Female Music Producers

Today if an young unknown artists wants to make a demo all he or she has to do is a Google or Yahoo search for ‘buy beats’. The search results provide an array of on line producers to choose from. They can purchase the beat on line and download it immediately. They know longer have to rent out a studio or buy studio equipment to make a track. All they have to do is look on line. Of course big names artists will continue to use big named producers. However, the young and aspiring artists are going on line to find their producers, as they should. They’ve been getting ripped of for years and now they have a larger budget to record their vocals. In the past the budget was sucked up from production costs. Now $100 for the track and your done!

Still the quality of on line producers is questionable. Sites such as Givemebeats and Thebeattrader allow anybody to register as a producer and upload their work. However, sites such as Trackmasterz are professional and consists of producers that have worked in the industry. More importantly they submit their tracks to A&R’s from major labels to review so check quality an commercial appeal. There are not many credible on line producers like Trackmasterz. However, history and technology assure us their will be more. Our prediction for the next three years in the music industry is this: CD’s will be dead, on line music production companies will replace producers, Trackmasterz will remain the industry standard and Microsoft of on line music production.

How many of you went to the store to buy a CD player within the past three months? How many of you went to the store to buy an Mp3 player or Ipod? Exactly!! Nobody is buying CD players any more. Why should they? Who wants to spend $50.00 to fill up your gas tank to drive to the store when you can just buy the album on line and download it on to your Mp3 player or Ipod? Secondly, why spend $10-$14 on a CD that can hold at best 16 songs when you can put thousands on your Mp3 player? Right! Just like cassette tapes and eight tracks, CD’s are on their way out.

Technology has definitely affected CD sales and Mp3 sales. However, it has also affected the music production process. Kanye West and Timbaland no longer have to fly to various studios to meet with their artists. Today they can email the tracks. Kelly Rowland and Beyonce no longer have to record their vocals in the same studio. Beyonce can record in Aspen while working on her latest movie and Kelly can record in New York while she works on her solo album. Their studio engineers can email their vocals back and forth to each other and sort out the mix among themselves. When the final album comes out it sounds like they were in the same room. Yes technology is amazing. It is also the death of the current music industry as we know it.

No the music industry is not going to die it will always be there. HOWEVER, the music industry that currently exists WILL NOT be here much longer. Is the Motown sound with Barry Gordy still around? No, we wish it was but it’s not. Change is the only constant and technology makes change rapid and frequent. Barry Gordy introduced the concept of assembly line production to the music industry, while Ford introduced it to the automotive industry. In fact Gordy worked in the automotive industry and this is where he adopted the practice. Interesting to note is what caused the invention of the assembly line, machinery. Up until industrialization labor was hands on. After Industrialization labor became more mechanized requiring less people. Factories began springing up every where across the U.S. However, as technology improved the need for workers decreased. This helped to increase profit. Barry Gordy brought this concept to Motown and now it is coming back to the music industry as a result of the Mp3 and downloading.