Pay for Benga to listen to your tunes

collige · Post by **collige** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:38 pm

http://talent.benga.co.uk/

It's great that he's interested in finding new talent but

£1.00 per music file upload.

__________ · Post by **__________** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:42 pm

Good on him I say, that sounds like a great idea.
You can barely buy a bottle of water for £1. Its hardly going to break the bank!

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:51 pm

Brandwidth and hosting costs money.

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:52 pm

Imagine how many shitty tracks he needs to go through, one pound is only fair.

dirt · Post by **dirt** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:56 pm

Imagine how much money he'll make!! Plus he can say 'if i got a quid for everytime someone sent me a shit tune... oh wait. I do!'

collige · Post by **collige** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:03 pm

£10 Bag wrote:Good on him I say, that sounds like a great idea.
You can barely buy a bottle of water for £1. Its hardly going to break the bank!

Absolutely, but what makes him any better than the dozens of other producers, DJs, and label owners I could get feedback from for free?

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:10 pm

Then don't pay for it? Don't use his service and stop worrying about why?

People have this sense of entitlement. 'I exist, therefore, I have the right to get not have to pay a single pound to get my music reviewed by him'.

And what if he likes it, he's going to get it released? That's kinda what makes it different.

Clearly, you don't care if Benga reviews your music. Which is fair enough. I don't care either what he thinks of my tunes. So clearly, this service isn't aimed at you.

And to repeat, hosting and brandwidth costs money. He's more likely to be flooded with files than some random dude on the internet is.

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:13 pm

Yup, pretty good idea imho

If you're not into it there are plenty who you could send you tunes to, as you already stated

Incognitorecords · Post by **Incognitorecords** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:17 pm

The £1 probably doesn't even go to him you silly people..

test_recordings · Post by **test_recordings** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:19 pm

The return of payola! I wonder if he'll declare it on his shows...

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:25 pm

Genevieve wrote:Brandwidth and hosting costs money.

eh, I pay £0.02/p per GB over dedicated 1gbit fibre...

But yeah, £1 can't even get you on a bus...

-[2]DAY_- · Post by **-[2]DAY_-** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:30 pm

i wonder if he wud spin any of those in a set

rob_booth · Post by **rob_booth** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:42 pm

at least it'll make producers careful in what they send him, not sending him any ol' shite

I'd be quids in if I did it, the amount of music I get sent to my show on a daily basis

construct · Post by **construct** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:51 pm

well done. i agree. at least the low fee is gonna make ppl think about what they send in... if not you'd get every yahoo's tracks x30... that would suck.
and, he's gonna have to put quite some time on the side to run through the submitted material. I think his time is worth something.

cheers and best of luck.

Construct

instinct · Post by **instinct** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:57 pm

No chance.........

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:06 pm

So Benga wants us to pay him to discover "new talent"?

bolsty · Post by **bolsty** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:10 pm

maybe looking for stuff to break into the more commercial scene with this i'd imagine, plenty of people not into dubstep will make tracks if they know benga will listen to it for a pound as well, i don't like the concept, but it's well played..

Majin · Post by **Majin** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:13 pm

Probably been said but it will for sure weed out the unserious people or the people who aren't 100% behind their tune.

scattybeanhead · Post by **scattybeanhead** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:26 pm

Majin wrote:Probably been said but it will for sure weed out the unserious people or the people who aren't 100% behind their tune.

or just people with silly amounts of money who can just throw tunes at him til he likes one maybe?
i do think it's a good idea though, if i could make a tune that was decent i'd send it in

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:27 pm

Don't know why people are complaining. He's got to the point where he's so huge he's probably swamped by shitty tracks. So instead of just throwing it all away and not listening to anything he's making a real commitment to do so while getting something in return. People will obviously send him tunes constantly as he's one of the biggest in the scene and might do it just as a punt to get big regardless of quality (you see people putting more effort into spamming than production all the time unfortunately). So this means people will restrict the amount they send off to him as it costs money and send only their best and get more of a guarantee he will bother with it. He's only charging a quid a track. It's not extortionate.

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