2/27/2013

Why There Is No More Super Music Producers ?

By Sabrina Perrault


At the beginning of 2000's, the music business, most notably the communities of hiphop and also rnb, resulted in the emergence of what we now call the "super music producers", accounting for leaders: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and also The Neptunes.

What is a "super producer"? Well, the ideal definition of their difference with a "simple" producer could take the instance of what we call a "supermodel" in fashion, including Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer or even Naomi Campbell. You know these renowned models as well as anyone else and you can see all of them on all of the the catwalks. In short: safe values.

That was the same thing in the music industry: there were "big" producers, safe values, that driven all of the projects and also were desired by the most renowned singers and also rappers. It was usually less dangerous for a record labels to use a highly rated music producer rather than a novice. The recommended one given a plenty of award winning singles, in principle. Considering that at that moment in most cases big music producers sold cd.

But, the music business, since the starting of the decade has changed. To begin with, people don't really decide to buy cd now.

For that reason the record companies invest less and less budget for a project. And clearly, record labels will not be ready to lay out money between $ 100 000 to $ 300 000 for just one single beat, as was the case during the golden period of music producers. The cd tend to not sell and world-wide-web starts to develop. To do something about illegitimate downloading of their artists, record companies create or merge with statutory download websites and hope to enforce their visibility on this online scene, that has been getting out of their control for a long time.

But the rise of the internet has additionally allowed the presence of plenty of anonymous producers as good as, if not a lot better than, "Super Producers".

All of these producers have focused on the developments of the Web, that has allowed them to sell their beats online. Enabling them to connect and also work with singers or rappers on a local scale as well as a world one. A producer from Nyc can now promote beats to some-one in Japan. It is actually now less of a challenge for them to obtain a great credibility with a career. For the artists, this makes a huge difference! They are able to buy beats online from home for their album, EP or mixtape for reasonable prices; far from those practiced by the "super producers".

Record labels pay a specific interest on this new sector. They buy beats online too. And currently we can easily observe that a few web producers are obtaining hired by majors.

The golden time period of super producers just like the time period of super models fades away progressively, offering way to this new sector led by producers who, often, have next to nothing to envy to the "super producers".




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