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First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:15 pm
by BananaBomber
Ok ive just had my first release on crazyrabbitrecordinggs you can buy it here :)
http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Ban ... /releases/

and i was wondering how to get the word out ? get it more known etc.
any tips

ive searched the forum and found nothing

Cheers :)

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:19 pm
by DZA
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Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:21 pm
by Echoi
BananaBomber wrote:Ok ive just had my first release on crazyrabbitrecordinggs you can buy it here :)
http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Ban ... /releases/

and i was wondering how to get the word out ? get it more known etc.
any tips

ive searched the forum and found nothing

Cheers :)
congrats

spam as many forums as you can?

or just let the label handle it

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:21 pm
by BananaBomber
Yeah great this is gunna be another llama post because people think this is stupid :lol:

fine i give up

im prepearing for llamas now!

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:22 pm
by Echoi
BananaBomber wrote:Yeah great this is gunna be another llama post because people think this is stupid :lol:

fine i give up

im prepearing for llamas now!
no, because it doesnt belong in production

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:24 pm
by muttleydubs
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Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:25 pm
by marshy
Make a thread claiming you don't know how to promote your track when really you just made the thread so you could promote your track?

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:26 pm
by deadly_habit
alpacas not goddamn llamas

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:28 pm
by tripaddict
230 pls :P

... self promotion on as many social network sites as you can and i always share my tunes on slsk and use the chat rooms to whore myself

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:13 pm
by Sharmaji
all about getting dj's to play your material-- which is all about creating personal connections w/ folks. it takes time.

In general, you as an artist finish a tune, test it locally, send it to a close circle of DJ's, get their interest, send it to a broader range of DJ's-- if it passes muster, then it's ready to go to labels for consideration. If it goes the other way, getting signed and released w/o that previous bit of dubplate pressure-- it's an uphill battle to get noticed amidst the noise of endless amounts of digital releases.

really the label and/or distro should do a pre-release about 2 weeks before the street date to the DJ's they service, in order to get it in rotation and (ideally) build some ground-up hype about the release. If done right, there's already some buzz about it from people's sets.

I'll be brutally honest tho: It's nearly impossible to get a digital release from a small label noticed if its done w/o a marketing plan and/or strategy--this is what labels are supposed to do. Yes, dubstep continues to be a community-based market and the #s are small compared to more popular forms of EDM, but any label that's surviving-- from Hotflush to Tempa to Road to Shift--has a strategy of who to contact, and how, and when, about their upcoming releases.

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:17 pm
by gnome
Great advice Sharmaji

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:26 pm
by alphacat
marshy wrote:Make a thread claiming you don't know how to promote your track when really you just made the thread so you could promote your track?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Monsieur Bànánâ Bômbér feigns general cluelessness... Which is not intended to be an insult, just an observation.
deadly habit wrote:alpacas not goddamn llamas
Yeah! Get it straight... or else!
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Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:37 pm
by z6z
TUNE

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:41 pm
by Blue Patterns
other cats have promoted their releases with little to no backlash from this forum. other cats have started threads "that have nothing to do with production" with little to no backlash from this forum.

My guess is since how BananaBomber is an active member of the production forum he figured "hey lemme share this news with these cats on here"



in any case...congrats!

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:46 pm
by FSTZ
deadly habit wrote:alpacas not goddamn llamas
:!: :!: :!: :!:

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:08 pm
by tripwire22
deadly habit wrote:alpacas not goddamn llamas

for real get it straight

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:10 pm
by collige
tripwire22 wrote:
deadly habit wrote:alpacas not goddamn llamas

for real get it straight

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:15 pm
by jaydot
Get Rusko to play it, like my flatmate did. (DnB not dubstep, granted)

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:19 pm
by Visitor
DZA wrote:Image
very cute

Re: First Release!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:26 pm
by upstateface
Congrats wee one.