Tuesday, 25 February 2014

How sell your mixtape on iTunes and Amazon

This year I will be coming out with a mixtape and I in fact want to sell it on iTunes and Amazon to obtain at least a little money back, due to the fact that I have actually invested a whole lot into it, however all this copyright stuff is confusing me.
“The mix is exclusive remixes of top tunes. Will they enable this, and if not, what are my various other choices? I a minimum of want to sell my mixtape for $ 1, as I’ve worked so difficult to put it together I want to at least obtain a little cash back from it. Please help me.”.
Even if you’ve made your own re-edits or remixes of tracks for your mix, it is still is covered by the original tracks’ copyrights, and you cannot upload mixes to these services to sell containing such product.


If you simply wish to get your songs out there, Mixcloud is a great place to publish to. If you wish to get some refund, there are 2 services I know of.
Beatport has service that enables you to publish and start selling your blends (it’s calledBeatport Mixes). You can do something similar with a brand-new service just launched by The Future FM.
Bear in mind that the possibilities of you making much money from publishing an unidentified mix to the net are reduced– honestly you ‘d be better using your mix as a “calling card” and attempting to get paid DJ gigs with it.

Monday, 20 January 2014

Ideal tempos


     DANCE TYPE SWEET SPOT  ACCEPTABLE RANGE
 Moderate Waltz        144 138-160 beats/minute 
 Fast Viennese Waltz        168 160-190
 Cross-Step Waltz        114-116 108-120
 Slow American Ballroom Waltz        100 86-110
 Lindy Hop & Triple Swing         75 (150) 58-82 (116-164)
 Fast East Coast Swing         92 (184) 80-100 (160-200)
 West Coast Swing        110 (55) 106-120 (53-60)
 Street Swing (Bugg)        130 (65) 110-150 (55-75)
 Hustle        118 110-130
 Club Two-Step         82 76-88
 Cha Cha        118 (59) 112-126 (56-63)
 Salsa         94 86-100
 Merengue        120 112-138
 Rumba         68 58-75
 Social Tango         66 60-80
 Tango Argentino         62 Wide Range
 Polka        114 104-124
 One-Step        118 108-132
 Slow Fox-Trot (box step)         64 (128) 60-76 (120-152)
 Faster Fox-Trot (magic step)         78 (156) 68-92 (136-184)
 Quickstep        100 (200)   90-110 (180-220)

Where is the best tunes



  • Ask your dancers to bring in their favorite tunes, on CDs or music files.  Don't play them blind, because many aren't danceable (see the above criteria), but collect them for your future programming.
  • Search through Spotify, iTunes or Amazon mp3s.  If you buy tunes, you can deduct them as business expenses if you're a professional DJ or teacher.
  • Many complete tunes are now posted on YouTube, often with just a single image of the cover art as the visual.  Then there are several online sites that convert the YouTube videos to mp3s, and a hack using Safari, giving you the entire song for free, but the monaural sound is often too low quality for a dance.
  • Try the listening stations at record/CD stores, before they completely disappear (oops, too late).
  • Trade favorite tracks with other dance DJs.
  • Listen to the radio, including Pandora and internet stations.  Stations often post their playlists.  Internet and satellite stations (like Sirius XM) also give metadata of the current tune.
  • This website