Unusual request: Which label fits to my music?

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 03:48 PM

news: got an email from giant and dwarf today - they say that my music is too hard.

strange. i've heard harder sound on their label.

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 03:55 PM

gnarf, no edit button :)

well, i didn't expect that they'll take me, and i don't expect that any of the labels i've sent a demo to takes my stuff.

my problem is that i'm somewhere inbetween; i am too soft for hard labels and i am too hard for soft labels. so where the **** are medium boiled labels?

**The Overfiend** · 27-01-2004, 04:03 PM

Re Evaluate your formula.
Are you making music that only you and your mates like?
You have to also think if it will sell and make the label money as well as yourself.
When you have established yourself as a talent with a distinct niche for something this is when you have more room to play and be your own person.
For now try to rethink your recipe and send tracks to labels which are similar in thought.
For example would you send a schranz track to DrumCode?
Just an example but you see my point.

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 04:18 PM

my formula is as follows:

i do music i like. that's the reason why i'm here. i want to spread my style. it isn't really new, but i'm trying to be innovative. i don't think that current labels are trying to be innovative or they dont want to take risks on them.

drumcode has IMHO nothing to do with my music, it's more smoother music than mine. i thought that giant and dwarf could be a good chance, as the music is similar (at least the records sounded similar to me), but actually, it was too hard for them. whenever i listen to stuff amok does, and when i listen to mine, i dont spot much difference, but he don't like my stuff. it's not his fault, and it's not mine, and that's the reason i asked here for labels which fit to my music.

i worked hard over the years to improve my stuff, until i'm satisfied with it. now i am at the "ready" level, and in my own opinion, it *is* ready for the market, but obviously the labels aren't.

yes, i could found a label, but i can't take the financial risk.

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 04:20 PM

additional note :)

i have no clue how the situation changes after my first release on compressed, maybe this will change everything. but i still have the hope that labels will, if they receive music they like, give newcomers a chance.

**TripleX** · 27-01-2004, 05:13 PM

what about all the USB labels, like csk, exotoxic, etc?

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 05:50 PM

i already tried - either they dont like it, or its too soft.

**messyfuture** · 27-01-2004, 06:10 PM

Try
www.industrialstrengthrecords.com

IST has just started releasing again stuff again ;)

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by messyfuture

Try
www.industrialstrengthrecords.com

IST has just started releasing again stuff again ;)

does my style fit to them?

**The Overfiend** · 27-01-2004, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by timo

i worked hard over the years to improve my stuff, until i'm satisfied with it. now i am at the "ready" level, and in my own opinion, it *is* ready for the market, but obviously the labels aren't.

You shouldn't ever feel satisfied, you should always strive to out do yourself and whoever is "on top", and if you were that secure in your style then you wouldn't mind taking the financial risk to put your own material out. What market are you talking about?

**timo** · 27-01-2004, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by SummerOfSam

You shouldn't ever feel satisfied, you should always strive to out do yourself and whoever is "on top", and if you were that secure in your style then you wouldn't mind taking the financial risk to put your own material out. What market are you talking about?

i am secure about my style, but honestly, i have no clue if people out there buy it. even if I were 200% sure about it, i wouldn't do it - i have no money for a second try - so I save it for later times. market = potential customers.

**messyfuture** · 27-01-2004, 06:44 PM

[quote]does my style fit to them?

.the first track i downloaded of yours reminded me a bit of the lastest release by Jeff Amedeus. Maybe not just as hard but it wont hurt to send them a cd

u can listen to that release on http://www.chemical-records.co.uk

**gumpy green** · 27-01-2004, 07:54 PM

mate, id take the risk and get 500-1000 or so pressed up featuring your best tracks...

Prob cost you up to a £1000 which aint that much(you could get a small bank loan). Then distribute them yourselve...you could prob get £2- £2.50 a record.

You would have to work hard, phone shops and basically PUSH your vinyl onto folk.....at partys etc.

It would be hard work but once you shift them all you could then pay yer loan off and have the money to do it again.

I know a couple of boys that have took this route and have shiffted all ther tracks.......

Could even use them in exchange for other vinyl in shops.

**dirty_bass** · 27-01-2004, 09:34 PM

Dude, I have dial-up so I can`t commit the time to download all of you trax but I am kind of acting as A&R for Electronik Music Distribution, so if you wanna send it to me, me and Pat can have a listen and get back to you. Electronik are setting up a new techno label called open source, the idea being is using it as a launch pad for new good techno of all types.
Pm me if you want my address

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