To those with experience in the music market: what does it take to get a release on vinyl these days, especially from an unknown artist?

The high cost, lack of return, and many more reasons not to release anything on vinyl spring to mind; however, I know there are still a few labels out there who put out a 12" every so often.

Is this just fan-service, or do people today still have a chance of getting their tracks cut pressed onto wax?

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Originally posted by Watts To those with experience in the music market: what does it take to get a release on vinyl these days, especially from an unknown artist? The high cost, lack of return, and many more reasons not to release anything on vinyl spring to mind; however, I know there are still a few labels out there who put out a 12" every so often. Is this just fan-service, or do people today still have a chance of getting their tracks cut pressed onto wax?

There are still labels that cut vinyl, but not a lot do it anymore. Cutting vinyl is really expensive opposite to digital distibution. I really don't know why they do it anymore to be honest, over time, vinyl loses his quality where mp3 never does. And also think of the destibution costs, the mp3 just has to be uploaded.

Some major labels like Armada, Anjunabeats, Bonzai etc still press some vinyl, but I thinks it's gonna be past tense.

If you make sure that one of your tracks is really top-notch and get signed by one of those labels, you'll have a shot on getting it on vinyl. But I predict that within 10 years the vinyl will be gone.

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I think for trance even sooner!

In most other genres vinyl will stay a a couple of years more.

I did a research project for school which partly included numbers about mp3 sales. Especially armada seemed to come out pretty well in online sales with tremendous growth of online sales over the past few years (I had some info from insiders there ).


Biggest chance of getting your music on vinyl would be doing it yourself.

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I can't really see any other really good reasons to why vinyl would be good other than nostalgy to be honest.

I myself love the digital distribution available theese days, so easy and hazzlefree

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Vinyl is far from dead - especially in some genres.
Drum & Bass being one where vinyl is still very much the dominant format.

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Originally posted by Freak Vinyl is far from dead - especially in some genres. Drum & Bass being one where vinyl is still very much the dominant format.

Still I think it's coming to an end pretty soon. Don't know about drum 'n bass, but if you say vinyl is dominant there, I believe you. Fact is that with illegally downloading music, recordlabels and artist don't earn that much anymore, and to keep the costs low (and ofcourse go the easiest way) most just sell MP3 nowadays.
Maybe most important is that the quality of digital music of much higher that analog ofcourse ..

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I'm glad I got a vinyl release while it was still the dominant format. These days, unless you manage to get a release on a huge label (Armada, Discover, Anjuna, etc), getting a track pressed to vinyl is damn near impossible... unless you want to pay for the release yourself?

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Just curious, does anyone here have any experiences with having vinyls pressed on their own? Could you share your experiences with them, and recommend for or against any particular companies?

It takes a good record and a real actual label with a business plan and direction and money to invest in getting your music out there.

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pay for it yourself

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Originally posted by CLICK_RAREVINYL It takes a good record and a real actual label with a business plan and direction and money to invest in getting your music out there.

I wasn't asking how to make money off vinyl. I'm just curious to know if anyone here has had any vinyls made on their own, and what their experiences were.

I just realized you guys are probably replying to the original post.