Fantastic Animals is my favourite release on RouteNote Direct at the moment. Fantastic Animals is from the very talented Tam Johnstone who has been in many bands throughout the years.

What do you think of Fantastic Animals?

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The Tied are an up and coming band from Kent in the UK. They have been gigging a lot and have even found some success in a battle of the bands contest recently. The Tied has joined RouteNote and their music is available via RouteNote Direct.

The Tied Download Store

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Auza are some very cool Italians. Here is a new track we came across.. enjoy!

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A. If you are a composer or songwriter, here are possible revenue streams from your musical compositions..

1. Retail sales: Mechanical royalties from physical sales of recordings of your songs at stores, concerts or via mail order.

2. Digital sales: Mechanical royalties from digital sales via online services (CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody, MySpace Music)

3. Sheet music sales.

4. PRO Royalties: Royalties for the public performance of your work (airplay on radio, TV, movies, jukeboxes, live performance and foreign royalties, and home recording and foreign levy payments) as distributed to you by ASCAP/BMI/SESAC.

5. Advances from publishing companies during a publishing deal.

6. Payments from publishers for litigation settlements.

7. Commissions for works.

B. If you are a performer (think Patsy Cline), possible revenue from sound recordings…

8. Digital performance royalties: Royalties for the digital performance of your recordings — airplay on satellite radio, webcast stations, cable TV stations — distributed to you by SoundExchange.

9. Advances from record labels that are not just reimbursement of recording or touring expenses.

10. Label payments for tour support or recording expenses.

11. Payments from labels for litigation settlements.

12. AARC royalties: collected for digital recording of your songs, foreign private copying levies, and foreign record rental royalties, distributed to US artists by AARC.

13. AFM Payments (TV, Film): Payments from the Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund to performers on recordings used in TV and other secondary uses.

14. AFM Payments (Recordings): Sound Recording Special Payments Fund to performers for the sales of recorded music

15. AFM/AFTRA Payments: Payments from the AFM/AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund (distributes recording and performance royalties to the non-featured artists)

C. Possible revenue from licensing your musical composition or your sound recording…

16. Ringtone Sales: Mechanical revenue from ringtone sales

17. Synch Licenses: Synchronization royalties based on master rights licensing your song to TV/movies/video games/commercials

18. Sampling Licenses: Licensing fees from other musicians sampling your songs.

D. If you’re a performer, possible revenue from live performances…

19. Touring and shows: compensation for playing live shows or performances, including busking.

E. Revenue from a performer’s brand…

20. Merchandise sales: t-shirts, posters, etc.

21. Sponsorship: of tour or of a band/artist.

22. Direct financial support from fans/patrons.

23. Ad revenue or other miscellaneous income from your website properties (click-throughs, commissions on Amazon sales, etc.)

24. Acting in television, movies, commercials.

25. Product endorsements.

26. Other licensing of your persona (to video games, comic books, etc.)

F. Revenue from an artist’s knowledge of the craft…

27. Work for hire/hired as a studio or live musician or composer

28. Work as a music teacher.

29. AFM/AFTRA session payments: Session payments for recording sessions, TV appearances, and performances flowing from synch licenses

30. Producer: income from producing or music direction

G. Other ways a musicians’ work can be funded:

31. Government grants.

32. Nonprofit/foundation grants.

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RouteNote enjoys being involved in all things music, both superb and tragic. I’ve decided to throw out a weekly video (where it can be found) of awful tunes that could arguably be cult favourite’s for a giggle.

This tragic attempt at something to do with signing is from The Hoff. Scouring YouTube and the Hoffs own site, I Couldn’t find the proper video. It Turns out the song has become “Unavailable. Embedding disabled by request”. Probably for the best. One of the best move’s Hoff ever made next to Bay-watch of course.

ooh, jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
jump in my car, it’s too far to walk on your ow-own

jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
C’mon and jump in my car, it’s way too far to walk on your ow-own
Well maybe I wi-ill
Ah, that’s better now, your talkin’ sense
But you best keep still
Well, if you like I’ll just put up a fence
No need to get smart
Well alright we’ll soon be on our way
We better start
What for?
Because it’s such a long way
Why, where d’you live?
I live down south, it’s roughly eighty-four miles
Hey slow down, you must be jokin’ there behind that cute smile
Oh, no I’m not
Well, if you’re not there’s only one thing to say
And what’s that?
Get out the car, get on your way

Get out of my car
But you just said that you’d take me home
it’s just too far
But there’s no way that I can get there alone
I couldn’t care less
Maybe I could see you next week
But you look a mess
But look who’s talkin’, you’ve got no right to speak

Get out of my car
You told me that you were a really nice guy
Well I aint
yeah,Get out of my car
Get out
Get out of my car

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I’m going to be doing things a little differently this week. Instead of presenting your ungrateful little faces with 2 or 3 artists that I hope you will like, I am going to give you 1 artist that I think you should listen to because they’ve caught my attention for all the right reasons and another that represents everything I dislike about music. I don’t know how long this method will continue, but hopefully it will make these weekly postings a little more interesting.

If you would like your music to be featured in future posts then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or on twitter @monkeyhotel

Whenever I hear someone telling me about a songwriter that spends most of their time alone in a bedroom recording all their music themselves I uncontrollably roll my eyes and make a noticeable sigh, expecting to hear some idiot whinging about their pathetic life over some strumming.
Robin Plays Chords (Robin Johan Jax) has been a wonderful surprise to me this week. His songs feel homemade in all the right ways and when listening to them you feel as though you are being openly invited into his life.
The mixes feel very rough, and in places some instruments are very obviously sequenced with very little attempt to make them sound human, but all of this adds to the intimacy of the record. Please take a listen to his album Red Admiral LP below, visit his MySpace page and follow on twitter.

Red Admiral LP by RobinPlaysChords

And now for something considerably less pleasant. Before I go any further, I want to say that Macchina Del Tempo are obviously fairly competent musicians and are quite good at playing around with meter and harmony. Sadly, top musicians very rarely make great composers or writers of music, and my god is that apparent here.
Describing themselves infuriatingly as a “Progressive Jazz Fusion” band, the shortest instrumental number on their MySpace page stands at a staggering 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
Clever chord changes, playing across the pulse and the odd adding of a beat is all very interesting to the band, I’m sure, but I can’t see its purpose other than the enjoyment of playing it – if you’re a complete nerd. If that’s why they make this sonic shambles then fine, I hope they’re having a blast, but I find it hard to believe that anyone could honestly sit through all ten minutes of the track below ‘Long Way To Go’ without developing a small desire to drown at least once.

That is all. Goodbye.

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As it’s Wednesday I suppose I should give you some new music to listen to. A bit of a mixed bag today so please give them both a chance and try to enjoy yourself in the process.

If you would like your music to be featured in a future post then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or on twitter @monkeyhotel

The first artist I’d like to show you is a duo currently working on their debut album Leaving Atlantis.

A really nice mixture traditional songwriting seasoned with electronics, these few tracks should be just about enough to get you interested in learning more about the band, and you can do exactly that by visiting their website.

Leaving Atlantis by Leaving Atlantis

How do you follow up delightful songwriting? With some extremely creative Canadian progressive house. Although Snork doesn’t describe himself as progressive I can’t think of a better word to describe his inventive creations. Dance music at its best should be an amalgamation of ideas that allow a track to drive itself, and Snork does this perfectly. Why not take a little listen to these three numbers and see what you think?

RootMusic BandPage by Snork_

And that’s your lot, until next time.

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