get some questions here

me and a pal gonna start with a trance night 23:00-00:30 every friday at a club in our town, starting 12 august the club isnt super big and we arnt the best dj's in the world hehe but I wonder how or can we can get in touch with some recordslabel's for Promo's ? such Vinyls and CD-R's ? we have to be big names to get that ?

the setup we have is

2 x Technics SL1200 MKII
2 x Ortofon Concorde Pro-S
Behringer DJX 700 Mixer
Pioneer DVJ-X1
2 x Sony MDR-V700DJ



maybe belongs in the dj section, my bad

get a few nights under your belt, send flyers ect.. the bigger you get the more chance you have of geting them, but its not something that happens instantly, you can 'buy' access to promo lists, i think its £6o per year here in the uk, they send you a various ammount of promos each month, and ask you to fill out questionairs on them, if you accutly do the questionaires and sent them back, the ammount of promos you get usualy increases!

how do I get in touch with the soo called "Promo list" ? £6o per year is very cheap, since we buy vinyls and cds pretty often

you need good contacts with labels, other djs and producers

or u r a signed producer and dj, then u get maybe some promos too from your label

hehe, need to finnish a tune in reason soo I can send and hope for the best then

,, let me do the mastering if you want to...

check FiveAM, Platipus or Offshore-Music.com (just to name a few) you may find something

Anjunabeats also offer promo packages in the shop section of their website.

Several labels have a promo list
You can sign up and for a certain price per year you are on the promo list

me and djalexvibe have about same thing every first friday of the month we get this relatively small club all to ourselfes from 21:00-02.00 but we use cds so we just buy digital mp3's and thats about it i suppose vinyls are expensive but should you not thought of that before becoming dj

I thought the topic title is 'Dj Getting Prons'
I must wake up!
Sorry for off-topic

**here's one producer who wants to send promo's**

add me to msn

well hey man i ll be glad to play your tunes

you can always PM/MSN me...

also AIM soon

when you have aim we will talk

Wow this is a really interesting thread!
I had your same question,
but since I live in Italy I'm sure have to search for (italian) labels who send promos by myself

The promo thing is a long and epic way where i had to go through once as well.

And today im getting so many promos each week that i sometimes cant check them all

Anyways the first thing u should know about promos is that each label, or artist only gives them to u if u give them something back. And this is feedback! So u need to play in a club or at a radio else u wont stand a chance about getting anything for free. As bigger the club as better it is.

So the first thing u should do is contact labels, artists... tell them that u play at a club ... with Flyer or contract for instance and tell them that they can send u some promo stuff. At the beginning u wont have much luck since u are very unknown! Sometimes it helps as well to send them some promo mixes of yourself so they can see what kind of music u play. If u got a forum with feedback of your "fans" tell them it can also raise your chance.
Also try to build up contacts with producers! Try to contact new or upcoming producers since u got a better chance with them. Also if u spin together with some at an event talk to them and u might get some stuff.....
Always build up connections and keep in touch with them.

A second way which i cant recommend though is the way about promo agency´s. A lot of Agency´s send u each week a package with Vinyl or Cd´s for a small fee around 50 euro the month.... But dont expect stuff of Tiesto, Armin, Signum .... in there. U will prolly get a lot of commercial stuff or tracks from rather unknown producers. Which aint must be bad though it could probably disappoint u after a while since u prolly hope for the big Artists
Though i did start so as well .....

A third way is to become a charts maker. There u apply to a list like the DDC and of them u will get each week different kind of tunes. U need to rate them in a list and send them back the list. The tunes u can keep of course. The list helps the company to create the charts like for House, Trance ....
Though to get in the list is hard since many other people apply there daily. Though its sure worth a try.


So now its about you to decide

take the easy way with an agency or the hard one and build up contacts

whatever u do good luck