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LABELS, ARTISTS AND PRODUCERS |
| QUESTION |
| I want to be featured on
The Dubroom, but I am not religious. Do
all the tracks or featured labels have to
be religious? |
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| ANSWER |
| No, of course not, as long as
your music is not of pornographic or
anti-Jah content, and as long as it is dub
or (other) reggae. We're all responsible for
ourselves. On the other hand: when you deal
with Reggae Music and you are not religious,
you have at least found a way to deal with
the many religious Reggae releases. |
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| QUESTION |
| Do I need to make a certain
style of music in order to be featured on
this site? |
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| ANSWER |
| Yes, you absolutely do. The
music you make must be (Dub) Reggae or
related. And, equally important, it must
have a certain quality standard. |
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| QUESTION |
| How do I get my midi files
on the Dubroom? |
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| ANSWER |
| We do no longer keep track of
the latest midi-files. Midi has gone back to
the studio when mp3 made it's way into the
consumer's computer players. |
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| QUESTION |
| How do I get my MP3 files
on the Dubroom? |
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| ANSWER |
| At the moment, the Dubroom
doesn't carry any third party MP3 files
other than the ones we choose to put on
there for the Dubroom readers/visitors to
download. These are generally musical works
that have been released under Creative
Commons Copyright and selected because of
their quality.
We advice
to READ
THIS ARTICLE on uploading your material
to sites that will let you
upload your music for free as well.
When your
music is somewhere online, join the Dubroom
Message Boards and start promoting your
music. Or contact the Dubroom via the
contact pages and tell us a bit about your
music. When it fits with the overall quality
of the reviewed music on the Dubroom, you
will find your music independently reviewed
which is frankly the best form of promotion
you can get.
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| QUESTION |
| No
man, I mean I want to be featured on yuor
Net Label. |
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| ANSWER |
| Don't
expect anything, but you can always try and
contact us. Your music has to be better than
the music that's already there, and there's
a list of requirements. One very specific
requirement is that your music has to be
licensed. It has to be legal in the sense
that you do not use recordings you are not
licensed to use.
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| QUESTION |
| What are the requirements
to get my music reviewed or released on
the Dubroom? |
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| ANSWER |
| As you can guess, there are
many! People come to the Dubroom to find
good music. The policy of the website is not
to review crap, so when it's on the Dubroom,
it's good. And unfortunately this means that
most music submitted to the Dubroom will not
be put on the site. To spare yourself a
disappointment, it might be fruitful to read
the list of requirements below.
Here is a list:
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The
music must be (morally) legal. No
illegal mp3 links.
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The
music must be (Dub) Reggae or related.
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Related
music is most likely not to be put on
the Dubroom.
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Related
to (Dub) Reggae is defined by The
Dubroom as: ragga, ska, dancehall and
more recently dubstep.
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The
music must have at least the quality
that is on average found here in The
Dubroom.
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The
recordings must be of reasonable
quality, not practice tape style
recorded with one microphone, unless the
music is historically relevant.
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The
music must be available for free
download, and must be full-length.
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The
music should not contain any offenses
towards the Creator.
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The
music should not have so-called adult
contents and should not contain calls to
violence, in other words, no slackness.
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The
Dubroom will decide where to place the
music in this site.
Artists
and/or producers looking to get their
music on the Dubroom Net Label need not
apply when their sole intention is to be
promoted through the Net Label.
Appearing on the Net Label should also
lift up the average quality of music in
it's catalogue.
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| QUESTION |
| I sent you an email but did
not hear anything back. What's up? |
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| ANSWER |
| The Dubroom receives a lot of
mail, for example from artists who want
their music to be featured somewhere on the
Dubroom. It is simply impossible to answer
each and every mail back. When you haven't
heard anything after two weeks, you can
safely assume that we didn't find the time
to write back. It is also possible, that
your mail has been received but was already
answered in the Dubroom FAQ. |
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