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#311: Finding Your Way in a Changing Music Industry with Kevin Breuner

Music Production Podcast

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Is There a Different Path to Indie Music?

When I started there was one method. If you didn't get a label, you couldn't afford to record a record. It was just too expensive. The indie at that time, indie music was sort of a negative connotation because it usually meant cheap sounding or low quality, low budget. And I think over time that evolved to be something that was desirable like this thing that wasn't so pristine. But that's what it meant back then unless you had no other wayUnless you had very wealthy family or high paying job,. You probably weren't spending the money needed to go into a studio and make a high quality record. That was the path everyone was on now. There's artists like

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Speaker 2
Yeah, it made me think almost like it's a different thing. He's doing. You know, it's like your band, right? You guys writing songs, performing and then building up the following, getting the deal, putting out an album. But this is like this weird kind of hybrid of TikTok personality virality with a song that's catchy and maybe even it only parts of songs. In his case, I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's just parts a lot of times. Yeah, it is a different thing and I think that's one thing that's important for people to understand as they approach the market today. When I started there was one method. If you didn't get a label, you couldn't afford to record a record. It was just too expensive. The indie at that time, indie music was sort of a negative connotation because it usually meant cheap sounding or low quality, low budget. And I think over time that evolved to be something that was desirable like this thing that wasn't so pristine. It had more grit and character at times. But that's what it meant back then because you had no other way unless you had very wealthy family or high paying job, you probably weren't spending the money needed to go into a studio and make a high quality record. But that was the path everyone was on now. It's like there's artists like Jake that are doing that. There's artists that are still doing more of the traditional path. There's artists that have all sorts of hybrids of what they do based on, you know, there's people that just do cover songs on YouTube and they make a decent living doing it. So, there's all sorts of different paths. And I think it's important for artists to understand that because it's easy to see an artist doing something and have success and assume you should just mimic it. Well, I can tell you after watching Jake's videos, I'm not Jake nor would I pull that off or would that work for me? So there's multiple paths and you've got to kind of identify what is your method and what's going to work for you. And it's easy to start just chasing all these random things and really get nowhere. Right.

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