How TO Get Signed To An Electronic Label?

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How TO Get Signed To An Electronic Label?

Hey There, I’ve been on a 5month hunt for some electronic labels to sign me…And I haven’t had any luck with them ACTUALLY listening to them. Recently, there were a FEW labels that did come back, and did tell me come back with fresh new material(WHICH I DID). So I’ve done my share of work, now am on a hunt to hear from the the labels to see what they think. And NOW, am having doubts that Electronic labels are looking for folks that are going more with the mainstream sound. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Listen To My Top 4 NEW Songs…THANK YOU
-Mosh Pit Music(Original Mix)
http://youtu.be/YfXsmrrDmIs
-Crew Time(Original Mix)
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
-Is You Rollin’(Original Mix)
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
-Revenge Of The Blackbirds(Original Mix)
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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your music isn’t at a level that labels will sign you yet kid.

keep working at your sound, be patient.

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Youve had replies, which is a start. just keep working on your tracks, I dont think you should try mainstreaming your tracks, because the youll ound like everyone else and get binned straight away.

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pretty much

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got it in one!

you need to think about the whole picture too…most labels won’t look at you unless ur solicited by an artist already on the label or unless there is real hype around one of ur tracks, or big names playing ur tracks etc…its alot of work…not just firing out a few emails over 5 months

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Create your own digital label
Sell music on beatport (or other digital distribution sites)
???
Profit

Once you have sales, than big labels may come looking for you. Good Luck.

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Yeah…thanks for the feedback guys, but do you think I have a better chance of starting my own label? or just keep shopping myself out?

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all you have done is send a few labels a few emails…have u sent ur tracks to dj’s who play that type of music? are you being properly proactive? or just lazy hoping that ul get lucky? 5 months is bullshit…it takes more time than that and a fuck load more work unless ur best friends with an already established artist

reality is a bitch

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Honestly, the kind of music your producing is VERY popular right now, and it is honestly not up to par with the legions of others who have gotten signed. the music industry really is a bitch these days.

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The Mixdown on the tracks is muddy. The kicks are weak and lack punch.

Two huge reasons why nobody would sign you.

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Have you actually “listened” to your tracks in comparison to what those labels are releasing? Your tracks are not the most enjoyable to listen to from from a sonic point of view, regardless of genre.

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And there’s no groove or depth as well.

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Revenge of the Blackbirds is the pick of the bunch for me. Still far too frantic though - too busy going ‘hey look at me’ for me to appreciate there’s a tune going on.

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kids these days entitlement issues etc etc

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I dont know about huge

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From what I’ve heard so far your tracks sound like there’s too much going on at once, maybe thats the sound you’re looking for maybe not but if you wanna get signed into the mainstream from what I see all you need to lay down is a sub bass line a saw wave and a deep bass and snappy snare with some crappy autotune lyrics over the top. just my 2 cents

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Well to be honest i wouldnt play any of your tracks as a dj and i do play some mainstream stuff in my sets. Your tracks just dont really stand out. Theirs no ‘bite’ in them.

And ya the finished product is a bit rough.

But dude keep trying. Keep pushing it. Dont go down the main stream root unless thats what you really want. People are looking for something different, something new. Think about what makes you different to the other people doing what your doing. And also labels get so many tracks sent to them their only going to take the best of the bunch. Just to put a number on the amount of tracks labels, DJ’s ect get sent i was reading somewhere Laidback Luke recieves 11gb’s of music on average every week.

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no and no.

if you want a better chance, you have to make better music.

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How to get signed.

1. Work really hard on production. My producing partner and I have 25 years or so between us, and that’s not just electronic - includes orchestral, jazz & rock from the days of the DA38. We spend about 1 hour coming up with a tune (main 32 bar hook) and then 2-3 weeks arranging, fleshing it out, programming and mixing. We pay a LOT of attention to mixing, getting things sonically perfect. And we’re still learning. I just figured out how to do this technique with single band EQ and multiband compressors that makes arpeggios crazy mad!

2. Send it out to people. I send our unmastered versions out to DJ friends (who will tell me if it’s shit or awesome, give me good feedback on production, genre) and to promoters (who regularly book/host internationals, who give me good feedback on marketability and how they reckon it would go in a club).

3. Play it yourself. Even if you’re only a bedroom DJ, drop it into your own mixes alongside other tracks from the genre you’re going for. Does it sound close? Is the balance/mix in your track similar to the others in the genre? Does your structure allow for a good mix in and mix out? Critically listen.

4. Take a break. We usually work in bursts around the weekend (we have 9-6 professional gigs), which is good cos we get to clear our heads and think about what we’ve done. When we come in for studio session, we have a jobs list to go through on the track.

5. Get it mastered. After getting feedback and doing all the other shit, we make sure we’re happy with it and then send it to be mastered. We’re using a studio in the Netherlands (even though we’re in Australia) to do ours. Why them? They master for the record labels and the artists we’re sending our stuff to, so they are the perfect people to master our tracks.

That way when the A&R people and DJs hear them they think “Hey, this song is tight and I can see where it fits into our catalogue/radio show/my set this week in Ibiza.”

7. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Anybody who has gotten signed can tell you it’s a dog slog. You will send out loads of tracks, repeatedly to people. 99% won’t hit you back. The ones that do will give you feedback. Listen to that. Take it on board. Go back to the studio. Work at it.

And don’t send in half finished tunes or crap. Nobody wants to waste time on a mix in progress. And if you feel like “I must get this signed NOW or the moment has gone!” you are probably producing cliched crap-of-the-hour which really shouldn’t be signed anyways.

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Wow, this is the most feedback I’ve ever seen for tracks. And nobody slammed him for the all bold post. Good job guys!!!

I didn’t listen to the tracks, but with this many people saying you need to keep working then you probably need to keep working. Why don’t you set a goal of getting 50 positive comments on a track on soundcloud before you submit another track to a label. Don’t keep spamming them with inferior stuff or they’ll never listen to anything you send again.