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How does one start their own record label? |
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dont know. going to college to find out next year. Then the fun begins. |
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Put labels onto records. I dont know. Buy a car, something may or may not happen. |
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go , look at tip#2! :-) |
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1 you must have lots of money 2 you must have lots of money 3 you must work really hard 4 you must be very lucky 5 you must have good friends 6 you must never post here 7 you must never start this kind of threads 8 you must never listen to what nacmat says 9 you must give me a 20% of what you get 10 you must must must |
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mylittlesister that pic is great!!! . FORM YOUR OWN LABEL: it's easy as falling off a log. Just think up a name, open a PO box, duplicate some cassettes to sell. Give your releases some catalogue numbers and away you go. Wahey, you're a record company boss! (people take that title far more seriously than "band member"). LOL |
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i have a record label. and i'm not talking knee jerk, i have a seperate one, i released a comp and an ep and then i got bored. |
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so are you gonna tell us what you did to achieve that? |
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um. i made a website and talked to people i knew in bands. i made a tape, then made more and sold them to people. there's nothing to explain |
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Id call my Label EARWAX..... |
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that sounds like a really fun idea. it also sounds expensive, though. |
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you know, I really really really love this idea. I think that starting a record label is about the coolest thing that I can think of doing. I just wish that there was a way to make money off of it, and with the state of affairs with filesharing and whatnot, it doesn't seem like there is...? |
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i believe there is ways to make money -- but the record label would have to be artist-owned, like the virtual record label i'm currently planning |
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I'm really becoming so interested in this that it's hard for me to convince myself to go to bed despite the fact that my contact lenses are burning in my eyes. I really want to start my own label and release my music through it....!!!!! how would that channel more money into it though? and how would you make money? I'm new to this sort of thing and for some reason, this is the first time that I'd ever given the idea any [serious] thought. |
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roygbivcore, did you make any money from your record label? this is extremely interesting to me. if you have any links, information, etc. on your label, please let me know. |
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money,.get a vat-number/register your company/regester your labelname/logo,..make a business plan (<-so the bank can see your serious,...and give U a loan if nescesary) search for a good distribution channel,...get a website,..get demo's,...master the demo's etc etc etc etc |
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I think any reasobaly intelligent person could do it. All you need is the capital to start off. Plugexpert's advice sounds good to me. You can slo advertise in local record shops for unsigned artists and check out their stuff. If its any good then you can arrange to press it and distribute it for a cut. If I were you I'd also speak to a solicitor/lawyer. |
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That's 'reasonably'. I guess that counts me out eh? |
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Me and a few friends are doing this at college next year. I went to visit a couple of them yesterday, and they have so much excellent material! Same with you guys on here. There is no reason why anybody cant do it. |
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just do it -find people who are interested and who make good music -create a website -put some excellent music on it -update it regularly ok this isn't about making huge amounts of money, but it's better than nothing |
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does anyone know how to go about finding a good distributor? Are they in the phone book or something? |
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it seems like filesharing has killed any chance of making music with a small label though. or not? |
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"does anyone know how to go about finding a good distributor? Are they in the phone book or something? " yes they R actually,....most of the times they're just bigger labels that distribute records overseas,.and have experience on this sort of things. Investigate this matter in your own country,...simply by emailing labels /calling them about this subject |
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do distributors charge a lot per CD? |
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owning a record label shouldn't be about money, it should be about getting new music places it wouldn't go before, like star trek with out the special effects |
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first get some traks and a bit of cash (not much) just be prepared to end up losing money sometimes and i rekon it's possible as long as you have something to put out that people want it will come together ... what is the point in making life difficult just decide to do it, master your tracks, process them, press the tp's, send em out, hope you get some disribution, if not take em round some shops etc (just press up a few at first) get ready to put out the next one and if you get that far legitamise the whole thing then ... can't be that hard can it ? thats what i rekon anyway ... |
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yeah, but as long as you make money on it, it doesn't have to be a constant black hole for income... that's my idea, I'd like it to be able to get to a point where it can support itself, financially anyway. |
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I like the idea of, say, musik aus strom or schematic... only accepting the very best material so people can expect something good from them and not have to search through a bunch of crap just to find one great artist... kinda like RARE always made great games for N64. If the great artists who had similar attention to detail and thought in music were attracted to these great labels already in existence instead of making their own label or something, it'd at least make finding great music easier for everyone. People are a bunch of political idiots that fight for rocks of all things (gold). What we really need to do is destroy the entire economic system, like start new stores that only accept... hmm, maybe a particular brand of horse shoe as currency. Then all these morons that have been hording the gold will find it completely useless (we'll buy all the horse shoes before they realize what's happened) |
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