The Dirtball mentioned me on Twitter!!!

@TEKNODROME shoot me a sample 

He followed me!!! I been a fan for a longtime!

I'm Gud @ Maf (with Hook) CONTEST!!!

So if you've followed my career the past few years you can tell I've drastically stepped up my game in making beats. Well now I want to do someone else a major solid. Before I moved to Los Angeles, CA from Toronto, OH I recorded a track with AbandonLandon & Count Juicy. It was definitely meant to be funny, as you may have seen the half assed video on youtube. Well now I'm posting a contest that will last until March 31, 2011. The deal: download the track with hook and spit how "Gud @ MAF" you are. Now you don't have to take the hilarious high road as we did, but it will help. I and two other "guest" judges will vote on the tracks turned in. The prize: A track from my catalog worth a $50 LEASE (does not mean you own full rights) Or if you want get two $20 & a $10 LEASE. We will work it out at the end of the contest. Send finished tracks to mailbombrecords@gmail.com 
You can download the tracks off: www.reverbnation.com/teknodrome ; www.soundclick.com/teknodrome

Lease and Exclusives Information Video

Story about instrumental "Chop 101"

So the story behind this beat is: I joined Rocbattle thinking I was pretty hot stuff (last December 2010) and I jumped right into battling. I never realized that my weird style wasn't what these other producers wanting to hear. Lets just say for the first few battles I had my ass handed to me! Especially by members I'm now a leader of!  I had noticed that Aveeon was mashing heads on this site and tried to "mimic" his style with this track which some samples I chopped short enough to not notice what they were-- this was to be used against him in a friendly crew battle-- But sure enough we got sucked into a crew battle with I cant even remember the crew-- but I used this beat and won for Legion Of Tunez!

3 year wait for ThRob UGLY's "Am I Really Here"

Fresh TEKNODROME / UGLY BEATS instrumental made this morning, and I thought to myself screw it, I'm gonna record... even its just a crummy $10 mic. Thats what made me, the DIY attitude. Its a little rough as I hurried it along. When I get a chance I WILL re-record it.

Follow me @ThRob_UGLY

www.reverbnation.com/throbugly

Producers: How To Clear Sampled Beats

If you’re a record producer and you ever want to make any real money on those tracks you created from your Dad’s old vinyl collection (that you can keep in anyway), then at some point you’re going to have to get clearances for the samples used in your works.
Here’s some very helpful information I pulled from a few noted resources.

Record the song. The copyright owners will want to hear how you’re using the work, and how much of it you’re using.
Find the Copyright Owners. This means you’ll need to get in touch with the copyright owners of the works you sampled. You’ll need to find the owner of the song itself, as well as the owner of the masters. This usually is a music publisher and record company respectively.

Help is available. You can solicit the assistance of sampling consultants who can take you through the process and help you track down the necessary parties. They’re familiar with the procedures, and may also be able to advise on ballpark price estimates.

Expect to spend money. The owners and publishers can basically charge you whatever they want. Expect to pay an advance plus royalties on sales. Most indie and unknown acts may have to pay up front in order to convince them to provide clearances.

Be prepared to share. The publisher may require partial copyright ownership plus royalties for the original songwriters.
Sample, submit request, repeat. If you sampled multiple songs in your one work, you’re going to have to repeat this process for each song you’ve sampled, paying out for each sample.

Plan, plot, and strategize. Samples aren’t subject to compulsory licenses, so use of the sample can be denied by either the publisher or the owner of the master. Sample clearing can also take too much time, or cost too much money for you to work out an agreement. Have a backup plan, like recreating the sample by playing it yourself or hiring musicians. You’ll only need permission from the publisher if you go that route.

I decided to join the infamous RocBattle.com!

Figured if I'm gonna take this producing and working with other people in the music industry, might as well see what other producers think! I got some hot beats over here lets test em out! Wish me luck guys!

Sneak Peek on beats for ThRob UGLY collabo album

These are just two tracks I'm currently working on for my collabo album as ThRob UGLY making my debut here in Los Angeles as a Rapper/Singer.