well things take time, especialy after the mayhem of last year (3 deaths, all close people) - but things are getting there... i'm right in the middle of getting the Thomann store done first, because I have to get that done so we can open the store and forget about it whilst we do other things... It WAS supoposed to be done by christmas, but it didnt happen...
First up to get us going we are looking for garage tracks.
one of our mate in the posse does garage productions and has just finished a main 'named-artist' production (luvin' it like this!)... and thus we have things set good to licence out good garage tunes or to get them pressed out on whites... so we're looking for new fresh garage singles...
At the same time as that we want to start getting the first DT compilation Cd together... once that's done we'll press it up and use that and the other things we have setup to go out and find a main distributor/major to back the DT label.
I guess realisticaly, it'll be the end of feb' before the store is 100% finished because communication between us & thomann is quite slow as we are both so busy.... but the store is 50% done and just needs some extra finishing work... right now, all the product are in and they display ok etc, but i'm waiting for the product CLASS definitions to progress further... then when the store is done I want to go to Germany & show them the system and teach them how it works which i'd rather do in person... Besides, it's a good excuse to visit old spars over there...
At the same time as that I want to go & see Steinberg, & mebbe Emagic, (if I can get past their crocodile moats, razor wire & machine-gun nests etc
, and also visit a main trance distributor over there (who another one of our mates releases his label thru), about this whole DT label thing from a Trance angle....
Also I want to visit A.S.S music in Hamburg who offered me a pub' deal a few years back and see what they are up to... i'm quite interested in them because they were at that time a very big organiser for German concerts and especialy festivals which at the time they were the biggest festival organiser in germany... (dunno about now tho), but if they ARE still doing that, then it's good for live gigs & artist promotion etc so i'd like to see them...
um... what I CAN say, is that there is some superb tracks on DT already and I think the future is quite rosy... we are bigger than Peoplesound.com now and they struck a deal with EMI (was it emi?, I think yes).... so we shouldn't have any problems.
we'll have to see.. i dont beleive in planning hard, rather going with the flow... i aint been out flogging 'product' for a few years now cos of getting this site together... but I used to have a good track record for getting deals on the table.... anyways... it will happen eventualy.