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Originally posted by kitphillips Don't send it to radio stations neccesarily.

Can someone clear up with me axactly what the term "white label" means?
week after week Radio One's tracklist will have countless white label tracks, which I understood to be bootleg remix's?

One example would be dirty souths "the end" which is a cover of The Doors. This track was played very early on by Pete Tong and labeled as Dirty South - the end (white label) untill a few weeks later Pete Tong announced dirty south had signed the deal to release the track.

however I have also heard the term "white label" used when artists/labels are simply hiding which label has actually released the record.

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Originally posted by Kid_presentable Can someone clear up with me axactly what the term "white label" means? week after week Radio One's tracklist will have countless white label tracks, which I understood to be bootleg remix's? One example would be dirty souths "the end" which is a cover of The Doors. This track was played very early on by Pete Tong and labeled as Dirty South - the end (white label) untill a few weeks later Pete Tong announced dirty south had signed the deal to release the track. however I have also heard the term "white label" used when artists/labels are simply hiding which label has actually released the record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_label

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_label

ahh cheers i missed the copyright section:

Many white labels contain unsolicited remixes and/or tracks that are not yet licensed or released (also called "bootlegs"). White labels can be referred to as "promos" (short for "promotional copies") that many top-name DJs receive and play weeks or months prior to or the day of general release to the public. As artists using samples pay very high fees for the privilege of such, they must be able to gauge the market potential of their tracks prior to approval. Recently, smaller promo services offer record companies a more economical means of distribution although these companies may not have the means to properly protect releases from illegal copying.

The industry itself seems to be aware of this necessity and white labels are commonly accepted as a necessary evil within the industry, which has only ever prosecuted an extremely small number of those artists using white labeled pressings of uncleared samples and compositions . Some white labels are recalled after the promotional period (except from top-name DJs and radio stations).