Quote Originally Posted by DannyBlack View Post
good topic, Henry.


Right. I personally came in at the wrong time to make money from music so I'm not going to delude myself into thinking I ever will. If someone likes a track and wants to release it, any money (if any) it makes they can put it into the label and thats how I like it. I never wanted this to be about money for me.

Again thats my personal view of how I want things to work for me. I have my other career to keep me in pence. That is, when I'm qualified etc...

This is the only side of it I know.

I think nowadays it is more performance orientated than say putting out CD's. The money to sustain what you do would come from shows that you put on (audio/visual)

If you want to make money from music, you have to be clever about it. Techno, whether we like it or not is an underground thing that will never enjoy any real commercial success. Im not saying make minimal- make other things, work on concepts- marketing stratergies. thats what business is- advertising and marketing and being bloody clever.

im not sure where i was heading with this- am i making sense?
fair play danny well said im the same as you here dude i have a career which will keep me in pence to but techno is my hobby and also a good source of social life for me and has been for 16 years so im thinking in the same way about giving future trax away as it may help with more bookings for gigs etc
but erm some of us are diffrent here and in it it for diffrnt reasons but yea i never thought of making a living from this just a great social life and intrests , some people play bingo hahahahahaha

Henry i wouldent give your stuff away to easy dude , if you are thinking about it then mabey try and have a time limit on the sale then mabey move into an area say set up on your hydraulix network you can put for free, that way in time you will not only please a lot of fans but have a nice back cat which will b availble at any time to retrieve i dunno just an idea man mabey have a hydraulix free section this may also increase the traffic to your site.