A Client Guide To Music Industry Agreements
UK music law firm Lee and Thompson have made this detailed guide to Music Industry Agreements available for you to get educated in the murky area of Music Industry Law. A3 music recommends for anyone wanting to make a career in music.
This link has been unavailable, but we have renewed the link on 1st June 2008.
http://www.leeandthompson.com/docs/MusicGuide.pdf A3 music's MySpace page
We joined MySpace, where we can stream out tunes from our player and make contact with like minded people. Come and listen to Garvey's new tune, and new tracks by new A3 artists Oli Lisher and Ben Duthie.
http://www.myspace.com/a3musicuk
A4 - A3's ugly little sister!
This is the online home of A4, our offshoot for putting on big nights for all ages from 14 upwards in Worthing.
Check here to see the latest young bands on the UK South Coast, particularly from the secret labs of T Block...
http://www.myspace.com/a4music
Brighton Music Network
The Music Development Agency for the region. They put on Brighton Live, a series of events and seminars during the last week of September.
http://www.brightonmusic.net/
Brighton Podcast
set up to bring you the latest and greatest in Brighton Music. Download their podcasts and listen at your leisure...
http://www.myspace.com/podcastbrighton
Burning Grooves website
a site for tech-heads and musicians, just opening up. Specifically recommended for its articles explaining studio patchbays...
http://www.burninggrooves.com
Church Road Recording Co
In Hove, Church Road Recording studio specialises in analogue and vintage recording techniques. 24 track 2", and 64 track...
Cool site, and recommended studio for bands wanting the analogue sound.
http://www.churchroad.net/
Creative Systems Lab
The Creative Systems Lab website at the University of Sussex is a place for research, artistic production and discussion in music, art and computing.
It undertakes and facilitates projects that lie at the intersection of arts, science, and technology, by fostering collaborations between scientists, artists, musicians, industry, and community.
http://creative.fcs.sussex.ac.uk/
Damian Counsell
A3 Artist
http://www.counsell.com
Digital Media Duplication
David Else from www.digitalmediaduplication.com a mastering studio in Brighton UK kindly did an interview with our A3 artist (and now investigative journo) Chris Garvey about the ins and outs of the dark art of Mastering.
David has graciously allowed us to publish his interview in full, and you will find it if you click here
http://www.digitalmediaduplication.com
Doubleone
A3 artist
http://www.doubleone.co.uk
Eclectic Chair
DJ Lamp supported tracks from "the Mood Lounge Volume 1" on his radio show, Eclectic Chair. This is his MySpace page , as his Freewebs site is a little old now
Listen to the Eclectic Chair on Radio Reverb
http://www.myspace.com/eclecticchair
Ford Lane Recording Studios
Multi-room studio, near Arundel in West Sussex.
One of the "secret locations" from which our producers and artists create their outstanding music.
http://www.fordlane.co.uk
Hit and Hope Records
Hit and Hope Records was set up by Rob Dove and Matt Oliver, both from Worthing and both with a passion for music. Our goal is to put the music we love into the hands of people around the country and eventually the world and with tools like the Internet there really is nothing to stop it happening. We are also going to be hosting live events to promote the releases and getting artists to come and showcase their music in surroundings such as castles, lidos, clubs and bars.
http://www.hitandhoperecords.co.uk
IntoMusic
IntoMusic is a music download
website specialising in selling downloads from
original and independent artists, and has now launched a Rock label. Could be another good way to distribute great music.
http://www.intomusic.co.uk
Jacobs Stories
Sadly their siteis now dead, but they still have a MySpace page with more tracks on http://www.myspace.com/jacobsstoriesband
http://www.myspace.com/jacobsstoriesband
James Hyman - XFM
James supported the A3 Mood Lounge Compilation, playing Garvey's "Shoes" several times. Has a great show on XFM.
http://jameshyman.com
Juicy Cuts
An independent label similar in outlook to A3, based in SouthWest UK, (namely Exeter). They closed their website, but the MySpace is still active.
Eclectic compilation CD for sale from the site for only two quid!
http://www.myspace.com/juicycuts
Klavar Recordings
Klavar is the new record label project brainchild of Tony Merrit, who has submitted some excellent music for A3.
Music by Klavar artists is available for download, ringtone and CD.
They released a new album on 26th March 2006, and are currently looking for new artists. See the website for details.
http://www.klavar.co.uk
Largo
Largo, Belgian Brightonian Beatmasters/mistress, played for us way back in the days of the TzarBar. And now listen to their beautiful music on their MySpace page. We'd have them back in an instant.
http://www.myspace.com/largomusic
Limbik Frequencies
Internet radio station in Wisconsin US, playing similar vibe music to "the Mood Lounge", typically playing Future Sound of London, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Lemon Jelly.
Recommended.
http://www.limbikfreq.com
Lumen Studios
Cutting edge Brighton studio, and home to Lumenessence Recordings, to whom we are grateful for ongoing advice and encouragement.
They told us there is "an all new megasite on the way". Only one way to find out: go there.
http://www.lumenstudio.co.uk
Lumenessence Recordings
cool Brighton label - home to artistes such as Backini, Sketchie, Leon Nine, Tiresias.
Friendly links with A3. New site goes live in July 2004
http://www.lumenessence.co.uk
Moses Avalon's Confessions of a Record Producer Workshop
Site for on-line delivery of the popular and often controversial Confessions of a Record Producer Workshop.
http://www.confessionsworkshop.com
Music at Northbrook
Take a tour through all the recording rooms, learn about microphones and recording, listen to a podcast of NSR Northbrook Student Radio, apply for a course at the coolest and best resourced Music Tech College in the world. Going live this week!
http://www.musicatnorthbrook.com
New Music Strategies
Very good site for anyone wanting to understand how we can make music a job in the new online situation. Recommended for helping shape your thinking.
http://newmusicstrategies.com
Nick Luscombe - Flo Motion
XFM's chillmeister and friend of A3 music. He championed our first album, playing Rahma Ali, Garvey and other tracks on his excellent Flo Motion show each Sunday.
Nick also releases some gorgeous records under various guises. Check him out on the XFM site at www.xfm.co.uk or on his MySpace page (link below)
http://www.myspace.com/nickluscombe
One Music
Amazing resource for anyone in the UK trying to make music - sections on business issues, copyright, starting a label, distribution.
Recommended.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic
PCAM
The website of the Producers and Composers of Applied Music. This organisation encompasses advert jingle writers through to film composers. Their workshops and magazine "The Bugle" are very helpful to fledgling media composers.
We were very sad indeed to hear of the recent death of Peter Waygood, the chairman of PCAM, who had come to visit us and give wise and helpful advice about the music business. We shall remember him.
http://www.pcam.co.uk
Plug - weekly new music show on Radio Reverb
Welcome to PLUG! We run a weekly music show on radio reverb featuring artists, DJs and record labels who are playing live or running nights in and around Brighton in the UK. Each week you can listen to music from forthcoming gigs and club nights that are happening in the next 7 days. This way you can make an informed choice of who to see or where to go on your night out. Launching March 2007.
If you're performing at a venue in or around Brighton and would like your music to be included in the show prior to your gig, please send us your band/gig details and an MP3 you'd like us to play to: plugcast@googlemail.com. DJs/record labels - please send a track(s) that represents the type of music you will be playing that night. We would like to hear from everyone. There is no music policy on our show. If you have a gig, then you qualify. Any genre, any standard.
http://www.myspace.com/plugcast
PRS Foundation
They give money away to music makers to help them put new music in front of new audiences. The PRS Foundation is therefore a force for all that is good and true and beautiful in the world of music. And they gave us a thousand quid to put on more groundbreaking gigs, which you came to instead of going to a bad karaoke, or sad tribute night. Hurrah!
http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk
Resin8 Records
A3 music's Drum and Bass label/promotion arm. Run by a team including DJ/producers Jimmy T and Two Toes, they are bringing a bit of excitement onto the South Coast student scene.
http://www.myspace.com/resin8records
Sigma
Sigma is currently writing music that could broadly be classified as chillout, although also working in other styles including House and Drum n Bass. He has been composing music since the age of 14, starting to record with a simple analogue 4-track cassette machine a few months later, and subsequently taking advantage of the enormous possibilities and potentials of the digital domain for musical expression. Having composed music in a wide variety of styles, Sigma is currently focussing broadly on chillout/lounge.
http://www.sigma-online.net
Sound Performance
Our replicators - recommended by A3 for their excellent customer service.
It looks like we will be needing them again quite soon.
http://www.soundperformance.co.uk
Sound Scalpel
Alan McKinney's new site, supplying sound effects and music tracks for media production companies.
If you create sound effects or music of any sort, and would like them to make some cash for you instead of sitting there on your hard drive doing nothing, have a look at the site.
http://www.soundscalpel.co.uk
Stem Cell Records
our sister label, concentrating on drum & bass and breakbeat. Early days for the site, but watch for news...
http://www.stemcellrecords.co.uk/ and also talk to us at the MySpace page - see link below
http://www.myspace.com/stemcellrecordings
Tantrum Design
Coolest Design company on the UK South Coast, and they're in Worthing.
All kinds of funky design, including work on A3 music produce.
http://www.tantrum-design.com
The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters
Foremost organisation representing composers.
Excellent website with articles on writing music for all areas, and a helpful website.
http://www.britishacademy.com
The Buzz Factor
Bob Baker's guerilla marketing site for the Music Industry.
He will explain why you really shouldn't bother sending the major labels your demo. Required reading for any would be music professional.
http://TheBuzzFactor.com
The Cold, Hard Truth About Recording Contracts
If you make music, would like to make it your profession, and believe that all it takes is for a label to come along and sign you...you would be advised to read this article. It explains some cold, hard facts about record deals.
The artticle refers to US experience, but it absolutely holds true for music makers here.
Read and learn...
At A3, we do the 50/50 deal with our artists, as mentioned in the article. And we don't take their ownership of the copyright of the track, we just ask them to license it to us.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue41/music.labels.html
TT&TO Records
Home to Jack Psychosis - the site has videos, sounds and news from the man with the star glasses and the floppy hat
http://www.thisthatandtheotherrecords.co.uk/
Tubba 3 Ply
A3 artistes and Brighton faces
http://www.t3p.co.uk/
