26.2.13

Super Music Producers : The Beginning Of A New Era

By Sarah Scott


Starting in early 2000's, the music business, most notably the communities of hiphop and also rnb, observed the surfacing of what we call the "super music producers", accounting for leaders: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins or The Neptunes.

What the heck is a "super producer"? Well, the better description of their difference with a "simple" producer will take on the instance of what we call a "supermodel" in fashion, that include Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer or Naomi Campbell. You know these legendary models as well as everybody else and you can see them on all the catwalks. Basically: safe values.

This was the similar thing in the music business: there were "big" producers, risk free, that directed completely the projects and also were invited by the best known singers and also rappers. It had been really more secured for record label to exploit A listed music producer other than a newbie. The popular one supplied a lot of powerful singles, in theory. Considering at that moment regularly big producers sold cd.

But, the music business, since the start of the decade has totally changed. To start with, many people don't actually spend money on disk nowadays.

Then the record labels offer less and less budget for a project. And not surprisingly, record labels are no longer ready to make an investment between $ 100 000 to $ 300 000 for one single beat, as was the condition at the golden age of music producers. The discs tend to not sell and the internet starts to develop. To deal with unauthorized downloading of their artists, record companies create or join with statutory download websites and want to impose their presence on this online world, that has been escaping their control for way too long.

But the popularity of the web has additionally made possible the growth of a lot of not known producers as good as, if not better than, "Super Producers".

Those producers have focused on the expansion of the Internet, which has aided these to sell their beats online. Allowing them to communicate and work with rappers on a local scale as well as an intercontinental one. A producer from New york will be able to try to sell beats to singers in Japan. It is now perfect for them to get a pretty good repute and have a career. For the artists, this makes a big difference! They are able to buy beats online in their house for their album, EP or maybe mixtape for reasonable prices; not even close to being those practiced by the "super producers".

Record companies pay a special awareness of this brand new sector. They buy beats online too. And of late we are able to see that some web producers are obtaining signed by majors.

The great time of super producers such as the age of super mannequin goes away slowly, giving way to this modern market driven by producers who, generally, have practically nothing to envy to the "super producers".




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