21 April 2008
Since 2003, at least 80 records stores have closed in Manhattan and Brooklyn. New York Times more...
18 January 2008
Great article in the guardian. The key selectors have all switched to CD. The classic 7" vinyl market was primarily for US/European/Japanese collectors. The locals don't buy vinyl. Many tracks never got pressed to vinyl anyway. "The reduction in vinyl production in the West Indies has dramatically affected the way I access music," explains the legendary DJ - or selector - David Rodigan, host of the weekly Rodigan's Reggae show on London's Kiss 100 FM. "In a nutshell, vinyl has ... more...
12 October 2007
Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening. That's funny, I only yesterday got my tracks up on SNOCAP. I think they would do much better if MySpace wasn't such an interface-peice-of-shit. They are what is stopping them from easily getting the tracks up. Eventually I just pasted the SNOCAP store directly into my profile. ((http://myspace.com/timeblind)) Anyway, ... more...
18 August 2006
Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) http://www.gema.de/ This is the German [[Royalty Organization|RoyaltyOrganizations]], collecting performance royalties for radio,TV, bar, club and online performances. The GEMA makes no profit: all earnings minus administrative costs are payed to domestic and international authors whose works were performed. Monitoring of the German airwaves is excellent (for [[Performance Royalties]], and non-German authors can expect to actually see money sent via GEMA to their own organization (BMI ... more...
20 January 2006
Global sales of digital music tripled to $1.1 billion in 2005 and the popularity of recordings on iPods and mobile phones will result in digital music generating 25% of worldwide music revenues by 2010, a music industry trade group said Thursday. Music for mobile phones now accounts for 40% of digital music revenues, the report said more...
8 January 2006
iTUNES: Downloads accounted for a substantially increased percentage of overall sales via iTunes and the services chasing it, but more and more executives have come to believe that, rather than being the answer, a la carte downloads are contributing to the problem as they increasingly cannibalize album sales... more...
25 December 2005
According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of Napster, music lovers are struggling to fill their digital music players. It found that most were only just over half filled, with the majority of music on the player (66%) being that which has been ripped from CDs. more...
5 December 2004
Distribution is a pain, and probably the main bottleneck in independant music. Sorry distributors, but we look forward to when its all electronic distribution. But its not their fault. The problem is as usual the glut of product, and the impossibility of distributors to store all of that glut and move it to the shops. The money and the product often gets stuck at the distributors, and everybody (labels, distributors and stores) suffer because of it. When distributors go bankrupt ... more...
5 December 2004
links i haven't gotten around to putting into the database: Abstract Aeon Ajax Anomalous Aquarius ATRecordings Baked Goods Bent Crayon Bottlenekk BVHAAST Carbondisks Cargo Germany Caroline CDeMUSIC CheapThrills ChthonicStreams Chunky Clate Cohort Com4 Cranium Darla Diffusion i Media D.O.R Downtown Music Gallery Dutch-EastIndia EAR/Rational Music Eclipse Erostrate Eurock Fax US Fisheye FlippedOut Harmonia Mundi Indiego Insound Kylie Manifold Manuera Midheaven Mordam Musea New Note N.E.W.S Other Music Outward Music Parasol Pelicanneck Pennyblackmusic Realization RevolverUSA Rhino Handmade RiotousAssembly Rundum den Watzmann ... more...
5 December 2004
Thinking of starting a label ? Want to put out lots of records this year, really make your mark ? Hey, maybe its YOU that's killing the scene, man. There's more music being created than at any time in human history. There is a huge glut of labels and release on the market. Everybody seems to have their own label, sometimes several. Small stores cannot risk ordering very much stuff or they will get stuck with immoveable back stock. Small ... more...
5 December 2004
_USA_ You do not, in general, buy directly from labels. Things would get out of hand. Most stores refuse to buy direct except from friends or locals. There is enough trouble trying to get everybody paid, the whole system needs to keep the number of invoices down. Get a TAX-ID number. $10-20 from your state Comptroller's office. If you are shipping out of state (the usual), there is no sales tax (so far), but you still need a Tax-ID number ... more...
5 December 2004
Once upon a time this resource centered itself on the mechanics of starting your own label. I encourage you to think carefully before starting down this path. There are too many labels out there right now, the market is shrinking and for you to get the label properly noticed and accepted, you should be able to undertake this step with a proper and informed focus. Starting a label is definitely not something for an industry beginner to undertake. You should ... more...
5 December 2004
See also http://music.hyperreal.org/rotator/ and http://music.hyperreal.org/london/ more...
5 December 2004
http://www.insound.com lots of info in the database about labels, zines, artists, movies, pics ... labels listed are mostly indie/garage/punk/noise/electronic and interesting. more...
5 December 2004
In order to best understand distribution, you should take a look at the listings and/or websites from the distributors themselves. You can access them via the web at the addresses listed below. This shows descriptions of each record with wholesale prices. US domestic usually sells for 3.49 to 4.00. You sell it to them for 2.75 to 3.25. There are exceptions, try not to be one of them for now. If you press on more expensive vinyl and need to ... more...
5 December 2004
What's in the database: (sometimes a database is less efficient, and a pain to maintain) more...
5 December 2004
Germany EFA Medien GmbH Distribution / Export / A & R Billwerder Neuer Deich 72 20539 Hamburg Germany tel: +49 - 40 - 789 170 - 0 fax: +49 - 40 - 782 783 E-mail: efa@berlin.efa-medien.de http://www.efamedien.com Neuton Medien Vertrieb GMBH Goethering 52-54 63067 Offenbach/Main Germany tel: +49 69 82 97 44 00 fax: +49 82 97 44 50 Planet Distribution Bremen, Germany tel: +49-421-18565 fax: +49-421-18566 Contact there is Steve Faulkner (he's from London so he speaks English). Also ... more...
5 December 2004
%Distributors)): Other Bluemoon Productions Monbaza Isazanic #200 FU-SHING S.RD.Sec.2, B1 Taipei 106 Taiwan www.bluemoon.com.tw Jaffa Records 31 Balfour st. Tel-Aviv 65211 Israel tel: + 972 3 5286224 / + 972 3 5286114 fax: + 972 3 5286225 Eyal Moshe Managing Director imports, licensing, distribution Dorobo (Australia) P.O. Box 22 Glen Waverly Victoria 3150 Australia dorobo@werple.net.au Inertia (Australia) Synaesthesia (Australia) PO Box 7252 Melbourne VIC 3004 Australia phone: (613) 9529 5925 mailto:atomic@vicnet.net.au Japan Breakcore Records http://www.electro-violence.com> info@electro-violence.com Digital Narcis (Japan) 201 ... more...
5 December 2004
[[Distributors]] UK database: flatfile: Greyhound Harmonia Mundi 19-21 Nile St. London N1 7LL phone: 020 7253 3237 info.uk@harmoniamundi.com classical / modern classical / contemporary jazz / world music. Ideal Ground Floor Unit 25B Vyner St. London E2 9DG phone: 020 8257 3990 rich@ideal-distributors.com Impetus 10 High St. Skigersta Ness Isle Of Lewis Outer Hebrides HS2 OTS phone: 01851 810 808 Distributors for many small independent labels, mostly European free music, in addition to being a small specialist label in its ... more...
5 December 2004
%[[Distributors]]: US Darla Records & Distribution 625 Scott #301 San Francisco CA 94117 phone: (415) 441-4577 fax: (415) 441-7881 darlarec@sirius.com Dutch East India (USA) 45 W.34th St. Suite# 1001 New York NY 10001 USA phone: +001 (212) 630-0700 fax: +001 (212) 630-0879 huge catalogue from this long-established US company - everything from electronica to black metal Hunab Ku (USA) 1072 Folsom St. Suite 470 San Francisco CA 94103 phone: +1 415 431 0950 fax: +1 415 431 7967 resonant@hunab-ku.com Orbius ... more...
