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Subject: mellow techhouse wants comments
Original Message Date: 10-Apr-02 @ 02:49 AM - mellow techhouse wants comments
Just finished my first 4/4 track, it is a mellow tech house/detroit piece and i will be very happy for any feedback. espessially some comments about the mixing and song structure. It was created using reason and cubase. The chords is a trumpet hit sample filtered to death and seqenced with the matrix sequenser with a lot of cv routing. Drums are samples frpm various sources, baseline and pad from reason synth or from my jx8p, dont really remember right now =)
Message 11/21 11-Apr-02 @ 02:46 AM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
second track is also good...
Message 12/21 11-Apr-02 @ 05:01 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
I have also registered myself now._
I am very unsure about the strings i like them but at the same time i dont think they fit into the blend of sounds. Do anyone have samples of tremolo strings to share, preferably a little more "dirty". It would be very nice. Format doesnt really matter, i can convert the most formats as long as it is readable by PC.
k: i think ou are right about that the track is moving to fast, I will try to make it more reptetive in the next mix._
It is not my first song. Just my first finished song in house/techno style you know "boom-cha-um-cha". Have been doing some downtempo and dnb stuff before, you know "boom-cha-chakacha-um-cha" =) and have been making noise for about two years now also been an user of this site over this time. (it is a great resource btw, keep up good work, i will try to be a little more active in the forums from now on)_
k żour talk about bootlegging made me really thinking. Maybe it is time for me to try to get a track pressed. The thing is that it is very hard to critisize your own tunes so I am asking you all now: Do you think this track is good enought to be released on vinyl? Will it sell enough to at least break even. Is there even a market for this type of music where you people live? I will of course do a better mix and put a lot more effort into the track before realease. But please answer honestly.
The reason why am asking is that were I live, in sweden there hardly is any market for electronic music. Clubs playing dance music only is non-existant, the little scene there are is very hard techno and psy-trance oriented. My guess is that there are not more than 10 pure dj oriented stores in the whole country. As a contrast there are plenty of producers of dance music here. Also a bunch of record labels exist but they are mainly focused at hard techno or psytrance. I have no contacts in dance music business so thats narrows me down to three paths:_
1) Press it myself in 500 copies trying to distribute, promote and do everything myself. This is inpossible since 500 copies seems like a huge amount for myself to get rid of without help from djs, record stores, club promoters and the other people i dont know._
2) Try to get a record deal. Basicly sending around cds to all record labels in the right genre I can think of. May work but of what i heard almost no one get signed because of a demo CD. And to me it seems that the small independent label managers are more intrested in signing up their mates than look for unknown talent._
3) Start my own label and try to get a distribution deal. As of what I understood most producers with their own labels make it this way. If i have got this right you just send them a master DAT and the cover artwork and they take care of distribution and promotion. This seems like a good option but how does one get a distributor deal? Do you send out demo CDs as with the labels and assume that someone will pick the track up and like it?_
I looked at the hyperreal DMBR but that didnt give me any clues.
How did you people do to get your work out to the public? Please tell me.
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Also a few more opinions on the tune would be great it is uploaded on my DT account now
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//Thomas
Message 13/21 12-Apr-02 @ 03:17 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Message 14/21 12-Apr-02 @ 10:45 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Message 15/21 13-Apr-02 @ 06:46 AM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Nice track Thomas - very nice, but as K said you need to use those strings more, not that I'm any expert, but my ear tells me they could be used more effectively. Have you cut them out a bit from the hi-fi version?
Good work, just wish I was capable of doing tracks like this.
Message 16/21 18-Apr-02 @ 11:59 AM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
better take this to the top again =)
Message 17/21 18-Apr-02 @ 05:14 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Message 18/21 19-Apr-02 @ 06:01 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Message 19/21 20-Apr-02 @ 09:58 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
Message 20/21 20-Apr-02 @ 11:04 PM - RE: mellow techhouse wants comments
no but seriously about 150 people has read this threat, someone got to have something to say
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