Since moving to New Zealand in 2000 I’ve had the pleasure to have worked with one of the most helpful and talented producers in the country, namely Kerry Adams. Kerry goes by many names including Tech, Bromide Dub, Compressor Kid and.. well the list goes on. His latest project has just been launched online and is the pilot from a series of “production tutorials” called “The Technical sessions“. Head over to The Proof website and check it out, this first episode focuses on the procedure for setting up a tone arm on your turntable. As Kerry points out it’s a question he gets asked regularly and he takes us through a great 5min rundown of the different types of cartridges and the basic concept behind setup.
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Some would say that the CD is already dead as a means of delivering music but I think the final nails are being driven in to the coffin by some innovative ways of selling digital downloads. A month ago I read a great review of a company called Discrevolt who sell customised cards which have a code on them which can be used to download files. These files can contain music, artwork, anything associated with the album or EP your selling. I thought it was a great idea (although they don’t currently sell the cards in to New Zealand) and could be used with any product you wanted to sell to your fans. So the question is what do your fans buy that could have this download code added to it?
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Just a quick post this week with a list of links to my favourite music industry websites. These are the sites I subscribe to using their RSS feed through google reader, if you read quite a few blogs and don’t use RSS then you should really check it out. It just means that I can scan through a huge amount of information quickly and save all the interesting articles in one place to read when I actually have time.
So here’s the list of blogs who always deliver excellent content and some great insight in to the workings of the music industry. Take a look and get involved by leaving a comment. It’s great to have a conversation with these guys through comments because you can take the articles subject to a whole new level. If you have any suggestions for other music industry sites then just let me know by, well, leaving a comment.
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This week I’m spreading the word about the Soul Sides music blog, now some would say that everybody should already know about this amazing blog but it’s a wide wide web out there and I still talk to people who haven’t checked out Oliver Wang’s site.
Soul Sides is the first music blog I think I ever read on a regular basis and still enjoy because of it’s depth of knowledge and diverse approach to music blogging. The articles are always fresh and it’s been interesting and to see the blog develop over the years and still manage to keep one step ahead. Oliver has now started to write (amongst other things) more in depth articles based around a “box set“, the first focused on Aretha Franklin and the new one looks at Latin boogaloo, you can check it over at Uber.com.
Most of the musicians/producers/dj’s I know have an amazing level of knowledge around their style of music and don’t really think about how to maximise their opportunities for income generation (except being able to tell me which label my favourite artists released their first bootleg on and where I could buy it). Blogging can be a great way to move towards earning a living from your knowledge and passion and looking at how Oliver has done it could be a good start.
I’ll be posting a few articles in the future on music blogging and focusing on some of the bloggers who have used their blogs to start labels, release compilations and generally make more creative opportunities for themselves.
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This week I took some time out to attend the NZMC “warrant of fitness” seminars. There were 6 seminars covering topics ranging from international touring and the future of the independent labels. All in all I thought it was pretty good and some of the speakers managed to give some practical insight in to some of topics discussed.
I’ve been to a few of these things and they’re usually pretty similar in what they’re trying to achieve and the actual outcome. Most kiwi bands want to find out how to get their music in to overseas markets, they’re looking for specific answers and advice on how to do it and although there are always a few stories about the speakers experiences there aren’t any “answers” for these bands. Why is that?
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It’s been a big 2007 at the Bluevibe studio, I’ve been working out just what I’ve been doing locked away in the studio for the last 12 months. What’s this got to do with Warner music and Radiohead you ask? Well I’ve been spending quite a bit of time this year looking at the music industry, getting involved with a few different blogs and generally trying to decide my next steps in getting my music out there. This article from Mashable is one that really stuck in my head and made me think about the current environment and what that means for musicians and labels.
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