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Marathon Records wrote: > > Greetings all! > > Matt McCabe, your friendly neighborhood CD coordinator, here. > > If you did *not* receive an email from me entitled "the Looper CD details > are here!!!" according to my records you are *not* interested in > participating. If you are interested, email me ASAP!! I'll only be > posting occassional updates about the project to this list from now on. > > Feel feel to check out the following web page for information on what >this > project is all about. If you don't have web access let me know and I'll > email you a copy. > > http://www.joshuanet.com/marathon/Looper_CD.html > > Matt > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Matt McCabe > Marathon Records > Finley Sound Design > http://www.joshuanet.com/marathon > > Hello - My name is Doug and I am new to LD. I've been reading all this e-mail from you guys w/ interest. Please add me to your list of possible contributors to the CD project. I am primarily a synthesist/electronic musician. I often mix in some electric guitar and/or ethnic percussion flavors with my music. A lot of the stuff I do involves some degree of looping, which I accomplish thru synth programming, delays, sequencing and hard disk recording. A couple of years ago, I participated in a compilation CD of ambient/electronic music composed by artists from the Pacific Northwest. Each of us contributed $200 and got 20 CD's. I got 2 tracks on the CD.I believe 1000 of them were made and all or nearly all sold. The project was concieved by one of the artists, who put up most of the $ and got half of the CD's. He called for submissions and picked the trax he liked best. He was overwhelmed with submissions. The whole thing was a lot of fun for me and I still get a kick out of the fact that some of my music is on it. As a newcomer, I don't want to overstep my bounds, and it certainly sounds like this group is abundantly populated with talented artists, technicians and even a couple of comedians. But since I did got thru this experience, Here are acouple of things you might consider as the project develops: 1) Set some parameters for the contributors in terms of length, format, recording quality, etc. and be prepared to reject those that don't meet them. 2) You can reduce your costs by doing your own artwork - sounds like you have some loopers with such talents. 3) You might want to consider drafting some type of agreement for participants to sign which spells out how things are going to work. While this may be very unpopular with some, it really helps to avoid misunderstandings and bad feelings down the road. I work as a contracts administrator and put something together for the above project and would be willing to do the same here if you want to go in that direction. 4) Professional mastering is very important. I believe one looper indicated he had the tools and expertise to do this - if possible it would be a good idea to take him up on his offer. I know you've touched on most of this before, but I just wanted to get in my 2 cents worth (and introduce myself). Thanks