Also, the only way this would be a problem is if you had already agreed to release the music on the first label. If you haven't made an agreement then they have no right to expect first dibs on the music.

If they like it that much, then they can put out your next record.

If your music is any good, it will not be a problem. They will be bummed they did not get it and they will want your next record even more. A label owner is not going to turn away hot new talent because someone else signed it first. If anything, it is going to reinforce their belief that you have ta...

Use the pitch control on your tape machine.

It all boils down to money. If you put out a little 400 copy sample record that grosses $1500, nobody is going to bother to sue you. There isn't enough money involved to justify sending in the lawyers. Now if you put out a record that sells 50,000 CD's and there is $500,000 of revenue floating aroun...

They did not press them up. At this point, I am just hoping that we can have the record recut from the mediocre masters and have it track properly without distortion.

I don't want to get any more specific.

One of the reasons I don't say who I am on the web is so that I can say things without it complicating my business relationships. It is a big mess because the mastering, cutting, and plating have all been paid for. I didn't like the mastered waves to begin with, and I HATE the cut because they have ...

tracks for vinyl don't get squashed in mastering. No, they definitely do. I just got a TP for my new record from a famous mastering house in Europe and they completely ruined it. They compressed the sh!t out of the record so there is no dynamic range anymore and some of the tracks are cut so hot th...

In electronic dance music? That is a real tough one, because the genre is getting so niche/inward looking/self-referential that I don't see it being a part of the culture in the future(this is said as an American btw). Stuff that jumps out as special in the last 15 years would be some of Alden Tyrel...