Our Label "could we distribute your music"?

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2001 10:02 am

word. i just can't figgure out how to do an incentive program w/o being able to check up on 'em. scouts honor?better ideas welcomed...--owen

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2001 7:27 am

would it be reasonable to put a 'profit sharing' system in place? i'm wondering if we could use something like soundscan to track sales by geography. RO members would get paid a percentage based on the sales that came from the 'region' where they did the marketing/promotion. in larger areas (NY/NJ) you would probably have to split the pie among several members.also another idea; RO members could set up gigs for bands in their areas and would get rewarded by a percentage of the total $$ for the event. the more they promote a local show, the more they could potentially get themselves.also, RO members that were able to get radio airplay for the label's bands could get a small percentage as well. i guess this is all a bit like a co-op idea.just some thoughts.- neil

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2001 5:29 pm

That would be a desireable thing, but the problem comes when you have to administrate the 1000 headed beast. It might end up costing more money keeping track of everything than the profits from sales. (Soundscan ain't free.) If we could figure out a system like that which would take care of itself, that would be the way to go.

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2001 7:22 am

well, at leastt the internet distro ain't as hard as this!--o

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2001 5:25 pm

I agree. IMO, the future of music will be media-less.In other words, you won't be buying a cd when you go into a record store. You'll be buying data. You'll wave your walkman over the platform and the music will be transmitted via infrared or some other method we haven't discovered yet. Or maybe the file will be uploaded to your Personal Data Network. Whenever you want to listen, you press the actuator on your wrist or glasses, tell the PDN what you want to hear, and your server will start streaming the audio via digital wireless to your headphones or car ster-8.1-eo.And then we'll... oops, getting ahead of myself, aren't I?I'd love to hear some more of your ideas for internet distro., marketing, and promotion.

Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2001 7:52 am

An acquaintance (in NYC) set up an internet audio company, (a dull copy of MP3.com) He said he had secured a panel of A&R folks to 'grade' or 'filter' the material, he wanted his site to be quality packed, only the cream of unsigned acts. When I asked him how the high volume of material would get filtered to be a managable level for the A&R experts to deal with, he beamed "I will do that!" "I will throw out all the crap" That made me want to throw up. He also added thet his personal A&R buddies would get 'fast track' access to the cool acts, so as well as playing God he was looking forward to being corrupt even before he set his business up.He spent a year on it and it flopped naturally being wholey unorigional as a concept.Playing God: For a long while now, the power to grant a record deal, the abilty to give up day jobs, the chance for access to recording budgets. Has been with the A&R man. In the music industry selection and 'who goes through' is liable to be rife with corruption or conflict of interest and I am sorry (I am on the control room side of the glass) I belive the average musician has a snowballs chance in hell of objectivly judjing other musical works, they are simply too wrapped up in their own music and unfit for the task. Therefore, coupled with my general low expectation for human kind, I belive the idea of a musician collective judging - to be a total bust from the get go.I will tune in here more often and read the preceding posts in detail. Anyhow I will continue to be a suspisious paranoid contibuter to this topic.
Smile

BTW on my recent trip to the NYC AES I had 7 A&R meetings. So if you need it I have perhaps more 'A&R contact' experience than others here, (my whole business is centered on 'new talent') so call on me (on line not via private email) for any info or insight on the subject of presenting stuff to them (in this RO label context) I will try to help. Smile

Jules
RO Moderator

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2002 11:47 am

Hmmm...a CO-OP record label.Hell it worked for the Green Bay Packers.United Artists too....

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2002 9:56 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Julian Standen:
An acquaintance (in NYC) set up an internet audio company, (a dull copy of MP3.com) He said he had secured a panel of A&R folks to 'grade' or 'filter' the material, he wanted his site to be quality packed, only the cream of unsigned acts.
<hr></blockquote>Let me guess - mp3dom.com?

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:12 pm

I fully applaud&support you guy's brainstorms..so,..go with it;
MAKE IT SO >improvise ;adapt ;endeavor to persevere
MEANWHILE I WILL ENDEAVOR to be worthy, present,& timely

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