The Concepts of Digital Record Labels

Do you need a record deal? With everyone talking about how much the music industry is "changing" these days, many musicians wonder if they really need to worry about demos and labels any more, or if all of that traditional music business stuff is just so passe. In fact, you've probably heard a lot of people tell you that you definitely DON'T need a label - that labels are only taking a cut of your earnings for something that you could be doing by yourself anyway. The truth really isn't quite that easy.

First - yes, you CAN release your record yourself. There are more avenues than ever before for indie music in general, and that means musicians have a better shot at success with a self release now. But make no mistake about it - there's nothing especially revolutionary in the model of self releasing your record. You're not "skipping" the record label - you're really starting a record label. If you're serious about selling your music and trying to make a living, then you are going to have to do everything a record label would do - both in terms of work and finances. The better question is whether you NEED a label - really, you don't - but whether or not you are ready, willing and able to do everything involved in running your own label.And as we proceed towards an awareness of what it really means to socially network and create a buzz following by just applying ourselfs the closer we all will learn that this self empowerment time period is very important to advancing our passions and careers to DA-NEXT-LEVEL!

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Blessings on your spirit Mi2n and Eric Fontenay, I Have alot of love 4 you and your teams its our destiny thats is

about to reveal whom our inner divine spirits and leaderships are directed by ,the surpreme power and creator of

the greatest gift and power of all gifts music has again save us from our selfs and that is very special and

beautiful within this scope of the secret laws of attractions which as always bring and connect like minds as One!
Eric U your visions,experience,and knowledge have help pave the way to the myspaces,facebooks,reverbnations,and

even in my humble beginnings on FUNKHOPMUSICINC http://www.onlinerock.com/services/trackman which has now been 8yrs to this special

day 2 all of my strides and experiences to DA-NEXT-LEVEL OF what was and now is socialdigitalstarz networking,and FUNKHOP-INC AND NOW A BRAND NAME "FUNKHOPSTARZONLY ENT,LLC 4 the

future of our gifts,passions and talents your marketing,promotions,and acknowledgement which has always been the

future of this business of multimedia entertainment career passion is now a real platform and thats a blessings and

thanks from my spiritual awareness to yours Thanks 4 being whom Our universal creator made you to be, now we can

really prosper it was already written.
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Majors Labels Are Now Seeing Digital Is The Key!

For the major labels, MySpace Music is the cumulation of more than 18 months of experimentation in new business

models and a launching pad for their digital music strategies for the future. While detractors continue to level

criticisms against them for their alleged role in hindering the digital music market with complicated licensing

demands and other limitations, the majors have largely reassessed their approach to the Internet, spurred by the

continued slide in physical music sales.

During the year and a half leading up to the launch, the majors have signed unprecedented deals opening the door to

ad-supported free streaming, digital rights management-free music sales and reduced licensing costs in return for
revenue share and/or company equity.

The joint venture of the News Corp. subsidiary and Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music

Group, EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, MySpace Music Service represents a turning point for the recording

industry and MySpace itself has now place the recording industry in better light to hopfully gain

the trust of the future digital music and its new unlimited support system which is the social networking,promotions,marketing and the internet the www concept has changed the way of control and its deceit to an open forum and its focus of we can do this ourselfs now with the new digital thinking ways of this y2k generation which now have seen the we don't need a major to sell our music for $10.00 and get only a $1.00 and 15cents back in sales ,wow this really is the new deal for an artist whom now can get $7.00 now because of this new digital distribution and social media outlets.Even as we proceed to this new way of thinking and inner faith and power of just applying the useful new tools and outlets marketed to us some undevelop artists still want a major record deal and thats only because of mental programming with the control factor of this is the onlyway to the top and really the key element is making a living with your passions and gifts.Experience and its ups and downs with some deals and no deals with bigger bills will always reach one and teach some but at lease the talent searchs,showcases etc are on the minds of the majors because they will not survive it they can't sell no product and the lifelines are and always will be hot new acts and trendsetters.

All these elements are present in the MySpace Music deal. As such, the service represents less of an experiment and

more of a template for future agreements.

"It highlights the shift in our business to bring business models to the market that meet where the demand is for

our music," UMG's eLabs division executive vp Rio Caraeff said. "It's the single largest thing we've done to change

the way we do business around the way the customer wants to experience music."

Caraeff says to expect further flexibility in digital music deals in the near future. Among other things, this

means including access to the Universal catalog in software development kits that give developers the ability to

create new applications with built-in music licensing.

"You'll see more from us going forward in this area," he said. "The notion of creating and enabling more innovation

around music than would normally occur under our prior modes of doing business is very important to us. We

recognize that the ways we can think of music are not the only ways music can be used online. We would like to see

tens of thousands of instances of music being used in creative ways in interesting apps online with less friction

and less hassle."

For MySpace, the service represents a significant expansion from a simple social networking site billed as "a place

for friends" to a content-driven service billed as "a place for music," using its core community features as its

foundation.

"The whole consumption patterns for both music and video have changed a great deal in the last five years," MySpace

co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe said. "We wanted to put together a music service consistent with those changing

patterns and layer a business model around it."

The social networking giant has long served two masters -- the artists with profiles on the service and the music

fans with the same. There are more than 5 million bands with MySpace profiles, and while MySpace doesn't provide a

specific breakdown, the vast majority are independent or unsigned artists.

There Goes Schefren Again Of Strategicprofits!

Just when I think Rich Schefren has topped himself, he
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Adobe The Trend Setters Of Digital Innovation.....!

The term innovation may refer to both radical and incremental changes in thinking, in things, in processes or in services.When it comes to a well branded multimedia company that has the visions,talent and services Adobe comes to mind for all multimedia creators,webdesigners etc.

Adobe Systems has introduced an all-new Creative Suite 4 product line.

The new software, an update of Creative Suite 3 launched last year, emphasizes on a simplified workflow system, Flash integration, support for community feature expansions and application interoperability within the suite.

The Creative Suite 4 features new, improved tools and application interoperability that will aid creative process operations for professionals in print, interactive, web, audio-video production and mobile, the company said. The new software includes 13 standalone products, 14 integrated technologies, and seven services.

Amazon.com had 'accidentally' put up Adobe InDesign CS4 for Mac details on their website with screenshots and feature details four days back. In the CS4 product lineup, Adobe offers CS4 Design, CS4 Web, CS4 Production Premium and CS4Master Collection.



Adobe has been working to improve the workflow through seamless integration and interoperability amongst standalone applications without disturbing the suite ecosystem: Changes made to an object in one application are seamlessly tracked and understood by other application from the CS4 product family.

After buying Macromedia, the company has been working towards Flash integration in its standalone applications. Hence, Adobe has introduced flash-based panels within individual suite members which are faster than those in previous versions. Also, the preset styles in pull-down menus aids quick-shifting amongst workspace layouts. Besides that a number of features are added in this update. Like in the CS4, Photoshop will be able to use the GPU power for intensive tasks and speed up the operations. A graphics card supporting OpenGL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0 is necessary, along with a minimum 2GHz processor, and 2GB RAM.

More SuperStar Artists Prepare for Digital Futures

It all Started with the recording artist Formally know as Prince .In May 2000 Prince dropped the symbol O(+> he adopted as a name. He had used the symbol because he considered his record contract with Warner Bros. Records oppressive, which ended in 2000.And from his efforts as a free agent prince enabled the digital concept of his own website where his fans would have direct access to his music and the rest became an historic event(the first digital artist to sale over $7,000,000.00 in the downloads digital concept)of what is seen as now a smart business move by many past decade superstar recording stars,that now are starting see that the majors can't compete with the digital concepts and have no more control over the media and the old payola system which went something like this "Pay-for-play," in which airtime is bought but the payments are disclosed, is still around. In January 1998, Flip/Interscope Records paid a Portland, Oregon radio station $5,000 to play one Limp Bizkit song 50 times over a five-week period. The band was able to generate enough interest to play a successful concert there. Other stations showed interest in their music, and Limp Bizkit broke into the music biz in a big way--a great argument for free enterprise if you're a Limp Bizkit fan. However, the argument against pay-for-play, even if the parties are upfront about it, is that it allows big labels to buy their artists' way onto the charts.So this is where we are at now the new digital multimedia sharing,marketing and promotions of media platform where everybody is all on the same playing feild to control their careers and can't get cheated no more out of whats real and whats fake the next superstar artist to know see this change come and also was apart of that old payola system of pay for play,and now less sales is none other than janet jackson as apart of the change thats coming and has conceptually arrived(they can't pay for play no more so now the real talent can be heard seen and make a living form their passions and life long dreams.

After less than two years on Island Def Jam (IDJ) Janet Jackson has announced her departure from the storied label.

Janet inked a lucrative deal with Island in July of 2007 and released her first album, Discipline, on the label in early 2008. When sales failed to meet expectations, the Grammy award-winning singer expressed her dissatisfaction with Island Def Jam(IDJ) telling the reported media outlets that the label stopped pushing the disc.(Pay4Play) its over now.

“They just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album,” she said in a previous interview.

Janet has since asked to be released and Island Def Jam has complied.

“At her request, the record label has agreed to dissolve their working relationship with the popular artist,” Jackson’s rep said in a statement. “Now, more than 20 years after the release of her iconic album, Control, Janet will have autonomy over her career, without the restrictions of a label system.”

According to Jackson’s publicist, she is looking forward to being one of the first superstar artists to have the individual freedom that comes along with being a free agent.

Currently on the road for the first time in 7 years, Jackson’s “Rock Witchu Tour" features LL Cool J and Donnie Klang. It kicked off on September 10th in Vancouver, BC and will make stops in major cities across the United States and Canada.

Marketing, PR, Social Media, Blogs, Promotions.

What comes first in the new multimedia universal scope of this business of music and entertainment; Marketing or PR? New Age Marketing for 2009 Music 2 DA-NEXT-LEVEL which in actually is already in motion as the banking industry has already indicated with the new emerging banking industry takeover which will infact make Charlotte,N.C. the new wall street and success will follow when it comes to multimedia entertainment.The carolina's both NC and SC is already being tagged by entertainment industry experts, as the last untapped market in this business of music with Charlotte,N.C.(Queen City,Ka'ca'lacc, New Top City). How to write the ever changing marketing plan. Building Relationships for what they’re worth. Pitching your story and getting major and minor press. The Press Release. Marketing Your Music through Social Networks. How to build an audience. Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Blogs. Today’s Merchandising. New Marketing Tools. How to gain Identity. Promotional tools, techniques and solutions that work.

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Blessings on your spirit,the surpreme power and creator of the greatest gift and power of all gifts music has again

save us from our selfs and that is very special and beautiful within this scope of the secret laws of attractions

which as always bring and connect like minds as One!
FunkHopStarzOnly Ent,LLC/FUNKHOPMUSIC-INC/TooIced Music Publishing
Ron"TraXman"Carter
"Thank Da Lord"
DA-NEXT-LEVEL
http://www.myspace.com/funkhopmusicinc
http://www.socialdigitalstarz.blogspot.com
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http://www.myspace.com/UrbanFunkHopStarzOnlyRandB
http://tagged.com/funkhopstarz
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Stay Focus!