Stamp! Beats: Publishing
So, in this post there were plans to talk about publishing, what it is, and the benefits of being a published artist, etc, however it was remembered that Simon Pursehouse of Sentric Music had done a very good blog post about such matters only very recently, which summarises everything an artist needs to know, way better than we could spout in a single post, about publishing. If you want to know more please click here and read the 'The Idiots Guide To Making Money From Your Music Publishing Rights'. Reading this article and understanding certain publishing issues further than you currently do could be the deciding factor in whether you accept or decline a deal in the future, if you are an artist.
Obviously, once upon a time our knowledge of publishing was considerably less than it is today (this article was not around either), but we have still declined a couple of publishing deals over the years, as we sought advice from people in the know, and begun to understand what we were looking at when presented with splits/percentages and terms of engagement, which, in hindsight was the best possible thing to have done, fortunately. Understanding publishing is very important if you don't want to get fleeced, and worse still, locked into an agreement with someone you grow to dislike (as you become a publishing expert yourself!) for years and years to come.
Read it, email it to friends, share the knowledge. After all, knowledge is power (according to Sir Francis Bacon... and frankly, we'd have to agree with him).
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For our ninth release we enlisted the vocal talents of Hannah T. We had been trying to utilise Hannah on a track for a while before ‘Just Fall’ came together, to the point where we had a selection of her acapellas sat on the hard drive to be used whenever inspiration was lacking! When finalising the arrangement and mix on ‘Just Fall’ it became rather apparent, to us at least, that the track bore a rather large resemblance to Magnetic Man’s ‘Perfect Stranger’, although we can guarantee it was conceived before we had ever heard that record. At the time of starting ‘Just Fall’, we really didn’t think the idea of having trancey vocals and riffs over a 140bpm breakbeat had a such potential. With hindsight, the main fault we have with the original track was that we chose a chord progression to sit under the vocals that didn’t lend itself particularly well to getting a huge bass heavy sub line underneath, which, when you're making such a track is kind of an important factor. We managed to combat this problem when doing our alternative version by ditching the majority of the melodic aspects of the original and only using rather sparse vocal cuts, and sticking a massively distorted, (un-tuned) 808 kick drum in for the bassline, which, as many people know, has untold amounts of low end sub frequencies. The 2-step vibe we went with on the remix is something we have experimented with in a few remixes of late, as it a style of music that easily enables us to put our own stamp on it and retain a largely musical element. 2-step remixes can also be made to fit in the often slightly awkward tempo bracket of 132-140 bpm, which can often prove helpful for DJ sets, etc. There is very little to be said for the remix that Udachi did for this release, except that it is criminal that it took us so long to enlist his talents in the '12x12', and that he turned in an absolutely awesome, impeccably detailed monster of a club remix for us! It is certainly a favourite from the guest remixes we’ve commissioned throughout the project.
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HeavyFeet ft. Hannah T - Just Fall
Stamp! Beats
Release Date: 06.12.10
For our ninth release we enlisted the vocal talents of Hannah T. We had been trying to utilise Hannah on a track for a while before ‘Just Fall’ came together, to the point where we had a selection of her acapellas sat on the hard drive to be used whenever inspiration was lacking! When finalising the arrangement and mix on ‘Just Fall’ it became rather apparent, to us at least, that the track bore a rather large resemblance to Magnetic Man’s ‘Perfect Stranger’, although we can guarantee it was conceived before we had ever heard that record. At the time of starting ‘Just Fall’, we really didn’t think the idea of having trancey vocals and riffs over a 140bpm breakbeat had a such potential. With hindsight, the main fault we have with the original track was that we chose a chord progression to sit under the vocals that didn’t lend itself particularly well to getting a huge bass heavy sub line underneath, which, when you're making such a track is kind of an important factor. We managed to combat this problem when doing our alternative version by ditching the majority of the melodic aspects of the original and only using rather sparse vocal cuts, and sticking a massively distorted, (un-tuned) 808 kick drum in for the bassline, which, as many people know, has untold amounts of low end sub frequencies. The 2-step vibe we went with on the remix is something we have experimented with in a few remixes of late, as it a style of music that easily enables us to put our own stamp on it and retain a largely musical element. 2-step remixes can also be made to fit in the often slightly awkward tempo bracket of 132-140 bpm, which can often prove helpful for DJ sets, etc. There is very little to be said for the remix that Udachi did for this release, except that it is criminal that it took us so long to enlist his talents in the '12x12', and that he turned in an absolutely awesome, impeccably detailed monster of a club remix for us! It is certainly a favourite from the guest remixes we’ve commissioned throughout the project.
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As always, thanks for reading, we hope the post has been of insight.
M&J
