Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!

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Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!

Post by VanderBoegh » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:04 am

I had a major "break" in the past few days that I wanted to share with you all. Since it's never happened to me before, I'm pretty dang excited about it.

I met a cool publisher at the Road Rally back in November who I ended up hanging out with for a bunch of the conference (drinking way too many beers in the process), who signed a handful of my tracks the following month. Well just recently he asked if I had any cool hip-hop tracks I could send his way, and as luck would have it, I was already in the process of creating a hip-hop collection. So I sent the whole works to him and he signed seven of those songs, with a nice three-figure cash "signing bonus" (not sure if that's the correct term or not) for each of them. I could have just about - ahem... - soiled my pants. And he's already pitching them directly to music supes at a handful of MTV and E! shows. He seems quite optimistic the placements will start right away, and I'm hoping that's not just unfounded optimism, otherwise he probably wouldn't have shelled out some cash to an unknown and unproven upstart like me. Ya know, a guy with only ONE placement to his name who hasn't even made a mark, or a dent, or even a scratch in the music business.

That money is going to help defray the cost of a much-needed computer upgrade, and is even paying for me to go down to the ASCAP Expo next week, where I'll have the chance to hang out with that publisher again. On top of that, he's said he'll introduce me to other publishers while I'm down there.

Thank you Taxi, for providing these opportunities for all of us dreamers. Two months ago I never thought I would be cashing a nice check for some hip-hop and gangsta tunes (heck, I'm a white dude from Boise Idaho... I've never even spent a single minute in an urban ghetto. Now farms on the other hand... uh, yeah).

Anyway, here's a SoundCloud collection of all my hip-hop tracks so far. There's only 13 of them here, but now 7 of them are signed and put close to a thousand bucks in my pocket.

My Hip Hop Collection: https://soundcloud.com/vanderboegh/sets ... wcase-pack

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Post by michael11 » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:10 am

Infinite congrats Matt!!

Superb work.

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Post by cassmcentee » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:42 pm

Big Congrats Matt!!! :D :D :D
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Post by ScottFree4All » Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:11 pm

That's a great story Matt. I love that upfront $$$ thing! I'm very happy for you.

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Post by Russell Landwehr » Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:02 pm

Holy *censored* Matt! :o
How awesome is THAT!
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Post by AlpacaRoom » Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:07 pm

Wow, nice work, Matt; huge congrats!


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Post by HectorRContreras » Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:40 pm

Woah, dear Matt, huge Congratulations indeed, I loved to read this Story, and so will Michael, I am sure, when he passes by ...! :) ;)

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Post by roberthamilton » Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:47 pm

Pimp alert! Nice job, brother. 8-)

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Post by andygabrys » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:26 pm

yeah man! that's the schizzle. or whatever they say lol.

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Post by eeoo » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:43 am

Dude! Nice score and way to shmooze, networking skills are critical but you gotts back it up with solid music which you do!
Congrats.

eo

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