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| quote: | Originally posted by AnyMore
how does this whole remixing work? ppl make music first then send to their choice of djs and they do remix on it? then they send it back for release? what if the ownder don't like the remix? or can anybody else do a remix on it and send to owner for release??? i donno... |
Well, a producer makes a track. Let's take my tune "Light At The End" from last year for example. I send it to labels and a label signed it, just happened to be Martin's new label, Lunatique Records. Martin sayys "Oo I love it!" and puts his thinking-cap on and either goes over his phonebook/rolodex to see which one of his friends in the business would put a good remix in and with a smile on of course, AND/OR contacts someone hot at the moment and has them do a remix. When dealing with relatively mid/big level artists, they usually get paid upfront, as if for a gig or something. Smaller artists get paid % of how many purchases they get.
So yeah, my tune gets sent to John O'Callaghan and Thomas Bronzwaer and they do a remix, probably AFTER signing a deal with the label, considering they're in the upper-tier of producers with a lot of demand. The remix is finished, Martin hopes he likes it (which we did) and we put it all out. I can't say I've ever been part of a project where the label didn't like the remix and thus, didn't release it. However, with small/mid level guys like me, sometimes I give a shot at remixing a big guy's tune once in a while, and if the big guy likes it, it gets added to the remixes, and if not, it gets thrown out (since there's no prior agreement to do the remix, I just went on my own and did it).... That can be played as a "bootleg remix" but not sold. I've been lucky enough not to have a remix of mine thrown out because they didn't like it, and I look forward to keeping that run going!!
Hope that explains it..
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