record label subscriptions

[lloydc]

Wondering if anyone else knows of any labels offering a subscription service. I found out that minus (richie hawtins label) offers people a yearly subsription where they can download every release within that 12months.

Just wondering if anyone else knows of any other labels doing the same thing?

[DjDennis]

sba music has one for Djs

[Skank]

i think most labels do it but you still have to pay for the downloads

[DjDennis]

of course - you get nothing for free these days

not like the old days you would be sent 20x 12" Vinyl in the post once a month

now its never done

you buy it all or you dont buy at all

[eggssell]

ummm well fools gold and mad decent usually put up 320KBS remixes of their current release (or even better Fools Gold will put up a mix of their current release you cant buy, i.e. only for the blog people) for free.

ive asked before about the legality of using these to play seeing as they have been released by the label with no restrictions.

i am guessing if it has an australian release (i.e. someone owns distribution rights) then you can't use it without paying, but surely those that have no distribution rights or as above arent actually released i.e. the remix has been sent out for free by the label, is yours to use as you like???

answers to my query were either way then it got into a massive arguement and then we moved on because someone posted up something funny...

[DjDennis]

see if we was in the USA I would say go for it

but in Australia we have to watch what we do - they are changing laws all the time to bust people for illegal download useage

even iinet was taken to court for allowing movies to be downloaded on limewire

so I say if its a record store online 9/10 times they are safe (but dont quote me on it)

it gets more confusing if you are downloading and the mipi say no sorry your being illegal here is a $50,000 fine pay up or go to jail

no thanks - thats why I still stay with CDs till I can say 100% that no one would be busted that thought they was doing the right thing

trouble is its the laws that keep being changed to stay up with whats being downloaded all the time

oh and we cant even buy from a place called www.promoonly.com

its american and they cant sell to anyone in Australia because of our laws and thier laws

i'll stay with cds for now!

[lloydc]

sorry, i should have said I paid subscriptions.... I wasn't looking for freebees

[eggssell]

hey dennis. for the record AFACT lost i.e iinet was found to have done nothing wrong and breached no copyright. in fact AFACT was cautioned for trying to deceive the court.

in regards to using the music for playing out yeah it would be a grey area and im sure if they wanted they'd pull out the most vaguest of laws to get you.

on the other hand there is absolutely no way they could get you for illegal downlaods, as you would have received it from the owners of the copyright i.e. the record label??

[DjDennis]

Good thats a load off - if they did get iinet

who knows then I would also be outta job as well as out of an ISP

well best wait for whats happening with the laws that are a changing

if you want to keep up with whats happening

one place to watch carefully is www.mipi.com.au

thats all I will say on this for now

[Tomy]

check out RCRD LBL they send me an email every day of new tunes / remixes. bit rates are always 128kbps so cant use it to play out but you get to see the newest shit out out there by a lot of big names.

[eggssell]

yeah im on rcrd label too. it rocks. chromeo gave their stuff on it at 320 but i still would buy it cuz they rock.

[lloydc]

thanks for that guys, I just signed up then

[CBG]

gd, Established DJs will be on lists, and they get sent out free music regularly. But its hard to get on them, and its hard to stay on them

[lloydc]

that rcrdlbl.com website is awesome.

SO much stuff on there

[DjDennis]

@CBG yes and once on say the indie lists, well you get loads more than normal djs will ever get (eg: free tickets to concerts, free records, downloads, etc etc) and depends if they do freebies to that, some tickets are valued over $400.00 not cheap like it use to be..

A lot of concerts I was being sent I couldnt go, because 9/10 times I was bloody working, but thats life... you have to work to make a living, no job no dj, no dj no job - so yeah! lifes tough

@lloydc wait till you get some great stuff (but there are also some crap you get but thats also life)

enjoy!

[lloydc]

the bitrate of the music on that site is fairly low, but it gives me something to listen to at work.

I know beatport has some sort of promo section, but that would be nearly impossible to get on.

[DjDennis]

another good way to help that can be friending him on myspace

look at my myspace page comments and he will be there....

[lloydc]

I doubt that will help, you gotta be a well known DJ to be part of beatport promo.

ps. you look like claud vonstroke

[DjDennis]

lol thanks for the compliment