Promotional Singles
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Peasant Nikon
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I would NEVER rely only on free promotional material for my show. We get a lot, we go through it, less than half ever gets mixed in. I feel no obligation to play records sent to me. If they are good, I am happy for it and we play them a lot, but most of them are not. The most solid stuff I have is stuff that I have spent a lot of time and money finding. This is so I can offer a set that is very different than one you could hear from anyone else. If you rely on free promos, your show loses all individuality, and you become a pawn to the labels.
Maybe this is not the way you come off, but to me, it sounds like you just don't care enough to find and pay for the music. The best advice I can give it to make a core of music you bought, make your sound, and then play some of the free stuff you get along with it.
Maybe this is not the way you come off, but to me, it sounds like you just don't care enough to find and pay for the music. The best advice I can give it to make a core of music you bought, make your sound, and then play some of the free stuff you get along with it.
After reading a lot of the responses, I guess I'm lucky enough to get my promos directly from the labels. I'm a DJ at a radio station (102.5 KDON - Salinas, CA), and my name gets put on the official roster and gets sent to the record label contacts. But to be honest, it's still isn't as great some people would imagine. After 3 years of being at the station, I'm barely starting to get serviced consistently from labels like Universal & Columbia (actually, it took quite a while to get universal). Labels like Def Jam are also hard to come across. In the labels' eyes, I'm still a "nobody" DJ and even a lot of bigger DJ's in bigger markets (namely KMEL & KYLD in my area) still have trouble getting serviced EVERYTHING that's hot. Also, a lot of the label reps are more concerned with sending you new music (or new artists) rather than current HOTT music. You often get a record, and just HOPE it becomes a hit. Another thing is that you get a lot of garbage from indy labels, stuff that builds up and you end up tossing anyway.
basixxx
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Yeah, true I'm feelin' you......I got the idea of free promos from this girl that used to host a college radio station. She used to get cd's and lp's at her address. I'm sure the labels sent her alot of garbage but she had some quality material as well.
The bottom line is that I'm more likely to experiment with free promos. There's no way I'm going to Best Buy and coppin' some clown's cd I never heard of......
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MACKone
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Get in a record pool...
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MACKone
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^^^ I'd say half of the records you get are gonna be boo-boo...but you always do come out with a couple gems.
Yeah, actually, even though the radio station is Salinas-based, I live in San Jose myself. The signal does bleed into certain parts of San Jose better than others. Thanks for the love.408boss said:sick wid itseems like every one has a street party, KMEL/KYLD/KDON
i'd prefer yours, but I'm in san jose, and the reception isnt that good
Ok so this is what you do, you go to the local record label where they send out stuff, and you look for benz. You sifen out the gas and just enough to let the guy go a mile, then when he leaves you fallow him, when he pullz over you stop and offer him some gas to get him home, and then start talking to him. Boom you got a freind in the record buissness. LOL JUST JOKEING, honestly though, try becomeing freids with someone in the record buissness. It sometimes is who you know, not who you are. I once met a kid at a party that worked for bad boy records, I just wish I would have persued getting records from him. At the time I wasn't really djing for anyone, and wasn't planning on it. Now I will be DJing at a bar soon, and would be cool to have some new stuff for free.
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