Hi,
In my excitement, I forgot to give you guys more details
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About the official site, here in Belgium my label is now registered as some sort of 'non profit organisation'(called a vzw in Dutch). That may sound funny but I know also other labels in Belgium that use that form. It doesn't mean you can not make profit, in the contrary, it is allowed to make profit. Profit just isn't your main goal, you have to have a 'purpose that benefits society' and mine is distributing and helping young pop/rock musicians.
As an advantage, Your label is a legal person (which means the financial problems of the organisation are not related to you as a person, so you can't get in trouble personally when you are in some kind of debts) and you don't need official starting money.
For the rest it is a very small DIY label to begin with. I have recorded a first EP (8songs) of my own band, and I am about to release it in July. I know it isn't the greatest month to do a release, but due to other reasons there were no other possibilities.
A month before the release I am going to make promo singles just for the radiostations. Over here rock music can be made or forgotten by good airplay.
The release will be held in July, with several guys, end lots of promo. I start off with a very small amount of 500 pressed Cd's. 200 of them are promo, going to all the music press, and the 300 others are going to be sold among the early friends and fans, which isn't going to be much of a problem.
I have several contacts with distributors, but with the bad condition and the small country Belgium is, they are tending to wait what the reactions on the single will be. So if we get airplay and the reactions of the press are ok, I have a few distributors who are willing to help. If I can't get a deal with a distributor, the loss won't be too big: I did the recording and professional mastering at a very good price.
Having such a small area as Belgium as your terrain has that disadvantage: one big rock station and a few magazines really dictate what is great rock and what is not in their eyes, so their reactions are capital.
I also 'discovered' another great band in Belgium that are interested in cooperating. I'm going to use the same method on them in Septembre.
There is great music, a good team to work with and a small but workable budget. I am really optimistic.
Any questions are always welcome
cheers!
Brett
