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Originally posted by Eelke Kleijn Yeah thanks a lot mate! Reactions like this just wanna make me go into the studio and write more music

Honest mistake man... please accept my apology. I was so pumped at how badass the song was, I wanted everyone to hear it. I know this is beside the point, but it was only downloaded 7 times, so no real damage done. If you want me to contribute the Beatport fee x 7 to a certain place, put the link in there and I'll do it. Keep up the great work man... you're one of my favorites

The problem with distributing something online is that those 7 people are likely to now pass it on, and so on and so on till it basically doesn't matter. I don't think its a big deal if it was ripped from a set, but yeah, usually posting full versions of tracks, sample or not, is a bad idea.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

And we wonder why artists aren't fond of TA...

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov And we wonder why artists aren't fond of TA...

heh, talk about some bad PR.

I'll bet the 17sss didn't see this coming.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost heh, talk about some bad PR. I'll bet the 17sss didn't see this coming.

No joke. total n00b move on my part. I feel like a dick now. Last thing I wanted to do was upset people.... sorry guys

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Originally posted by The17sss No joke. total n00b move on my part. I feel like a dick now. Last thing I wanted to do was upset people.... sorry guys

Learning experience man.

Plus if Eelke Kleijn wanted to really hit you over the head with it, I'm sure he would have.

I think this is released now? Just saw an ad for it on RA

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

it is, and suprisingly enough i bought it. I actually like it, even though i'm not usually into his stuff.

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Originally posted by elFreak it is, and suprisingly enough i bought it. I actually like it, even though i'm not usually into his stuff.

It's the vocals!!

Diggin this as well, nice little prog. housey tune.

Thanks for all the kind replies on this one

It's not that I am angry about tracks getting downloaded and distributed illegally over the internet, I think everyone knows that's just something that happens these days. It's still promotion on my part. But people sometimes just don't realise how much time you actually put into a release. An EP like Dopamine Theory probably takes me 5 or 6 whole days to produce each original track (so about 2 weeks in total), and another couple of days for the remix by Yvel & Tristan. Then you got the artwork, press release, distribution, advertising costs, etc etc. And you end up selling maybe 400 - 500 copies if you're lucky, which in terms of profit doesn't really compare to the amount of work you put into it. Especially if you come across some random download blog which manages to get more than 700 downloads in just a few days, it all starts to feel a bit pointless.

Now while some people say you shouldn't do it for the money, do it for the love of music, etc you just have to be realistic; Everybody needs a basic income to live. I am one of the lucky ones that actually play out enough to make this my full time job, partially due to the releases (gigs kind of make up for the money you 'lose' while releasing music). More than 90% of the other producers are probably not that lucky and just really need those sales to live off if they ever want to start doing it full time.

Anyway, just my 2 cents Don't take it as offence or anything but sometimes I just have to give my honest opinion on the whole matter as well.