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| themonkeylover |
Hi to everyone...ive looked for others posts regarding this issue and havent really found much info.
im just wondering if anyones has got any links to label Owner contracts awaywhere. i found a few on the net but i wasnt sure if they were relevant.
ive also been in touch with both ditto and lablewrox for music distruction and wondered if anyone had anything to say about these 2 companys...they seem the most professional and knowledgeable about getting tracks on the main 'dance labels etc'.
(i know theres been a lot of talk in the past about more online labels being set up, but ive tried the normal route and althought i had some labels wanting to sign a few of my tracks, but not all..im after getting the whole album released.)
thanks for your time |
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| Richard Butler |
I'm signed to alterego that tell me they own labelworks - so I though't I'd chip in. I'm not sure what you want to know about contracts though - they are what they are.
These days haggling with an established labels terms is easier said than done - there are thousands and thousands of demos sent in each week so it's unlikely any labels going to be bending over backwards to accomodate some awkward fukka, especially now with so much music to harvest.
As for wanting an albumn signed, well I'd say (without knowing you), you may need to lower your sights until you become properly established and have built up a large fan bass that may be willing to spend out on a whole albumn.
Listening to label bosses, the consumer in the main doesn't feel they haev the time to sit and listen to a whole albumn - sure I did as a kid but I did'nt have facebook et al taking up my attention. A music purchase is not the 'event' it once was - in the days before so much choice and industrial scale output. You used to have to go out of your way to walk to a shop and actualy buy a real object and then salivate on the bus on the way home ready to digest it.
I haven't bought an albumn in quite a while and would not likely buy an unknown newcommers unless I already followed them. |
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| themonkeylover |
cheers for the reply yeah i havent brought an album in years either...maybe ill release 2 e.p's then im guessing...but i defo want complete control with the label etc and it was a very long process with waiting to see which labels wanted to sign what tracks...
i think out of 50plus emails i sent out i only got 3 or 4 replays from labels and then they only liked 1 tracks out of 4 or 2 out of 4 but then said they only release e.p's etc.
when i started to decided this was the route i wanted to take i had a massive tick list to get thought (took me over 2 years to get the tracks and everything sorted, still not 100% complete) but im slowly getting throu it, just the 'label contract' i wanted to look into now...wonder if going to get a professional one written up by a music solicitor is the best step.
just looking for advice thanks |
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