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Why do some tracks take forever to be released?
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| DOOMBOT |
| Chaim - Dana EP (Guy Gerber's Butterfly Remix) is the one I have in mind right now and it kills me that it isn't out yet. I first heard it on Digweeds Transitions radio show last Sept and it is also featured on his Transitions 2 cd. I've emailed Gerber, Chaim and the label it will eventually be released on and it seems to be due out in Sept. But what gives? Why does this happen to a lot of great tracks? And furthermore, why do some tracks not see a release at all? |
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| Beat Blog |
| Because you touch yourself at night, that's why. |
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| Surfmorworkless |
| quote: | Originally posted by DOOMBOT
Chaim - Dana EP (Guy Gerber's Butterfly Remix) is the one I have in mind right now and it kills me that it isn't out yet. I first heard it on Digweeds Transitions radio show last Sept and it is also featured on his Transitions 2 cd. I've emailed Gerber, Chaim and the label it will eventually be released on and it seems to be due out in Sept. But what gives? Why does this happen to a lot of great tracks? And furthermore, why do some tracks not see a release at all? |
I've often wondered that myself.:conf: |
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| Allied Nations |
$$, label politics-
there's a million reasons why a track will get released when it does. Usually only those directly involved with the label will know exactly why that is. Also to build hype, hence promo copies, to promote the song. |
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| sleepydragon |
| money, djs play it to death try getting everyone to like it everyone wants it then they release it. but most people have downloaded it for free before then anyway thats why they should release it earlier. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by sleepydragon
money, djs play it to death try getting everyone to like it everyone wants it then they release it. but most people have downloaded it for free before then anyway thats why they should release it earlier. |
exactly why most songs are seeing releases much faster nowadays
much easier to regulate vinyl |
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| wolftickets |
| Hurley & Downes(formerly Motiv8) - Continuum: The Duke Nukem Forever of music. Was released as a limited production promo in 1998, but still has yet to recieve a general release, although they keep saying "it's still coming". |
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| Spirit5 |
| It's the same thing with movies. It takes forever for them to get released, even when they are almost 100% finished. But it does appear that more released are being released sooner on digital sites like Beatport vs. Vinyl, probably because it's easier to do that than having to press the Vinyl record. |
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| Zombie0729 |
oh dude there are so many factors. any business who releases products, especially ones that are being well recieved before they are released take their time.
1.) label could be waiting on a big remixer. some remixers need 3-4 mos of heads up before they can take on more. imagine trying to coordinate 2, 3 or 4 remixers.
2.) some labels only release stuff in certain districts of the world. imagine if you signed a track with 1 label for a european release but couldn't get a release in America for another 4 mos with another label. so these two labels now try and release at the same time, well maybe label A can only do it in december, so now both wait.
3.) labels with big, big tracks wait for prime marketing stratagies. is digweed playing the track on this weeks essential mix? will everyone want to buy it after that...
4.) is wmc around the corner? global gathering? any other big hypes
i could go on forever. trust me, labels don't like sitting on tracks, it's a loss for them. if anything they are always scraping together too fast to get things out. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
oh dude there are so many factors. any business who releases products, especially ones that are being well recieved before they are released take their time.
1.) label could be waiting on a big remixer. some remixers need 3-4 mos of heads up before they can take on more. imagine trying to coordinate 2, 3 or 4 remixers.
2.) some labels only release stuff in certain districts of the world. imagine if you signed a track with 1 label for a european release but couldn't get a release in America for another 4 mos with another label. so these two labels now try and release at the same time, well maybe label A can only do it in december, so now both wait.
3.) labels with big, big tracks wait for prime marketing stratagies. is digweed playing the track on this weeks essential mix? will everyone want to buy it after that...
4.) is wmc around the corner? global gathering? any other big hypes
i could go on forever. trust me, labels don't like sitting on tracks, it's a loss for them. if anything they are always scraping together too fast to get things out. |
Thanks for clearing it up for me. Funny though that I really haven't heard or seen this track played by anyone but Digweed. Which I don't understand because it truly is a masterpiece. I will definitely consider this as one of the greatest tracks of all time. |
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| seneca |
gosh... I remember I wanted to start my label 'audio logic' back in the month of January and that took until June to finally get off the ground! That's a whole other story... After signing some material we came up with the game plan. What are we going to release, who's going to remix it, when are we planning on releasing it, etc etc.
16 Bit Lolitas needed about 45 days time to do a remix for us while the other 3 artists could get theirs done relatively quickly compared to them. They were touring in between. Now that everything is finished, it's time to promote the hell out of the release and hand it over to big names to hopefully feature in shows, live sets, etc to build the hype. So from June to August to get stuff together and shooting for a release date of September 13th. That is approximate... it just takes a while sometimes.
Stupid long release dates are probably label politics as someone mentioned previously but could be anything, legal reasons, etc. |
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| [B-O-F-H] |
Digweed, more so than other DJs gets lots of exclusives which no other DJ then gets for months, be it from Gerber, Mashtronic, Dousk, Pole Folder and many more.
At the time he was given Dana, it was actually given to him when he was compiling Transitions 2 and wasnt signed to any labels. It was initially going to come on Supplement Facts, but because of all the Chaim releases there, was signed to another label (Dogtown) which it's now due out on in September. |
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