oh dear lord!

What's with all the questions?

Are you doing research on a book you want to release called:
Electronic Music The Ins And Outs.
With all your questions you could almost write a guide on the matter.



So making a mixed cd at least an official one:
find tracks you're interested in, contact the licensing holders ( labels distribution etc) see if you get authorization etc etc

This is from a very recent interview of Dave Seaman that basically resumes the sitution:


How long did it take to come up with the tracklisting and get it organized?

It’s a nightmare. I said it on the liner notes of Therapy Sessions 1 - if you read those, it goes through the process. People don’t quite realize what goes into doing a mix CD. It can be a real nightmare.

You get so many tracks to start off with, it could be hundreds, and you have to sift through them and then get them down to the ones that you want and try to get them licensed. Some times you get them, sometimes you don’t. You might have the perfect idea of what the mix CD should sound like and then that track there, and that track there don’t get licensed and the tunes that remain don’t fit together.

Then you are back to square one as you may have to scrap all the ones you have as they don’t fit together and go for a different route with different tracks. It can go around and around in circles for weeks trying to get the final lot together. You try and be as upfront as possible and make the mix flow, which is one of the most important things, but licensing is a real problem.

And, as there are more mix CDs out there, there are more and more DJs fighting for tracks. It becomes more of a problem. This one was not too bad for me, but the previous one was a nightmare.



Full Interview Link at Resident Advisor

Last edited by jdat on May-30-2005 at 15:29