i just have to post this, which is a awesome track released on the label at hand
Storyteller
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Originally posted by Mel David
What are they, a digital label like Beatport or vinyl? If they are digital, surely it doesn't cost that much to keep it going.
And if they are there's at least one trend they did follow. The bunch of nonsense this label is pulling just makes my heart melt. Ignoring obvious market oppurtunities for the sake of 'keeping it real'. If it did work, fantastic, but it doesn't and they should have changed their strategy accordingly and they sould have seen this coming for a while now.
Storyteller
It does take some guts to ask for donations so one can continue to afford making dumb decisions.
I'd rather 'donate' money to avaaz.org - at least those people put the money to good use and make it back as well!
Looney4Clooney
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Originally posted by Mel David
What are they, a digital label like Beatport or vinyl? If they are digital, surely it doesn't cost that much to keep it going.
it costs nothing, but they should be kicked off for not selling. Every single label that doesn't sell above a certain amount should be booted. It is a commercial platform, it is saturated with , sales is the only semi objective criteria. The only way to trim to fat is to get rid of these nonsense labels that sell under 100 units.
tehlord
They probably sell less than the mastering cost. And if they're churning out more than one or two tracks a week they probably don't get enough pocket money to pay for it.
Woony
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Originally posted by tehlord
They probably sell less than the mastering cost. And if they're churning out more than one or two tracks a week they probably don't get enough pocket money to pay for it.
Well, that makes the assumption that they let their tracks get professionally mastered at all. Or that they don't let the artist pay for the mastering costs.
Vector A
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
you know that retard at guitar centre that still thinks his hair band is going to make it , even tho it is 2010 and he is 35, this is the exact same thing.
:stongue:
Storyteller
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Originally posted by Euforix
Physical copies are the future, hardly anyone wants to pay for a quality that they can get from internet by just few clicks.
???
Woony
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Originally posted by Euforix
Physical copies are the future, hardly anyone wants to pay for a quality that they can get from internet by just few clicks.
What? Your argument doesn't make any sense. Unless you are a major label you can't make any money with vinyl (infact in small quantities it's easy to loose money) and the CD is a dying format and you can easily rip it so it doesn't even make any difference to a purely digital release.
In Techno & House ing everything gets pressed to vinyl and labels still don't make any money. In fact, the only reason why vinyl is still alive is because enthusiasts are willing to spend large amounts of time and resources on bringing out a physical release that isn't going to make any money.
Richard Butler
The BBC did a history of Progressive Rock and it showed how some of the early pioneers stuck rigidly to the earliest 'pure' forms, and branded all else a sell - out, and how these guys became disallusioned and bewildered that thier treasured little niche had passed - by and they were left without any fans or money.
Litteraly music history repeating itself.
I find this same dynamic at work in many different spheres, for example The Royal Navy old guard refused to get rid of sails on steam powered boats for decades as they simply could never accept change, to them a sailor was nothing without sails, even though sails were totaly redundant.
Just the same, a certain type of person refused to put a telephone / radio / tv in thier house, they simply could not accept change.
There is a Darwinian imperative that causes some of us to be programmed to resist change.
It's one thing to enjoy say jazz from the past, thats fine, but quite another to EXPECT the public to indulge YOUR personal music time capsule, and then resent them and the industry when things move on.
This sort of trance is a bit enjoyable, but like eating a toffee apple when you're 30, not quite as good as it seemed when you were 9.
Woony
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Originally posted by Euforix
Yes, and isn't the main goal for this kind of uplifting "trance" label to become a major label?
Again, what? I'm talking actual major labels ie. sony. you still can make some money with michael jckson re-pressings, you can't with dance music. Besides, there's a lot of idiots starting labels for the fame or whatever, but I don't think anyone is stupid or missinformed enough to think that he can get rich off selling music by starting a label.
dj_alfi
bahahaha thats not trance... and a guy playing a guitar in a video trying to sell trance LOL. good riddance imo
