How TO Get Signed To An Electronic Label?
How TO Get Signed To An Electronic Label? Posted on: 24.07.2011 by Delilah Obst 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 believe. 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) http://soundcloud.com/djspinnaspinpromo/crewtime -Is You Rollin'(Original Mix) http://soundcloud.com/djspinnaspinpr...-is-you-rollin -Revenge Of The Blackbirds(Original Mix) http://soundcloud.com/djspinnaspinpr...revenge-of-the *Dj Spinna Spin -Lancaster,Ca -Age:17 -Djspinnaspin.Blogspot.com -FaceBook.Com/Djspinnaspin | |
| Breanne Penge 08.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by elliot1106
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| Tera Baragan 07.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Gift Factory
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| Breanne Penge 08.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by elliot1106
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| Linda Chavda 08.11.2012 | Nope, I'm just pretty active on soundcloud. Good advice jprime, when I've spoke to labels before their advice is usually to put together an EP... i.e. write more music |
| Breanne Penge 08.11.2012 | Labels will find you when you're ready. Make music for fun, the rest will fall in place. |
| Debrah Arnaout 08.11.2012 | he posts is links on other peoples songs without listening to their song jokesjokesjokes |
| Gearldine Bannasch 09.11.2012 | How do you get so many followers man? |
| Linda Chavda 08.11.2012 | http://soundcloud.com/computersandblues Not wanting to take advantage of people giving legit opinions... well maybe I am I've also being producing five month (since july), always trying to improve but what do people believe my chances of getting signed at the moment are? |
| Gearldine Bannasch 08.11.2012 | Yeah I agree with you more detail, but those are my first and second songs. Do you believe I show some talent? How long does it take you to make the average track? |
| Tera Baragan 07.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Gift Factory
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| Gearldine Bannasch 07.11.2012 | Shit man don't know how this shit works |
| Trista Karle 07.11.2012 | Holy fuck why DIdnt you start a new thread man instead of resurrecting an old one lol |
| Gearldine Bannasch 07.11.2012 | You talking about me? Those weren't talking about me? |
| Merideth Garnder 07.11.2012 | Keep working at it...but I agree....your production isn't up to par with the elite in the game. It's a learning process and take that right back to the studio and work on those muddy mix downs people were talking about....get that sidechain compression in on those kicks....get better lead synths and bass synths to fill out. Just keep doing your thing..... |
| Gearldine Bannasch 07.11.2012 | Hey guys ahh looking for some constructive criticism and advice. http://soundcloud.com/rhysowen-1 You believe i'm good enough? |
| Temple Guffin 21.08.2011 | Anyone with a computer and internet can make a tune.. some people spend years until they are signed.. some just a matter of months.. some never get signed.. ..and some couldn't care less about getting signed and make music because its fun.. and let the music do the talking.. if its good people will promote for you! no need to push tunes! that's just my opinion.. probably because I produce for fun and not to get signed! Words of advice.. just keep doing what you love! |
| Breana Singerman 21.08.2011 | Wait, you're trying to get signed and you don't even understand what a mixdown is, AND you're trying to master your tracks without knowing how to do a mixdown, and you don't even know how to master? Get back to basics. Focus on writing music. Keep it simple, less is more. Focus on using less FX at the moments. Work on EQing stuff, balancing the levels and just making the best sounding mix you can. Once you get the fundamentals down then you can start experimenting with FX, developing builds, drops and breaks while still keeping it sounding clean. Have to crawl before you can walk, much less run. As an exercise, try writing a tune using only 8 tracks. 4 for your drums, 1 for you bass, and 3 for whatever else (samples, synths, vox and son on). And then only have 4 returns set up, 1 short verb, 1 long verb, 1 3/8 delay and 1 1/4 delay. Just because you have all these options at your fingertips doesn't mean you should use them. Sometimes you can get far more from using less. |
| Delilah Obst 21.08.2011 | The Mastering Part Is What's Killing Me At The Moment....I'd rather have someone else master my tracks, I don't have the FULL knowledge of how mastering is suppose to be done....And just to make sure I don't look or sound stupid when someone brings the word "mixdown" up again,What exactly do you mean? Do you mean that lil thing us producers do when were done with the track,and we tune the little parts that may be to HIGH or to LOW ? The More Info The Better Artist Your Making Me |
| Kandra Fagler 21.08.2011 | work harder on production skills - music theory / arrangement / mixdown / mastering focus less on getting signed dont worry dude, if you are good, you wont have much problems getting signed, until then keep trying, but dont spam the record labels until you are sure your stuff is good, otherwise by the time you do get good when they receive your stuff it goes straight to the bin "oh its this guy again", bad impression stays for a long time! the EQ is really all over the place, and there's a lot of distortion everywhere did you use proper reference monitors to do the mixdown? |
| Krishna Hospelhorn 20.08.2011 | Do something different, and wait for a label to be into your vibe, or produce something generic better than the pros. However, if you are that bothered about getting signed, you're doing it for the wrong reasons |
| Betty Mcvean 20.08.2011 | Haven't listened to your tracks but 9 times out 10, if a label doesn't reply it doesn't like it. If they believe it's a bomb they'll be on to you in time to sign you up. |
| Rey Holubar 18.08.2011 | I just listened to several of your tracks and I must admit, you are many steps further than I am in that you can even produce music. I personally find your music to be missing the actual musical parts of songs like an intro/ outro, chorus, verses and bridges. The "story telling" is simply missing in your music. You only have bridges and transistions between different "beats". In my opinion, a good song has to take the listener to another place and bring them back again, like a journey. While listening to your tracks, I am staying in one place and to be honest, am bored. Sorry, I don't know how to describe what I feel is missing any better. Sorry I can't be more constructive. scamo |
| Delilah Obst 18.08.2011 | Wow! It's been a while that I've checked this post!.....Thanks for the feedback everyone. At some point of time,someone has to speak up for what's right & wrong. And You've Guys done just THAT I'm hoping to enhance my sound,and at the same time,keep it classic and ALL ME |
| Marshall Aby 25.07.2011 | You're only 17 OP, plenty of time to hone your skills |
| Cordia Clemensen 25.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
Luckily, as a professional wrangler of adolescents, I am understanding of the grotesque desire for instant gratification and incomprehensible sense of entitlement they all display nowadays. |
| Leeanna Ayla 25.07.2011 | 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. |
| Cordia Clemensen 25.07.2011 | 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 believe 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 believe "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. |
| Belen Wermes 24.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by djspinnaspin
no and no. if you want a better chance, you have to make better music. |
| Maryanne Weatherill 24.07.2011 | 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. |
| Lorna Hagerty 24.07.2011 | 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 |
| Keely Gallus 24.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by voetsch
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| May Artman 24.07.2011 | kids these days entitlement issues etc etc |
| Marshall Aby 24.07.2011 | 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. |
| Breana Singerman 24.07.2011 | And there's no groove or depth as well. |
| Breana Singerman 24.07.2011 | 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. |
| Michiko Schwin 24.07.2011 | The Mixdown on the tracks is muddy. The kicks are weak and lack punch. Two huge reasons why nobody would sign you. |
| Chas Giraldez 24.07.2011 | 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. |
| Teresia Janusch 24.07.2011 | 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 |
| Delilah Obst 24.07.2011 | Yeah....thanks for the feedback guys, but do you believe I have a better chance of starting my own label? or just keep shopping myself out? |
| Arlinda Finazzo 24.07.2011 | 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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