Friday, August 17, 2007
Producer Rankings 2007
1. Timbaland
2. Rodney Jerkins (Dark Child)
3. Scott Storch
4. Neptunes
5. Kanye West
Timbaland
Timbaland is a compound producer. Compound producers stack their sounds. He usually off sets his drums so one lands .10 or of a second or less behind the other. This makes his tracks sound FULL!! He's too compound to figure out. This is why nobody is touching Timbaland.
Rodney Jerkins (Dark Child)
Rodney Jerkins is still incredible. In our opinion he's the most versatile. Who else could produce tracks like "Butterflies" and "You Rock My World" for Michael Jackson and then turn around and do "Loose My Breath" for Destiny's Child. He has worked with any and everybody. More importantly, he does not sample (impressive). We're not knocking sampling, but we are giving some props to Dark Child. Jerkins is a modern day Quincy Jones.
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is a Linear producer. He does not stack his drums and sounds (at least not often). You can easily pick out each sound when listening to his tracks. If you listen to Timbaland's tracks, you cannot tell where a sound begins or ends. However, Storch makes better melodies than Timbaland. Timbaland blasted Storch when he said "I'm a real producer you are just a piano man" (See You in the Club). He's right! Scott Storch's tracks are softer and more melodic (with the exception of "Lean Back" with Terror Squad). For the first years of his career, Storch was a key boardists for the Roots. His first track was actually "I Got You" featuring the Roots, Eve, and Eryka Badhu. Scott Storch is better at making tracks for singing. He's a "piano man" (Timbaland).
Neptunes
We all know and love the Neptunes. I loved "Drop it Like It's Hot" with Snoop. It was very creative. That was in 2005!! They need to step it up because Timbaland is just killing them.
Kanye West
Kanye is impressive, creative, and psychotic. However, that's what it takes to succeed in this industry. Kanye is a ranked at #4 (by us) because we need to hear something new. If anybody can challenge Timbaland, I believe Kanye can. His only downfall is his stuff tends to sound the same. I don't know why. He does flip his tracks up, but you can still tell it's Kanye. Maybe it's all the sampling. If you try to attack Kanye he will stab you with some kick drums and bass.
Jazze Pha
Jazze Pha is just boring all his stuff sounds the same!! He did not make the list. I believe he hung himself in over producing Ciara. There will never be another Aahliya and Timbaland. They were and are "One in a Million".
2. Rodney Jerkins (Dark Child)
3. Scott Storch
4. Neptunes
5. Kanye West
Timbaland
Timbaland is a compound producer. Compound producers stack their sounds. He usually off sets his drums so one lands .10 or of a second or less behind the other. This makes his tracks sound FULL!! He's too compound to figure out. This is why nobody is touching Timbaland.
Rodney Jerkins (Dark Child)
Rodney Jerkins is still incredible. In our opinion he's the most versatile. Who else could produce tracks like "Butterflies" and "You Rock My World" for Michael Jackson and then turn around and do "Loose My Breath" for Destiny's Child. He has worked with any and everybody. More importantly, he does not sample (impressive). We're not knocking sampling, but we are giving some props to Dark Child. Jerkins is a modern day Quincy Jones.
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is a Linear producer. He does not stack his drums and sounds (at least not often). You can easily pick out each sound when listening to his tracks. If you listen to Timbaland's tracks, you cannot tell where a sound begins or ends. However, Storch makes better melodies than Timbaland. Timbaland blasted Storch when he said "I'm a real producer you are just a piano man" (See You in the Club). He's right! Scott Storch's tracks are softer and more melodic (with the exception of "Lean Back" with Terror Squad). For the first years of his career, Storch was a key boardists for the Roots. His first track was actually "I Got You" featuring the Roots, Eve, and Eryka Badhu. Scott Storch is better at making tracks for singing. He's a "piano man" (Timbaland).
Neptunes
We all know and love the Neptunes. I loved "Drop it Like It's Hot" with Snoop. It was very creative. That was in 2005!! They need to step it up because Timbaland is just killing them.
Kanye West
Kanye is impressive, creative, and psychotic. However, that's what it takes to succeed in this industry. Kanye is a ranked at #4 (by us) because we need to hear something new. If anybody can challenge Timbaland, I believe Kanye can. His only downfall is his stuff tends to sound the same. I don't know why. He does flip his tracks up, but you can still tell it's Kanye. Maybe it's all the sampling. If you try to attack Kanye he will stab you with some kick drums and bass.
Jazze Pha
Jazze Pha is just boring all his stuff sounds the same!! He did not make the list. I believe he hung himself in over producing Ciara. There will never be another Aahliya and Timbaland. They were and are "One in a Million".
Monday, August 13, 2007
Building the Ultimate Recording Studios Mac vs PC
If your trying to build a recording studio this article is excellent Ultimate Mac and Windows based Recording System .
It was posted by the For Spoken Word Artists blog page. The guidelines are the same for all recording artists, although the blog is geared towards Spoken Word Artists.
It was posted by the For Spoken Word Artists blog page. The guidelines are the same for all recording artists, although the blog is geared towards Spoken Word Artists.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Trackmasterz to launch Spokenwordbeats.com
Trackmasterz will be launching a new web company, Spoken Word Beats (spokenwordbeats.com). The new company will sell music for Spoken Word. Trackmasterz says they created Spoken Word Beats from customer feedback. "The majority of our customers have been Spoken Word artists. We never expected this, but we are honored to be invited into the Spoken Word community. We will do everything we can to cater to their needs" stated Robyn Luney, director of customer service.
Spokenwordbeats.com is scheduled to launch August 6, 2007. The site will start with a humble seven tracks. However, they expect to have fifty by September. Spoken Word artists look for SpokenWordBeats.com this month.
Spokenwordbeats.com is scheduled to launch August 6, 2007. The site will start with a humble seven tracks. However, they expect to have fifty by September. Spoken Word artists look for SpokenWordBeats.com this month.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Independent Artists Fail Because They Market Like Major Record Labels
Independent artists FAIL when they try to market like major record labels. They do not have the manpower, resources, or money major labels have. You want to be the next Mary J Blidge? You want to work with Clive Davis because he's made Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, and the list goes on. Well, a big name is simply a small name that grew over time. We're not saying give every little guy a shot? We're simply saying you must start small and grow (99% of the time) so keep that in mind when picking out your management, producers, artists, promoters, and performances. Gretchen Wilson started singing in a little bar where she worked, and Oprah used to have debt collectors calling her all the time when she was a small radio personality in Baltimore, MD. We know your sending Demos to Diddy and Timbaland, but take a look at some of the producers where you are. They're trying to attain the same status you are and both of you have nothing to lose. Diddy and Timbaland have millions to lose, you DO NOT!!
Make the record labels want you!! (even if you don't want them) Create a buzz. Remember you're an artists so time and energy is the equivalent of money. You cannot afford to lose either. Focus your time and energy in markets that welcome you. Look to small independent, public, college and online radio stations. Forget MTV, make your own music video (read our "To Do List" Post on this blog) and post it on your website, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and let others download it from you. Make your own website, link with other sites, and sell your music. Also sell your music through Cdbaby, they will distribute your music to all the major digital music stores for a small fee (like PayPal). As you name and popularity grow, the labels will start coming to you. This gives you bargaining power because you've already established you can sell on your own. They have to offer you some incentive to sign (for example royalties!!).
Make the record labels want you!! (even if you don't want them) Create a buzz. Remember you're an artists so time and energy is the equivalent of money. You cannot afford to lose either. Focus your time and energy in markets that welcome you. Look to small independent, public, college and online radio stations. Forget MTV, make your own music video (read our "To Do List" Post on this blog) and post it on your website, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and let others download it from you. Make your own website, link with other sites, and sell your music. Also sell your music through Cdbaby, they will distribute your music to all the major digital music stores for a small fee (like PayPal). As you name and popularity grow, the labels will start coming to you. This gives you bargaining power because you've already established you can sell on your own. They have to offer you some incentive to sign (for example royalties!!).
Friday, July 20, 2007
The Independent Recording Artists Must Do List
1. Make an album
2.Have pictures made (a press kit) and no glamour shots do not count
3.Shoot a decent video or get somebody to do some flash animation. The video does not have to look like you at all. Just find something that goes with your story line. (You can find some on You Tube--make sure you email the creator and ask if its okay to use it on your webpage)
4.Register with Cdbaby.com to sell your Cd * its only $30 a year and they also send your songs to itunes and all the other major download stores to be sold. Remeber you don't have to worry about paying for thousands of Cd's to be burned. People are steadily buying more and more online music. It's only going to increase. Gas costs a fortune why burn gas and drive to the Cd store that shelves no independent artists' music, when you can real music online!!** Sell digital downloads people ----it's the way of the future!! I don't care what anyone says (not even cdbaby---cdbaby cautions artists that digital downloads sell less than cd's. This is my only problem with Cdbaby. My response is go grab Billboard Magazine every month and read the record sale numbers vs. the digital download numbers. Own an Ipod? Seen the new one? I rest my case. We still love Cdbaby. We just respectfuly disagree**
5.Make a web page ---post your music and videos on there, performances, fan club, etc...
6.Make a music MySpace page, Facebook page, YouTube Page, cdbaby page, hit up craig's list
7.Link all the pages together and submit your pages to search engines (make sure your page works before you submit it!!)
8.Start performing---give people your webpage, let them know who you are
Its still a long road but there are plenty of resources and opportunities. If you are stuck on task number 1 (making an album) because its costly, here are some quality resources you can use that are affordable.
For selling your music
http://www.cdbaby.com/ they connect you with a host of other companeis such as itunes and SoundScan. Also for $20-$30 extra they provide a UPC barcode from SoundScan for your product.
For music production (beats/tracks)
http://www.trackmasterz.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/
http://www.beatport.com/
For promoting yourself
http://www.myspace.com/ (music pages)
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.bloger.com/ start making blogs and also exchange links with other artists to your webpage
http://www.craigslit.org/ we also recommend Craig's List as well.
2.Have pictures made (a press kit) and no glamour shots do not count
3.Shoot a decent video or get somebody to do some flash animation. The video does not have to look like you at all. Just find something that goes with your story line. (You can find some on You Tube--make sure you email the creator and ask if its okay to use it on your webpage)
4.Register with Cdbaby.com to sell your Cd * its only $30 a year and they also send your songs to itunes and all the other major download stores to be sold. Remeber you don't have to worry about paying for thousands of Cd's to be burned. People are steadily buying more and more online music. It's only going to increase. Gas costs a fortune why burn gas and drive to the Cd store that shelves no independent artists' music, when you can real music online!!** Sell digital downloads people ----it's the way of the future!! I don't care what anyone says (not even cdbaby---cdbaby cautions artists that digital downloads sell less than cd's. This is my only problem with Cdbaby. My response is go grab Billboard Magazine every month and read the record sale numbers vs. the digital download numbers. Own an Ipod? Seen the new one? I rest my case. We still love Cdbaby. We just respectfuly disagree**
5.Make a web page ---post your music and videos on there, performances, fan club, etc...
6.Make a music MySpace page, Facebook page, YouTube Page, cdbaby page, hit up craig's list
7.Link all the pages together and submit your pages to search engines (make sure your page works before you submit it!!)
8.Start performing---give people your webpage, let them know who you are
Its still a long road but there are plenty of resources and opportunities. If you are stuck on task number 1 (making an album) because its costly, here are some quality resources you can use that are affordable.
For selling your music
http://www.cdbaby.com/ they connect you with a host of other companeis such as itunes and SoundScan. Also for $20-$30 extra they provide a UPC barcode from SoundScan for your product.
For music production (beats/tracks)
http://www.trackmasterz.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/
http://www.beatport.com/
For promoting yourself
http://www.myspace.com/ (music pages)
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.bloger.com/ start making blogs and also exchange links with other artists to your webpage
http://www.craigslit.org/ we also recommend Craig's List as well.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Music for Spoken Word Artists at Trackmasterz.com
Spoken Word Artists, Trackmasterz.com is your final stop for music for your performance. Check out our tracks "Scream My name", "Latin Slow", and "Love" on our buy tracks page. These tracks were specially made for Spoken Word and Neo-Soul artists. Your stage is calling you, just answer.
www.trackmasterz.com
www.trackmasterz.com
Monday, June 25, 2007
Trackmasterz.com
Trackmasterz.com is a new online music production company that caters to independent artists. Many artist have a unique sound but cannot afford a powerful track. Trackmasterz provides tracks that match your creativity and budget without sacrificing quailty. All music is available in both Wave file and Mp3 format. In addition, our non-exclusive agreement gives artist the freedom to use our track in conjunction with their work and resell that work (which contains our track) up to 5000 times. No track exceeds $100 dollars in price. Why are they so inexpensive? What's the catch? We will not lie to you; we sell tracks non-exclusively. This means we have thousands of people purchasing the same track. Once you purchase it you can record what you want over it and sell that work up to 5ooo times. The catch, you cannot resell the track by itself, you must record a song, video game, animation, or other form of artwork on the track. The reality, there are thousands of people with the same track, but there is only one person who can do what you do. Roberta Flack sang "Killing Me Softly" but Lauryn Hill ripped it up with the Fugees. Dolly Parton wrote and sang "I Will Always Love You", but Whitney Houston made it famous with the Bodygaurd Soundtrack. You make the song not the track, you make the song your song, and you sell the song not the track. At trackmasterz, we make your voice the centerpiece and shine the spotlight on you.
What's the purpose of a voice if it's never heard?
Nothing!
What's your purpose?
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