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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
DO NOT SEND ANYTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE
READ THIS WHOLE PAGE!
For the most part, we enjoy receiving demos and we will gladly listen to your demo. What we request is that you send us the following items (and you MUST send ALL of these items or your music will NOT be considered):
1. Your promo pack or other information about you and your music.
2. Who do people say you sound like?
3. What are people saying about you? (reviews, etc.)
4. How do you make your music? (computer, real instruments or a combination? What specifically do you use?)
5. Please also include your demo on a CD, CDR, or minidisc. Please do NOT send us real audio files or MP3s or reference us to a web page. We have found these sources do not fully present your music in the best light.
6. It is financially impossible for us to return demos. Please do not send us your master, send only a copy and rest assured that we will not use, release, or distribute your material in any way without first consulting you.
All music you send will be considered and we will get in touch with you if we decide to work with you. Sometimes it takes us a few weeks (or a few months) to get around to it so please be patient. If you are sending us something, e-mail us and let us know you are sending something prior to sending the package. (our email is "darkduckrecords" followed by "@gmail.com") Please also include your contact information on the (CD/information/case/everywhere) with your submission so we know how to get in touch with you (e-mail address is preferred.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our release schedule is pretty full now and we're not looking for anything for general CD release at this time. We are however accepting submissions for the Drone Download Project Please become familiar with the project before submitting tracks.
Just a few points to think about before sending your demo...(please read this carefully)
1. We don't "sign" artists. We don't offer "recording contracts." What we do is if we like your music, you may be asked to contribute to a compilation CD, we may release your music, or we may work with you to help release and/or promote your music. Don't send us anything expecting to become rich and famous, that's not what we do here. If you want to become rich and famous, try impressing the executives at Warner Brothers Records or Virgin or the like.
2. You should never send a demo to a record label that you don't know, and that goes for Dark Duck Records as well. You should know as much about what we do around here as possible. Buy some of our CDs, ask for recommendations, etc. Get to know us before flat out asking us to release your material. We like to work with our friends, become our friend!
3. We don't release pop, rock, rap, etc. Once again, there are many places around this site that will tell you everything you need to know about the type of music we do and don't do. Spend some time getting to know us and the artists that we work with. Listen to our MP3s see if your music is similar to that and would fit in, read a few reviews to see if it sounds like that's the kind of thing people say about your music.
4. We like to work with semi-professional artists and what we mean is we like to work with people who are SERIOUS about doing music. People are already involved in the music industry in some way. I'm not saying you have to be famous, I'm just saying if you've only been recording for 3 days and you've done 1 song, we're probably not going to be interested. We like people to be a little experienced and to know their way around. People who have played some concerts, released a CD or 2, etc. We're looking for people who are in it for the long haul, not fly by nighters that think it's cool NOW but do not care to stick with it. We like to join up with people who have already taken some steps to put their music out there, we don't want to work with total newbies.
Our goal here is not to offend but to inform. Many record labels out there feel the same way but won't tell you so. They'll just ignore you and throw your demo away. We won't do that but please please please know who we are and what we do before sending anything. If you do, we will both save a lot of time and money. Thanks.
Please also make sure that your name and email address is ON THE CD or on the CD PACKAGING somewhere.
If you've gotten this far, send everything to:
Dark Duck Records / Demos
PMB 301
20203 Goshen Road
Gaithersburgh, Maryland 20879 USA
USA
Thanks.
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