Guest yikes Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 i am talkin bout musicians/producers/players etc not ancillary jobs like roadie,sound man etc i know 3 or 4 2 of which are affiliated with SONY and 2 that are free jazz maniacs the 2 jazz guys are gigging constantly and are surviving not thriving and are in their late 50s early 60s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest futuregirlfriend Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 One. A guitarist in a covers band or two. Late 30s, seems to be doing ok. I live in a shit tip bumhole so he's lucky to be doing something enjoyable here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Zero. There is no music scene in my area though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Greg Reason Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 One person. He makes half his money making dance tunes and selling them to labels one 12" at a time and makes the other half of his money DJing every weekend ever. Dude's had one weekend off in the last decade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I know one full time DJ who I went to uni with. He DJ's for Propaganda so basically tours the country during the week hitting different students unions / Academy venues. He loves his job, but I imagine its rather tiring. I know a number of "part-time" DJs who get regular weekend gigs / release their own tunes, but all of them have other jobs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidphakist Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 One person. He makes half his money making dance tunes and selling them to labels one 12" at a time and makes the other half of his money DJing every weekend ever. Dude's had one weekend off in the last decade! Will you list his aliases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I know a lot of people who make money in cover bands, a few people who work in a recording studio, & one or two that do music for advertising (not sure how many of them make a living off of it). I don't know anyone offline making any money doing electronic music, commissioned or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I know two people who live off their music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkaholic Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 1 signed to emi, but still has a j-0-b another djs a lot and has started doing remixes one girl i vaguely know is doing well, was on jools hollands so i imagine she has some money in the bank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 None. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest dese manz hatin Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 about five a duo that do a shitty but scaringly succesful electro show, one dj-duo and one producer/dj. many more djs/producers from berlin but "knowing" would be an overstatement. all part of the (local) techno/minimal scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 one jazz guy, one from an experimental music group, one beatmaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Oh, actually. I know one of the guys in "the blizzard" which is a rather successful trance-duo I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yikes Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Oh, actually. I know one of the guys in "the blizzard" which is a rather successful trance-duo I think. takes like an hour or 2 to knoack a track like that together horrible unimaginative and trite hard to believe anyone buys this stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 most of the people i know who make music and make a living involving music do other things on the side like mastering, or small 30 second bits for commercials, sound effects for game, etc. I don't know anyone who makes a consistent living off of making music in the traditional sense (meaning these are the tracks i normally would naturally be making and i'm getting paid doing it). PRobably the closest thing to this is musicians i know who make money off of Djing, but barely any off of their actual music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I know many people working full time as DJs and Producers or doing liveacts. All of them are totally into a certain genre and devote all their time to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 i know quite a lot, but none personally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhonny Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 I don't know how really, but ive got a lot of mates from school who've ended up as musicians My best mate at school is the guitarist in the horrors I know the guy in Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, but am mates with his band more. I know a Defected DJ who earns more of a living doing A&R for them. I also know a few session musicians who have toured with bands but needed normal jobs in the mean time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ranky Redlof Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 1. He produces and DJ's, all profit comes from djing he actually lost money on his first releases, "lol at making money producing" is what he told me but who's in it or the money anyway ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Several. But I know many many more that don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Greg Reason Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 One person. He makes half his money making dance tunes and selling them to labels one 12" at a time and makes the other half of his money DJing every weekend ever. Dude's had one weekend off in the last decade! Will you list his aliases? Yeah, DJ Freestyle/Colin Russell. discogs link He makes House exclusively so I didn't think any of you guys would know him. But he's released on the most respected House labels in the world and makes a decent quid off it. Done a lot of touring but he doesn't want to do that anymore. He's actually thinking of retiring from clubs entirely and just making tracks while doing some "normal" job because he's tired of the pretentious fucktards that go to the clubs to be seen rather than dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 i was gonna say two but it's really only one. the one who does legitimately live off his music only does so because he makes really shitty music for the background in commercials. so he's not really living the dream, as it were. the other one i was GOING to say was Matt Florence, who played guitar in Naked Aggression for a while and is now in a band called The Jaggernauts (post punk/power pop outfit who do a killer cover of "No Quarter") but then i remembered the only reason he's able to do nothing but play in bands is because he's native american and gets casino money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 oh and i went to high school with a bunch of guys in semi-popular midwest emo/screamo scene bands. they were able to go without day jobs for a while but not so much anymore. actually my favorite out of them, forstella ford, ended up pretty deep in debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 I forgot that I went to uni with Gareth Emery (GTR) - he made no .9 in the DJ Mag poll last year which is crazy. He was making awesome proggy trance tracks circa 2003 but ive not heard much of his recent stuff - but its obviously popular. He has been signed to Armin van buuren's Armada label. Also, a few years above us at uni was DJ Yoda. ALSO forgot about a guy I went to secondary school with who runs this record label who release some brilliant drum and bass - check out their podcasts if your interested. He also DJs regular techno nights. Dont know if he has another job too but DSM keeps him busy. So actually, thats 3 people I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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