"While the number of people releasing music has increased exponentially, the number of producers breaking through to become professional artists has largely remained the same. Why, are there so few success stories when many new producers are creating music of a good standard?"

"We've[Darzh Liebek and Dark Room Robot] had music released with 5 star magazine reviews and chartings from top 100 DJs only to see it disappear into the sea of forgotten music. How does this happen and, more importantly, how can it be avoided?"

The follow paragraphs suggest that marketing is the lacking factor in their success...

I tracked down their aliases on beatport, searched on youtube, and also found their promo video on their website...none of their songs suggested they were better than the average kind of stuff you find on beatport. Maybe their gems hidden or something, but I suspect that they just kind of bullshit themselves into thinking their shit is sweeter than most.

I bought this book for 50 bucks, and everytime I buy a book I have to ask myself,"Who the fuck am I taking advice from?" There's a difference between a book that was written by a self made billionaire, and a book that was written by a guy that wants to be a self made billionaire...

Just to give you an idea of what kind of book this is: there are 14 pages dedicated to music theory. I mean come on, WTF? There are entire books just dedicated to the intro of music theory, you want to shove a 14 page spread that will make you a "complete music producer?"

I haven't even read a tenth of this book and I am regretting it already.

I don't mind some of their articles though, I do like some of those. But those are free...

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

Oh well better luck next time

Edit: At least it was less expensive than my year studying.

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Selling educational stuff to those that want to be is far more profitable than trying to be yourself.

In the process you need to make yourself aspirational.

It's the same deal with that Rik Snoman dude. I watched a couple of his videos and he just waffled on using lots of concept words and taking an hour to explain what should be explained in 5 minutes.

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Originally posted by tehlord Selling educational stuff to those that want to be is far more profitable than trying to be yourself. In the process you need to make yourself aspirational. It's the same deal with that Rik Snoman dude. I watched a couple of his videos and he just waffled on using lots of concept words and taking an hour to explain what should be explained in 5 minutes.

I don't know... its so easy to pirate videos that I don't see how they could sustain a living.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

This is why I never buy any book without first reading all of the Amazon reviews (especially the 1- and 2-stars) and going through the sample pages. If you can't tell me something genuinely interesting/useful/novel in the first couple of chapters, it's not worth reading, let alone buying.

Seems like almost any author can get published these days. Not so different from the music producers...

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Originally posted by Beatflux I don't know... its so easy to pirate videos that I don't see how they could sustain a living.

There's still a market out there that either choose not to, or don't know how to pirate stuff. Especially if you keep it under a certain pricepoint.

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