Sounds good, if youve had 10,000 posts in one month you could be onto a winner 🙂 Maybe look into selling mp3’s too, as that seems to be the way things are going.. I speak to someone who runs a online record shop and they say it’s very hard now, just selling vinyl alone and they have been at it for years. They and most record labels seem to be looking into selling mp3’s aswell now…

To answer a few suggestions/questions:

MP3: I’ve looked in to this and I think it’s definitely worth doing. Trackitdown.net make this very simple as they use your site as a third party. You simply set up the link and make it look like your site is selling but they deal with the whole thing and pass on a % which makes it nice and easy.

The other way is to get the rights off the label/distributor but I’m not quite sure how it works or how many you get to sell?

Fraud: The payment processor I will be using deals with the fraud. Because we would be a new trading business, banks don’t tend to be helpful with setting up SSL and internet merchant account. Therefore I’ll use a well known company who have a bureau account which is basically a merchant account and payment processor rolled in to one. The percentage taken per transaction is slightly higher than a bank but they deal with the whole transaction and simply pay a DD in to a chosen bank account each week. They will deal with any fraudulant transactions and it should not affect the business.

One question worth asking you lot though is what music styles do you think would work? I don’t want to cover the whole range of dance music simply because of the money involved and the site would suffer because of less up to date stock etc. I was planning to sell all forms of Breakbeat, DnB, Hardcore (Breakbeat Hardcore etc as it seems to be on the uprise) and possibly Techno. These are areas that I am more comfortable with and would therefore offer a better service. My only gripe with this is that partyvibe is not connected to any particular type plus I wont be dealing with any of the more alternative genres like speedcore, Breakcore and all the other cores. 🙂

This is not a sudden idea, I’ve planning this (and liasing with Hugh) for a while and have a business plan etc together. On paper it looks like it will work but I’m having to use educated assumptions for sales figures.

seems perfect to me

speedcore/breakcore tends to have its own distro network close to the artists anyway; as does psy-trance.

the UK hardcore scene is making a big comeback… IMO this site has always been more on the “old skool” original rave vibe anyway

interesting idea :groucho::groucho::groucho:

to get my buying interest it would be vinyl and techno/hard house/hard trance
[if you’ve heard my sets you know i will play just about anything i can crowbar into a set but my interest in gabba and all similar styles is very small] d and bass is alright but i tend to be a bit eclectic with it

if i were the only one with an interest in those areas it would be a waste of your time

how about a poll to find out what everyone buys/listens to?

out of interest, what are you defining as hardcore?

to me “hardcore” is “UK hardcore or freeform” which is the more euphoric stuff that developed out of happy hardcore (its making a resurgence now with fatter beats and less cheese but is happier than other forms of hard dance)

but do you mean the “euro” idea of hardcore (hard tekno/gabba?)

The european stuff….tbh anything over about 195bpm raaa

Its beginning to pick up in popularity over here nowadays…labels like deathchant and epileptik.

The conditions should say whether parallel funding is permitted. AFAIK all the money from grants overseen by Whitehall comes from GO-EAST anyway and I think you have got the main ones (there is certainly money available in the Waveney area (Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft).

was thinking of migrating my employer which is currently using Iris (a string and gaffer tape package TBH) but we’d have to use Line 50 as there are two companies and that was double to the price of Iris…