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offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2011-10-03 05:49 [#02421409]
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selling vinyl = go bankrupt
gigging = promises of dosh written in water
get a job and do music as a hobby = hooray!!!!!!!


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2011-10-03 05:56 [#02421411]
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how did you get this knowlegde?


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-03 06:12 [#02421413]
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If you had some really cool original music you'd make enough
money to live on , but since the late 90s that has become
rare and so you need to either make generic dubstep or wank
and cry yourself to sleep


 

offline Bill Burroughs from Colombia on 2011-10-03 07:37 [#02421414]
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This is correct. Most D-list "IDM" artists such as Ceephax
make music that has limited appeal outside of a small
sausage-fest of bespectacled weedy urban mummy's boys who
have limited musical experience beyond kneeling at the altar
of Aphex Twin and anything that has the words "Rephlex"
printed on the sleeve.

In other words, bedroom electronic music producer minus
talent equals weekend hobby.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2011-10-03 11:40 [#02421415]
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fastest way? make a track that crosses over and is played by
everyone and everything. use this to get gigs the world over
every week. even when people stop caring about the track in
question, your name is known and you'll continue to get gigs
perpetually. sorted.

eventually it'll all fade away though. better to get a skill
outside of music imo, if only to fall back on when it all
goes tits up.

oh and don't think for one second you can make a full-time
living just releasing music.


 

offline wavephace from off the chain on 2011-10-03 12:24 [#02421416]
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make a song which hypnotizes people then when there sleeping
from the hypnotis steal all there money


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2011-10-03 12:35 [#02421417]
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did you make some money with your 36 releases? Or did it
only cost you money?


 

offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2011-10-03 13:33 [#02421420]
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Hello, there's no such thing as IDM. It is a fake genre.
What a thicko you are Bill Burroughs!!!


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2011-10-03 14:01 [#02421422]
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yeah, luckily i make money on every release! it's only
because i sell direct though and manage to sell all my
units. still nowhere near enough to make a comfortable
living on, though that's how it is for everyone, even the
really big artists. performing live is the only way you'll
ever make a living through music alone, at least for 99% of
people.


 

offline Jaser from Castle Greyskull (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-03 15:15 [#02421425]
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vibert said in a interview. That he got 10,000gbp for the
nine inch nails remix he did. That those days are gone and
he was lucky to make that much money per year, gigging.


 

offline diamondtron on 2011-10-03 16:31 [#02421426]
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best thing is not to care and do what you gotta do
regardless... in 10 years or so they will have stitched
everything up, either that or there will be no electricity
anyway


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-03 18:25 [#02421432]
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how do you write stuff in water

would be interested to read a October 2011 version of The
Manual
be out of date by the time i finished though?


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-03 18:26 [#02421433]
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actyallly that was 4 having a no 1 so


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2011-10-03 18:32 [#02421434]
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Don't make shit music.


 

offline taking_the_piz on 2011-10-03 18:43 [#02421435]
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Tiesto makes money with shit music though.


 

offline betamaxheadroom on 2011-10-03 18:45 [#02421436]
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suck off jonathan king


 

offline betamaxheadroom on 2011-10-03 18:46 [#02421437]
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thats how i made mine. im too old now thou.


 

offline staz on 2011-10-03 19:12 [#02421439]
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fuck everyone else, fuck the cynical, jaded zilty/other
messageboard bawlers that never do anything themselves. have
a laugh and be confident what you do, and you will have a
good time. you might not get much money out of it, but if
you thought so in the first place, you might be too mental
to reach anyway.


 

offline staz on 2011-10-03 19:13 [#02421440]
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confident IN*, fuck my life folks


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2011-10-04 00:14 [#02421463]
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Win Karaoke X-Idol, signing Phil Collins - Sussudio.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2011-10-04 01:10 [#02421464]
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Make good music- tons- give it away for free and accept
donations.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2011-10-05 13:33 [#02421533]
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make something with grit+heart or it WILL be bollocks. talk
to ears and pour your acid nerves into their minds.



 

offline robbie_eleckt from time to time on 2011-10-05 16:22 [#02421534]
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run a shop with second-hand records


 

offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2011-10-06 05:30 [#02421582]
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JivverCocksniffer, I dont you silly old poofting pisshead


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2011-10-06 07:12 [#02421587]
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That's fun allright?? I assume you don't have plans to
become a millionaire making music? Maybe you have
dreams..but in reality everybody knows that's just for the
few amongst us.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-11 00:34 [#02421813]
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betamax do u have a time machine?are you from the fucking
past?


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2011-10-11 00:51 [#02421814]
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Making money with IDM, that idea is laughable


 

offline rad smiles on 2011-10-11 00:57 [#02421817]
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get a hat. put it down in front of you on a street corner.
press play on tape machine. dance. people throw change and
billz in hat. = make money out of music.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2011-10-11 05:03 [#02421832]
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i wish there were more street musicians,using tape decks.


 

offline Jaser from Castle Greyskull (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-11 07:53 [#02421835]
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create a new genre of trendy music. get signed to warp,
release one dodgy record. never be heard of again. Basically
at the moment nobody is making any money apart from the big
boys. It is about holding on to what you have.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-14 23:13 [#02422072]
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rad smiles: that IS pretty much what most musicians have to
do to make a living out of doing it anyway (minus the tape
machine , depending )


 

offline robbie_eleckt from time to time on 2011-10-15 07:23 [#02422083]
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win


 

offline diamondtron on 2011-10-21 08:46 [#02422389]
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armed robbery of an ibiza superclub, many have £1m plus in
cash out the back some nights, be prepared to take on mafia
though


 

offline freqy on 2011-10-21 09:04 [#02422391]
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Make a computer program to create a thousand diffrent tunes
a minute,
at the end of the month release all trillion on itunes or
other internet label type thin6y.

get famous for releasing the most crap ever and get paid for
doing an interview on why you did it.



 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2011-10-21 12:20 [#02422393]
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Pretty good.


 

offline phan from United Kingdom on 2011-10-26 16:56 [#02422716]
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There are plenty of ways to make money from your music, if
you've spent long enough refining your skills, and you have
enough confidence to sell yourself.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2011-10-27 18:02 [#02422778]
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What he said. There was a time when I was about 20 where I
considered doing music full time and would have been able to
have at least made a living from the DJing side of it alone.
I DJed at a wedding once and it paid well compared to little
indie clubs I used to play IDM and DnB in at in Bristol, but
I realised I wasn't enjoying it and it was becoming "work".
I thought I could either make it a hobby and just do what I
liked, or forget enjoying it and try and make a living at
it. I'm so glad I didn't; I anticipated the industry going
the way it has, but I had no idea it would go so far, so
soon.

Music making is just a hobby for me these days. I don't even
bother ULing tracks any more or sharing them with people
other than my close friends, that part of "releasing" them
always seemed a chore to me. Now I have no aspirations to
make even a penny from it means that I don't feel the need
to even do that.


 

offline milfywhore on 2014-02-16 14:30 [#02467916]
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Level 1: Sucking producer cocks
Level 2: Sucking producers producer cocks
Level 3: Sucking major label producer cocks

Rihanna, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber


 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2014-02-16 14:46 [#02467919]
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Be an attractive female, make videos for all your tracks in
which you expose large amounts of clevage. Quality of music
doesn't matter



 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2014-02-16 14:47 [#02467920]
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Or: snap up cheap rare LPs/CDs/etc in 2nd hand stores or
ebay, tidy them up, sell them on to niche buyers for profit.
I made enough that way in the early 2000s to pay for a few
nights in the pub anyway

you didn't say making money out of writing music!


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2014-02-16 15:44 [#02467921]
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Yah, in Tokyo there are some nice prices on vintage synths,
which can be sold for profit overseas.

Wow..... this thread takes me back, yo. -to when I posted
in this thread before.


 

offline wavephace from off the chain on 2014-02-16 15:52 [#02467925]
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get a contract 2 make music 4 a goverment or corporation. i
guess u probly have 2 be buddys with some1 in the goverment
or corporation already tho


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2014-02-16 17:57 [#02467936]
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Completely embarrass yourself in some way on youtube in a
really popular way. Make the next chocolate rain or friday,
etc, then just ride the coattails of the fame.


 


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