What about Kudos?? Ollie
Max Duley wrote: > > 1. Make CDR/tape copies of your best stuff. > > 2. Send to likely distributors asking them if they'd be > > interested in a P&D > > deal (Production & Distribution): ie. they press, sell and distribute the > > record for you, in return for a greater cut of the revenue, but not all > > distributors will do this. > > 3. Take it from there... > > Most people I know outside of the US did it this way. It means you lose > total financial control but it also means that > > a) i) You don't have to front up all the cash to pay for cutting, processing > and pressing. > ii) this also means that it's not necessary to wait months for the returns > before doing the next release. They just pay for it and it comes off your > account. > b) you can leave a lot of the work, booking arrangements, dealing with > pressing plants etc to them, leaving you a few more minutes a week to make > music, when you're not at the 9 to 5. > c) the distributors have a little extra incentive to sell the records. > > I don't know about others but my distro, Prime, don't pay less for a P+D > produced record than any other. > > Of course, as Tom rightly says, not every distro will go for a P+D. > > Another problem you face is geography. I know people who run labels in the > US, and they have to deal with more than one distributor. I knew a guy that > dealt with over twenty in the US alone, and I only know a couple of people > who only deal with one. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
