chthonic said:
quoted 8 lines so it's best to get your plan, your label,> so it's best to get your plan, your label,
> your "raison d'etre" totally together so you're not planning on the
> participation of a few big names to make it all come together.
>
> think about the best comps you ever heard and what made them
> great, ask yourself why you want to do one, and if you have enough
> excitement about it, it can become infectious enough to get others
> excited too.
I've noticed that a lot of times, the standout tracks on small-time record
compilations are the otherwise no-name artists.
I'm not quite sure why that is. I personally think that it's because it's
easy to hone one track to near perfection, but doing that with 6-12 songs
is pretty daunting. But I'm sure a lot of it is also simply new artists.
You've gotta get started somehow.
Most compilations with big name artists don't have exclusive tracks
anyway. focus on getting really good things from individual artists who
are new or otherwise unknown but are still making fantastic music that
will fit on the compilation. Make sure you state exactly what kind of
music you're looking for. If you just say "idm" then you'll not only get
a very diverse range of music, you'll probably also end up with a lot less
music overall, simply because artists will think the style is too broad.
As chthonic said, think about other comps.
having a website that doesn't suck and that has the relevant information
is nice, too. i organized and was a small part of a remix chain that was
among people on the old idm-making list, and it's not exactly easy. I had
to set up my own ftp server, make sure people could connect to it, host
the files for people to download, etc. if you're simply harvesting tracks
it's a bit easier to ask for multiple formats, but the fact that there
were about 11 participators in the first chunk and only 6 or so in the
second chunk of the remix chain that i organized should go to show that
it's easy to get people interested, but pretty hard to keep them if things
aren't turning into what they expected.
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