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| nhibberd |
Hey all,
bit of a different question here. I was just given a call from a guy named Sean from White Label Records.
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He sead he was interested in promoting one of my tracks. I was wondering is anybody had any experience with this kind of thing and if I should do it or not?
They charge 500 pounds for my track to be put on their promo-CD and sent to all the top proffesionals in England. I don't have much money and don't want to invest in something that isn't worth while.
I'm not rushing to accuse anybody. But I am paying 500 pounds and am giving access to material that they could sell. Is this a high risk endeavor or should I realy considder myself lucky?
Can anybody give any advice, I'm calling the man back in a few days with my answer.
Kind regards,
Charlie Darwin |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| I really don't think it's worth that much money... well, I wouldn't do it anyway. |
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| Subtle |
| they should pay YOU for the track.. |
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| Speactra |
Sounds weird that you should pay it, but it's always good to get your name out there.
Good luck anyways. |
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| paulc_dj |
Its up to you mate, but I wouldn't bother, and for �500 you could get a load of white labels printed up yourself, and then contact a distribution company and get it out there off your own back. At least that way you would actually make some money hey. My mate did a remix of Coldplay - Speed of Sound last summer which the Judge was playing everywhere and he had it printed up on white by a record company in Birmingham (England) and never saw a penny, and it was sold in HMV, Virgin etc...... .
PC :tongue2
IMO your best bet is to send it on CDR or MP3 to the DJ's that you would feel would play it and take it from, there before you put any of your hard-earned on the line. |
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| Dirty Ice |
You should find out what these guys plans are. How many records.
If its less than 500, nobody going to make money. It cost too much to press and ship.
So you need to ask him his plans, how many, where are the going to be pressed at and how does he expect to return your investment.
After that, get on the internet and research it all for yourself.
If he telling the truth, then use him for his conetions.
Yes you could do it yourself, but he may already know people.
I pressed and distributed 3000. records a couple of years ago.
I have many connections with stores and distributors now.
But to me, it not worth the little bitty bit of money I made after it was all over.
If I have a song I truly believe will really make it. Then I will use my resources again.
Sound like this guy may have the connections and resources but doesn’t have money to invest. But a very serious company would take out a line of credit before asking there artist to invest. |
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| burns |
| You will be lucky to get �500 back from it, if it goes onto sell 2,000 copies, which nowadays, it wont really. Pissing your money away by doing that mate, if its a decent track, then a label will sign it. |
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| nhibberd |
Thanks guys,
I'v no experience with signings anyway. And i'v been investing so much into my studio I haven't bought any clothes for 8 months! I'v decided not to invest anything more untill I got some money out of it again.
I'll be calling him that i'm flattered with the offer, but i'll have to refuse for financial reasons. I'll tel him i'll be keeping his page bookmarked for future reference.
The setup was that they make a promo-package with various artist's radio addits and sent it off to 500 different top proffesionals in the field. Radio stations, A&R's, DJ's... I don't remember if it was vynil or CD. Vynil is probably more worthwhile.
But i'm spending lot's of time now improving my tracks and will probably only be investing in promotion when I make a track that completely kick's butt. Not only from my point of view.
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| richg101 |
that sounds like a joke to me. the website doesnt look pro. if i was paying �500 i would expect them to have a better site than that!
the channel islands! i didnt even know they had a dance music scene!
surely they should be paying you... or at the very most, taking a cut of your profits if you make it big.. id spend �500 quid on some pressings and send them out/sell em in independant record shops.. |
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| nhibberd |
Yep, bit strange huh. And he said they where based in Manchester. I probably have the wrong domainname here. But surely a company name like White Label Records would be registered and only one company could use the name or something like that. Or maybe the Channel Islands are a seperate country, who knows...
I did a little research into the Channel Islands and Drum and Bass seems to be all the rage over there. I might try and do some ambient stuff for them sometime in the future.
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| nhibberd |
Yep, bit strange huh. And he said they where based in Manchester. I probably have the wrong domainname here. But surely a company name like White Label Records would be registered and only one company could use the name or something like that. Or maybe the Channel Islands are a seperate country, who knows...
I did a little research into the Channel Islands and Drum and Bass seems to be all the rage over there. I might try and do some ambient stuff for them sometime in the future.
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