Dance Music for Heroes
Raheem Jarbo, better known as Mega Ran, is a nerdcore rapper and Guinness World record holder who fuses hip-hop with gaming and geek culture to create infectious beats and memorable music. Mega Ran’s music and story have been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, ESPN, Tosh.O, and WWE wrestling. Four of his albums have placed in … Read more
Today I’m joined by Dan Giffin: an Ableton certified instructor, producer, and performer who has worked with Grammy winning artists helping them level-up their Ableton skills. As one of only 340 Ableton Certified instructors worldwide, Dan has taught Ableton Live workshops at SAE, Sweetwater, and dozens of recording studios. He offers private lessons and has … Read more
Keith Piazza is an associate manager at Universal Music Group (UMG) where he handles film and TV clearance. Over the last five years he has worked with some of the biggest artists in the industry helping them negotiate fees to license their music for TV, movies, and video games. In this episode of the podcast Keith offers networking tips for landing your dream job, talks about what it’s like working for a major record label, and discusses trends in music licensing.
his week we’re joined by Zach Domer, better known as Pony. Pony is a CD Baby veteran hailing from the early days when they only offered distribution of physical CDs. More recently, he has served as the brand manager and public face of Soundrop, a CD Baby sister company which focuses on distribution for cover songs. Soundrop currently pays out over $1.5 million in artist earnings per month making it one of the top digital music distributors in the world.
This week we talk about Electronic Press Kits, or EPKs. A good press kit is one of your most important marketing tools. In this shorter episode we examine what goes into them, different formats for EPKs, and we’ll review at a couple of different examples.
Today’s guest on the podcast is James Landino: an internationally recognized video game composer and DJ based out of Los Angeles, California. His electronic music bridges the gap of gaming, anime, and nightclub culture and he has amassed millions of plays across multiple platforms. He is best known for his work on the musically acclaimed video game No Straight Roads along with other projects including Tower of God, Chunithm, Osu!, RWBY, Cytus II, Amplitude HD, and DropMix.
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Skye Ramsay, better known by the name Skybreak. Ramsay’s signature jazz-infused, melodic bass style has earned him support from Alison Wonderland, NGHTMRE & SLANDER, Spag Heddy, Chime, William Black and more.
Landon Fleury has written over 300 articles for YourEDM.com since 2015 and also maintains a popular YouTube channel where he conducts reviews and artist interviews. Recently he’s transitioned to Outerloop Management where he develops up-and-coming coming artists including Rob Gasser, Skybreak and Ace Aura. During the interview we talk about what it’s like being a writer for YourEDM.com, some of his most memorable interviews, and he shares his thoughts on artist management.
With things opening up again in the United States, I’m getting ready to perform live which has me thinking a lot about DJ techniques. In this review I condense over 40 pages of notes from Digital DJ Tip’s (DDJT) Complete DJ Course into into my most essential (and surprising) takeaways.
Aaron Green is the Vice President and director of sales and business development at EasySongLicensing.com. Aaron has spent the last 16 years helping artists clear tracks so they can legally distribute cover songs as well as leading a team that handles custom licensing agreements. Easy Song Licensing has helped over 60,000 customers – myself included. In the last 60 days I used them to clear two different covers, my Techno Syndrome cover (from Mortal Kombat) as well a Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair cover. I had a great experience with them both times, so I invited Aaron onto the podcast to talk about covers, remixes, mechanical licensing, derivative works, sampling, public domain and NOIs.
