WingsOfAnAngel
Banned
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 3
As ya'll know, mercury and I have been trying to breakthrough with our project: haloDim.
After a long period of hard work (8-10 months), we've got the product ready; 18 tracks + 18 poems (one for each track, in form of a dialogue between merc and myself). we've made a list of possible labels, and decided to send the cd to Day By Day.
2 weeks ago, we got an email from the A&R, telling us how much he loves the album and so on. here's the summary of the first reply: "I listened to a part of the album, and I THINK
IT's CRAZY! You had me typing out lyircs man!!! this album just has that dope nyc 1997 underground feel. but i aint saying it's dated cause it's like timeless. like company flow's album".
and here's the final reply we got yesterday: "We sat down and went through material that we received, and although I really liked your album, the others weren't feeling it like that. That's on a P&D or picking it up as a label tip. However, if you are interested in straight distro, I can see what's up with that".
straight distro is not bad, but it's WAY TOO EXPENSIVE for us. if we had crazy $$$, we'd prolly go for it. but we don't have that kind of money.
thus, we're moving on; the next label shall be def jux and after that (probably) mush.
so, as you see, this industry(pretty much) sucks. i can understand them though - if they are not sure about our chances to sell a certain amount of copies, it wouldn't be wise of them to agree and sign us.
the BIG problem is that nowadays business comes first. it should be vice versa - music MUST always come first. eventually, at least for us, it's all about the music and not the money. let's see what happens next. we'll keep ya'll up to date!
thank you for the massive support :thumb:
Thanks for reading,
Wings
After a long period of hard work (8-10 months), we've got the product ready; 18 tracks + 18 poems (one for each track, in form of a dialogue between merc and myself). we've made a list of possible labels, and decided to send the cd to Day By Day.
2 weeks ago, we got an email from the A&R, telling us how much he loves the album and so on. here's the summary of the first reply: "I listened to a part of the album, and I THINK
IT's CRAZY! You had me typing out lyircs man!!! this album just has that dope nyc 1997 underground feel. but i aint saying it's dated cause it's like timeless. like company flow's album".
and here's the final reply we got yesterday: "We sat down and went through material that we received, and although I really liked your album, the others weren't feeling it like that. That's on a P&D or picking it up as a label tip. However, if you are interested in straight distro, I can see what's up with that".
straight distro is not bad, but it's WAY TOO EXPENSIVE for us. if we had crazy $$$, we'd prolly go for it. but we don't have that kind of money.
thus, we're moving on; the next label shall be def jux and after that (probably) mush.
so, as you see, this industry(pretty much) sucks. i can understand them though - if they are not sure about our chances to sell a certain amount of copies, it wouldn't be wise of them to agree and sign us.
the BIG problem is that nowadays business comes first. it should be vice versa - music MUST always come first. eventually, at least for us, it's all about the music and not the money. let's see what happens next. we'll keep ya'll up to date!
thank you for the massive support :thumb:
Thanks for reading,
Wings
