WMC Afternoon Delight 2013

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Winter Music Conference 2013

Afternoon Delight

Presented by Auburn Events, Dae, and D24K in association with media services NYC and Ocean Drive Sessions

8 Years of Award Winning Popsicle Sickle Licking Sun Soaked Bliss!

I’d like to highlight the Afternoon Delight Event coming up in March 2013 this year at winter music conference. What’s that? You haven’t heard of it?

You've guessed it, yup! They give away free pop-sickles at the event all day!  

It's an event you don't wanna miss! There's a lot of hype going on about the line up regardless and what will be coming up is constantly changing. The names in the line up are still on hold to be released. If you use Eventbrite you can learn what is available for the public. This event is still in the pre-sale stage but the publicity is high, and well worth looking into if your heading to WMC. It’s not on the official WMC List yet, so the info is for those who know to look for it and seek it out through places like Eventbrite. If you are not a frequent WMC goer, you may not know what I’m writing about in the slightest. So if you are interested in WMC, please seek out the earlier blog post titled “Winter Music Conference,” hopefully answering all your questions the topic. WMC is annual and is massive! Learn the basics on what the conference has to offer completely, where to go, when it started, the purpose, and of course the major difference to the event known as ULTRA (held at the same time). You can also Google the conference or just simply go to wintermusicconference.com for more information. Again Afternoon Delight is not on the official “The List” on the site yet.

The event, Afternoon Delight is an event that has been happening for 8 years now at WMC and going strong! Deep house has a strong cult like following and we know what we bring to the table, its our house. Afternoon Delight is in Miami during WMC and promoted heavily by Adam Auburn. Many are boasting Afternoon Delight and their heavy success each and every year at conference. Put it on your “To Do” list to network this year. For those that are interested in attending it usually sells out so remember Friday, March 22^nd 2013 and the line up is still being updated as I write this. This year it’s hosted at 960 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach at Ocean’s 10. If your planning on hitting conference, you can buy your tickets before the 31st of January and get an early bird special and save a little. March line ups are coming out quick at multiple venues (don’t rely on “The List”) and the pre-sales are filling up. There are many so keep your pen out and follow up on past successes to select where to be this year.

To inform those planning on attending the show, last years line up had some originators in the deep house scene step up and tear apart the dance floors. The line up last year was for Afternoon Delight was containing, Aaron Dae and DJ Dirty from Philadelphia, the originator Todd Terry, personal favorite moments from Claude Monet, Ron Carol, Andy Caldwell as well! How can you plan on missing this show? Every year it’s full of the network you should be uniting with and the people that know house music! If I haven’t swayed you maybe another post about some Dub Step is more up your ally.

Photo's from Last Year

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Pump Audio Reveiw

Pump Audio Review

This blog outlines many angles and perspectives in the electronic dance music industry. If an artist needs cash and is just starting out there is always music aggregates. Pump Audio was highly recommended to me so I decided to review the site and look up what others are saying in regards.

What exactly is Pump Audio? Pump licenses your music through BMI, ASCAP and SEASAC and in turn networks you to a stream of others who will pay the royalties out for using the song. They are connecting you to film scores, television shows, commercials, and Internet syndicates to get you paid and help build your resume. The pump system creates a new market that hasn’t been around and creates new revenue opportunities. Pump claims to be owned by musicians who in return are to be for the musicians and their rights. They have the two main ways of getting the music out. One of the ways they do this is through a “Pump Box” which sits on many desktops. This box contains a catalog of numbers and those numbers are given to the song as industries exec's browse and purchase. Its indefinite licensing can be purchased cheap if you decide to grab something from the box. Another is the “Soundtrack Service” online. Recently launched in beta form it allows you to cycle through genre’s and track ID’s and listen and purchase like a store from small snippets.

So are you thinking about using Pump Audio? Now one thing to be known is you don’t’ want to advertise this to anyone. Why do I say this? It’s your music that goes out through Pump but they handle it in bulk with the license so it's sold for cheap. Your track is in a catalog under a Pump Audio ID number, that number is what they title your track when they re-license it. In some cases they make a name for it so people know what they are gonna hear, for instance “rave anthem” or “razor sharp tune”. It’s not the title they want, it’s the ability to find something for their commercial or tv show. Pumps clients want it cheap so we can’t complain, otherwise it wouldn’t get found.

As the writer should register the tune yourself through the same PRO’s such as BMI, ASCAP, and SEASAC. Those PRO’s pay you writer’s royalties at 100% for the original work. Also if you have no publishing company on file with the PRO Pump is a publishing company and will get paid those fees. If you decide to register as one then you save yourself the trouble. Pump does the bulk thing so you get 35%. It was a 50/50 split at one time but I suppose they have a industry name now and can charge a bit more. Actually the reason they did this is it’s no longer the original owners. Pump Audio recently was purchased by Getty Images for 47 million. Getty images is a photo stock licensing company which is a corporate giant. They have the new avenues to push the music with their network through NBC, MTV, BBC, etc and can now be pushing the music on a large scale.

Performance Royalties Owed may be on the smaller side as an artist with Pump Audio but I leave it up to you! It’s another stream of capital and if you wanted to look at what sells and what doesn’t it may be useful. Musicians often wish they had a way to get their music out to the world, now they have great way to do that! It’s a nice resume builder to have your song be on MTV or BBC, so we shouldn’t be complaining about the money when we are just starting off any how. 

http://www.themusicsnob.com/2008/10/06/pump-audios-retitle-publishing-music-licensing/

http://www.pumpaudio.com/artists/index.php