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Someone (can't remember who or where or when ) was on about something like releasing their tunes on their own instead of getting it signed to a label or something? or did i mis hear?

not really sure what im on about, but just wanderd how this worked?

just out of interest kinda thing.

the only way you can make money from releasing electronic music is by owning your own label.

You can release your own but unless you are fucking Skream you aren't going to sell anything. I have my own label and release my own tunes but no solely and I don't exclusively put out on my label either. IMO if other labels won't sign your stuff then it probably isn't worth putting out. In my case I figure when I have a decent following as an artist and a decent following as a label it will be a real good thing to release my own and get all of the royalties.

i bootleg skream stuff..

yellowhighlighter wrote:i bootleg skream stuff..

made me

abZ wrote:You can release your own but unless you are fucking Skream you aren't going to sell anything. I have my own label and release my own tunes but no solely and I don't exclusively put out on my label either. IMO if other labels won't sign your stuff then it probably isn't worth putting out. In my case I figure when I have a decent following as an artist and a decent following as a label it will be a real good thing to release my own and get all of the royalties.

ahhh ok thanks for covering that, now i get what he was on about. cheers.

yellowhighlighter wrote:the only way you can make money from releasing electronic music is by owning your own label.

If you can run a website and code an online shop, is there anything more you really need in order to run a label?

Well....If you tunes will sell, they will sell.

Maybe this person who told you this did sell well but had some bad label experience? I for one have sold pretty well but got fucked around by 2 labels...So I am releasing my own stuff and releasing a few mates stuff, primarily to cut out the bullshit what most digi-labels have (and some label who put out vinyl at that)

but in all honesty, what Abz said was true - unless labels want to sign you, theres no point starting you own.

Vertex wrote:

yellowhighlighter wrote:the only way you can make money from releasing electronic music is by owning your own label.

If you can run a website and code an online shop, is there anything more you really need in order to run a label?

Tracks to put out would be good.

No real legalities are needed unless you're working with clearing samples and what not.

Vertex wrote: If you can run a website and code an online shop, is there anything more you really need in order to run a label?

A lot of money you're willing to lose...
And a lot of time.. you need to promote, promote, promote. A good (maybe amazing) first couple of releases, including something by someone who is established can help loads... basically something that makes you stand out from the 100 other labels that started up the same month.