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Originally posted by madmuso You're preaching to the choir! I'm a big believer in just writing the music that feels right for you and it's not a musicians jobs to please everyone. There's so many people in the world that even the most obscure music by commercial standards will be liked by someone, that's the beauty of music. I guess what I'm trying to establish is how label people do their jobs and the different criteria that need to be met in order to raise interest to begin with.

But that's what ST describes, i bet you do it all the time too in the WIP section.
At least i do... And yes I might miss some hard work on careful build ups, but really if i drop the needle 3 times during the track and nowhere I get triggered to stay and listen for a while, the track is done, next........

Things that are for me direct disqualifiers: anything Vengeance, anything loopmasters
Anythiing shingoshit..... As soon as i hear dreaded hihatloops, bigroom kicks, sylenth type saw leads i've lost interest. Unless you are Deadmau5 and actually can put something interesting together with oneshots and sound design and carefull arrangement.
I really seek for outskirts... Anything that remotely sounds like beatport top 100 "me too" is out.

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most important thing these days is to try and develop a few personal relationships that can get your stuff a little more than the 18 second thing.

My stuff was all signed through determination and sending full length, full quality tracks - to A+R people I'd taken a bit of time learning about and talking to.

the music is the most important things, the relationships are important too.

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Originally posted by Raphie But that's what ST describes, i bet you do it all the time too in the WIP section. At least i do... And yes I might miss some hard work on careful build ups, but really if i drop the needle 3 times during the track and nowhere I get triggered to stay and listen for a while, the track is done, next........ Things that are for me direct disqualifiers: anything Vengeance, anything loopmasters Anythiing shingoshit..... As soon as i hear dreaded hihatloops, bigroom kicks, sylenth type saw leads i've lost interest. Unless you are Deadmau5 and actually can put something interesting together with oneshots and sound design and carefull arrangement. I really seek for outskirts... Anything that remotely sounds like beatport top 100 "me too" is out.

cool. Do you mind giving me 3 or 4 examples of popular trance songs that would get your tick of approval if they were sent to you? What popular trance song has come out in the last year that would make you go, f%^k yeah, and pass it on with high praises?

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Originally posted by optik most important thing these days is to try and develop a few personal relationships that can get your stuff a little more than the 18 second thing. My stuff was all signed through determination and sending full length, full quality tracks - to A+R people I'd taken a bit of time learning about and talking to. the music is the most important things, the relationships are important too. T

Very hard to do from this side of the world especially when the style of music you are interested in is mainly based so far away. Networking opportunities are scarce. Although the internet has helped a little in that dept.