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When sending productions to labels... In which order?
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| lenieNt Force |
Just wonder how people go about sending their productions to labels.. Do you start at the top and wait for each label to reply for two weeks or so before you send to next label, or are you just sending your prods to 100 different labels at once?
How do you do it? |
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| Storyteller |
| one step at a time indeed :) |
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| sterilis |
| dont be sending to loads of labels at once as it can be a downfall. |
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| lenieNt Force |
| I guess u all share the same opinion on this:rolleyes: |
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| zodiac9 |
| I'm about to send some tracks to labels. I'm going to approach one at a time. So far, I only have my eye on 2 labels. It's probably a bad idea to send your tracks to a bunch of labels, you really don't want that many copies of your tracks floating around out there. If your tracks are any good, you shouldn't have to try more than 2 or 3 labels. Just make sure you choose labels that fit your style of music. |
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| d4dirty |
I get a fair few emails from people wanted to get signed and they all get listened to eventually. What you want to do is get noticed, and be listened to first amongst all the others in the labels inbox so here are a couple of things that can help…
Send out individual emails to each label. Nothing worse then getting an email from a potential artists where there were 100 other labels in the "To" Field.
It doesn’t hurt to give some info on yourself, your music achievements your own words about your style before the link to your tracks. Doesn’t have to be long, just a brief intro.
A lot of artists just send a link to myspace pages, personally I would rather links to download the tracks. I hate the myspace player because I can’t fast forward or rewind to re-listen to parts of the tracks and the quality on myspace is usually ordinary. |
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| zodiac9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by d4dirty
I get a fair few emails from people wanted to get signed and they all get listened to eventually. What you want to do is get noticed, and be listened to first amongst all the others in the labels inbox so here are a couple of things that can help�
Send out individual emails to each label. Nothing worse then getting an email from a potential artists where there were 100 other labels in the "To" Field.
It doesn�t hurt to give some info on yourself, your music achievements your own words about your style before the link to your tracks. Doesn�t have to be long, just a brief intro.
A lot of artists just send a link to myspace pages, personally I would rather links to download the tracks. I hate the myspace player because I can�t fast forward or rewind to re-listen to parts of the tracks and the quality on myspace is usually ordinary. |
Those are good suggestions. There's not much you can do to make an email standout, but a few simple things can ensure that you don't get looked at last. I was actually wondering what I should say in the email when I send the song links, but what you said here makes sense. I'm going with that, and making it very brief. |
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| Ripp |
I would highly recommend starting by sending e-mails to a few labels. Smaller labels are your best bet as labels like Yooshi or Cr2 typically only pick up records from guys that are established or somehow know of a producer. It’s not so much what you know but who ya know…ya know?
The smaller labels would be a good place to start. Make sure you keep track of each label and what you send them. If they don’t like a track then mark it down so that when you send them a new track in two months you can follow up with an e-mail saying “hey I am working on a new sound bla bla bla” . BE professional about it.
When you send these tracks out make sure you either send a clip of the track or your best bet it to send it at a lower quality like 92 or something. Every producer has a story about being ripped off. If they like it then they will be willing to come back to you for the higher quality and pick it up.
Lastly who do you know? Don’t get a track signed, but give it to a few big name jocks if you know them and can get it to them. It will look a lot better when you try to sell yourself when you can talk about how DJ Big-name played this unsigned track on his radio show…you wanna put it on your label?
GOOD LUCK!!! |
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| lenieNt Force |
Some real good advices there Ripp.. Thank u!! :)
Please keep them coming ppl :cool: |
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| Shade |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ripp
I would highly recommend starting by sending e-mails to a few labels. Smaller labels are your best bet as labels like Yooshi or Cr2 typically only pick up records from guys that are established or somehow know of a producer. It’s not so much what you know but who ya know…ya know?
The smaller labels would be a good place to start. Make sure you keep track of each label and what you send them. If they don’t like a track then mark it down so that when you send them a new track in two months you can follow up with an e-mail saying “hey I am working on a new sound bla bla bla” . BE professional about it.
When you send these tracks out make sure you either send a clip of the track or your best bet it to send it at a lower quality like 92 or something. Every producer has a story about being ripped off. If they like it then they will be willing to come back to you for the higher quality and pick it up.
Lastly who do you know? Don’t get a track signed, but give it to a few big name jocks if you know them and can get it to them. It will look a lot better when you try to sell yourself when you can talk about how DJ Big-name played this unsigned track on his radio show…you wanna put it on your label?
GOOD LUCK!!! |
With all due respect... I have to say I don't think you know what you're talking about.
'Big labels like Yooshi and CR2' don't require you to be known to sign with them, they just have a rather particular preference in style. If it doesn't suit them, they won't take it (this applies to most labels). Very simple.
Being professional is important but be concise in your email; no long stories.
*DO NOT SEND CLIPS OF TRACKS* - this is absolutely key. If you want to be taken seriously, you send the full track to the label in at the very least 192. 320 is preferable (hold off with the wavs until a label says they're interested).
I don't agree with sending tracks to big jocks first either. Getting things played out means losing exclusivity and also means you'll have people moaning about release delays. I strongly recommend against sending things out all over the place in order to gain popularity. In some cases it can help, but I don't think it's the wisest thing to do. |
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| Storyteller |
| I'd have to agree. Well said. |
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| Ripp |
Well most of my advice comes from my limited experience and some advice that I got from a good friend of mine who is considered one of the " hot trance producers of the moment" who I have a lot of respect for due to his professionalism and success.
That is just the way I approach things. To each their own and if your stuff is that good it will not matter b/c it time you will be a success anyway no matter how you go about it. As long as the quality content is there everything else will come. |
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