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| Exodus17 |
looking thru another thread i read that by the time good new tunes are released theyve been beaten to death by various DJs...
just curious...
to get anywhere in the DJing business these days it seems to be neccesary that one produces his/her own tunes to gain recognition, and/or have mad skills with the hardware... the latter being the easier to pull off - there are lots of tunes out, many of which suck terribly, are just plain mediocre tunes, or just happen to be diamonds in the rough
but as said before... good tunes seem to be beaten to death by whoever by the time of release...do producers get anything more than exposure out of their tunes or do they get paid... i imagine they dont, but i dont know for sure, hoping somone could enlighten me
do producers get paid if some bigname dj is rinsing out their tune(s), particularly the good tunes that drive the floor nuts? |
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| zizack |
I don't agree at all with what you're saying about all the good tunes being played to death before they get released. If you're into playing epic trance stuff, sure, all the big named DJs are rocking the out of them and they're old news when they finally get released. But if you're talking about quality tracks in general, you can find a lot of on vinyl that you can't DL from a hub or haven't even heard from other djs, you just have to look.
And of course they get paid. Generally a producer will give out promos of a track other djs who will in turn play those songs and get them exposure, maybe even point them in the direction of a possible label to pick it up. When it gets signed to a label, they get paid. |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
I don't agree at all with what you're saying about all the good tunes being played to death before they get released. If you're into playing epic trance stuff, sure, all the big named DJs are rocking the out of them and they're old news when they finally get released. But if you're talking about quality tracks in general, you can find a lot of on vinyl that you can't DL from a hub or haven't even heard from other djs, you just have to look.
And of course they get paid. Generally a producer will give out promos of a track other djs who will in turn play those songs and get them exposure, maybe even point them in the direction of a possible label to pick it up. When it gets signed to a label, they get paid. |
zizack is right about a lot of the points, its deffo true about the epic trance tunes, but there are so many ill tunes that we will never hear, especially in genres like prog, and house, psytrance as well. vinyl hunting has got to be one of the funnest things, and if you have contacts on ur aim who produce well, getting promos that way is awesome as well, but nothing beats digging through crates of vinyl at the record store and uncovering some ill tunes.
with so much music being produced, yes there is a lot of garbage, but with that large percentage of garbage comes a portion of quality tunes, which grows largers as the amount of records produced gets higher, which it is and shows no signs of stopping, with all the available software needed to produce at a very low cost in comparison to financing a pure hardware studio...
while yes, djs often feel pressured to produce, we should! i mean who better than to produce dance tunes than the gods of the dancefloors themselves? plus each day djing and producing become more and more similar, with the introduction of ableton etc etc, soon we may just be playign music live! it will be like a "band" or something! hahaha
when a record is signed, the producer and those affiliated generally get paid in a lump sum, but royalties are also distributed depending ont he deal. when dealing with an online record label, its almost all royalties. |
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| Nemesis44 |
Unless you produce an absolute monster you don't get paid that much for your productions. The majority of producers actually make their money from DJing.
Cheers
Nem |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nemesis44
Unless you produce an absolute monster you don't get paid that much for your productions. The majority of producers actually make their money from DJing.
Cheers
Nem |
so true, which is why you have djs touring who arent really that great of djs, but are awesome producers. i wont name any names for fear of starting flame war. |
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| Exodus17 |
hmm... thx for the insight
deff true about the vinyl hunting, thats one of the reasons why im so big on vinyl... i imagine id eventually incorporate CDs into my sets but it feels that much more rewarding to go on a hunt and come out of the store with your moneys worth rather than just clicking around
true not all good tunes are played to death, ill admit it was more of an exageration... still it gets the idea across... |
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| Rhue |
| Perhaps it is time we made a rare or forgotten epic tune listing thread, so the rest of you can inform the rest of us...:D :D |
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