So about a month ago i won the official remix competition for Major Lazer's "Aerosol Can", meaning they hand picked my remix out of around 1500 others and released it on the Major Lazer/Because Music record label. This was a huge accomplishment for me and i was sure that it would bring me great things. However, other than about 50 new followers on sound cloud, everything is pretty much the same. It even got to #32 in the Electro House top 100, has become Major Lazer's 5th most popular song atm and has collectively had around 6000 plays. But still no attempt at promoting it?
https://soundcloud.com/peachey/major-la ... chey-remix
What is going on? Clearly it has potential to go further with a little repost from Diplo or ML to over 2 Million people, so why is no one doing anything?
After 5 years of producing, i think i'm ready to get a little more known, i don't want to sound cocky or anything but i feel there are a lot of shitty producers out there with well over 455 followers, so where's mine?
Anyone had direct communication with ML or Diplo themselves? Seems to be a major effort to try and reach them through the labels. And are there any secrets to getting yourself out there?
Cheers!
I won a pretty big competition, but no real promotion done?
-
- KVRist
- 264 posts since 14 Jun, 2009
-
- Banned
- 9890 posts since 14 Nov, 2006
So, what are YOU doing to promote it besides bitching on KVR?
No one owes you anything, it costs nothing to follow anyone on social media, and 5 years isn't that long, sorry. You have only just scratched the surface, all you can do is keep trying, promoting, playing live, getting your name out there.
You might not ever "make it" as few people actually do. Do it because you love it, as reward is not guaranteed. In fact failure is probably more of a guarantee. So have fun with your accomplishment, congrats, but start working on the next track if this is what you want to keep doing.
No one owes you anything, it costs nothing to follow anyone on social media, and 5 years isn't that long, sorry. You have only just scratched the surface, all you can do is keep trying, promoting, playing live, getting your name out there.
You might not ever "make it" as few people actually do. Do it because you love it, as reward is not guaranteed. In fact failure is probably more of a guarantee. So have fun with your accomplishment, congrats, but start working on the next track if this is what you want to keep doing.
-
- KVRAF
- 4727 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
The important thing to remember is that those who work really, really hard at it always end up being rewarded for it.
LONDON: Tracey Emin's "My Bed," complete with cigarette butts, crumpled sheets and underwear, sold for 2.5 million pounds ($4.25 million) on Tuesday, a record for the artist, who was present at the auction and applauded and whooped delightedly.
Emin's 1998 work, which fetched over 1 million pounds above its top estimated price, and a Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud, which sold for 11.5 million pounds, were the show stoppers in a 75 strong collection of portrait-themed works auctioned by Christie's.
Filing past Emin's installation, bidders crammed into Christie's Central London auction room and spilling out of the door, to spend a total of 99 million pounds in a sale that also featured paintings by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.
The auction house said it was very rare for an artist to attend an auction, and it demonstrated the connection Emin felt to the highly personal work.
The price reached for Emin's work, described by the auction house as an iconic piece of 1990s British art, quadrupled her previous sale price record, but Christie's said the market was not overheating.
"There is a very discerning element to this market. It's not a frothy market. People are really making distinct choices. Its a very subjective response to works," Brett Gorvy, Christie's international head of post-war and contemporary art, said after the sale.
-
- KVRAF
- 5948 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Melbourne, Australia
The brutal truthdebra1rlo wrote:So, what are YOU doing to promote it besides bitching on KVR? ...
... space is the place ...
-
- KVRAF
- 8563 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
You probably want people to be interested in you and your abilities to write & play. I've NEVER heard an album that was better than a homebrew recording, producers ruin it.
The only site for experimental amp sim freeware & MIDI FX: http://runbeerrun.blogspot.com
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCprNcvVH6aPTehLv8J5xokA -Youtube jams
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCprNcvVH6aPTehLv8J5xokA -Youtube jams
-
- Banned
- 9890 posts since 14 Nov, 2006
Well, yeah, Master Blaster or whoever's track he remixed is busy pimping his own shit. Pimp for someone else? AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!*ZenPunkHippy wrote:The brutal truthdebra1rlo wrote:So, what are YOU doing to promote it besides bitching on KVR? ...
(*unless your actual profession is "pimp")
-
- KVRAF
- 1791 posts since 17 Sep, 2002
Self-promote. With all the tools available in this day and age, you have no excuse not to do so, if recognition is indeed your goal.
50 new followers is better than 0 new followers!
This stuff takes time and lots of hard work. I was a musician for 15 years before I ever got to go on tour. Keep doing what you do, and don't think that one single track is enough to launch your music career into orbit. Winning a remix competition is a giant step, and congratulations on that! But don't ever stop and rest on your laurels. Artists who "make it" are the ones who spend countless hours honing their craft, always pushing themselves to be better.
Like Debs said above, 5 years is really not very long when you consider professionals in the business who have been doing what they do for their whole lives. I have a few colleagues who make a pretty decent living writing and/or performing music, and it's taken them many, many years to get to that point. Don't stop promoting yourself, but more importantly, don't ever stop making music, because you will only get better.
So maybe you make a track and it goes viral. For one, this is the exception, not the rule. Two, modern technology has done wonders to decrease the average attention span. One viral track might get you on the map, but you have to continue to work at it, since people will inevitably move on to the next big thing once the initial thrill fades.
Good luck to you, and rather than complain, be positive! You have skills, and now, more people are aware of it. There is no overnight success; only the truly dedicated will "make it."
50 new followers is better than 0 new followers!
This stuff takes time and lots of hard work. I was a musician for 15 years before I ever got to go on tour. Keep doing what you do, and don't think that one single track is enough to launch your music career into orbit. Winning a remix competition is a giant step, and congratulations on that! But don't ever stop and rest on your laurels. Artists who "make it" are the ones who spend countless hours honing their craft, always pushing themselves to be better.
Like Debs said above, 5 years is really not very long when you consider professionals in the business who have been doing what they do for their whole lives. I have a few colleagues who make a pretty decent living writing and/or performing music, and it's taken them many, many years to get to that point. Don't stop promoting yourself, but more importantly, don't ever stop making music, because you will only get better.
So maybe you make a track and it goes viral. For one, this is the exception, not the rule. Two, modern technology has done wonders to decrease the average attention span. One viral track might get you on the map, but you have to continue to work at it, since people will inevitably move on to the next big thing once the initial thrill fades.
Good luck to you, and rather than complain, be positive! You have skills, and now, more people are aware of it. There is no overnight success; only the truly dedicated will "make it."
-
- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
The one that so many people miss. Seems that 'producing' is all people expect to have to do and then sit back and wait for the royalty checks to come in.ZenPunkHippy wrote:The brutal truthdebra1rlo wrote:So, what are YOU doing to promote it besides bitching on KVR? ...
Not that simple...
-
- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
This is true. Perhaps it is also a contributing factor to the "sea of mediocrity" in modern music. One can no longer specialize. Forced to take on all trades, energy spread thin, master of none.robojam wrote:The one that so many people miss. Seems that 'producing' is all people expect to have to do and then sit back and wait for the royalty checks to come in.ZenPunkHippy wrote:The brutal truthdebra1rlo wrote:So, what are YOU doing to promote it besides bitching on KVR? ...
Not that simple...
But it is true. We must be business-people. We must all conform. Or die.
-
- KVRAF
- 5948 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Melbourne, Australia
It's going to sound stupidly simple but there is no other way to put it:And are there any secrets to getting yourself out there?
The secret is to get yourself out there. There is a great quote from Woody Allen:
80% of life is showing up.
There are a couple of meanings to read in to this, the first is the lazy meaning:
I don't have to do anything except turn up and shit will happen.
This is quite true, because life is going on around you all the time. You turn up, you help out, show your stuff, people love it. Like magic! But the deeper meaning could be summarised like this:
You have to make the effort, or the shit won't happen.
In other words, you have to actually "show up" at your computer every day to write songs, because it's not going to happen by magic!
To get known, you have to get out there and be part of the thing that you want to part of.
In the case of the club or party scene, this means
- going to events, even if you don't feel like it this week
- partying with other promoters
- making your face known
- meeting people, getting to know them
- put on your own events (which of course you also play at)
So yeah it's all very simple, except it's not because it's hard work ...
Peace,
Andy.
... space is the place ...
-
- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
The other thing to remember is to ask yourself why it should be you over the thousands of others competing for the same space? What do you have that they don't, and what can you do to get an edge over them?
As time goes by people who make recorded music become smaller fish in an ever increasing sea. You can't expect to just make it because you momentarily gained a smaller amount of exposure than the others.
As time goes by people who make recorded music become smaller fish in an ever increasing sea. You can't expect to just make it because you momentarily gained a smaller amount of exposure than the others.
-
- KVRAF
- 8238 posts since 22 Sep, 2008 from Windsor. UK
The label DID do the promo.
They promo'd themselves by organising a remix 'competition'.
There are literally thousands of people out there making better music than you.
Time to step up and make some effort rather than waiting like an entitled little child for the grown ups to make you famous?
They promo'd themselves by organising a remix 'competition'.
There are literally thousands of people out there making better music than you.
Time to step up and make some effort rather than waiting like an entitled little child for the grown ups to make you famous?
Soundcloud | Facebook |
-
- KVRist
- 440 posts since 22 Feb, 2014
No idea who major lazer is, but if he really is huge, and your track is awesome, I think you'd be hearing your song played in clubs and more people talking about it.
Maybe mr lazer isn't that big? Congrats on the contest but ya gotta keep producing. If your in it for the money and fame, you are in it for the wrong reasons.
Maybe mr lazer isn't that big? Congrats on the contest but ya gotta keep producing. If your in it for the money and fame, you are in it for the wrong reasons.
-
- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
Me neither. That is also part of the problem - this guy might have some clout in the music industry, but he's not exactly a major artist who can pick and choose who might be the next big thing.LimboLoves wrote:No idea who major lazer is
-
- KVRist
- 164 posts since 16 Jun, 2008
Not to throw petrol on the fire or anything, but the worst thing you could have done is probably draw attention to this, as it comes across as a moan. Mate, you were picked out of 1500 entries, that's an achievement right there, tick that one off and move onto your next.
As people have already said, it's about what YOU can do for yourself and how YOU can promote yourself. If you want it bad enough, it will happen, i'm pretty sure. But you have to do a lot of leg work when it comes to drawing attention and persuade people why they should buy your music over the next guy, one remix for the label possibly ain't gonna be that next step up the ladder. So start promoting it matey!!
As people have already said, it's about what YOU can do for yourself and how YOU can promote yourself. If you want it bad enough, it will happen, i'm pretty sure. But you have to do a lot of leg work when it comes to drawing attention and persuade people why they should buy your music over the next guy, one remix for the label possibly ain't gonna be that next step up the ladder. So start promoting it matey!!