Beatport charts gone crazy? Rumours of a new genre? Read on…

WE HAVE MOVED, PLEASE HEAD OVER HERE, THANKS!: http://www.lostinmusik.net/?p=1086 So Toolroom have worked out a killer strategy for dominating the Beatport charts – bundle 20-40 tracks into a compilation and sell them for a reduced price. (side note: supposedly this isn’t the first time they’ve employed ‘creative’ tactics to chart their tracks, crafty lot they [...]

Dominating Music Downloads and Tensnake Disco

It’s a strange scene when you look at the pie chart for track sales and one of the thirty slices takes up 97% of the pie.  It begs a few questions: 1.  Is it really worth giving distributors a cut of the label’s revenue to distribute to multiple stores when sending it to one would [...]

FREE HOUSE MUSIC?

FREE DOWNLOAD of SNUS EVERYMAN vocal mix to celebrate release of ep

Beatport Mobile

Beatport get moblie with this cool little site for the 3G generation.  As though I dont spend enough money on Beatport already! http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/introducing-beatport-mobile/

Laurent Garnier remix competition

Here’s a new remix competition for you to get your teeth into and your music heard.  Seen as so many demos sent to record labels and handed to DJs go unlistened to, these competitions are a great way to edge yourself into the music industry.  Get the stems from Beatport for $3.99 (link is included [...]

Making money out of music – Part 1

investigation into how to make money out of music

House music downloads -Forbidden Fruit Vol. 1

forbidden fruit vol 1 – latest mix release from forbidden fruit recordings, featuring tracks by tom lennox, darius syrossian & nyra, hacksaw, deepchild, dark room robot, click & zoom,