also up to [something new](https://twitter.com/catalogprotocol) — stay tuned in our [**Discord**](https://catalog.community/) to get a server role, hang out, and remix guests' stems in our #cook-off channel. Thanks for rocking with us 💽 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/0b007a94aad774ae15c0800a7eab8a4cdce44b788d4f32751c5cc9f264d9fa94.png) The past few months brought so much more than summer's end & spooky szn: * Contributing curators in our inaugural rotating [**Curation Cycle**](https://curationcycles.catalog.community/) onboarded artists spanning genres and continents * We published our first long-form stories about a [new Brazilian music scene](https://catalog.mirror.xyz/M0HYkC19BNovsRUG4pjwXb-0_G2g6JdMiMjYLZ2GtGM) emerging from the lineage of baile funk, plus the cinesonic universe of Boston-raised artist [Ed Balloon](https://catalog.mirror.xyz/2VrQSgXrF_L_LTkisgj0NGXsyloQ2jxLwcoOiS9p0jQ). Blog era back. * We also aired (and recorded!) **#OnTheRecord** Twitter Space episodes that focused on [standout web3 music rollouts](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1567179878558060544), [cultural permanence](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1572285606612586496), and [the ups & downs of crypto in Puerto Rico](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1577305729014407169) * Our biweekly Discord **#Cook-Off** challenge brought us together to remix stems from [Low Leaf](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1580937460648857600), [Abjo](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1575865048110702592), [Dot](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1570804708863868933), & [Devin Morrison (bless them).](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1565731189390020608) * From Dev Land, a mega-update: **Mobile Search** is live on Catalog 🏁 * Ethereum hit its [one-month anniversary](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1570435523042312192) as a PoS network, which **reduced its energy usage** and estimated emissions by [more than 99%](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/15/ethereum-cryptocurrency-completes-move-to-cut-co2-output-by-99) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/019360df316d2e3930d1a87026301b3bb2a9d682063946c78f80baf28df704ce.png) Curatorial environments must prioritize new voices with passionate ears. With that in mind, we're ecstatic to [announce](https://twitter.com/catalogworks/status/1584603546426933248) another stacked crew of music caretakers who will each onboard four artists they love to Catalog. Shoutout [Africa FM](https://twitter.com/TheAfricaFM), [Colombo](https://twitter.com/colomborkrdz), [Dutchyyy](https://twitter.com/Dutchmassive), [Eric Pan](https://twitter.com/pandelic), [future modern](https://twitter.com/afuturemodern), [LNRZ](https://twitter.com/lnrzdao), [Steph Guerrero](https://twitter.com/steph_guerrero)[, the park](https://twitter.com/thepark), [Waana Music](https://twitter.com/WaanaMusic) and [YahZarah](https://twitter.com/Yahzarah) for kicking off our second Curation Cycle 🫂 Read [this](https://www.notion.so/Curation-Cycles-15ba828b09bc44a08d7705dfefc077c2) and [this](https://catalog.mirror.xyz/JvfPYljvtqJiz-0-tIFG8A_FbC5chJBSMYLdsq9zgr4) to learn more about why we think curation cycles are important as we try to nurture a fair and representative web3 music landscape. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/62de20d2c77cd7788c659dbc43cd79bd4b8748a02092deff13d72f26b7421da6.png) Hidden gems await your ears on Catalog. Special shoutouts due to the brain-tickling production of **Pozibelle's** [“Trees,”](https://beta.catalog.works/pozibelle/trees) **Numa Gama's** rain forest-inspired voodoohop single [“Nas Folhas 🌿,”](https://beta.catalog.works/numagama/nas-folhas-) and the keyboard flourishes running across **IAMNOBODI's** latest, [“FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH.”](https://beta.catalog.works/iamnobodi/for-what-it-s-worth) Keep digging. [Catch 'em all.](https://beta.catalog.works/spaces/dd8932c6-771c-470a-b2f8-f1ce2e2ad54b) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9dc391d7cea688967cbde97facddf924bb3eb130b6339bc6540741ab43138ee0.png) * **Now - Nov 20:** Cycle 2 contributing curators onboard artists * **Oct 28:** Cook Off 007 samples announced (Twitter & Discord) * **Nov 2:** On The Record #16: Web3 Music in India 🇮🇳 (Twitter Space) * **Nov 10:** Cook Off 007 listening session in our #lounge Discord channel * **Nov 11:** Cook Off 008 samples announced (Twitter & Discord) * **Nov 23:** On The Record #17: Arab World Artists in Web3 (Twitter Space) * **Nov 30:** On The Record #18: Web3 Music in Zambia (Twitter Space) * **Nov 21 - Dec 11:** Submissions window open to submit to curate Cycle 3 * **Everyday:** Wish a loved one or stranger good morning If you’d like to get Liner Notes in your inbox, enter your email [here](https://beta.catalog.works/about) 💽 --- *Originally published on [Catalog](https://paragraph.com/@catalog/liner-notes-01)*