Listing this at a price below current Discogs USD value and in Near Mint Condition! Shrink wrap was kept intact as well, and the box has no visible dings or damage. I likely never finished playing all 12 records! I can also include the download content as a google drive link. There were reported bad warping issues of this pressing, but these are not warped! I posted many pics of this set here: https://imgur.com/a/94zXo79 Anyways, it's nice set but it's too exhaustive for me to listen to and I need to free up some space!
$155 Shipped! | Autechre - NTS Sessions 12XLP Box set NM/NM
Shipping from Chicago via UPS Ground or USPS Priority (which ever is cheaper), since I don't trust Media Mail right now. (Shipping costs is likely around $15- for reference). Will ship in a sturdy deep LP box with care.
so SubmitHub is exactly what it sounds like; it's a hub where you can submit demos. you choose from a long list of youtubers, spotify playlist curators, "influencers" and record labels and send them links to your music. admittedly, the record labels are hardly hot shit. you're not gonna get a contract with Def Jam or Warp through SubmitHub, but you can find some labels with pretty tasty streaming numbers who actually know what they're doing beyond uploading your tracks to their bandcamp page and leaving it there. it's a start, basically. the music industry is too saturated with talented independent artists for you to get by on talent alone, you need some business savvy and i have absolutely none. i've got a few hip hop production credits, some rappers are working on my beats and i was actually featured in a Whitelight video on Watch Dogs 2, he even shouted my page out. he got the name wrong, but still. felt good.
i'm about a third of the way through my master's studies and felt it was time to start thinking about the future. i knew that i wanted to get into videogame audio and had to talk to my lecturers and careers advisors about how to proceed, but i decided to give SubmitHub a go for something fun on the side. after a few months of success from labels you don't really want success from and rejections from labels you do, i finally got the message.
"excellent work. i think your material would work well on a downtempo label we manage. give all your details to us and we'll send you a contract."
"excellent work"? "contract"? i couldn't believe what i was reading. indie labels at this level don't hand out contracts, they just chuck your shit onto a spotify playlist with 50 regular listeners and take the 20p's worth of streaming revenue you've earned. i check all their pages and they seem legitimate. 13k soundcloud followers, some artists with a few hundred thousand streams on their biggest tracks, i'd finally hit the jackpot and i couldn't have been more excited. they send me the contract and i get this looming sense of "hold up, i should get someone to read this cause i don't wanna sign some shit and get fucked over here". i'm reading things like "3 years" and "we own the rights to" and such and i get a bit worried. i send a reply in earnest asking about how their payment is handled. i admit that my audience isn't the largest, and if they only pay a share of your streams and they don't put any effort into marketing then i'll be stuck in a hole for 3 yea
... keep reading on reddit ➡'Creative freedom' is a term with an almost universally positive connotation. The common wisdom is that the more creative freedom a musician has, the more authentic and heartfelt their music will be. Likewise, the less creative freedom a musician has, the more soulless and calculated their music will be. Record labels are often criticised for interfering too much with an artist's vision.
Of course, artists have teams for a reason. Sometimes, being surrounded by 'yes men' who won't constructively critique an artist can be as disastrous as record labels who impose too much. Lil Yachty reflected on this after being widely mocked for his 2018 single 'Peek A Boo', which contained the lyric "she blow that **** like a cello". He defended himself by saying "I'ma blame my A&R. Because he listened to that song many times and he allowed me to say that.. I guess for a second, I thought a cello was a woodwind instrument and it is not. And nobody ever said shit. Nobody ever pulled up a pic and said, 'Hey man. I don’t know if you know what this is, but it ain’t that.'"
Similarly, there have been instances where a record label getting an artist to change their mind has arguably been for the best. For example, Taylor Swift wanted to name her third album 'Enchanted'. Her label persuaded her to change it to 'Speak Now' to make it sound more mature. Now, as a fan I actually love the idea of 'Enchanted' as an album title. But on a marketing level, I think the label were right to change it. Taylor's intended demographic of young girls were slowly growing up, and it makes sense that Taylor's brand should grow with them. Naming her third album 'Enchanted' could have risked pigeonholing her as the girl who writes about fairytales and princesses (a la Love Story and White Horse). Slowly phasing out that branding allowed her to grow with her fans.
With this in mind, what are some examples of creative freedom gone wrong, or music industry meddling gone right? Alternatively, do you disagree with this post and think that creative freedom is always a net positive?
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$20 | Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares 2XLP NEAR MINT!
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$15 | The Police - Synchronicity Audiophile Purple translucent Vinyl VG++ light static in some parts
$13 | Chet Baker - [I Get Chet...](https://www.discogs.com/Chet-Baker-I-Get-Chet/release/634610
... keep reading on reddit ➡
i live in Australia and 6 years ago a friend and I had a song released on a recording label from America. This was the first and only song we had that was released by a label. The song did reasonably well and reached #77 on the Beatport Electro House top 100.
After a couple of years i contacted the owner of the label on Facebook about royalties for the sales on Beatport which i knew there must have been a few of due to it being in the top 100. I eventually got a reply from the owner saying that the original owner whom was one of his friends had died and he as a favor was running the label and because the contract was not with him, he was unable to pay the royalties. I knew this was bullshit whether the original owner had died or not. I had a contract with the label which he is now running and still making money from/releasing new tracks. Eventually he told me he would speak with the family of his dead friend and see if he could get me the money. I told him he should not be asking the family for money and asked how much I was owed. He told me the contract (which i could not find at the time) was for 25% of all sales which totaled around $180 AUD. He eventually agreed to pay it himself and transferred it to me via PayPal.
A couple of years after that I noticed our song on Spotify and that it had almost 400,000 streams. I knew that Spotify pays royalties per stream, so i looked up how much the royalties are for 400.000 streams which was around $2,100 AUD. I have since found our contract which says we are actually entitled to 50% royalties, not 25% which means we are owed over $1000 AUD. I have contacted the owner of the label countless times and he continues to ignore me. I sent him a letter of demand stating that if i have not received a response within 7 days, my lawyer will be contacting him directly, and still no response.
My question is, what can I do? The label is from the US while I live in Australia so i don't know what options i have as the amount owed is only $1000 approx. and actually going through the legal process seems like a waste of time and would cost far more than what I am owed. The thing that pisses me off the most is that the owner of the label is very wealthy. He owns his own race horses and has horse racing stables. I can only imagine the amount of people out there who have had a song released on his label that don't even think about royalties or he just ignores them like he has to me.
The band has been doin' it's thing for like 4 years, 3 in the current lineup. We have played a ton of shows and worked hard to put out some music. We've had so many major setbacks that have caused us to need to take down songs and postpone our EP's and LP's multiple times.
Come 2021 and we're finally ready to release our first song, the release date is only a couple weeks away and BAM. The CEO and founder of a record label sends us an email saying that they've been keeping an eye on us since November 2019! The guy isn't just the founder of this label, but he's also one of the founding members of Dance Gavin Dance, the vocalist to be exact.
You can imagine my excitement when I read the email from the vocalist I've been listening to since I was 10 asking if we wanna get signed to his record label. He said, "We saw Predisposed. open a show at The Boardwalk and we were very impressed with your performance". AAAHJSDBCAJHSDBCAAAAAH
Hahahaha good things never happen, and 2020 was a fucking depressing year. It seems like, at least for my personal life and the life of the band, 2021 is making a change. They want to help us release our first EP, and a full-length album! They also want us to go on tour as soon as venues open again.
I can't wait to see what happens.
Predisposed X Esque Records... I can't belive I'm writing that.
Let's say I sign with a label. They distribute my music through a distributor and promote my music in exchange for a percentage of the revenue the music makes on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
What, in your experience or in your opinion, would be an acceptable percentage split between producer and label?
On the inside of the In Utero 2013 Mix gatefold from Nirvana, there is a diagram with the recommended bass and treble settings to use on your amp for the intended listening experience. This is a really nice touch! I wish that every album had this, or maybe there could be some kind of online database for what users prefer?
John just posted this on twitter. Yes, he twitted, very unexpected, haha:
https://twitter.com/johnfrusciante/status/1387573087940403201
Regarding Evar Records, not exactly news here, but nice that he's back on social media.
no matter how many times I tell him he can have it for free, since I'm under 18 and I have no way of receiving money for it, he keeps trying to pay for it to clear it. Is there a way for me to clear it without receiving a payment or without sending out identifiable information?
I’ve got a ton of records that I’m relatively hesitant to label because I don’t want to damage the cover art. Do most of you just put a sticker/tape with BPM on the front regardless? Obviously, with the traditional plain 12” jacket it doesn’t really matter, but I just got a nice batch of records from Dark Entries, and I love their look and don’t want to damage them in any way.
Does anyone use an outer plastic jacket and label the plastic?
Also interested to hear what you label besides BPM: genre, vibe, energy level, etc.
Feel free to post some pictures with examples.
does anyone know any record labels focusing on wave trap only? or any promotional page who promote wave trap?
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$17 | Fever Ray - Fever Ray Vinyl NM & In Shrink Wrap!
$19 | Kraftwerk - The Mix 2xLP Vinyl is VG+/VG Cover has a smudge & light wear see pic.
$25 | Kraftwerk - Tour De France New Sealed!
$22 | Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares 2XLP NEAR MINT!
$11 | Rolling Stones - Big Hits 2003 Reissue VG+ lights scuffs side 1, great player still!
$20 | V/A - Brown Acid: The First Trip Comedown Era Purple Vinyl NM & In Shrink Wrap!
$17 | The Police - Synchronicity Audiophile Purple translucent Vinyl VG++ light static in some parts
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