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Bruce Boyd
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5/24/2008 9:10:30 AM
What the **** IS a mixtape anyway??
I keep getting this email on another site:
"We offer a spot on our mixtapes to 2 artists each day that we feel would be a good addition to the mixtape and you are one of them. As long as you get 100 copies of the mixtape to contribute to the movement, you can get your song on the mixtape. Email me and I will get back to you with the all info on how to get on the next Coast 2 Coast Mixtape. Looking forward to working with you."
If I understand right they're saying if I GIVE them one of my tunes and BUY a 100 of their mixtapes (with MY tune on it) in return, I get to.....be on that mixtape??
Sounds like a real good deal.....
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The CODE
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5/24/2008 9:56:10 AM
Presume it is some kind of demo CD or suchlike?
If you have a track on it - should you have to pay???
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the kozy king
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5/24/2008 9:58:20 AM
I think you have it pegged BB -- a variation on the age-old "Vanity Press" scam.
TT
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srm
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5/24/2008 10:12:19 AM
I got one of those offers, myself. It was from Coast 2 Coast Mixtape and Magazine. I was a tad suspicious, because it seems to cater to the rap/hip hop listener, and I don't really do anything similar to that genre.
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Slimdog Productions
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5/24/2008 11:28:34 AM
---- Updated 5/24/2008 11:30:58 AM
It's for a Hip Hop Mixtape. You aren't buying the 100 CDs, you are actually "buying" a spot on the mixtape which goes to deejays and radio stations across the country. You get the 100 cds "free". Depending on who is hosting the mixtape, if there is big promo on major magazines and the notariety of the artists, a spot could cost anywhere from 300 to 3000 dollars. You can get some spots way cheaper, but it depends on who is making the mixtape. Coast2Coast is pretty well known worldwide, so they are pricier. A mixtape is one of the ways a Hip Hop artist gets to be known. There's a saying in the Hip Hop world: "You aren't a Hip Hop artist if you haven't been on a mixtape..." I've been on a Coast2Coast mixtape and I thought they just sent out e-mails to the artists that have been on their mixtapes and folks who join their e-mail lists. I didn't know that they did mass e-mailing on Soundclick & Myspace to non Hip Hop/R&B artists...
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the kozy king
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5/24/2008 11:53:58 AM
Thanks for the info Slim. Very well-explained, Dog.
TT
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srm
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5/24/2008 11:59:46 AM
They looked legit, when I checked out their site, even if they didn't seem familiar with my material. I've also gotten a request from Ivo Martins, a jazz journalist from Portugal. That was a little more plausible, as some of my stuff could be considered 'jazz', but I found out that he also does mass-mailings.
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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5/24/2008 2:48:04 PM
So---BJ
You thinking of changing genres----??!! ------comedy maybe?
Slim----------well explained---It'a amazing how different genres use different marketing techniques
Steve ---yeah Jazz influences abound----follow it up?
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Slimdog Productions
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5/24/2008 3:19:26 PM
---- Updated 5/24/2008 3:20:38 PM
Your right SILVERWOOD. It is interesting. The whole origins of the mixtape came from the underground artists and deejays in Hip Hop. Club deejays would start recording their sets at their respective clubs and sell the mixtapes on the streets. It started back in the early 80's. Deejays and mixtapes are the lifeline for Hip Hop/R&B artists to get well known and for their songs to become popular. Even the big label corporations have secretly paid to have their artists put on popular mixtapes before their albums drop. Now there is a big fight between the RIAA and mixtape deejays about copyright infringements even though some labels WANT their artists to be on mixtapes...It's become BIG money.
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Beth Fridinger
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5/24/2008 3:29:21 PM
So, I am trying to understand. If you are NOT hiphop, is getting on a mixtape possibly a good thing?
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Slimdog Productions
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5/24/2008 5:29:59 PM
Mixtapes are usually used by artists & dejays in the Hip Hop, R&B & maybe the Electronica/Dance genres...I personally have never seen a mixtape other than those genres. Who says that someone can't do a mixtape of the other genres?
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Bruce Boyd
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5/24/2008 5:53:15 PM
Thanks for the explanation Slim - Hip Hop/R&B is completely unknown territory to me.
I suspect that some of the free downloads from one of my other pages have already ended up on mixtapes judging by the friend requests I get there. I don't really have an issue with that but I can't help thinking that my Celtic music on a mixtape would end up sounding like the "Hooked On Classics" recordings of the early 80s!
Rob I do actually have a comedy project ready to record. It's based on the old "Goon Show" format. Because timing is everything in comedy it would have to be recorded "live to tape" and it's a matter of getting the right people in the same place at the same time. And it's about 45 min in length - so I'd have to post it as a podcast
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Slimdog Productions
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5/24/2008 6:02:52 PM
No problem all...Good luck Bruce with the comedy project.
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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5/24/2008 6:11:42 PM
excellent!!
there is a willing market out there for original ideas in this Genre!
as Flight of the Conchords have proven----don't be fooled by their hokey vids---these guys are real pros--- and there's been a lot going on behind the scenes to get them to this point---ie there are several "actors" involved as well as PR people It's a team effort!!
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