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Please tell us a bit about yourself and your label. Where are you based, what genres & styles do you cover… And when/how how did it all start?
Eyy! Thanks for the invitation. My name is George, I'm a 24 y/o kid living in Romania and sometimes in United Kingdom. For the moment I will tell you some things about me. I'm the founder and the manager of Classyton, a digital record label and music curator. Our main activity of where we release the music is on Soundcloud and Spotify. We are a very small team at the moment (one man, sometimes two haha), but we aim to extend even much more. I started this project as a passion, in September 2015 after almost 2 years of experience if I can say so, in promoting different styles of music and artists especially on YouTube. I started everything from 0 and I learned everything by myself, things about promoting music, releasing music, copyright stuff, legal stuff and even photoshop stuff. I had no friends or other people in music industry, so this was a bit hard, but slowly I started to meet a lot of awesome people and by this I mean artists, managers, companies owners, record label managers, bloggers, influencers. Then a lot of oportunities and partnerships came. If you work hard and do everything with passion, better things will come up later and will make your life much better and easy. The main reason of why I started this project was because of the love and tastes I have for the music and the desire to help the artists, which are a lot, but man.. like.. a lot of talented young artists and so unrated. The main genres and subgenres we feature here at Classyton are based more like on chill music and rich sounds with some summer vibes, on indie pop and house music beats. Some examples would be: deep house; disco house; chill house; indie dance; electro pop; r&b; downtempo; hip-hop; nu-disco; soulful and a like. We only promote beautiful and quality stuff and we also offer other promo services rather than signing new tracks, but better check our website for more.
What are some releases our audience simply must check out? (Either new stuff or evergreen classics)
I would recommend you to check out the following playlist, which contains our releases since we started this label, so you can also have an idea of what we love to feature. Classy, dancey, and sunny vibes only!
Are you looking for new artists to sign or collaboration partners? (Be it media partners, remix competitions or otherwise?)
Well… we are continuously looking for new artists to sign and promote and we are always open to new partnerships as well. Do no hesitate to contact us with whatever you have in your mind related to a collaboration.
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Are you a superfan of anyone? How did you become a superfan? Do you remember how you become a fan and what turned you into super fan? Have you ever thought about why you´re such a fan?
Of a musician? Oh too many. But I, George, would say FKJ, Dabeull and M83 this time.
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What was the biggest mistake you made when you started making music and what would be the number one tip you could give to a newcomer musician?
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How do you get gigs? Can you share any tips?
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Do you have good promotion tips for other musicians?
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Do you have insights on how to grow your audience on soundcloud that you want to share with our audience?
Do as many partnerships as you can if they sound good to you. Nowadays there are also some marketing tools via a lot of websites that gives you the chance to get your music featured to hundreds of thousands of followers, reposts for reposts, playlists for playlists, download gates, contests, advertising campaigns and many other tools. Use them and work till you feel happy.
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What has been your biggest challenge right now? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
Somehow we did. A goal was to bring at least one track to the top which I did. Maybe some of you still remember the Damn Good Life track which was on the top charts in 2016 and 2017, a lot of people went crazy about it. Now it's time for another tracks, so stay tuned.
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How do you personally discover new music?
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Once you discovered new music, do you tell others about the new music/artist you discovered? If yes, how exactly?
“Yes, by featuring it on social media sites, private messages and emails, reposts, playlists, blogs, and a like.
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What is your number one tip to improve your music production or songwriting skills?
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What is your best tip for those who struggle with finishing their tracks?
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We meet again in one year. What has changed?
We'll be like… 'Oh, you again?! Haha well, we have to talk, please, come to my office and have a seat.' In the next 12 months we will get better and better, our aim right now is to sign and promote a lot of good tunes and to have a good looking and helpful website for everyone.
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http://www.soundcloud.com/classyton
http://www.facebook.com/Classyton
http://www.twitter.com/classyton
http://www.instagram.com/classyton
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