
02/08/2025
I’ve been out of the loop for a long time. Having to deal with picking myself after investing not only time but so much money into something that changed my life.
Artists that I’ve put on that might have blown up done some things and all that which is great. Especially coming from a self funded passion.
Never was a street pharmacist, always gigged to put money back into the label. Never really making anything back unless I put my own stuff out on my label.
Which makes sense because if you have so much invested you have to at least make it back. Which is like chasing that carrot.
I’ll be switching distribution soon. Our distributor who I wont name until I get some type of reply from. Pretty much just took whatever money that was never even spent.
They switched to a new system a while ago, never replied to any emails which they took as a ticketing system. Not sure who dropped the ball there or if it’s the way they do business.
So every time we needed to pull down releases which I didn’t mind always cost us money. Heck even had one lawyer hit us up about copyright that cost quite a bit that I never mentioned. So it’s a vicious cycle. Similar to how OSEA and other places ran their distribution. Getting hit up by a lawyer whom could have really just gone after quite much of nothing. As we had nothing really in the form of assets.
This along with other financial strains is why I stop putting out artists. Releasing music as I was in a very dark place.
I’ll reach out to artists once we know what’s going on.
Saludos y abrazos grandes 🤟💙☕️
I’ll fire off and screen s**t the email again, save the reply as I’ll send it to myself. Wait on it a few weeks then just call them up on their time. It’s a European company so it’s tricky.
Either way I’ll be looking to switch distro, release all our artists stuff back to them.
Funny thing too they only offer 3 years of transaction history which is very convenient. This is me being very transparent. So if you hit me up about your sales, trust me most lot the time those releases didn’t even make back the advance if one, the artwork and mastering.