2/28/2013

No More Super Music Producers !

By Noela Stern


During the early 2000's, the music industry, especially the communities of hiphop and rnb, observed the emergence of what we now call the "super music producers", accounting for chiefs: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins or The Neptunes.

What exactly a "super producer"? Okay, the best definition of their difference with a "simple" producer would take the demonstration of what we call a "supermodel" in fashion, for example Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer or Naomi Campbell. You know those famous super-models as well as everybody else and you can see them on all of the the catwalks. In simple terms: safe values.

This has been the identical thing in the music industry: there have been "big" producers, safe values, that directed completely the projects and were needed by the most popular singers or rappers. It had been usually easier for record company to exploit a greatly admired music producer than a newbie. The famous producer furnished a many of winning singles, in principle. By reason that at that moment generally big music producers sold discs.

But, the music business, after the starting of the decade has totally changed. Firstly, consumers don't actually buy cd anymore.

As a result the record companies give far less money for a project. And undoubtedly, record labels will no longer be wishing to give between $ 100 000 to $ 300 000 for just one single beat, as was the scenario during the golden era of music producers. The discs tend to not sell and the web starts to develop. To surmount unauthorized downloading of their artists, record companies develop or merge with statutory download platforms and try to enforce their visibility on this internet place, that has been getting away their control for a long time.

But the improvement of the web has allowed the surfacing of countless not known producers as good as, if not much better than, "Super Producers".

A lot of these producers have targeted on the advancement of the Web, that has assisted those to sell their beats online. Helping them to communicate and work with singers or rappers on a local scale as well as a world wide one. A producer from Sweden can supply beats to singers in Japan. It is very now less complicated for them to obtain a very good credibility to get a career. For the artists, this makes a huge difference! They are able to buy beats online at home for their album, EP or mixtape for affordable prices; far from those applied by the "super producers".

Record companies pay a specific interest on this new business. They buy beats online too. And right now we are able to observe that a few of these web producers are obtaining hired by majors.

The great era of super producers just like the times of super models disappears slowly, offering way to this new business led by producers who, usually, have next to nothing to envy to the "super producers".




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