what label are you aiming to be on?

Sony BMG.

dont care about money, i just want more people to hear my music

David Geffen Company

  Fred McGriff said:

dont care about money, i just want more people to hear my music

in that case give it all away and totally whore yourself - myspace spam, email lists, forums, post on all of them loads of the time until everyone has heard your music (but hates you for so much self promotion).

personally i'd like to do some more stuff for benbecula but am happy enough now making whatever and just stacking tracks up with the odd one plonked on myspace or my website, plus i've been producing a lot of material that i don't think is suitable for benbecula. i'll probably send some demos at some point but no gigs + no releases = no hassle and music stays fun.

  greenbank said:

  Fred McGriff said:

dont care about money, i just want more people to hear my music

 

in that case give it all away and totally whore yourself - myspace spam, email lists, forums, post on all of them loads of the time until everyone has heard your music (but hates you for so much self promotion).

 

personally i'd like to do some more stuff for benbecula but am happy enough now making whatever and just stacking tracks up with the odd one plonked on myspace or my website, plus i've been producing a lot of material that i don't think is suitable for benbecula. i'll probably send some demos at some point but no gigs + no releases = no hassle and music stays fun.

yeah see i definitely dont want to spam people too much either. there's nothing less attractive about someone's music than when you get a mypsace message that's like FREE CHOONS!!!!!!!! every week. that's why i want to be on a label. working with a netlabel like monotonik is a good place for me because i dont spam people to listen to my music much, if at all, yet a decent amount of people hear it that otherwise wouldnt. i would imagine a label like benbecula or something would be like that but with a broader audience, and of course hard copies of your music which is cool. as a collector of cds and vinyl, it's just always been a goal of mine to be a part of someone else's cd/vinyl collection (and my own). cd-r doesnt quite cut it for me, for no good reason at all. and if i can make a couple bucks on the side to buy a new guitar, then great.

basically my main motive in being on a record label is lingering teenage wish fulfillment.

  Fred McGriff said:

basically my main motive in being on a record label is lingering teenage wish fulfillment.

that's the most honest statement ever made on this forum.

we all want validation. nothing wrong with it either.

*farts*

Speaking of farts, do you think giving away the jams through other outlets (like a certain place for friends) makes quality netlabels less interested in releasing your sounds?

  heliumb said:

Speaking of farts, do you think giving away the jams through other outlets (like a certain place for friends) makes quality netlabels less interested in releasing your sounds?

I would say no. Simply because they're not losing any revenue. Most net labels I know are in it just to release quality music, I don't even think "number of downloads" even really serves as a source of moral revenue. A quality tune is a quality tune. If the netlabel digs your tunes and feels it's going to fit with their vision, then they're going to release it. Even if netlabels were to measure their success by number of hits, the amount of exposure a place like, say, EKT gives versus the amount of exposure a label like, say, monotonik, gives is significantly smaller.

hey i have a mypscpae page witha picture of my cat on it.

when i worked at guitar center i would play my music over the speakers and people would ask me who it was and i would say me and they would be loke woah sweet hey wanna collab or somethingand i would be like ok and then they would be like ya i want to make some really dark electronic guitar fusion like linkin park and i would walk away.

def jam south

if I could get on EED or Graveface, I'd be pleased.

I don't know. I was being considered for an industrial label, but I haven't heard from them in a while.

I guess any [experimental] electronic music label would suit me fine.

rephlex

watmm

alternative tentacles

I've sifted thru this thread and found no mention of the fact that one of the most important things a label can do is DISTRIBUTION! (Labels typically dole out their goods to distribution houses like; Forced Exposure, Revolver, EFA etc...) This is what gets ones tunes into the stores (online or otherwise). True there are folk giving it a go on myspace and whatevs, but if you can't be bothered with the post and your tunes are top-notch then a label would be choice in getting your goods out there, in the shops and to the people.

Also, on a side note, it may be a decent point of discussion to talk about whether your tunes are better suited for vinyl 12's or full length cd etc... That could have an impact on which labels would give you a go.

  masterdome said:

I've sifted thru this thread and found no mention of the fact that one of the most important things a label can do is DISTRIBUTION! (Labels typically dole out their goods to distribution houses like; Forced Exposure, Revolver, EFA etc...) This is what gets ones tunes into the stores (online or otherwise). True there are folk giving it a go on myspace and whatevs, but if you can't be bothered with the post and your tunes are top-notch then a label would be choice in getting your goods out there, in the shops and to the people.

 

Also, on a side note, it may be a decent point of discussion to talk about whether your tunes are better suited for vinyl 12's or full length cd etc... That could have an impact on which labels would give you a go.

my tunes are best suited for 8-track cassette. then the bin.

i really need to send some of my music to labels, i dont know why i havnt. i got told to send off to adaadat or terminal dusk

i'd want a small label, light and with some energy, but i don't know labels well enough to pick really. maybe sublight or planet mu... but maybe even those are too big. i don't send out demos, closest i do is internet networking kinda stuff.

i've had an offer or two from local guys starting a label... but none of them had it together enough in my opinion...

honestly i don't even think about labels. if a good one drops me a line i'll talk, until then i'm just going to continue playing with my synthesizers.

I could care less about people hearing my music or making money...

I want to be on any label that books me alongside all my favorite artists

  acid1 said:

I could care less about people hearing my music or making money...

 

I want to be on any label that books me alongside all my favorite artists

who are your favorite artists, which label would that be?

  Fred McGriff said:

  acid1 said:

I could care less about people hearing my music or making money...

 

I want to be on any label that books me alongside all my favorite artists

 

who are your favorite artists, which label would that be?

I doubt one label out there exists that would make this possible, but the point I was trying to make was the only real benefit for me being on a label would be being able to play along side them at a show. Imagine opening up for autechre or aphex or squarepusher or amon tobin and being able to hang out with before and after the show and share a beer.

Most of the shows I've done have allowed me to do this, meet/party with a bunch of awesome people and occasionally artists that I enjoy. Even the local shows I've done where I've been up there playing and terminal 11 would stumble up to the stage drunk as hell and start setting up beside me and having this bizzaro yelling conversation as I'm shooting bass at the crowd, then being able to get off the stage and enjoy a brew as I watch my friends rip up the club, then talk about it afterwards have been some of my most fond memories about being an artist.

I have a job and don't need money, I doubt any electronic music artists are really buying thier 4th lamborgini this month from the royalty checks they recieve. Also I've never really been one of those guys that forces people to hear my latest song I wrote when they come over, but I do like playing at good shows with great people.

okay so after doing some research and whatnot over labels that have artists that i like that have addresses on their webpages, tomorrow i'm sending out demos to:

planet-mu

skam

benbecula

sublight

type

any others i'm missing out? no? k great. nice knowing all of you.

the Deposit Royalties In Dr. Hat's Account label

best of luck to you beak. is the new monotonik ep your demo or different tracks?