I am coming up to finishing a couple songs that i have been working hard on over last few months and would like to think that if i send them off i could get them signed. (best case scenario)
But with people with experience, should you send a load of songs that you have done to show you are consistent or can you get the odd song signed by itself?
Ah k, so does trance labels sometimes just sign the one song on its own regardless to your other songs?
Only asking because i have some friends in a band and the label wouldnt sign a few songs because they didnt have enuf songs behind them....i guess the scenes are different!
I wouldn't include small internet labels to your "best case scenario". You're better off keeping the copyrights to yourself. A big vinyl release would be different, but I would first sent a clip to the demo section to see if the track stands out.
It's easy to think too highly of a track when you've put all your current skills in making it. Even the pros are learning continuously.
The point isn't to "get out of your body", it's to bring awareness to your consciousness while you're experiencing another reality.
Nov-16-2008 10:41
Sonic_c
Heaven Scent
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Midlands
I do that especially when i was still learning basics. I would spend ages on a tune and think thats it thats the best song i have ever made and send it to labels. Then 6 months down the line i listen again having studied for 6 months and it sounds like a baby produced it!
Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.
Nov-16-2008 13:59
Theran
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Far Far Away
You should send your best one or two tracks to a label. You have to remember that an A&R recieves al lot of demo's each week. They simply won't have the time to listen all your tracks. If they like what they hear, they will ask for more.
You could also send different tracks to different labels though!
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Nov-16-2008 14:22
pwnage1
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: United States
quote:
Originally posted by Sonic_c
I do that especially when i was still learning basics. I would spend ages on a tune and think thats it thats the best song i have ever made and send it to labels. Then 6 months down the line i listen again having studied for 6 months and it sounds like a baby produced it!
We all remember the threads.
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Nov-16-2008 19:22
Zak McKracken
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Originally posted by pwnage1
We all remember the threads.
Nov-16-2008 20:33
Fledz
Banned
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: London UK
If you're going for big labels, stagger your mails. The big labels aren't fans of getting a good track and then finding out that 40 others received a copy too.
Start off with a handful of labels, then a week later send it out to the next group and so on. That way if a big one wants it, only a few others will have it so you're protecting the exclusivity of it and preventing it being leaked. Yea, I know it can be a moot point these days but most A&R go with this line of thinking.
Limit it to one or two track as has been mentioned.
I would tell you that you should send your track to medium, big, and small labels, but of course not to 80 billion of them. You never know who will like a song, so don't be afraid to send it to medium or big labels.
small labels may take a few days to reply to you, medium labels may take a month, that is if they choose to reply to you.
When choosing a label, make sure they know how to get your songs to the right people to promote. Do your research.
Nov-18-2008 20:52
Magnus
I'm getting old
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
There are 2 methods that got me signed. The first was handing out a CD with my tracks on it to DJs/producers that were playing in town. When everyone else was up there for pictures or whatever, I would pass along a CD of my best work with a handshake. The CDs had my contact info on it and eventually I got one in the hands of the right person and that was that.
The 2nd method that worked was to take the big list of labels that is in a word doc I found off trance.nu and to go down the list and pick labels that sign the type of music you make. I would take 6 CDs at a time to the post office and drop them all to these labels. If I didn't hear anything back after a few weeks, I'd keep going down the list. This eventually paid off and I got signed.
