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Ty Showers artists should visit music.taliferro.com
Taliferro Music
Posted in Information of Interest on Feb 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM

You may already know that I revived my interest in music in May 2008.

Since then, I have had so much fun creating and producing music of all kinds. It's a great hobby. I have taken baby steps, getting my feet wet in the various realms of music.

Some of the baby steps:
- First I needed to practice and re-acquire the dexterity (on the keyboard and bass) I had when I was younger - still in progress.
- Learn which software and hardware tools to use in order to create a finished musical work.
- Learn about copyrighting and registering music.
- Learn how to query radio stations and generate air play.
- Study Music Marketing. (At first, I created compilations with all types of musical genres in the same release. I had jazz, R&B, ambient, electronic on the same album. I don't think people appreciated this mix). :)

Being on Imeem for almost a year, I have also learned that there are quite a few talented musicians that yearn to be heard. Unfortunately, they all seem to want to fly solo. Well, there's one thing I've learned in the corporate world, you can't do everything yourself.

A thought occurred to me one day, how can I apply what I've learned to help out other artists - and myself?

I came up with this concept called a Starter Label. Just like the notion of a starter home, the starter label is a place where artists can land for awhile, where they can receive maximum exposure to help propel them to a larger label.

The starter label's main focus is to give artists maximum exposure on the Internet but will not charge artists. Plus, select a hand full of artists, that reflect a razor sharp focus.

This may or may not be a good idea. Don't know yet, but I plan to give it a shot. So, I've started with some simple webpages as proof of concept and located a few artists to promote. One page describes the mission of the starter label. Other pages are for all the genres of the label's focus so far: electronic, ambient, r&b, jazz, chillout/downtempo and - to come - urban.

If nothing comes of it, at least it's a good place to stream different types of music.
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Feb 25th, 7:31am
dat is a wounderful idea.. luv it.. thanks fa sharin
Feb 25th, 3:07pm
KEEEEEEP GOOOOOING
Feb 26th, 1:02pm
danks for the fo
Feb 27th, 7:49am
Good idea (:
Keep it up !
Feb 27th, 5:22pm
BEST WISHES TO YOU AND JUST KEEP ON GOING FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
Feb 28th, 10:46pm
great i love the idea
Feb 28th, 11:36pm
sounds goood 2 me=] keep it up
Mar 22nd, 6:08am
They fly solo because their concern is housing all the MONEY!
Jun 2nd, 9:18am
thanks for sharing:)

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