Cutting A Record

When push comes to shove - part two of MT's guide to releasing and promoting your own record

Cutting a record

Make your own music, make your own record, make your own luck

Record label spotlight on the innovatory people who bring you Brian Eno and numerous others.

The feasibility of putting your own records out; Richard Dean tells how to beat them at their own game.

(so that people can actually hear them)

A rundown on what's involved in setting up your own personal cassette label and how to bring your product to the attention of the people who matter.

Concluding our guide on how to release your own record

Getting a deal is one thing — bringing out your own disc, from demo to finished product — is something else. Tony Mills lays it on the line...

Indie Records

First part on how to go about releasing your own electronic record. A D.I.Y. guide.

Jazz rock reggae punk funk folk joke.

Record Pressing

Part 3 completes our short series with a detailed look at record pressing, labels, sleeves and promotion.

TLO Records recently released a single by Bonaventura in the form of a four track Portastudio-compatible cassette that you can mix yourself. Could it be a new trend for the future?

What to do with that gem of a song when it's all finished.

Communication is the name of the game; switchboard operator Chris Murtagh tells how to get in touch.

Getting Publicity

Exactly that, with emphasis on the budgie cage liners known as local papers.

Wonderful Radio Mike Hrano brings you a bulletin on how to get fair play on your airplay

A European music co-operative explained by Henry Cow/Art Bears percussionist Chris Cutler.

Dan Goldstein sifts through the stack of independent vinyl that landed in the E&MM offices following our appeal, and finds each record has a different tale to tell.

A thorough study of the 'do's' and 'don'ts'.

If you want something done, sometimes you've just got to do it yourself... Genie Cosmas explains why and how she recorded and released 'Rep Sunset', her band's debut album.