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Curious, besides making music for yourself - do you have a target audience?

For instance mine's strictly for the dj and the dance floor

as I'm sitting here at my desk at DMX MUSIC the musics playing over head and I'm thinking do these bands know we're using their music in department stores for "tweeners" and sophisticated uplscvale classy restaurants

we have trained music programmers but seriously...

anywayz

who's your target audience BESIDES YOURSELF

peace

Adonis

if my girlfriend approves. its good

if my daughter approves. its good

Nobody. My mantra with Live is 'to make something I would buy' and to develop my scattered musical interests. I whore myself at a day job because they pay me, I'm not doing it at home.

Everyone else can go f--k themselves.

that's fair...

but you know

If it was going to be released or played on the radio or in a club

i'd rather play for people i don't know...
i don't like playing at dance clubs, i prefer music venues...
well, at least that narrowed it down a few percent....
i guess most promo is through the web these days, that's got to mean a certain type of audience, too...

djadonis206 wrote: who's your target audience BESIDES YOURSELF

peace

Adonis

my two cats.

We've got a bunch of different scenes in the Seattle area

Hipsters, Fags and their friends who are into old school Hip-Hop, Chromeo, Electro, mash-up etc etc (FYI the term fags is not meant in a deragotory way - it's a real scene) - It's an actual night!

Rock-a-billy's

There's a techno scene but it's not the funky techno I'm into - more machine, minimal glitch pop computerized stuff with soul (I'm told) - but they have a very small little scene...Decibal Festival anyone?

Clubbers - Last Supper Club and Trinity is where I'll spend most of my weekends just because that's where all the skanky girls are and I get the most respect (guestlists, drinks, hugs and drugs)

Ragga / raggae / dub - for every true Ragga from say Jamaica there's about 42 white guys with dreads at the same show - it's cool, it's music

Gangsta HipHop - south seattle...lots of Somoan's, Thugged out G's etc etc

Capitol Hill Hip Hop <--- War Room (where I'll go for the above reasons I go to the Clubby clubs) and the crowd there (See Hipsters, Fags and friends)

House Heads - Bryon Lyons, Wesley Holmes and JonLee, Jon Lemmon, Viva Jacob London - really chill people, really chill music - lots of smiling faces and hugs...lots of gay black guys dancing with their shirts off

Indie - Capitol Hill, Linda's Cha Cha BTC and Death Cab for Cutie

Rocker Scene - Whiskey, Kingcora and the comet - Rock still Lives in seattle, very ugly people but people non the less

The actual GAY scene - Capitol Hill et al - Neighbors, Sugar, Purr

as of last sunday, Kool Keith

And ME - yes I'm my own scene

Mainly chill at the Satellite Lounge or Charlies with EMC, Roman, Keyon

honestly we sit at the booth in the middle and people mob in say what's up - we invite some to sit with us others we just holla at

I usually get up and leave without telling anyone and go to any of the above mentioned

Except the techno night because it's only once a month in a very remote part of the city that's hard to get to by foot

target market audience:
break dancing goth kids.


though it is evolving into something more esoteric.

...Chin stroking 20 somethings who go to dance bars and then stand around shouting in each others ear while they drink expensive cocktails and oddly enough don't dance much.

At least that's who's generally into my music. Hipsters I guess. I would rather play for actual dancers (it happens, but not enough). The music is danceable, but for some reason the "trendies" prefer to be seen in the scene rather than get down.

It bugs me when they take up the dance floor with their cooler than I am socializing.

After I get my speakers installed, my neighbours.

MWAHAHAHAHA.

Etc.

So gave up on any thinking about what other people might like.

It's so counter productive.

When was the last time there was a good cult band that was aiming for a
market, they all build their cult/market by doing what they love.

The record companies and the trends follow the leaders not the other way around.

-Ben

MrYellow wrote:So gave up on any thinking about what other people might like.

It's so counter productive.

When was the last time there was a good cult band that was aiming for a
market, they all build their cult/market by doing what they love.

The record companies and the trends follow the leaders not the other way around.

-Ben

Agree with you 100%

Who's leading what in the musical revolution that hasn't already been done though?

I mean Jimmy Hendrix was just doing the blues and mastered the guitar

the Beatles?

Jim Morrison?

Metallica?