Ask a music scene micro celebrity

[electrical]

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Never heard of the Manics' Holy Bible? The last 20 years of British music has been atrocious?

For someone who seems to pride himself on economical, precise answers this one seems either lazy, xenophobic or stupid.

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Or economical and precise. There have been a few interesting British bands in the last 20 years (if pressed, I could probably name ten), but the UK music scene taken as a whole? Throw it in the chipper.

[electrical]

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Im an amateur upcoming drum and bass/ house/garage producer and was told that to make money i should cu my tunes to vinyl and sell them as white labels to a record shop...

Is this true electrical?

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I have no idea. I have heard anecdotally that white labels sell quite well to DJs, and there used to be a shop near our studio called Just Dance that specialized in white labels, but I don't know the current state of the DJ bait market.

[Xylem]

Tx electrical....

But the UK music scene is way better than the US... Can u say Arctic Monkeys...

[No Fizzle]

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Tx electrical....

But the UK music scene is way better than the US... Can u say Arctic Monkeys...

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[Hanys]

Name those ten interesting British bands of the last 20 years. If not ten, then at least some. Press you.

Do you like any of Meat Puppets albums? Songs? Jokes?

I read you call one of those todays-music-sucks gurus a defeatist. But I sort of understand them. I feel like growing old backwards, kind of. When it comes to music, definitely, instead of seeing the nwe bands, new music innovative compared to the old one, I actually hear any new approach only when searching in the past. Can't avoid the comparsion, can't listen to what I consider [censored]. You're a recording engineer or/and technican or/and whatever, you can't afford to give up on music saying it sucks like many of the fans do. Still, don't you feel that.. [censored].

Don't you feel retarded sometimes? If you take that as an offense, it's not my problem as long as you answer those questions I asked. Thanks.

[Hamas]

You recorded the Owls record a few years back... what is your impression of their band, and of Tim Kinsella? He seems to have an odd reputation around Chicago.

Also, if you have any good David Yow stories I'm sure the forum would love to read them.

[unsignedstudios]

Hello steve, this is my first post.

Would love to get some tips off you, not so much on a technical level as i'm sure you've done that to death but more how you've got your name your name out there.

At the moment I'm doing what’s probably the typical, finding 2 or 3 bands (outside of paying clients) i see making leeway and giving them free recording time in the hope that i can use they're name as a reference in the future. From these few free sessions they've all been blown away with results, most likely that’s because they thought it was just going to be studio practice for them and a bit of a throw away.

I suppose another question is, did you find specific scenes had they’re own ‘click’ and you had to socialise or do specific things to get in with them. Whether it was record labels or bands leading that specific genre.

I see a lot more of this hush hush bubble that bands seem to be in the further I dig (slyly, always slyly). So if they’re was a moment you were giving a golden age of recording how did it happen and did you stop it due to burning yourself out or are you still there chugging away?

Please have a look at my website or myspace if you get the chance, just to see what I’m up to etc.

www.myspace.com/unsignedstudiosuk
www.unsignedstudios.com


Thanks for any responses
Shane

[felix83]

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Hello steve, this is my first post.

Would love to get some tips off you, not so much on a technical level as i'm sure you've done that to death but more how you've got your name your name out there.

At the moment I'm doing what’s probably the typical, finding 2 or 3 bands (outside of paying clients) i see making leeway and giving them free recording time in the hope that i can use they're name as a reference in the future. From these few free sessions they've all been blown away with results, most likely that’s because they thought it was just going to be studio practice for them and a bit of a throw away.

I suppose another question is, did you find specific scenes had they’re own ‘click’ and you had to socialise or do specific things to get in with them. Whether it was record labels or bands leading that specific genre.

I see a lot more of this hush hush bubble that bands seem to be in the further I dig (slyly, always slyly). So if they’re was a moment you were giving a golden age of recording how did it happen and did you stop it due to burning yourself out or are you still there chugging away?

Please have a look at my website or myspace if you get the chance, just to see what I’m up to etc.

www.myspace.com/unsignedstudiosuk
www.unsignedstudios.com


Thanks for any responses
Shane

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Why is it that people find this opportunity important enough to register and post a whole long message, but not important enough to read any of the rest of the thread?

[damntang]

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Never heard of the Manics' Holy Bible? The last 20 years of British music has been atrocious?

For someone who seems to pride himself on economical, precise answers this one seems either lazy, xenophobic or stupid.

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Or economical and precise. There have been a few interesting British bands in the last 20 years (if pressed, I could probably name ten), but the UK music scene taken as a whole? Throw it in the chipper.

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The thing is with the UK music scene is, it's too focused on bland 'bloke' types lazily strumming acoustic guitars, trying to be romantic with out sounding like a 'poof' and singing in a pub yawn.

Most of the bands are trying to write songs that people will jump up and down to at festivals or songs that will be played on 'Match of the Day' goal highlihgts...or even worse fame school [censored] who have a style to sell to Topman.

MSP, in particular 'The Holy Bible' are an acception to the rule...(Achieves of Pain anyone?)

[No Fizzle]

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Why is it that people find this opportunity important enough to register and post a whole long message, but not important enough to read any of the rest of the thread?

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