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Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by Razor7Music » Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:56 pm

Hey All--

I got this email from a company that got my contact info from my Taxi profile/bio. I just wondered if I should forward it to someone at Taxi so they're aware, of just mark it as spam and move on?:

"Good day,

I found your Taxi Music page, and hope it's alright to contact you this way.

I'm an A&R representative at SRL Networks in London, an artist relations company representing top emerging musicians around the world. We are looking for new music for our radio network, music licensing catalog and artist promotion/development roster, and I was wondering if you would be interested in sending us some music for consideration.

Subject to a successful review, SRL Networks will get your music heard by entertainment industry professionals and fans all over the world, and help facilitate music licensing and distribution deals, live events bookings, record label/music publisher deals and more. You will receive a detailed agreement once your music is accepted.

You can find out more about us at Backstage.SkunkRadioLive.com

To submit music, send your best track in mp3 format, a professional photo and a link to your website to playlists@SkunkRadioLive.com. You can also include a short recorded message to introduce yourself to Skunk Radio Live's listeners. Alternatively, you can upload a video introducing yourself and performing your best track to YouTube and send us a link.




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SRL Networks London Ltd | T: 020 3286 0210 | E: studio@srlnetworks.com"
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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by hummingbird » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:44 pm

One word, yes. Dunno what TAXI can do but they should know a competitor is contacting Taxi members through the Taxi website.

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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by shorttonpro » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:09 am

Got this email too and found a Reddit thread where many others were 'found' via their Bandcamp or Soundcloud. No personal address or name used in the mails either. A few people who followed through say that in the next email they ask for a 7GBP submission fee for them to review your music. They may indeed eventually feature a submission on their small time site, but the verdict is still a scam overall.

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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by joyfrost » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:48 am

I also got the email. I just deleted it since it sure felt like spam to me!

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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by songmaster » Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:47 am

I also got this email. I thanked them but declined. It just didn't feel right.

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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by TerrellBurt » Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:29 am

I believe I once received this e-mail but it went straight to the Trash folder. Looked fishy.

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Re: Should I Report This to Taxi?

Post by Razor7Music » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:54 am

Ok, thanks. You're right--there probably isn't much Taxi can do.

BTW--I set up instant notification for this post and didn't get any--so, sorry my reply is late.
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