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Size of underground networks of folks sharing unrealsed tracks?
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| Dilmeet |
Sup guys,
So I have been hunting this unreleased track down for quite sometime now: Bushwacka! - West Side (Christian Smith & Wehbba Remix) -- I know it's not a 'trance track' but it sounds so attractive because of its pumpiness -- I just like it.
This is not the first time this has happened to me, there are actually quite a few tracks that are still my wishlist; tracks that are still have yet to be 'unreleased'. When I'm googling my wishlist tracks, I always see them in a lot of random/anonymous DJ sets and so I wonder, how do all these people have access to them? I mean, are they friends of the Producer/DJ or are they paying for some 'underground' music sharing network? When I search for my wishlist, I am perfectly willing to pay for the tracks legitimately. However, how does this all work?
The only time I got private access was by messaging 'kill the noise' when he was semi-famous 3 years ago on myspace. I messaged him asking if I could buy some of his songs because I had to make a demo for my university's radio station and he actually ended up replying. Being the nice, awesome dude that he is, he gave me full access to his private FTP, and just asked me just to buy one of his T-shirts (which I did) so... I had access to ALL his tracks 320kb "unreleased". That was awesome.
Should I not even bother asking these types of questions when I have two record labels that are interested in my materials? I mean... basically and simplistically, I'm just curious how the under-underground EDM music sharing works in terms of size and politics. |
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| Chimney |
Back in 2006-2007, this functioned through illegal sharing forums that had "elite sections", where people with promo access and who knew producers shared between them. I knew some of the people that were in the circles and around 2008 I used to have certain material even before it hit the promo pool on the labels.
However, what you are referring to are so called CDRs (unsigned/bootleged tracks). It's all about the people you know and trust. No one is going to share with you exclusive tracks, because 1) you might leak them to the public and 2) you must give something in return. Obviously, there is a big difference if you ask for it, or some big-named DJ with a radioshow and gigs asks for a track.
The people I used to do some trades with, I knew for 4-5 years and we used to talk on a daily basis.
Even today I have a lot of really exclusive trance-cracker material which used to be spun only by big names in the DJ circuit, including bootlegs from big names that people don't even know existed.
So basically, you need to know and have the trust of the right people.
Regarding your track:
"another massive remix work I've done with Christian Smith, following up on our previous remixes for Laurent Garnier and Funk D'Void. This one has been my weapon of choice for the past months to rock any quiet crowd anywhere in the world.
Already supported by some big shots like Carl Cox, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo, Slam, Nuno Dos Santos, Karotte, Secret Cinema, Monika Kruze, Florian Meindl, Marc Romboy, Dosem, Butch, James Zabiela, Mauro Picotto
coming up soon on Tronic...watchout for this one! Don't forget to check the video of John Digweed closing up Beyond Wonderland with it - nevermind the bad audio and short lenght, just go for the crowd reaction ;)
Released by: Tronic Music
Release/catalogue number: TR83
Release date: Apr 2, 2012"
Guess you're in luck. |
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| corjay9 |
if you know a DJ/producer thats in the genre of the kind of music you like, and he/she is somewhat relevent, these DJs get promo tracks thru promotion companies. Labels pay a fee to these companies, and they send out tracks to other labels.. these promo websites let you preview new promos, but you can only download the track if you leave a comment, which creates the famous 'support list' you see sometimes. The bigger the promo company the more access they have to more influential DJs. If you sign to a big label, you're put on that label's promo list thru the promotion company and you get emails.
Of course a lot of producers have each other on skype as they collab/are friends, and send each other unreleased tracks to test on the road, etc... but as a producer you have pass judgement on who you send your music to obviously. |
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| Dilmeet |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chimney
Back in 2006-2007, this functioned through illegal sharing forums that had "elite sections", where people with promo access and who knew producers shared between them. I knew some of the people that were in the circles and around 2008 I used to have certain material even before it hit the promo pool on the labels.
Released by: Tronic Music
Release/catalogue number: TR83
Release date: Apr 2, 2012"
Guess you're in luck. |
I remember these forums when I first discovered TA, I always wondered what happened to them, hah.
I just looked up the release date and it's on the 26th of this month - 20 more days err. |
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| Chimney |
| Some people get today unreleased material by being producer/DJs Soundcloud managers. I have no idea how much sense this makes, but is what some claim. |
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