How does being a DJ work legally?
This has been bothering me for a while. How come a producer can make a track and then DJ’s all over the place can use the song, put it on a CD, and sell the CD? I’m pretty sure that most of the time there’s no royalty-paying going on.
Not that it bothers me in the least, I’m just waiting for the day somebody that doesn’t like the idea figures this out and ruins everything that I enjoy.
Licensing
That was vague. 
Care to elaborate?
if dance music ever sells out to money i’m the fuck of the planet.
but i think thats how EDM perpetuates itself, the people are responsible for its growth, makin it more of a community and largely increased communication between producers/djs/promoters.
its a whole other world of music that plays by different rules
as far as i can see 
If you are a legit dj that is selling cds you have to get permission to use the tracks before the cd is sold. Alot of dj take the other route and just release bootleg mixes on cd.
That’s kind of what I figured. It just seems unlikely that most DJ’s would. Especially on mixes with like 50+ songs, where the intro/hook alone will have like 6 or 7 songs crammed into one minute.
Not to mention a shitload of vocal samples.
i figure itll stay this way as long as people like us keep it this way
Have you looked at top 40 airplay in the last year ?
A Great example of Djs kinda slipping around this, is a DJ mix Miss Kitten did back in 2002.
http://www.discogs.com/Miss-Kittin-Electroclash-Massive-19-Track-Mix-From-Miss-Kittin/release/43711
David Caretta - Vicious game is played almost in it’s entirety with M Mayer - Love is stranger than pride in the background. in basically a loop. Caretta’s track was not credited, but Mayer’s was.
My assumption is that she couldn’t get licensing from caretta for the track, so got a license for another track and played it over caretta’s track.
to be honest… no i havent
and in my twisted opinion thats not EDM, its pop music
DAC, FTW
Kid Kudi Day N Night Crookers Remix is on top 40 radio quite regularly . EDM can be pop music I don’t see anything wrong with that .
ok so maybe i sound a bit cnty. and thats cos i am a cnt. sure some music can be both, this song in particular mostly cos its accessable to pop music listeners, who also venture into the dance music scene. in my shallow opinion thats means its dance music sith element of shit, but i still like dancing to it.
guess my point is that the more poppy it is the shitty it is, unless its popular within its own community, as opposed to the global “corporate music” commmunity
cool site!
True. I think that in general, most dance music that is popular among “dance communities” is not exactly top 40 material. Not that it never is, but I think the general population of Top 40 listeners aren’t down with most dance tunes.
That’s not to say a lot of dance music doesn’t share a similiar production style with Top 40 music… but you know what I mean
Oh dude, trendcharts is WAAAY better than billboard.
agreed
scuse my straight-upness lolz
As much as I can’t stand some music I try to believe there is a time and place for everything .
Yeah it gets alot of air play, but it was a club hit since early 2008. The first time I got this track, I was like whatever, it sat on my HD for months before I played it, same thing from Im In Miami by LMFAO
Yeah I know. In Fall of last year I heard that song not less than 6 times in one night at a club.
It’s not that good…