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Audience and Market research

The Internet Radio

Mixcloud

The British founded Mixcloud platform was designed to allow for the listening and distribution of podcasts, radio shows and DJ mixes which can be crowdsourced by registered users. Below are the examples of the channels that can help with the promotion of the EP.

Chill Out Mixes

11.644 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/mazzu43/

Chill Out Chart

7,890 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/chilloutcharter/

Future Garage

1,092 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/FutureGarage/

Take Flight Club

2,454 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/TakeFlightClub/

Resident Advisor

50,127 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/residentadvisor/

Chris Coco

87,469 followers

https://www.mixcloud.com/chriscoco/

NTS Radio

The NTS Radio was founded in London by Femi Adeyemi one of the original members of the Boiler Room. The radio station is promoting many music genres and is very open to the underground music scene. With the live stations in London, Manchester and Los Angeles and the live content from over 30 cities would be the perfect place to promote the Monotonic EP. Below are the examples of the radio shows promoting similar music to what can be found on the EP.

Throwing Shade - New Music Special

https://www.nts.live/shows/throwing-shade/episodes/throwing-shade-22nd-april-2017

Fauzia & Kode9

https://www.nts.live/shows/fauzia/episodes/fauzia-w-kode-9-4th-may-2018

From The Depths w/ Drakeford

https://www.nts.live/shows/from-the-depths/episodes/from-the-depths-20th-april-2018

Tom Ravenscroft

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/tom-ravenscroft-25th-april-2018

Dark Sky

https://www.nts.live/shows/darksky/episodes/dark-sky-17th-april-2018

Bergsonist

https://www.nts.live/shows/bergsonist/episodes/bergsonist-29th-april-2018

Points of access:

Dj Throwing Shade info@nabihahiqbal.com https://twitter.com/throwing_shade_

Fauzia https://twitter.com/fauzimoto

DJ Drakeford https://twitter.com/drakefard

Bergsonist https://twitter.com/bergsonist

Tom Ravenscroft https://twitter.com/tom_ravenscroft

The other online based radio stations

Here are presented the other examples of online radio stations chosen with the intention for utilizing as a channel for promotion of the music.

KissFresh (Kiss FM)

https://planetradio.co.uk/kiss-fresh/

The KissFresh is a part of the Kiss Fm a UK FM broadcaster specializing in Hip Hop, R n' B, urban music and electronic dance music. This radio station is available online, this branch of the KissFm would be the most appropriate for the promotion of the EP.

The Point of access is the radio presenter Dj Pioneer whos specialities are House and Bass music.

https://twitter.com/djpioneer

Rinse FM

http://rinse.fm/

The Rinse FM started as a pirate radio in the East London. The radio is evolving around underground music genres promoting innovative music.

The point of access to this radio is their email address designated for the music submissions

thelinkup@rinse.fm

The SoundCloud

The SoundCloud is a platform for the musicians and the music producers supporting music distribution and promotion. However, SoundCloud is not only limited to those the platform is also gathering large growing base of music listeners who by reposting music serve as tastemakers and helping with the promotion. Recently SoundCloud is allowing Pro plan users to collect revenue for their plays which is essential to help the artists with the monetisation of their music. The research into SoundCloud bellow presents platforms promoting, reposting music similar to one contained on the EP.

The SoundCloud reporters

EDM Massive, Promotion Service, Capetown, South Africa (53.5Kfollowers) https://soundcloud.com/edmmassivepromo

Like and Play Music, Record Label, Switzerland (5,180 followers) https://soundcloud.com/likeandplaymusic

David Hilbert, Antarctic Records (10.5K followers) https://soundcloud.com/david_hilbert

Future Dance Music, Worldwide (1,617 followers) https://soundcloud.com/futuredancemusiccom

Chillnation (250K followers) https://soundcloud.com/allchillnation

Chinchilla (185K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chill

Chill planet, Netherlands (101K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chillplanetmusic

Bare Chill, London (102K followers) https://soundcloud.com/bare-chill

Chill Children Monthly, New Zealand (43.9K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chillchildren

Insanely ChillMonthly, Venice, LA, United States (12.4K followers) https://soundcloud.com/insanelychillpodcast

59Degrees (202K followers) https://soundcloud.com/59degrees

Just Chill Out (19.4K followers) https://soundcloud.com/just-chill-out/reposts

Interchill (16.7K followers) https://soundcloud.com/interchill

Chill and Vibe, Canada (15.4K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chillandvibe/reposts

Nation of Chill (8.8K followers) https://soundcloud.com/nationofchillpromo

HolyChill (20.9K followers) https://soundcloud.com/holychill

Chill Trap records (88K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chilltrapnetwork/reposts

Chill Masters, France (45.9K followers) https://soundcloud.com/chill-masters

Deep House London (126K followers) https://soundcloud.com/deep-house-london

Deep House Amsterdam (389K followers) https://soundcloud.com/deep-house-amsterdam

Big EDM sounds (308K followers) https://soundcloud.com/bigedmsounds

3000 Bass (69.K followers) https://soundcloud.com/3000bass

Future Bass Records (62K followers) https://soundcloud.com/future-bassnet

Youtube

The research bellow presents YouTube channels publishing playlist with the music similar to one featured on the EP. It is essential to have music played on this channel as the bigger channels are becoming tastemakers for the specific genres. The Findings are divided into the three groups depending on the number of followers.

Youtube Promotion Channels (101K+):

   EDM City (357K subscribers)    Vital EDM (818K subscribers)    Proximity (6.4M subscribers)    EDM Movement (106K subscribers)    House Nation (1.9M subscribers)    Future House Music (785K subscribers)    House City (339K subscribers)    BANG THE HOUSE (249K subscribers)    Future House Records (128K subscribers)    Bass House Music (117K subscribers)    Electronic Gems (189K subscribers)    Electro Music TV (435K subscribers    Ultra Music (11M subscribers)    MrSuicideSheep (8.9M subscribers)    xKito Music (1.6M subscribers)    UKF (1.5M subscribers)    Diversity (706K subscribers)    Kyra (348K subscribers)    ElectroPosé (959K subscribers)    Majestic Casual (3.8M subscribers)    THUMP (523K subscribers)    Sensual  Musique (892K subscribers)    Vibes (165K subscribers)    Chill Nation (4.8M subscribers)    Ambient (270K subscribers)    Fluidified (301K subscribers)    Ninja Tune (206K subscribers)    Houseum (104K subscribers)    Aviencloud (253K subscribers)

Youtube promotion channels between 11K-100K:

   EDM (56K subscribers)    EDM House Mafia (63K subscribers)    Turkish EDM (76K subscribers)    Meow EDM (77K subscribers)    EDM SONY VN (87K subscribers)    Diamond I Club & EDM Music (60K subscribers)    girl8bit (63 subscribers)    MiXeR (24K subscribers)    QDR Quality (43K subscribers)    Deep House Amsterdam (72K subscribers)    Deep Territory (91K subscribers)

Youtube promotion channels 10K or below:

   Epidemic EDM (8.7K subscribers)    The EDM Area (10K subscribers)    Primal EDM (2.4 subscribers)    EDM en Español (Also Lyrics in English) (8.1K subscribers)

Blogs and the Web Magazines

This research was conducted to find blogs and the 'Webzines.' Publishing about the music and the music genres that EP falls into. The findings are divided into two groups the first one shows the blogs and the magazines that are free to submit and the second one with the sites charging for the submission.

Blogs/Magazines (free to submit):

edm.com/page/contact-us

www.sohblog.com/submissions/

www.youredm.com/about-us/

http://mixmag.net/page/contact-mixmag

http://www.factmag.com/about/#contact

https://ukf.com/submit-promo

https://www.residentadvisor.net/contact.aspx?show=other

https://dancingastronaut.com/advertise/

https://www.edmtunes.com/contact-us/

https://www.magneticmag.com/page/contact/

https://publishing.typeform.com/to/amgZ9x

https://consequenceofsound.net/contact-us/

http://www.themusicninja.com/contact/

http://cdm.link/submit-newswire-article/

https://www.indieshuffle.com/pages/about/  (use this link to submit: https://www.submithub.com/  )

Blogs/Magazines (which cost money to submit):

https://www.edmsauce.com/submit-your-track/

http://www.thissongslaps.com/submit/

Labels and Distribution

Below is the list of researched record labels releasing and distributing music similar to the tracks on the EP.

Black Acre: http://theblackacre.co.uk/

Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.com/

Warp: https://warp.net/

Apollo: https://apollorecords.bandcamp.com/

Ninja Tune: https://ninjatune.net/home

Rush Hour Holland: http://www.rushhour.nl/

hyperdub: https://hyperdub.net/

Text: https://soundcloud.com/textrecords

Loci Records: http://locirecords.com/

Dark Clover Records: http://store.darkclover.ro/

For the distribution channels, the most appropriate would be :

CD Baby

Bandcamp

Spotify

After researching how to get music on to  Spotify is found that if the artist is not signed to a label or distributor, the music has to be delivered by the aggregators like CD Baby this is due to the make sure everything on Spotify is appropriately licensed. The aggregators collect royalties for the artist.