Selling mashups is beyond illegal, maybe the 4$ price it's because you are like buying 2 tracks (which is not true) and the 2 labels + the store gets money, in that case he is not receiving 4$ on each sale and therefore not 4000$ on a basis.

If he is getting all the 4$ then i bet someone here is about to sue him because he is selling illegaly other people work (it's like i pick the top 1 of beatport charts, add some vocals and 2 FX and start selling in my own).

And if this works then i am going to start doing this too lol. With 100$ month i'm fine, just some alcohol to improve my mashup creativity (this is a work tool, i hope no taxes here).

And my last thought.... how someone can pay 4$ for a mashup? You can buy a whole album on amazon for that price... pick ableton live and do the mashup yourself

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Originally posted by DjWoody I have a good one for you guys. If there's no Money on producing, why is it that a friend of mine makes mashups, sells them on Crooklyn Clan and other websites, and last we spoke he was making about $4000 a month! That's on sales alone! His name got out there and he's now getting bookings all over. He doesn't make his own tracks, he simply makes mashups.

After my sampling thread i think that its much easier (and even more legal) to just download songs off the web and sell them in your website (**cough**Russian sites*).

BTW: look at Ronald Jenkees, he's got millions of viewers on YouTube, he opened a site with an mp3 store (which you can open for free nowadays).
If only 0.1% of these views are heading on to his site and buy his tunes then he is already making some nice $$$, and if youtube is paying him for every view (which they started doing with some artists) then you're looking at a nice income for an independent artist.

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Ellaskins is getting loads of dj equipment because of his dj tutor channel, if you are the first doing that you can have a lot of success with little effort.

just a thought, if theres no money in it then fair enough, my goal is to just have my tunes played in clubs and when me and my friends go clubbing to an event my tune could come on!! so do you think if i specifically say to the label they dont have to pay me just release it and promote and they can keep the redies if it becomes succesfull they might do that ?

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Originally posted by chrisspob just a thought, if theres no money in it then fair enough, my goal is to just have my tunes played in clubs and when me and my friends go clubbing to an event my tune could come on!! so do you think if i specifically say to the label they dont have to pay me just release it and promote and they can keep the redies if it becomes succesfull they might do that ?

a better approach may be getting to know who djs in your local area and send them your tunes i have friends on facebook who play in all my local pubs clubs so i just upload a tune to soundclould and get them to play it out if they can unless its shit

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Originally posted by owien a better approach may be getting to know who djs in your local area and send them your tunes i have friends on facebook who play in all my local pubs clubs so i just upload a tune to soundclould and get them to play it out if they can unless its shit

i know what you mean with this approach, but in my area there aint much trance, so when we do go clubbing its normally to a big event by pretty big djs, and ive sent a few my tune through facebook but i know by the download count on sendspace they didnt even download it lol

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i think they get that many messages they dont read them all tho

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Originally posted by chrisspob i know what you mean with this approach, but in my area there aint much trance, so when we do go clubbing its normally to a big event by pretty big djs, and ive sent a few my tune through facebook but i know by the download count on sendspace they didnt even download it lol

then myspace is your networking friend or just send ya tunes to all of the top trance djs at the mo i know sean tyas plays unsigned tunes on his tytanium podcasts and the like

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Originally posted by owien then myspace is your networking friend or just send ya tunes to all of the top trance djs at the mo i know sean tyas plays unsigned tunes on his tytanium podcasts and the like

actually to be honest i havent sent hardly anything off to any labels or djs, its only my last 2 tracks that ive had confidence in to be good enough for a club play, a few labels did get back to me on the first track, and the second i only sent out this week so im keeping my fingers crossed, already had 2 positive emails back regarding that one, i think my point is i honestly believe that if my tunes where played in a club specifically the last 2 the audience would get them and dig them, i just dont know the best way i can get the djs to actually listen to them! im shit at syuff like myspace and all that too

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Originally posted by chrisspob mad shit just happend lol, this just came in the last 3 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! diggin this dude. i'll take it. will fit on the spellbinding white label nicely! :-) great work! will send over a contract shortly will keep you in mind for remixes cheers Paul Trainer A&R Manager

then are work here is done

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Originally posted by owien then are work here is done

yes pal thanks alot for your advice tho matey

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