ampassasinbirmingham: well if your starting a label u nearly always get somebody fairly well known to do a remix. I think mr eg did it and many others too. it is sometimes a case of people selling out, but in other cases like Blackout audio it was just a way of stamping your feet in the scene, letting people know what BA is all about, so when ure next release comes out people pay attention.

its not always the case of a big name appearing on the record for sales. if your record is an abselute belter and the distributers dont get it about enough, then it might not catch on. if you include somebody well known on a record it almost brings familiarity to the record.