The In Sound From Way Out – EMI Australia’s Music and MP3 Blog

A&R Demos

The A&R Team are still losing their minds within the midst of the Demo Stockpile trying to find the latest and greatest thing!

If you’re an artist / band – make sure you submit your music through the A&R Dropbox because entries are going to be listened to & reviewed on this here webpage (Australian artists only sorry!).

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EMI’s A&R Team Answers Your Questions

Here at EMI we spend lots of time answering questions of independent artists whether we’re out and about, at a conference or on email. We thought it would be good to share those answers more broadly and make them public so everyone can benefit from them.

Every month, we’re going to be answering your questions in blog posts or direct to camera about life at a major label and Australian music in general.

You can see the first instalment here with EMI’s A&R scout Mark Holland discussing a day in the life of an A&R scout, the role of MySpace and his favourite Australian producers.

Mark Holland, A&R Scout, EMI Australia from Nick Crocker on Vimeo.

If you have any questions – leave a comment, shoot us an email – mark@theinsoundfromwayout.com – or leave us an @reply on our Twitter page – twitter.com/eyesandearsoz

See you in a month!

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Simon Lesty says
On December 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Thanks for that. You must totally get to listen to a big mix of different sounds. I do wonder if you get put off a demo if it doesn’t pull you in straight away.

Haha I totally agree with your perspective on myspace. The friends don’t mean so much. It’s more how you can mobilise them and the power of word of mouth through the net. I know as my 47,000 85% in Auz give me little attention unless I make an effort ..

Si,
Orca! Straight Ahead! says
On December 21, 2009 at 4:42 pm

cool stuff.

i look forward to more videos more than i look forward to christmas.
Jenni Ropert says
On December 31, 2009 at 9:33 am

hey
what was the name of the guy Mark was referring to up above who was sort of a justin timberlake james brown combo? Starts with a Y?
thanks!