well to be fair thats a common misconception, no offence at all this is just logical lateral thinking, but just because you have releases lined up and by the big player backing i presume you mean Preach, well this doesnt mean a thing unfortunately. I had people from Ben Sims throught to Joris Voorn through to old true minimal heads like Dan Bell playing and charting my records, but in this day and age it doesnt count for much in terms of how you can present yourself to labels after such support comes around.

i didnt mean you expected it to be easy, but from what you described it just sounded like another typical "oh i sent a demo and never heard back, why the hell not?" post. Remember no one owes a producer anything, regardless of releases, current status or how good a person's production is. If the person your sending to just isnt in the mood or doesnt see it viable to offer work or a project, then that's just a harsh fact of life.

That's were starting on smaller labels can help for some people, but some people's music is just so good or different sometimes that they do make a much bigger impact with their first releases. It certainly is a tricky one and there are no set rules, people get ahead in different ways, some people prefer to stay on smaller labels and just hide away in the background in stealth mode and putting their music out, whilst others want thousands of people infront of them screaming their name whilst their new production spins on the deck. It's horses for courses really. The sooner people start realising that there are going to be alot of big changes, and have already started in the way mp3's are becoming more and more popular, then the clearer everything will become. There are going to be an awful lot of bitter people about when vinyl processing ceases.

One of the main reasons why so many newcomers start their own labels, and usually not to much success, is because they become embittered about not getting stuff taken by labels, when in reality they should take this as a good thing sometimes and go back and think why arent they getting the support they feel they should, one thing this whole scene isnt is instantaneous. I know people who have got for years and years with no luck, then bang something happens and they get what they want. I know people who have been producing for 2, 3 years and are knocking labels back.

It's just a tough cookie alround