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Getting music to artist when you need to go throught their record labels and you send them an email and you dont even get a reply. Thats so annoying. How do you guys get your music out to the artist, whats your approach

I havnt yet got to that stage! would be very interesting to see how you would go about that. wouldnt you start with marketing yourself via a small time radio first or somethin?

... just hassle the shits out of them... (alot simpler today bcuz of the internet)....But the truth is if you have good music and persistence (this requires not being lazy)... you should try and push it in EVERY way possible... (including taking a car /bus /ship /plane / relocating yourself...)... Or get a PR Agent with good connections to do these things for you
... Don't forget you have to put your music OUT THERE !
( a buddy of mine just got signed for an album by a new Australian label Which was scouting through myspace...sweet huh? they also got him 3 paying gigs... one of which is in Japan...)

I'm having a not-very-bright day.
What do you mean by 'getting music to artist'?

Unless you can physically hand them a CD, it's all a crap shoot IMO.

Did the artist request the music? That would be big factor IMO! =)

thats what i have been thinking, if i dont physically hand it to them it wont make any sense in a way because i have all the Label Info, meaning A&R emails, numbers and things of that nature but when i email them i dont always get a reply and if i just send the cd to them it would be kind of a waste sometimes.

and no they did not request.

Unless you somehow know that a particular artist is interested in being sent demos and stuff, there's not much point. Unsolicted tapes/cds will either be filed with 100s of others, or more likely be filed straight in the bin.

You'll have much more luck (relatively) sending your demos to people the work for the labels. But again, there's a far greater chance it'll be listened to if they're expecting it, and, as mentioned before, you can actually hand it to them...

The route most people (except those lucky ones that get plucked from myspace) seem to take is best described with a horrible, cynical sounding word : 'networking' - Start playing live shows, go to lots of gigs where the music is similar to yours, once you meet a few bands, promoters and managers you'll have a handful of people who can get your music into the hands of the all powerful label people.

Why exactly do you want to get your tunes into the artists hands anyway? All they can do is give it to the label peeps and say "hey, this is good, you guys should release this" - whynot bypass the artist and go straight to the label?

i am talking about Beats not actual full songs Beats for the artist to use.

labels get tons of unsolicited demos.
Most of them suck ass.
Many labels are run by people who have day jobs, they just dont have time to listen to everything.

Sending out unsolicited demos is... well, if you get a reply, count yourself lucky.

In my experience, the best way to get a record deal is to play lots of live shows. Meet the bands on record labels, meet the record label peeps who come to their bands' shows. Introduce yourself. Hang out with them. If you don't like them or their music, and they don't like you... you probably wouldn't want to be on their label anyway. Its who you know, first and foremost, not what you do.

Don't let that dissuade you from sending out demos, just dont take it personally when your package hits the circular file unopened. Expect that!

^^ its not about getting signed its about doing production for artist that needs it, thats what i am talking about

Ahhhh
it becomes clearer!
But these artists don't actually need any production, do they? You'd like to do production for them.

trying to get a label to sign your band, unsolicited, is gonna be the same as trying to get the label's artists to buy your beats, unsolicited.

You gotta make contacts. Don't expect labels to do you any favors.

And buggin the s**t out of people sucks. Its annoying and just gets you ignored for life.

If I were a label head and someone asked me "hey can I have Prince's email and mailing address, I want to send them free beats" I'd assume you were a stalker or something.

Do you realize how much stuff gets sent to a somewhat known artist? Not to mention a widely known artist?

You're wasting your time expecting a reply.

haha yeh thats kind of true, its all about making contacts i think i have a way to get around this, you get an unsigned artist give them your hottest beat put out the tune under your label and just look how quick label gone come to you.