Today; I have finally come to terms with.....

The fact I saw Portishead the other month; so them being my favourite musicians, lyricists and producers in the world I am obsessing with them all over again.

From a conversation on Dubstepforum (which I started ha!) it made me remember the brilliant profile of my favourite band member Adrian Utley; taking you through his home studio in Bristol, Adrian shows enough modular and analogue gear to get even the biggest gear luster a bit happy in their pants while discussing artistic direction, differences, how the band work and why it took them 4 years to write Third with some brilliant quotes which shows you despite being one of the most brilliant minds in music today - he is still a human being!



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As the riots settled down.. Got to finish a new track.

Aftee - Our Empire (Legend4ry's Broken City mix) [final] by Legend4ry

Seems awfully fitting that I finished this, today. This track is a remix of the Aftee tune Our Empire ; I named my remix the Broken City mix due to thats pretty much what was all in my mind while finishing it up this evening.

Hope you all enjoy it and to any of my fellow Londoners and English folk; hope you're safe!

3 ideas on how to make money from music, without selling it

Why do we commerically release music


In the blunt of things, producers pitch music to labels so they can get more exposure which should end up in more gigs, releases and eventually money.

This doesn't make you greedy or not passionate, most musicians dream is to the tour the world and play their music to others who appreciate it and as human beings we need money to survive and have the luxuries we all desire, this is all known but hardly spoke about.

But do you have to release music to achieve those things? I don't think you do in this day n age. Heres a list of ways you could be paid for making music, without actually releasing it under a fixed price tag, without the slow process of releasing it under a label, without contracts and being messed around by a middle man.

These ideas are all self-driven, tried and tested either by me or just widely known for working.

• Give it out free via your own website and charge events, other labels and producers  to advertise on your site, this can be as cheap as 5$ a month! If you can build up a big enough traffic from month to month you'll be able to get people willing to pay you, so your traffic glances at what they want to advertise. Advertising is one of the biggest ways to make money these days, with things like freeium magazines and OnDemand TV all paid by advertising. You can give a service without making the consumer pay for it and still earn money.

• Put it out on established NetLabels (labels who release music for free) and promote yourself as a DJ more than producer. With labels like EchoDub being one of the pioneering labels in the 2nd wave of Dubstep  ( 2008 and onwards) and Dub Techno they started off as a label which put out music for free to gain a fan base before venturing into commerical releases but this can also work with being a DJ. A DJ who is also a established producer is highly attractive to promoters within bass-music as pirate/internet radio is the most popular way to hear new music, if you're being played on credible radio a lot - I can garentee you will have a solid fan base within months. I have known people who had to start DJing because promoters were offering them payed bookings without even knowing if they could DJ.

• Pay-What-You-Like releases; websites like Bandcamp are brilliant ideas - allowing owners of the page you use systems like "Pay-what-you-like" you're essentially giving away your music for free but unlike idea #1 - you are giving people the option to self-evaluate how much money your music is worth to them, not only is this great feedback for any producer it is a welcoming idea to a consumer.

Just some food for thought.

Introducing; Dubbel Shot

One of the most amazing things for me within this world is the fact that there is always going to be someone who is younger and better than you at something while people see this as a realisation that some people are just born with more talent, I take it as an inspiration to step up my game.

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Johnny "Dubbel Shot" Keating is a 16 year old bass head from South East London who is also the front man of indie-punk band The Provokers who came to my attention through mutual friends around 2 years ago with the track Lonely.

Lonely by Dubbel Shot (yes that is him on guitar!)

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From hearing this track I had to get in touch with him to give encouragement to carry on writing unique, atmospheric and organic music which I feel is lacking from today's music.

So a few months pass and I get a AIM pop-up icon saying "dubbel shot wants to send you a file" I rush to click accept and this is how I knew, I will do everything I can to push his music. The track he sent was the master piece that is, You Know I Know.

You Know I Know by Dubbel Shot

With grooving drums, evolving synth stabs and brilliant perc programming, a year later this track STILL gets played out every time I step up in the club, the song is timeless!

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Forget by Dubbel Shot

As you can see, Dubbel Shot is a young, talented diverse producer who is making music which needs more attention which was why he was my #1 to featuring in my introducing series.

Show this guy some support and any labels reading, every track ive posted is unsigned :P.

Tutorial : Creating a Dark Bass Tone