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From: Ian Smith <heidi@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Free Records
To: bpalmer@jupiter.willamette.edu
Cc: idm@techno.Stanford.EDU, bpm@andrew.cmu.edu
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In the UK you have to prove to each label that you'll help them promote
their music - by charting their records and sending a chart return to
the three main chart organisations (DJ magazine, DMC and Record
Mirror). That's why the UK Club charts are a completely useless piece
of crap - they're just a count of how many free records one company's
sent out when compared with another. Most of the labels basically
threaten to take you off their mailing list if you don't chart what
they send and it seems the majority just go along with it, charting
rubbish, safe in the knowledge that no-one else will see their chart
and at least it means they'll keep getting free records.
I gathered the situation is a lot different in the US in that as a DJ
you have to join a record pool. The pool ranks you in importance
depending on which venues you play and how often and the labels give
the records to the pools to distribute as they see fit. Seems a much
better system to me because the DJ's aren't under so much pressure to
pretend something crap is good and they can give honest reactions.
So I guess you have to find out what pools are operating in your area
and then try and get on one.
Ian (in the UK)
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