Martijn wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 12:45 pm
Nice video with some good but personal insights. But for me I strongly feel that I have to stand behind the product I am making. I feel that the music I am making is too niche for a Taxi membership. I cannot pay a yearly membership for 1 listing in a year.
I agree , if you feel only want to make the music do now and the demand in Sync for it is quite low then Taxi is probably not the best fit.
Writing for Sync requires a certain mindset and possibly skillset. I wouldn't say I'm a fan of most of the genres I've had success with but I've enjoyed the challenge of learning how to make them am proud of the placements I've had which are approaching 300 now. About 80% of those are in genres I knew nothing about before I joined Taxi but if you can produce one genre well then a lot of the skills are transferable.
Then there are the genres I discovered along the way that I realy liked but hadn't thought about writing i.e I got into Cliff Martinez , Trent Reznor, Atticuss Ross, Mac Qualye as a result of writing for Taxi listings.
Whilst I think Taxi's Listings are a pretty good barometer of what Libaries are requesting , you could also go on websites of well known libraries and see if they have music like yours. If they do then maybe compare how it stacks up against your tracks and how it's structured which is very different to what you might do for an artist release. And also compare how much of it there is compared to other styles as it will give an idea how much of a niche it is.
As Graham says there is nothing to stop you trying to fill a niche by approaching directly but you need to know the best approach and what they need in terms of deliverables.
Mark