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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Sigh. So you're almost certainly a teenager who's been listening to electronic music for about three years and producing for probably less than half of that. Normally I'd tell you to back to languishing in Internet obscurity for another five years until you learn the first thing about the scene you're so desperate to take by storm, but the one track I randomly listened to on your Soundcloud page was actually pretty good, so I'll nourish you with some scarcely-deserved advice.
Pick a DJ you really like, who plays the kind of music you want to make. Take two or three of their tracklists and research the labels each track comes from. Then go on Beatport and listen to the entire catalogue of each of those labels. If it sounds like they release music similar to yours, then there's at least an outside chance they will release your music. Google the label and find their webpage. A lot of labels will have a link, email address or section on their site where you can submit promos. If you can't find that kind of link, you can at least find their Soundcloud page, or the Soundcloud page of whichever DJ or producer owns the label and send them a message, although 50,000 other 18 year olds will be doing the exact same thing so don't hold your breath. Take your very best track, work on it for another two or three weeks to make it as perfect as possible, then send that to them. Go back to the start of this paragraph and repeat it again with another DJ you really like.
Don't know any DJs you really like? You're fucked. You're going nowhere in the scene. Start listening more. Listen to loads of music, find out who's releasing it, follow those labels. The more you know about the topography of the scene, the better your chances of getting somewhere in it. Being some ignorant 18 year old who walks onto a forum and asks for the complete magic formula to being Skrillex Part 2 is not the way to do it, because those 50,000 other 18 year olds I mentioned earlier are all competing with you and only .5% of them will come close to getting signed, so you'd better work damn hard to stand out from the pack.
And the bad news is that although your music is quite interesting, you've got a hell of a lot of work to do before it's well-produced enough for any respectable label to want to release it. So you'd better get ready to spend five years in Internet obscurity while you improve your studio skills.
It probably seems like I'm being a dick in this post. But actually I'm being very, very nice. |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You can thank the Internet for that, as it allows people to hear music completely divorced of its native social context. The commercialisation of dance music in the US also means a generation of kids are now experiencing it from a distance: through TV or radio, a two dimensional image presented through a pop-culture apparatus with no indication of how it got there or where it came from. These kids aren't getting involved in an underground scene and then deciding to take their involvement one step further by producing tracks. They're watching Deadmau5 on MTV in their bedroom and scratching their heads at how to bridge the gap between that bedroom and the image on the screen. |
^^These are both great posts.
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