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MemberThere’s a local promoter that used to work in radio. he seems as good an option as any, right?
December 25, 2012 at 9:18 am in reply to: Improving skills, learning from my heroes, and time management #34063Memberhmmmm. That kinda makes sense. I’ll have a bit of a week off now anyway. I’m playing a house party gig on the 28th, but other than that, Christmas time is family time. 😉
Memberit was one of those cases as well where it “accidentally” was on public view on youtube for like 20mins or so. Ok, fair enough, the end of it looks like it’s a bit unfinished, so if you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was a preview of a full length video they’ll be doing, possible for AES-SF. HOWEVER, it’s the new trend to do that thing where you go “oops, we accidentally leaked it in an extremely public place” (ahem, apple) so i don’t really think it was an “accident” to leak it.
In any case, enough fucking about, GIVE US ABLETON 9!!!!
MemberAt this stage, they should announce something… :/
Memberspot-trix if you want another good list of possible tracks to mix, http://www.mixcloud.com/twicx , and have a look at the tracklisting on the demo mix. 😉
MemberTHIS!!! Plus, the VIP version is great too. “You blocked me on facebook, and now you’re going to get fucked up”
MemberOh yeah definitely! I started working with the sampler in ableton today. I took a series of notes from my guitar, and then had fun with various plugins, so i’m already on that 😉
I’ve the weekend off work, so I’ll just do a last minute bit of tidying on some of the tracks and then send them off and hope for the best. Thanks again for the help. I’ll post up here if I get any replies. I know i might be waiting a while, but it’s still exciting stuff!
For the meantime, friday is new gear day, and there’s an APC40 in my local music shop with my name on it!
MemberSpot-Trix, post: 29754, member: 1434 wrote: I love shit like that, I spend hours on my numark just looking for songs that mix so well and blend together like that, the problem is that I have created so many pre made set lists, i guess I could mix them and record it and then play what the people want when I play live? Idk ha i just loving making mixtapes
hahaha yeah slicing in a few little bits and pieces like that are great for getting the crowd going! I did a couple of other ones too, like Zedd’s Don’t Slam The Door vs Daft Punk’s Technologic, which then runs into DeadmauFIVE and Wolfgang Gartner’s Animal Rights vs Azaeaeaealia Banks 212. Those two tracks one after the other work pretty well.
Not sure if it’d be any use to you Spot-Trix, but I have a little demo mix on soundcloud that has a couple of interesting mashup type tracks. If not for the mix, the list of tracks/mashups might be of use, although sounds like you’re not short of ideas yourself! :p
MemberOddly enough, I actually have a few contacts for that. 2 of my friends are excellent female vocallists. One of which is a recording/performing artist. I know it’s not many, but it’s a start :p
So based on all that, would you say that a small indie label would be a good place to start?
MemberA few times, at the end of playing Cott’s Face by Feed me, I’ll drop into a little bit of Aerodynamic by Daftpunk. I usually do the solo over the outro, and then at the bell at the end, reverse it so it fades, then builds into another big drop. That aerodynamic riff gets a lot of people going.
Member>Mike Check
Yeah I don’t want to just blindly dive into this and make a balls of things. I’m quite happy to take my time, cos one of the things I really like about these types of music industries is that its not particularly age restrictive. If you take, for example, pop, unless you’re 12 and *insert infinite number of bad characteristics here*, you’re pretty much useless. With genres like EDM, house etc etc, age isn’t really an issue. You only have to look at the multitude of dj’s who’ve been doing it for 20+ years. So there’s no rush really.
As far as self release vs indie release, I’m not overly clued in on that many of the differences. However, from what I do know, an indie label seems better for what I’m looking for. Perhaps if I explain what my ideal outcome would be, someone might be able to clarify:
1. Getting a track on Beatport or something similar would be really nice, but not ideal. A little piece on the label’s website would be more than enough.
2. I’m not too familiar with the popular blog sites, but having a label being able to get my track(s) into/up on some good blogs would be fantastic.
3. Although it would be nice to have things like physical copies of the single/ep/album/whatever, I am aware that I would have a bit to go, but, getting some tips on where to go to get there would be nice.
4. This one is kinda important. I would imagine that with a label, I would have someone that I could chat to about the professional side of things (promotions, gigs, future works etc etc.) would be very helpful. Advice on what to do next, what my best move would be, or even the ability to contact other artists on the label for advice would be awesome.So finally, I wouldn’t be the kind of guy to go around saying “Look at me! I’m on douchebag records!!” I would love to go somewhere with the music, but if I’m going to give it a go, I’d like to do it right. Also, it’s very encouraging when someone that I don’t know personally says it’s good stuff. I always ask my friends to be honest when they listen to my tracks, but when someone doesn’t know you directly, I think they’d be more honest.
Cheers again!
MemberOk, so I’ve a bit of an update, it’s progress, albeit slow progress.
I’ve recently got a bunch of my friends who are brutally honest to listen to the 8 tracks I have done. The responses were generally very positive. There was a few issues like “oh the bass is a bit too much for the synth just at that drop there” or “You’ve just a tad too much redux on that part” so all and all, nothing major. They all said that “you’ve definitely the makings of some good tracks there.” So I’ve fixed any of the little parts they’ve said, and I’m now pretty pleased with the tracks I have.
I also had great ambitions to put together a little 30-minute dj set, partly to get some more gigs, but I’m going to hold out till next friday when it’s new midi controller day. Also, I only have a couple of likes on my fb page, mainly because I haven’t really had the balls to go invite ALL my friends, incase they think it’s shit. its a confidence thing I guess.
The other thing I did was made a list of smallish labels, about the size of the above mentioned one. I’ve about 10 on the list, so I’m hoping that one of them will bite. Oddly, and i think it’s a positive thing, I’ve had a recent string of new followers on my twitter, all of which are either labels or promoters. I’m not entirely sure how they got the twitter, but they got it anyway. So they might be worth contacting too.
Finally, thanks again for the help in this thread.
Member“brap brap.”
MemberThanks for elaborating on it, it’s a lot clearer now.
That does make more sense once its explained (maybe i was just being a bit thick!) I get what you mean about how if you send it to a bigger label, and they say it’s not up to scratch, then chances are they’ll think that about anything else you send them. BUT, if I was to send them stuff and say “I had a previous release with Whatever Recordings – a small label in Whereever” then they might say “Ok, this guy is taking his time to make sure his stuff is as good as possible before it goes out there.”
That does make much more sense.
On a related note, I take it it would be a good idea to look for labels that tend to go for acts similar to the type of music I’m doing? The music I’m working on is nudisco/electro, so it would make sense to me to go for labels that go with those kind of acts. I did come across one that a friend of a friend is signed with that is relatively small. they’ve had about 10-12 artists, and once every now and again they do a sort of compilation release with a track or two from each of their artists. That seems like a pretty good setup, I like the idea of that to be honest. Is that the kind of size I should be looking for, or smaller again?
Thanks again for the help 🙂
Memberyeah I’m still unsure whether to just send my stuff out to loads of labels or just do 1 at a time. The guy who’s helping me out with getting gigs reckons I should just send it to as many as possible.
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