Hi
We don't want to start a "War" discussion here but we are really wondering if we are the only ones who thinks that Beatport is a no go....?
Do you think that the policy that Beatport got is the right way to go?
Do you think that Beatport is so important for your business that you will let them say what's good and what's bad?
Do you believe that Beatport are the place to be in today's music electronic bussiness?
We dont!
We don't belive that BP will survive the next couple of years with the policy they are representing now. Why should artist and labels support an distributer who thinks they are controlling how the underground have to look like, and which artists and labels fits into their "Worldview". We think that BP are only supporting their own interrests and not the artists or labels. We think that the quality of BP are totally over hyped. We think that BP are representing a lot of commercial releases which have nothing to do with the underground like you normally would find on the vinyl market. We think that BP is trying to make a monopol on the Electronic music scene worldwide, exactly like the big major labels do.
Sorry Beatport, but we aint gonna support your company anymore, you are outdated................
Do you think the same?
Whats your experiences?
Regards......
Actually I THINK I see what you're getting at. As I cannot personally say anything but I have a really good colleague who had some releases on Beatport but their label got dropped. And he wrote an article a while back. I'll email his facebook and post a link to it. Anyway though the main thing he said with beatport is they set a sales quota for all artists/labels, and its a decent reasonable sales quota at 1st......
But if you don't make it......the quota gets higher and very hard to make up, that if u don't meet, you get a probation period. Then eventually you get dropped from beatport, and that's what happened to him.......he got dropped, as well as some other artists from the label- Addictive Vibes Records.
Anyway the main thing he said with beatport is they are more concerned with "Sales" rather than just music itself. So if you make a ton of sales, they keep u.......if not, they drop u. Hence why you see a lot of commercial or "major label" releases. To them the underground or oldschool vinyl music......despite how amazing they are and how many memories they bring back......they don't generate the sales Beatport wants so they don't have much of it for sale.
If there are other artists here with releases on beatport they can give their 2cents as well.......like I said I'll have to get the link to that article from my colleague.
