Mathew — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:53:52 +0000

Sometimes I wonder how get get to where we are. I don’t mean me, I mean the House music scene. This is from a thread on a house music bbs, where someone who didn’t get paid and decided that they were tired of getting the run around and called the label out in public.

Here is a response from some guy in quotations, and my take.

I am on his XXXXX Imprint as “XXXXXX” and on XXXXXXX a couple of times as well…I have not been paid from any of those projects and have a remix that i am slated to do for XXX in the near future

This whole “calling out people who are hurting the scene is hurting the scene” attitude is unbelievable.
Can someone who has a backbone please explain this to me?

XXXX doesn’t get paid not only once, not twice, but at least three times and still lines up for a fourth go? You want to do a remix for me?

If you have a problem with getting paid by a label….talk to the label….UGH shouldn’t be used as a last resort to get paid.

If they cannot get the label to talk to them or pay up, how should they go about getting paid? Maybe they should try talking to the label? What about offering to do another release in hopes of getting back in favor?

Is there a limit to releases you should give to a label before you decide that maybe they do not respect you? 5? 3 E.P’s and a remix?

Some of these people have apparently forgot. IT’S JUST HOUSE MUSIC.

For you it is, I am sure. You act like it.

Those who actually take it seriously have another opinion.

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