Beloved funky rockers Vulfpeck have a busy 2016 ahead, with appearances in New Orleans, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, North Coast Music Festival, Brooklyn Bowl and more. The band is defiantly against full-on touring plans, though with increased exposure comes the increased demand from fans.
Ever trying to be fair, the band has announced a new release titled Flow State. As the band’s Theo Katzmann explains in a new video, Flow State refers to a sound generator machine that plays the resonant frequency of planet Earth. In the video, Katzmann says that Jack Stratton listened to the frequency one million times before he figured out how to get fans paid.
By partnering with streaming services big and small, Vulfpeck has promised to give $1.00 to every person who streams their Flow State album one million times. Stream it five million times? Then you get $5.00! When you get to the concert, Vulfpeck will give you the money.
It’s the type of silliness that fans have come to know and love from Vulfpeck, especially after their “Sleepify” concept went viral in 2014. Featuring ten tracks with no sounds, the idea behind Sleepify was for Vulfpeck to earn royalty money by having fans play the album on repeat, while they were asleep. Sleepify was eventually pulled from Spotify, but the band played an admission-free tour with the money they earned from royalties.
You can watch Katzmann explain the whole Flow State system here:
And, of course, true to their word, here’s the Flow State track:
Better get to listening!