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Need help to choose label for first release!!
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| beamrider |
Hello
First, happy new year to everyone!!
I'm back after a few weeks of vacation.
Finally I got a song ready to be signed with two labels interested on it!
Vision Control and Factual records.
The song is an uplifting trance tune with a nice old school feeling.
Vision control offered me to release a bundle of two or three tracks to get my name out there.
Factual just said that they want to sign it.
Vision Control contacted me first....
What label should I choose? what do you think? any recomendations??
thanks and regards |
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| palm |
| havent heard of any of them. might as well release it yourself using tunecore or something. the day of the labels are over. |
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| Eric J |
When I am considering work with a label for the first time I generally ask a several questions:
1. What are some of the DJs on their promo list?
2. What formats do they release? Digital only or physical as well?
3. What is typical turnaround time once a track is submitted?
4. Get a sample draft Heads of Agreement so you can see what the terms of a typical deal are with new artists.
One advantage to signing with an established label is that they can provide opportunity to get your music into the hands of established DJs. Then, if your music is good those Djs play it out, chart it, etc. which gives you more exposure as an artists and can help to separate you from the noise a bit. This, in turn, can lead to more opportunities for you as a producer such as remixes for more established artists and submitting you music for bigger DJs mixed CDs for example. These are all things that being on a good label can do for you. Exposure is the name of the game these days.
Other than that, don't expect to make much money from selling tracks at all. |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
havent heard of any of them. might as well release it yourself using tunecore or something. the day of the labels are over. |
Tunecore doesn't have any of the proper dance/trance/house specialist webshops. It wouldn't work for us producers here because of that. |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
the day of the labels are over. |
Why do you say that? |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
itunes? |
Only really works when you have a hit. iTunes is still very much a mainstream webshop.
Otherwise Beatport still is your best bet.
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
Why do you say that? |
Because most labels (especially the big ones doing well back in the day) have outdated contracts formats, outdated marketing plans, little revenue, late payments etc etc.
Doing it all yourself eliminates the middle man, at least doubles your income on equal sales which you will make with fairly little effort if you know what you're doing. |
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| palm |
| still... its not alot of work setting up a label and get a deal with audiojelly and trackitdown, in addition to use tunecore to be on iTunes, amazonmp3 etc etc. a little more trouble with beatport but they suck anyway. should cover most stuff. get on spotify too somehow and ur everywhere. u still wont make money but so what? u wont on a unknown label anyway and the chance that they up stuff is big. do it yourself. its fun, satisfying, and u have everything in control yourself pluss if u actually sell anything u get it all yourself. |
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| Stealth |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
a little more trouble with beatport but they suck anyway. |
I agree beatport sucks but you can't make any real money unless you go through them... they pretty much have a monopoly on the edm market. |
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| palm |
| i dont agree, they might have most sales on the cheese farthouse but both audiojelly and trackitdown are better imo. and junodownload. |
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