good read!! thanks

MAKE YOUR FRIENDS HAPPY!! THAT ALL WHAT COUNTS!
ITS PROUD TO BE IMPORTANT BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS TO BE PROUD

sry for caps lock and that scooter lyric

Your quote makes no sense at all. The phrase "It's proud" makes no sense Scooter did not make this up btw, it goes way back, and the original quote is:


It's nice to be important but its more important to be nice.

Anyways the article is a good read, its more geared towards bands though that have all kinds of agents and representation and studio fees. For producers who simply sign over tracks to labels this isn't really applicable.

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1) Ilan Bluestone - Spheres (State of Matter Eleventh Hour Mix)
2) MK-S - Illuminate (State of Matter Revival Mix)
3) Scarab - Vagabond (State of Matter Revival Mix)
4) Ferry Corsten & The Thrillseekers - Sublime (State of Matter Revival Mix)
5) State of Matter - Saving Icarus (Original Mix)

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i dont really see how this aplies to us that much (trance/electronica porudcers) for one we all have our own studio thus according to his numbers we can just drop recording expence alltogether + $150,000

only an idiot would pay $5,000 for artwork when he could get someone in college or on ta to do it for free

Mastering: $10,000, BULLSHIT... the mastering companie that i worked at over the summer a year ago was charging $800 a cd ...and they are the BEST in the seattle/NW area, they do Pearl Jams CD's.

i dont really know that much about the price tags on the rest of the stuff but im definatley questioning his data.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Since some of you people seem to be overly obsessed with getting signed/released/whatever...

what's wrong with wanting others to hear the music you like and love, which you've spend some long hours on to make it sound the way you wanted it to sound...

but yeah it's true, watch out with contracts... but that goes for walking down the street too: watch the road before crossing it...

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Originally posted by azior what's wrong with wanting others to hear the music you like and love, which you've spend some long hours on to make it sound the way you wanted it to sound...

Nothing.
But it seems like that to some people here getting signed is the only reason they do music.

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I read this very article a long time ago, 3-4 years at least, and it might even be pre-Napster. I wonder how much has changed since Steve Albini wrote it.

I agree that it doesn't apply as much to us; looks like it's more about hard market than niche market.

BTW you should hear some stories about the politics of cheese (DJ Sammy etc.)

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Since some of you people seem to be overly obsessed with getting signed/released/whatever, I thought I'd post this: http://webone.com.au/~eye/propagand...oblemswith.html

How is your current status of your record deal? ( I read somewhere that you were signed )

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Originally posted by The Designer How is your current status of your record deal? ( I read somewhere that you were signed )

We are currently waiting for our first 12" to come out. It would probably had come out already but there was some hassle concerning the remix that was originally going to be on the flip and we had to bin it... so right now we're waiting for the new mix to get ready.

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