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Who should I send some demo material to, in an effort to get my music out. |
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BIYC |
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Yeah, BIYC! |
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I know, I'm gon do dat fo sho' nigs, but who else? |
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i don't know. it's taken me five years and i'm still not signed. better start mailing... |
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Is there anyone else worth bothering with? |
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not really. most small labels don't really have distribution power or proper capital for decent promotion, and most larger labels won't risk signing someone unestablished. |
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get your own server works just as well.. even better if you put "porn xxx sex" in your meta keywords. |
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BIYC is my best bet. You know that demo on FL "Aren't You Clever"? I took the vocal and tried making something around it. |
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That'll get you signed. |
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yeah, i'm not sure if giginger would dig my stuff though. |
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tis the truth everything sucks now for struggling musicians |
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The way to do it is sign up to every netlabel who'll have you. Become hated throughout the electronic music world by spamming your stuff on every messageboard you can find, even tenuously related to music. Once a netlabel has done a cd-r release of your stuff, you can use that as a bargaining tool to get onto a small IDM label. Once you're there, change your style for cutup breaks and pads/breakcore/ragga derived melodic idm/whatever else is in fashion (read on Planet Mu) at the time. Eventually you'll get signed by a slightly larger IDM label, perhaps even M3rck/Mego. In spite of the fact that 90% of idm fans haven't heard of you, let alone 0.00001% of "real people", you then have to start acting like an uppity primadonna, ignoring emails, turning your nose up at offers of collaboration, slating all other IDM. Make fun of people who ask even highly complex midi/Reaktor/Supercollider/MaxMSP, calling them "Stupid n00bs". Make constant reference to the fact you've "been in the game for years" and constantly bang on about the time you met Aphex/Lustmord/Autechre/etc and they said they "liked your demo" (neglect to mention that they never followed up on it). The Wire will then run a piece on you. NB: make sure you've come up with some wacky/geeky conceptual way of claiming to make music by this time; Think something along the lines of "a custom groovebox-like program I knocked up in a mixture of x86machine code MaxMSP and a port of Supercollider that I did. It outputs to 8 seperate tape reels, which are then processed through an analogue granular synthesis unit I made myself. It's then all output through a valve amp, before being mastered on wax cylinder." Admitting you use absynth, floops and Recycle just won't cut it by this point. Vehemently claim "you don't get it!" When people hear your music and say, "yes, it's nice, but you could do that in a fraction of the time with an EA-1 and supertrigga". It's then pretty much guaranteed that warp/skam/mu et al will sign you. |
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ROFL!!!!! Honestly tho. Mu will sign anybody who sends them a demo. |
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Seriously. Two of my friends are on mu. Not netfriends, real friends. They are the only two people I know who have sent demos to mu, and they have both been published. |
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I know, Tim Exile is on the label, it can't be that hard. |
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aw. i demoed mu about a year ago, didnt hear from them. probably means my stuff is shite. |
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Ha! Outrageous! |
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ceri: that was probably the most inteligent post on this board ever |
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no means your stuff is REALLY REALLY shit if you didnt get signed to Mu (nah, that was too harsh, ignore it, got a link to your stuff btw?) I was on a netlabel right after 3 weeks of publishing track into the wide open world of teh internets. Dunno what happened, but it got me in touch with two other labels too ontop of that. Now all i do is suck acid and release EAPs ... |
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I've never been on a netlabel. The only way I've got my music out is by putting it there myself. BIYC may have some giginger releases but that is all. |
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Using the term "netlabel" to describe BIYC is as misleading/as much of an understatement as calling the Bugatti Veyron a "car". |
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Ha ha! Someone should make a pinned "required reading" thread and put your post in there. |
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Someone has approached me about this post and it will be pinned in the near future, somewhere on the interweb. Details to follow... |
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Ok guys. I can release some stuff for fun on BIYC. :D Just not yet. As for my serious stuff, I just decided to make my own net label. It's not really a .com yet. I need to sign up for pay-pal or something so I can pay for the domain, which shouldn't be too big. If anyone else wants some stuff put out on it, just ask me. There's what I have so far, I won't post the actual tunes of mine yet though, I'm waiting on my friend to send back the vocal parts. |
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I'm really excited to start doing this. |
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that's a nice-looking website. but why would you start a netlabel in a post-netlabel world? it's passe now. |
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Well, you know. I thought it would be a cool idea. I just made all that stuff, graphics and pages in the past 2 hours, so it may be sloppy. But, I want to do this the same reason the others do: to get my music and other's up to some professional level, at least a little tiny bit. I'm new to it, so I don't expect it will ever go huge unless hard word and perspiration pays off or I get a massive stroke of luck. |
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The BIYC link is wrong you FOOL! |
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Oh great, now I'll never graduate xltronic. :( I'll fix it, I promise. My bad. |
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don't worry about it - i was just sort of kidding. good luck |
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I know, but I gave you an honest answer. :) |
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My god, if BIYC would have me, I would give them only the finest. |
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Your music sucks dick and you're all about fame. Start living in the real world man, get real.... Get your hands dirty with making music, and learn, learn and learn. I'm going by the track you have on your 'myspace' If that track was a piss-take then i am sorry and i take back what i said. |
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Well, I threw it together in about 2 minutes just to have something playing in the meantime. Does it sound that way? Yes. Do I have better stuff? Yes. Should I put it up? We'll see. It's ok. Criticism doesn't always have to be good. The hastily thrown together song there deserves what it got from you. |
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The e-mail address is on the site :) |
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swift_jams if you're not proud of a track, then don't put it on your website, and also, stop trying to bang that very young girl you know. you sick dirty man. |
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She's a friend. And like I said, I just put it up for the time being because my other stuff is in the works. Please read my other posts. BIYC 4 eva! |
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