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Getting to know Music from the Mothership

Music From The Mothership is on a mission to make the scene more inclusive. They are here to change the landscape. With 11 residents and Tank Howls as their founder, they are currently well on their way to make this change happen.  On Friday March 14 , they are taking over Room 2 in XOYO […]

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Protecting Your Music Pt 2: The Legal Centre for Dance Music

Part 2 of our interview with Jennifer Marr on her new initiative, The Legal Centre for Dance Music, and how electronic musicians can access free professional legal advice.

In Part 1 of our interview with Jennifer Marr, we explored her new initiative, The Legal Centre for Dance Music, and how it supports musicians. We also discussed some of the most common legal questions she encounters. In Part 2, we dive deeper into these topics, addressing more key questions and insights from Jennifer and focus around when to work with a lawyer or to seek advice.

Maeve: How can you tell when it’s the right time to seek legal support from an entertainment lawyer?

Jennifer: If you have a lawyer, a manager, or an agent, you should view these roles as advisors, but they should never push the artist into making any decisions. Education is a tool against being taken advantage of. When an artist is educated about their business they can also have a back and forth and a dialogue with their team and people they’re negotiating with as well. 

A good time to seek legal services, as a DJ/Producer, is if you’re releasing recorded music frequently with collaborators (especially if you are self-releasing and essentially running your own label), or if you’re in that “empire building mode” of creating multiple verticals (like starting to incorporate merch and brand deals into your strategy).

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How do you build a strong community and connect with the right professionals to collaborate with?

There isn’t one formula that works for everyone. If you can find a lawyer who works on a commission rather than the hourly fees, who’s willing to invest in you and be a general counsel for your business, that can be a really strong move. If you don’t feel as confident in your project management abilities, or think that you really need someone who’s also helping to hustle opportunities, it can often be advisable to get a manager first. Managers usually have a strong network of lawyers they like in their referral network that they’ll use for their roster.

Having business and legal tools that build financial stability and protect them from appropriation is especially important in electronic dance music. History is written by the victors, and a lot of time in the history of electronic music, those victors have been, for better or worse, powerful majority groups appropriating underground dance culture without giving them due credit or due compensation. It’s not enough to build a sustainable culture, it needs to go hand in hand with literacy and education. 

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How do your clients typically find you, and how do they ensure they’re reaching the right type of lawyer for their needs?

The biggest green flag is to make sure that they care about you and understand you, especially if you’re at the stage where you’re a developing artist, and you’re looking for someone to really partner with you and help you and understand the space you want to be in. 

There’s always such a big focus on how you can do that by playing out live, the big DJ tour or merch, but building up a valuable catalogue of your music can lead to as big of a payday as a big headlining gig at EDC. It takes time and it takes intention, building up your catalogue value through these methods is, in my opinion, a better, more stable way to build a life based on your music. 

Find out more about The Legal Center for Dance Music. Find Jennifer Marr on Instagram. Register for the newsletter here.

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Different Heaven & Ocean Roses – Last Goodbye [Ultra Records]

Different Heaven & Ocean Roses – Last Goodbye out now on Ultra Records! Stream/download: https://lnk.to/differentheaven-lastgoodbye Official Audio for “Last Goodbye” by Different Heaven & Ocean Roses Follow Different Heaven: https://www.youtube.com/@DifferentHeaven https://www.differentheaven.net/ https://x.com/DifferentHeaven https://www.instagram.com/differentheaven https://soundcloud.com/different-heaven https://www.facebook.com/DifferentHeaven #differentheaven #harddance Follow Us: https://ultrarecords.komi.io/ https://www.youtube.com/@ultrarecords https://discord.gg/ultrarecords https://www.twitter.com/ultrarecords https://www.facebook.com/ultrarecordsofficial https://www.instagram.com/ultrarecordsofficial/ https://soundcloud.com/ultrarecords https://open.spotify.com/user/ultramusicofficial https://www.ultrarecords.com

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Review: Better Place EP by Martin Oh

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Better Place EP

Following on from the song Better Place, featured on BlackPlastic.co.uk last year, Martin Oh is back with a full EP release, which shares its title with the previous track.

You can stream the full EP below, which expands the European-Mediterranean vibes of the song Better Place with four additional songs. All take the Martin Oh sound, developed in partnership with producer SOHN, in different directions. I particularly enjoyed the earnest sense of being emotionally overwhelmed that is What Am I Doing, a track that joyfully plays with the experience of feeling hooked on someone, and unable to move past them. The song builds these beautiful quiet moments, where Martin sings, “It’s you, it’s you, it’s you, it’s all wrapped up in you”, before the song moves to a chunky riff as he declares, “…And I just can’t seem to get you off my mind”.

Elsewhere, Same Song builds against a stripped back groove, up to the point where the song is enveloped in swirling melodies in its chorus. The contrast between the song’s quiet moments and the chorus creates a wonderful tension, the moments where the song lets go, in that chorus, feels like a moment of pure escapism.

The release ends with the new track Neverland, which acts as the culmination of both the EP, and Martin Oh’s catalogue to date. Inspired by the feeling of “being trapped in a life that doesn’t feel like your own, searching for an escape but never finding it”, Neverland is a deliberate reminder of possibility, as the artist describes:

“(Neverland is) a vibrant electro-pop track that reminds you the horizon is within reach. Heart-pounding bass, a sun-soaked melody rising like a wave… This song is a call to let go, to run toward the unknown, to dance until the weight of regrets disappears.”

As a song, Neverland pulses with energy and optimism, sunny melodies that play at the intersection of nostalgia and hope. The synths, guitars, and vocals all combine to create something warm and exciting, the emotional equivalent of blowing out the cobwebs and making a fresh start. Having started with an initial melodic idea, Martin Oh looked to layer more and more synths to give the song the energy it ends up creating in the listener. It’s a perfect close to the EP, and an exciting tease for what might come next.

Check out Better Place EP below, or on your favourite streaming service.

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Lonely In The Rain – Another Day

A new Inside Records release (Electro Posé label) #ElectroPosé #LonelyInTheRain #anotherday ◆ Electro Posé ⊙ Spotify : http://bit.ly/elepose ⊙ Deezer : http://bit.ly/epdeezer ⊙ Apple Music : http://bit.ly/apepo ⊙ Soundcloud : http://bit.ly/scdepo ⊙ Facebook : http://fbl.me/epo ⊙ Instagram : http://bit.ly/instaepo ⊙ Twitter : http://bit.ly/ttepo ⊙ Subs to the channel : http://bit.ly/ytepo ——————————- Stream & Download : https://insiderecords.bfan.link/eleva… ——————————- ◆ Lonely in the Rain II Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/42KUul1wLmOdQCEYf3MweS II Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/lonelyintherainmusic/ ——————————- ◆ Follow our label “Inside Records” ⊙ Website : https://www.insiderecords.fr ⊙ Facebook : http://bit.ly/IRfacebook ⊙ Instagram : http://bit.ly/IRinsta ⊙ Soundcloud : http://bit.ly/IRsoundcloud ⊙ Spotify : http://bit.ly/IRSpoti ⊙ Submit to our label ☛ insiderecords@electro-pose.com ——————————- ✉️ For tracks and pictures submissions mail us here : submission@electro-pose.com ✉️ For any requests or questions mail us here : contact@electro-pose.com