INDIE NEWS BEAT Week of February 7, 2004
INDIE NEWS BEAT
Week of February 7, 2004
* "The Platinum Age Of The Remix" - New Album By The G-Man
* Jen Elliot National Tour In Support Of "The Secret's Out"
* "Music For The Cure: It's About Eve" Raises Breast Cancer Awareness
* Online Music Business Belongs To Independents
* Calling Film-Video Entries From Emerging Artists And Filmmakers
* X-Rated Super Bowl Stunt Leaves Senator Hatch Exposed
* Getting Records From Concept To Consumer
* The Facts On "Essential Jobs In The Music Industry"
The Platinum Age Of The Remix Is The New Album By The G-Man
On "The Platinum Age of the Remix," top artists from the EU and USA give the royal remix treatment to 12 G-Man tunes that are already dance-worthy and chart-topping.
Remixers:
* Matt Forger. Mr. Forger's name appears on more than 200,000,000 units sold. As producer and engineer, he has worked with Michael Jackson, Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer, Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Bruce Swedien, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Phil Ramone, and David Foster.
* F. Troy. The mysterious and ultra-underground F. Troy is a member of Mortal Loom, the CMJ-charting electronic band. His remixes are so successful, it has been noted that if you were in a club from the 80's on, you have heard the work of F. Troy.
* RD (Random Distribution), whose real name is Serge Minko, has taken his place as one of the most-respected creators of progressive trance and electronic music in Russia. His 2002 remix of The G-Man's "Shari V" went straight to #1 on a Russian dance chart.
* William Morosi. Classically-trained but a jazz improviser, pianist William Morosi has played with orchestras, chamber ensembles, operatic groups, solo artists, and jazz groups of every size. In remixing The G-Man songs, Morosi brings a style that might be called "George Duke on acid" or perhaps "in-the-pocket grooves bounced waaaaaaaaaay out there."
* DJ Insane. "I play dance music with harder, solid oldskool basskicks, sharp synthesizer sounds and blood-rising rhythms," states DJ Insane. His 2002 remix of The G-Man's "Touch When You Dance" reached #5 on an EU dance chart.
Scott G, who records under the name The G-Man, has three albums on Delvian Records, two released (GRIN GROOVE and ELECTRO BOP) with another scheduled for release later in 2004. The G-Man's music is played on college radio and in clubs around the globe. Creator of a new genre of beat-oriented music called grin groove, The G-Man's material has been called "Moby meets Bowie" (by producer Pete Anderson), "Moby meets Devo" (by TV producer Paul Rich), and "The rhythm of machines with melodies of the heart" (by music writer Janis Amy).
Jen Elliot National Tour In Support Of "The Secret's Out"
City Canyons Records are now scheduling venues for a national tour this spring to launch The Secret's Out, the debut CD of City Canyons recording artist Jen Elliott and her band Bluestruck. The tour will also search as a fundraiser for the Daintree Rainforest Project, a project to raise awareness and funds to preserve the magnificent Australian Daintree Rainforest, the most ancient tropical rainforest on earth.
Advance copies of The Secret's Out are charting now in select college top 40s throughout the country including, among many others, WXLV in Shnecksville, PA, KKFI in Kansas City, MO, WBTY in Waltham, MA, WSDP in Canton, MI, WYCT in Fort Wayne, IN, WDTS in Georgetown, Delaware, WJUL/WUML in Lowell, MA, WMKY in Morehead, KY, WUMM in Machias, ME, WYBF in Radnor, PA, WWEC in Elizabethtown, PA, SWUR in Salisbury, MD, WPMD in Norwalk, CA, WPHS in Warren, MI, WODU in Norfolk, VA, WWUH in West Hartford CT and WRUB in Amherst, NY.
Jen has been nationally acclaimed with reviewers announcing her as a new charismatic presence introducing a fresh and winning blend of music mixing rock, pop and blues, comparing her voice to Janis Joplin's, Grace Slick's, Bonnie Raitt's and her songwriting ability to Sheryl Crow's. She's been called the hottest emerging artist in New York and the top indie artist of 2003.
For the Daintree Rainforest Project, City Canyons Records has created a special song, the haunting "Children of the Rain" which is now on sale on as a free bonus companion CD to The Secret's Out which will be performed at every venue on The Secret's Out tour. A significant portion of ticket receipts from venues and sales and other revenues from The Secret's Out will be earmarked for the Rainforest Project to purchase back the Rainforest alnd for generations to come.
Fore Reel Entertainment & MusicDish Network To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness
Independent record label Fore Reel Entertainment and music industry magazine MusicDish announced that they would launch a massive online campaign in support of "Music For The Cure: It's About Eve". The purpose of the CD is to promote Breast Cancer Awareness to young women and support indie female artists with 100% of net proceeds going to benefit The TJ Martell Foundation, The Libby Ross Foundation and The Comedy Cures Foundation.
"I was drawn to MusicDish through the Internet presence that they have provided various artists I have been tracking," said Hernando Courtright, co-President of Fore Reel Entertainment. "It affords an artist or indie label an alternative promotional campaign that would be time consuming to pursue without the network that MusicDish provide."
The compilation CD spotlights thirteen indie female artists and features Joan Jett on the bonus track "The Word" (Lennon and McCartney). The group Lava Baby was picked up by Liquid Eight/BMG as a result of the CD. The CD received an Album Spotlight Pick and a feature article in Billboard magazine.
DEMO Forecasts Online Music Business Belongs To Independents
The DEMO Report 2004 forecasts that--The future of the online music business does not belong to the major labels; it belongs to the true independents.
For the very first time in music business history, the recording artists can have total control over their creative works and, at the same time, have a direct and interactive connection with music fans from around the world.
Even though the United States of America is currently leading the world in online music sales, it is Europe who will be the eventual and perennial world leader in online music sales for many decades to come. No one company, or hand-full of companies, will control Europe; rather, she will have several different major players in each country and hundreds of thousands of independent musicians collectively outselling the majors. Unlike North America, Europe will also offer a greater selection of genres and subgenres of music, not only from their own continent but from around the
New Screen Broadcasting Call For Film-Video Entries From Emerging Artists, Students And Filmmakers
New Screen Broadcasting Corporation is accepting film and video entries for television broadcast on WRCF, Channel 29, Orlando, Florida. New Screen is dedicated to film and video; with a mission to give opportunity and exposure to students, emerging artists, and established filmmakers. Orlando is ranked as a top 20 media market.
Mark Astrom, President of New Screen said, "We have created this medium to give artists and film makers an opportunity for their work to be seen. As a fellow artist I know the need for exposure: gallery or theatre. WRCF is that venue for exposure for films and video."
X-Rated Super Bowl Stunt By RIAA Member-Label Artist Leaves Orrin Hatch Exposed
Las Vegas-based Webcaster Alliance launched a new round of attacks against Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch today and is urging Americans to hold the Senator accountable for misleading claims about pornography on P2P networks while at the same time protecting the special interests of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Senator recently introduced the Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003 (the EnFORCE Act), which requires the Department of Justice to, "report to Congress detailed information about the scope of its efforts to investigate and prosecute crimes involving the sexual exploitation of minors or intellectual property."
Webcaster Alliance contends the EnFORCE Act has little if anything to do with protecting children or enhancing obscenity reporting. Instead, the organization believes it is simply another deal designed by Orrin Hatch, specifically to expand exemptions intended to protect the RIAA from legitimate legal claims of monopolistic, anticompetitive behavior.
"In light of the disgusting display during the Halftime show of the Super Bowl, I think it is outrageous for Senator Hatch to maintain his support of the RIAA, while continuing to espouse the evils of P2P networks," said Ann Gabriel, President of Webcaster Alliance.
NARIP Workshop: "The Independent Distribution Solution: Getting Records From Concept To Consumer"
Join us at NARIP's next workshop and gain knowledge in the areas of distribution how-to's, sales terms and territories. Learn about working with a network of independents -- the strengths and weaknesses of such an arrangement and how to harness everyone to work as a team. And the all-important payment terms and priorities.
Clay Pasternack is President of Clay Pasternack Inc. (CPI) where he consults to record companies, handles regional and national accounts, oversees sales for distribution / manufacturing / fulfillment, and conducts research and development of CD reissues for independent and major labels. A 35-year veteran in the independent music industry, he has held executive positions at independent distributors such as Wildcat, R. M. S., Best & Gold, Transcontinental and others. He is on the AFIM Board of Trustees and is currently Co-Executive Director.
L*A*M*P (Los Angeles Music Productions) has the goal of shining light on the music industry and they are turning up the wattage with four special events each Thursday evening in February
Feb. 5th, 7-9pm: The Role of the Music Supervisor.
Laura Wasserman and Darren Higman, both highly-respected in the industry, will discuss all aspects of what they do, including who they work with, licensing major artists vs. independent artists, how long the process takes, how much it costs, how music for soundtracks is chosen, how to work with directors, and more -- even how to become a music supervisor.
Feb. 12th, 7-9pm: The Role of an A&R Rep.
Joe Poindexter, Director of A&R for Geffen/Elementree (the Geffen label owned by Jonathan Davis of Korn), will discuss the role of an A&R rep -- what they do, who they work with, the process of signing an artist, what they look for in an artist, a typical "day in the life" of an A&R rep, A&R career paths, how to become an A&R rep, and more.
Feb. 19th, 7-9pm: The Role of a Music Publicist/Journalist.
Music Connection magazine's Bernard Baur and Tom Kidd will talk about how publicists and journalists can be an artist's connection between the streets and the suites.
Feb 26, 7-9pm: The Role of an Artist Manager.
Kenny Kerner, artist manager and director of the Music/Business Program at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, will discuss the role of an artist manager, beginning with how to get in on the ground floor, what he faces during a typical day, and more. It's a "crash course" for artist managers (and very helpful for artists as well).
Provided by the MusicDish Network. Copyright Tag It 2004 - Republished with Permission