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Rtch Kallan Flash Point EP

Premiere: Rtch Kallan’s Flash Point EP Packs Melodic Punches

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Rtch Kallan‘s Flash Point EP packs three tracks with warm, highly emotive, melodic keys and driving kicks. The Northern-England-based artist and label head isn’t in it alone and welcomes other UK-based talent on remix duties. Rtch Kallan talks about how organizing music events put him on the path to further his love for the electronic scene. However, it’s only 20 years later that he’s able to create his own opportunity with the accumulated knowledge. He also shares the shifts in the underground within the last two decades from pre-social media days to current times where the tiny mobile screen is king.

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Lee Burridge Music and Joy

Lee Burridge: Getting Lost in Music & Finding Joy

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Lee Burridge is not one for the limelight, yet somehow he found his way into a career that puts you front and center of it all. Taking to the DJ booth, he’s been commanding dancefloors all over the world for the past 30 years. However, while he’s become a well-respected electronic music mainstay, for Lee Burridge, music has always been the centerpiece. “I was on the microphone asking people to move their cars, so people could go home,” says Burridge reminiscing on his beginnings as a wedding DJ and playing at local nightclubs.  “I loved music, and actually is the same reason I DJ today is because I love music and love to share it.”

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Luke Alessi

Luke Alessi Shares Lockdown Health and Wellness Tips

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With our focus being on dance music, we’ve found that there are few better to glean inspiration from than artists and professionals as well. This week, we open our doors to burgeoning Australian producer, Luke Alessi.

Living in a time of global transition and uncertainty, mental and physical health take utmost precedence. It’s why we’ve been putting in extra hours to provide our industry readers with resources for doing so, while taking up new routines ourselves to keep sane and active.

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Quality & Traits of a Successful Music Producer and DJ

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With today’s technology advancements, it’s easy for almost anyone to translate their passion for electronic music into a career.

The myth of the bedroom producer is no longer a myth, and we often hear stories of discovered artists who broke through in the industry after putting in countless hours in the studio, honing their craft and grinding until their hard work paid off. We recently gave some tips on how to increase productivity in your home studio, tackling important subjects such as ergonomic studio set-ups, removing distractions, labeling samples, learning shortcuts and more.

But what makes someone a successful music artist? What traits must one possess to really get the most out of one’s passion for music production and/or DJing? While there are a lot of factors that come into play to make it in the music world, in order to turn passion into a career you must truly want it.

Here are some qualities most successful music artists possess, compiled after tens of hours of interviews with successful international DJs and electronic music producers.

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Playa 101: Burning Man Advice Curated by David Hohme

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Over the last decade, David Hohme has been captivating hearts on dance-floors worldwide. The Brooklyn-based producer dropped his debut EP Soft Landing on the world-renowned label Anjunadeep this past April. Featuring three originals, and a mesmerizing remix by Jody Wisternoff and James Grant, Soft Landing is a luminous EP that leaves music-lovers afloat.
Hohme was also recently thrilled to see his collaboration work with Francesca Lombardo and Jonnie King, entitled “MöMy” reach audiences worldwide this past May 11th with a release on Echoe.

 

It’s therefore safe to say that Hohme has had a prolific year thus far, but we also know that it is anything but over. As summer approaches, he is getting ready for the yearly pilgrimage to Burning Man, where he will join tens of thousands of other music, art and life lovers for the yearly appointment on the Playa.

As a Burning Man vet, Hohme was kind enough to share with us 5 key tips for a successful Burn. Enjoy the insight below.

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10 Tips To Succeed in the Music Business: Seth Troxler

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Want to become a better music producer and actually succeed in the music business? Jack of Mastered by Jack has been working in music for the last 20 years, having amassed a great amount of knowledge and experience on what and how music is meant to sound like.

Jack translates this experience into a business by providing mastering and sound engineering services as well as tools and tips for producers to succeed in their production endeavors. As part of this he collects important tips shared by recognized and successful producers/DJs.

First up is Detroit-raised and London-based Seth Troxler, who shares 10 tips on how to succeed in the music business, with emphasis on music production.

Watch the video with Seth below and read on for a bullet-point list of his tips:

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5 Money Tips for Music Artists

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Guest post by Nick Garcia, label manager of Sharam’s Yoshitoshi Recordings.

For all it’s chocked up to be, the DJ/producer lifestyle is usually not as glamorous as it sounds, especially when it comes to money.  For every uber-successful artist with a Porsche and a villa in Ibiza, there are countless more who don’t know where their next rent check will come from.  Performance, remix, and licensing fees don’t just fall from the sky, and chances are those streaming statements can barely pay for a cup of coffee.  Therefore, I’ve compiled five tips for artists who find themselves struggling financially to maximize what their money can do, both now and in the future.

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Advice and Tips on Getting the Best Deal on Your Hardware Sequencer

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Electronic music artists are always on the lookout for new outboard gear. Buying hardware sequencers, synthesizers, drum machines and effects units used to be costly and hard. Nowadays there are a lot of companies selling this equipment at cost. Electronic music artists who want a more hands-on experience are keener on using a hardware sequencer to get their rhythms and melodies to the studio. Discogs even launched Gearogs last week, a market place where buyers can shop for synthesizers, DJ mixers, drum machines, tape machines and more.

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Artist Advice: How To Use Spotify To Get Ahead Of The Game

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Guest post by entrepreneur and author George Goodrich. George co-founded DemoDrop.com and StudioSessions.Tv, two music-tech companies with bases in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. An avid techno and house music listener, George specializes in crafting innovative digital strategies to help artists thrive, with experience working dance music events in Australia, Europe and Mexico for The BPM Festival. His latest book Slotify Method: How to Use Spotify Playlists to Launch Your Career in Music dives into the growing importance of Spotify as a tool for emerging artists, with tools on how to gain millions of streams, make money off of Spotify and gain attention from labels and talent buyers. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.

 

I just read an article titled “Guide to Dance Music Marketing” that touched on the subject of Instagram Bots (really?), SoundCloud Playlists and YouTube Playlists. The scariest part of the article was the “2017” in the title.

Today more than ever it is crucial to take advantage of the best and newest technology on music platforms available. 80% of people going to YouTube are looking for a specific song (not your music) and SoundCloud continues to irritate its creators by taking away key features. Believe it or not, Spotify is dominating in artist discovery and helping launch new artists careers.

Spotify is quickly becoming more and more popular in the electronic music community. Many artists have jumped on the bandwagon and are developing a solid and thriving presence on this relatively new platform. Artists like T.E.E.D., with his randomly titled playlists like “Office” and “Bedroom”, or Dosem with his regularly updated “Housestrike” playlist are gathering hundreds of new followers and generating thousands of streams. Even Marco Carola is dropping Spotify Playlists to promote Music On. Here are three key parts of Spotify that can get you ahead of the game.

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Finding and Winning Competitions for DJs and Producers

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Guest post by Eric Louis

Whether you’re an aspiring DJ, producer or both, competitions are a great way to hone your craft and get noticed. The nature of competitions forces you to do two important things: you have a deadline so you have to get your work done in a set time frame, and you have to put something out there for the world to hear.

Winners of these competitions usually get a release on known labels and other prizes like Dj/production related software and hardware, as well as exposure that could translate into new bookings and opportunities.

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