Buying your way to stardom hitting a new low.
This should be banned. 
EDM Reaches a New Low: Meet ProducerFactory.com
I wonder where they find the producers for all this?
Thereâs actually quite a few sites that offer this sort of service, itâs not exactly new (or even unheard of in the music scene.. cough Guettacough)
I imagine producers do it so that they can make some cash without playing the popularity/promotion game.. Itâd probably be a more reliable source of income then producing under your own name/with integrity..
There was a thread on Inthemix a while back about it, even with a few producers owning up to submitting tracks to be on-sold.
From the story it sounds like its probably two of them mass producing garbage from Vengeance loops heh. Whats more sad though⌠the fact people use this service, or that the main stream audience actually likes the things they are using? Assuming weâve heard some of them (Which who really knows now right?)
Iâm guessing the site must be full of seriously shitty music because I really canât see why anyone would finish a tune theyâre actually happy with, and would gladly release themselves, then just sign the credit over to someone else for a fraction of the money they couldâve made otherwise.
The first thing that came to my mind is how could you possibly keep a straight face when someone asks you how you made that track. Hypothetically lets say I buy a track, blow up, get interviewed and people ask me how I made that signature sound, âuhhh just did what felt right.â This blows my mind.
Yeah I think the problem with that is though that the odds of somebody buying one of these generic/shit/boring style sort of tunes and getting big is pretty slim⌠The guys making these wouldnât be putting too much effort and creativity in to the tracksâŚ
You could always watch a youtube tutorial of someone else who remade it with massive 
Hmm all I see is an empty ugly site, with no songs. Just another site doomed to have no succes.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
I donât see what the big deal is⌠Life is one big business decision and having âArtistic Integrityâ is a business decision too. If not having artistic integrity is good for business then you should go that route, otherwise, stick with your integrity if you feel you will make a living that way. This is like the old sync/no sync debate. It doesnât matter how you get to where you do, as long as the crowd enjoys what you are doing. If the crowd likes the track you pass off as your own, then why not? Everyone wins. You win, the crowd wins, the producers of the track win, and everyone is happy. In the long term, the big winners are probably the crowd, and the producers, while you get the shaft because you canât find anymore hit tracks to buy and donât have any other marketable skills.
If youâre really good at selecting tracks, and marketing them in a way that will gain you lots of fans, that surely is a skill though. It could be parlayed into cultivating the talent you see in others. You could bring up small-time producers who have great tracks and managing them or back them with money. Everything has a negative side, but you should try and see the positive aspect of it. Maybe there IS a specific sound you want for your sets, but you donât want to play the same track BignameDJX is playing. So you go out, buy a tune for 500 bucks, play that, and call it yours. Whatever. Like I said, there is always lessons to be learned and valuable insights and skills you can gain from any experience. Sure, a lot of people wonât take that high road or see the potential in what they are doing, but those people probably wonât make it very far, and even if they do, who cares?
I think this is a case of envy. If someone buys a track and makes it big, but you sit in your room for days and canât make a hit or get a lot of fans from your track, you feel as though youâve been cheated, when maybe you just suck at producing, or marketing, or whatever it may be thatâs not earning you a fan base and should find another path to success? Not saying that you definitely do suck at these things, but have you ever been introspective about this anger you harbor towards these websites?
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, always play to your strengths while attempting to identify and correct your weaknesses. Never use your weakness as an excuse and never blame others for your inability to achieve a goal you have. There are many paths to the same goal and some are more difficult than others, but some are only difficult because youâre the one putting up roadblocks on the path that would play more to your strengths. There is a difference between taking the easy way out and taking the smartest most efficient path. My whole point is that buying a track and playing to your marketing skills is not necessarily the EASY way out, it may just be the smartest for SOME people. However it may turn out to be a poor business decision in the long run if the people who take this route fail to correct their deficiencies at some point, or fail to identify a way to take their current success and diversify it into new ventures and opportunities.
I wanted to read your entire post but after a few lines I realised you donât âgetâ it at all - and if you find this acceptable it says something about as a person and the sort of character, musically and within life, that you are.
There are lines with all aspects of life, and this to me is one step too far.
Thankfully, a quick check on the site shows there is no music available yet - but when there is I look forward to hearing your ânewâ single.
I agree with you 
Someone linked this in the dubfire mixing thread a week or so ago and there was a tech house track available, some big name probably already bought it up and its forthcoming on beatport.
Worst post ever, why would you encourage the corporatisation of the music scene.
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Lol
Because those who truly transcend the fads (see daft punk) will continue to be listened to while the mass produced corporate schlock they are selling will fade into distant memory.
Everything works itself out and being concerned about people buying tracks is a waste of time and energy.
Iâm not encouraging âcorporatisation (sic)â of the music scene. I just donât think itâs really that big of a deal in the first place. Also everyoneâs knee jerk reaction is evidence that none of you âget it.â If you really cared just about your own artistic expression and not being recognized or getting paid then this wouldnât bother you one bit because itâs not as if by doing this someone is taking away your ability to create your own tracks or promote yourself.
Btw I have no need to buy tracks and promote them. I have a full time day job which pays well. I just DJ for the fun of it. I guess you thought I was defending it because I want to use it. Like I said, I just donât care.
or sylenth and a shitload of nexus presets
My issue is that selling tracks will stop creativity in production, a music psychologist and a business analyst will get together and find everything that the masses want in music on a psychological level and make everything the same to meet those specifications as it is a low risk investment. Look at pop and rap for examples, most of it sounds the same within their genres. And yes you can argue that the real music will always come through, but why do we need all the filler so someone can line their pockets capitalising on the newest fad?
Correct, but when did we ever care about the mainstream? Are a music psychologist and business analyst going to show up in your studio and only let you record what the masses want on psychological level? The point being this type of service exists and has for some time, itâs just starting to get more out in the open now. Itâs not going to change the way I make music and it sound like it isnât going to change the way you make music, so who cares.
It is probably going to decrease the likelihood of anyone hearing your music though if they have to wade through crap. And I just like that the music scene is a passionate bunch of people. The more idiots that put on phatties, fluffies and kandy the more saturated the scene becomes and it loses itâs meaning just so someone can profit from itâs exposure. That is the type of thing that Frank is promoting. I suck at producing so I donât do it, to buy a track and say that itâs mine is just disgusting.