February 2, 2010
With a recent post explaining how to get signed to a record label, you might wonder why you’d ever want to start one of your own if you could get someone else to do all that dirty work for you. Or perhaps you’ve always wanted to start your own record label, but simply never knew [...]
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by planewalker
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January 28, 2010
I’ve often heard it said as a rule that you should never master your own tracks. I followed that rule for awhile, but recently I’ve come to a new place with it after years of study, and I don’t agree anymore. In my opinion, if an artist can learn to mix his own tracks well, [...]
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by planewalker
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December 18, 2009
Having submitted over a hundred demos to record labels and eventually getting signed to Geomagnetic Records, I’ve learned the hard way how to get on a record label. Now the task must be performed again on behalf of my new group Chaos Control, as the market is different and the current label arrangement will probably [...]
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by planewalker
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May 4, 2009
With a brand-new computer having recently been stolen, I have had the privilege of understanding just how devastating a laptop theft can be. Since few users implement passwords, and web browsers store them anyway, a laptop thief can easily become an identity thief. And the chances of it? Well, 1 out of 10 laptops is [...]
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by planewalker
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