Event details
Wednesday 19 October 15:30 - 16:30Felix Meritis
How To Make a DJ Really Listen to Your Track
While some DJs increasingly use friends or assistants to filter out favourites from each week’s releases there’s even a company now that (for a fee) preselects promos. So how as an artist can you stand out and persuade a DJ to listen to your music, then equally importantly react when he or she likes it? And how can the value of that reaction be maintained, when promo companies report more and more DJs gaining free advertising by posting ‘love this, will play’ supporter comments on promo press releases despite company systems show they haven’t even listened to the tracks? Dave Clarke and guests including Dean Muhsin (Dispersion), Musiqware.com’s Herman Verkade (‘DJs want their names on our promo sheet for free advertising’) and Exclusive Promo’s Adam Carter discuss.
Moderator: Dave Clarke (GB/NL)
Professional DJ for over 20 years, radio host, producer, remixer, consultant in both business and technical.
Adam Carter (Exclusive Promo, GB)
With ten years experience in the industry, much of which spent in the promotion of electronic music, 2009 saw Adam expand on an already strong personal promotion service to establish Exclusive Promo Ltd. Since that time the company have built an impressive and enviable roster of labels and clients.
Dean Muhsin (Dispersion PR, GB)
Co-runs an independant electronic music publicity company which handles artists, labels and djs of varying profiles and genres. Worked in the music industry for over 15 years in various roles from label management and artist management/booker to DJing and production.
Alex Stacey (Fatdrop, DE)
Alex is the owner of FATdrop and in charge of product development, working out ways to improve pre-release music promotion and engineering the tools needed to do so. Alex believes that changes in the music industry present opportunities for labels that embrace them, and that understanding these changes has become an important part of running a successful label.
Herman Verkade (Musiqware, GB)
Music Publisher (Musiqware Ltd), label owner (Process Recordings, Veryverywrongindeed, Playtime, Output, Plastic Fantastic) and a few more things like that.
Location
Felix Meritis
F5: Panel room
Address
Keizersgracht 324
1016 EZ Amsterdam
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