How to start a Record Label... ... Starting a record label is not as easy as it sounds, there is a lot of work that needs to be done and your time needs to be devoted to the success of pulling it off the ground. When you want to start a Label you have to be ready for the challenges that will come your way. You will be emotionally and finically challenged in that field so you have to prepare yourself very well to pass those challenges. Starting a Record Label is like starting a business, it may be for the love of music to you or the need of helping artist achieve their goals, whatever your motive is you have to treat it like a business... ... The first thing you need to do when you starting a Record Label you have to have a business plan to guide you. The reason for this is that you will have to present your business to potential investors. Once you have drafted your plan than you have to think of the name of your business and that name needs to be a well thought and professional name that will not degrade your business. Once you have chosen the name be prepared to use that name for a long time because when you keep changing names you will be confusing the people that are following you. After you have decided on a name than take the next step by registering the business at the relevant place in your town... ... These are the things you should know when you are registering your Company... ... • It will cost you about R875,00 to start a company owned by more than three people and about R628,00 if you are less than three people... ... • If there will be shareholders than you must have a shareholders certificate It can take up to three months for the registering process to be complete... ... Once that has been completed than you will have to put your words into action and that’s when the hard work will be needed... ... A lawyer will be needed to handle legal side like contracts for the artist’s. But if you starting small you can grow up the contract’s yourself which will be a standard contract... ... This will get you thinking for the rest of the week, I will give you more information about running a Record Company next week Tuesday on the 1st of April... ...

The weekend is starting today. When you go out and play at your gigz be safe and make sure that you set the floor on fire. Play those underground tracks and promote local house. Quote of the day is the famous "Jack's House". Have a great weekend House Heads and kill those sets if you will be in the booth, and murder those tracks if you will be at studio... ... http://hyperreal.org/raves/spirit/vibe/JacksHouse.html In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldy declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. "I am, you see, I am the creator, and this is my house! And, in my house there is ONLY house music. But, I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes OUR house and OUR house music!" And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body. And, as I told you before, this is our house and our house music. And in every house, you understand, there is a keeper. And, in this house, the keeper is Jack. Now some of you who might wonder, "Who is Jack, and what is it that Jack does?" Jack is the one who gives you the power to jack your body! Jack is the one who gives you the power to do the snake. Jack is the one who gives you the key to the wiggly worm. Jack is the one who learns you how to walk your body. Jack is the one that can bring nations and nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House. And this is fresh.

Underground House Many people don’t know much about underground house but that’s where it all starts before you hear it on the radio. Many house artists had to prove themselves underground before being big producers and Dj’z they are today. Underground is like an Academy where you start your trade and where you are discovered by Record labels. When I talk about underground house I talk about the tracks that you hear in clubs, that you can only get it by downloading the tracks not the tracks on radio. Because of that, the underground scene is different than the commercial scene. The commercial scene is all about making a living for yourself, bringing big profits for your Record Company that you are signed at. Where you in underground house music, it’s for the passion of producing house music and making a name for yourself. Yes you may need a Record Label to release your tracks digitally but that does not mean it’s a train smash if you don’t belong to a Record Label. You can also start your own Record Label Company and release your tracks. Take Dj Cleo for an example, he started his own Record Company while he was still underground producing tracks for big Dj’z like Dj Fresh. His Company went on to be a big Company today and has signed big name artist like Mzee, QT etc. What am trying to say is that in underground music, not all doors are closed at your face, there is always a way around the problem. In the underground scene you can expect to find top quality music that you would expect to find in store. Because of the rise of the underground scene there had to be online stores that gives people the access to buy the music. Online stores like Traxsource, Beatport, Digital House Music, soundcloud and Juno to name a few. Just like any other shops they have to also make profit so they take a potion of you sales and you have to be a registered (Company) in order to utilize the service offered by the stores. Just in case you think the shops will rip you of, they won’t do that. These Stores are reliable and you can sell your music as far as the UK. Some top producers are still releasing their music online but not Albums, they release short vision of an album called EP. An example of a top Dj/producer who also releases online EP’s is Eltonnick and his latest EP was called Last Call EP released this year 3 April 2013. Competition at underground is tough and it will take a lot of hard work, perseverance marketing and networking to achieve your goals. Don’t expect results soon, wait for your time and push as hard as you can. It won’t be easy, trust me, but things that you work hard for them are very fruitful then the things that came your way easy. More than 500 000 producers in South Africa are fighting for that dream you fighting for so you have to hustle and start at you Kasi and give other Djz your tracks so that they can play them. Sleepless nights will be part off your life, negative feedback sucks but it’s your encouragement to success. We all have to start somewhere in life and when you want to be a top house producer, underground is your first home.

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