how the hell do you get signed

anybody know? i've been sending emails but it feels a little bit futile. how do these things work?

Send out a whole lot of CDs and be patient I guess.

Some labels don't take unsolicited demos though so yeah the latter is even more important here.

suck cock. and suck cock goooooooood

do a lot of gigs and hope that someone from a label attends one of them...get friendly with someone who runs/works for a label...build a large following and hope that someone from a label notices you...get friendly with other musicians and hope that one of them gets signed and might bring you some extra exposure/remix work...etc...

Get lucky.

  On 10/3/2009 at 10:34 PM, Braintree said:

Get lucky.

this, and my downfall: be outgoing.

Myspace adding sprees

Don't use spambots though

Soundcloud is good

Can we hear your stuff dude?

Personnaly I would avoid myspace: waste of time and spreading your music to the whole world might not make it smell fresh as you'd imagine a label owner would like it. (wait does my sentence works? I feel like a ignorant non-english speaker )

But that's my opinion, Fleet Foxes and Crystal Castles were signed on myspace.

From what I've gathered reading a bunch of threads like this across the web: Labels are only going to want to sign acts they think are worth while, so you already need to be a musical force. Get a myspace, facebook, soundcloud, and every other internet network that has a home for music. Promote yourself. Get out and start playing live regularly. This is extremely important. Go on tour. Talk to people. See if you can get an opening slot for the respected music artist who's coming through your town. Network with other musicians and music fans. Get together a demo kit with at least 5 of your best tracks. Make sure to put your best track first. I hear that getting a nice promo photo and a paragraph biography about yourself to send out with your demo is a good plan too.

Maybe start releasing your music for free online. Look what that has done for people like Wisp and Dorian Concept.

Writing good music helps too lol

yeah focus on having good music first of all

Yes ^^^, and Vamos, remember QUALITY, not QUANTITY.

pay for the coke and suck a cock or two.

http://www.myspace.com/corncatcorporation

i think i have at least an albums worth of quality

your music has an interesting sound collage quality to it

but it feels far too chaotic for my taste. there's some good music underneath.. really dig love nights

also all of the erratic multicolor artworks are offputting, i didn't check out your music at first because i thought it would be amateurish

yeah i need to revamp my page design

Two things:

Online Presence with good content...Don't cheap out and horde your best tracks for demos or when you get signed. Put your stuff out there, share it but don't get all egotisitcal about how awesome you are because you have a myspace. Do what wisp and cma did, put a whole grip of stuff out there that anyone can share with fellow music lovers.

Performances and lives shows...Making a living just on releases isn't very easy now days, nor do many labels have the PR ability to really put your name out there because its an ocean of artists. Doing live gigs is advertising where you get paid and supplements your income so you can focus on your tunes.

Sending physical demos is a dated method, e-mailing demos is a bit more modern but...this is 2009, we have the internet and texts and twitters and all that faggy crap so sitting around listening to demos all day isn't a very good way to spend your time. Word of mouth spreads at the speed of light and is your scalpel, use it well.

Last, and a bit gimmicky, attach your music to something infectious like a meme video on youtube. Don't grand stand it, leave your name out, let people ask who's track that is and build a cult following.

Poop in a basket.

no offense but your music's not very original. so the first thing would be to make good music i guess, as deepex mentioned. then it'll be quite easy to find a label i think

i'll remember that, thanks.

if i was signed to a label your perception of my music would be entirely different

no it wouldn't

also, don't take too much advice from us unsigned EKT fuckwads

^^^Truth

also not calling yourself Corn Cat might help as well, especially when your reasoning is this:

  On 9/7/2009 at 6:45 AM, vamos scorcho said:

lol. i don't know. corn cat... i guess back when i had the idea that all my music was going to sound cheesy and corny like old synths "corn cat" made more sense. it's not very cutting edge.

i might change the name. with all these new tips and knowledge of the fact that being unestablished and getting signed simply does NOT HAPPEN i believe i will be joining forces with some other musicians and playing live shit

  On 10/4/2009 at 3:05 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

and these kind of images look tacky

this

ditch the artwork, tim and eric have done it already.

nice tunes.