Anyone listen to the Travis O'Guin interview yesterday?

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Permalink Reply by B@$$EL on February 15, 2012 at 7:54am

Link plz??

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Permalink Reply by blankh954 on February 15, 2012 at 11:53am

http://blog.strangemusicinc.com/2012/02/travis-o-guin-live-intervie...

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Permalink Reply by ƩѴ⎿ ℕჷ⏉✗ on February 15, 2012 at 2:16pm

it was good.

 

I wonder what Travis was talking about when he said, "I'm thinking about putting something special in the MAYDAY CD that the TRTN forums inpsired me to do"

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Permalink Reply by Monster King on February 15, 2012 at 2:25pm

Travis is an amazingly smart dude. I've met him a few times and and I'm always blown away with the knowledge he has to offer. 

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Permalink Reply by ₡₱♛ on February 15, 2012 at 2:58pm

Anyone who listened wanna share details? Not about to listen to that whole thing

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Permalink Reply by Alex M on February 15, 2012 at 3:07pm

Really he just talks about Cognito having a one record deal. And they dropped him cuz Automatic didn't reach expectations. So they both decided to let Cognito do Cognito. He talks about Kutt not being on tour. Saying the reason is because every artist on the tour has a project being released. He says he's spent 1.2 million dollars already on the Hostile Takeover Tour. And it costs money to put artists on tour, 75k for Kutt with all the expenses. Travis is a business man he needs money back from album sales and if Kutt doesn't have a project coming then there's no money coming in. He also says he wants to try and expand other fan bases other than Tech. That's why he's putting Kutt on his own tour. He says Kutt and him are still tight, Kutt is in Travis' office all the time. He also says that Strange is in a signing freeze. He wants to make it work with all the other artists before moving on. He's had multi-platinum artists want to sign with Strange but he politely said no cuz he wants to work on who's with Strange now. Then caller's starting asking stupid questions so I stopped listening. He's a real intelligent guy with a different business perspective than any other record label. 

Cole said:

Anyone who listened wanna share details? Not about to listen to that whole thing

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Nelson on February 15, 2012 at 4:42pm

Listen for the segment after the first wave of callers for his insight on Mayday, Krizz Kaliko's upcoming album, and some other ish. I had like 25 questions but could only get through like 5 so I'm hoping to get him on for another one.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Nelson on February 15, 2012 at 4:43pm

He's got quite the compliment for Mayday and the upcoming album and trust me he didn't just say this for the callers either, he's said this sort of thing around the office as well.

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Permalink Reply by SIN1STER on February 15, 2012 at 5:23pm

Travis is an intelligent businessman, but the Kutt explanation sounds like bullshit to me.  Strange Music should've been building the original group of artists up from the beginning.  Why would you wait until 10 years after the artist has been signed to start trying to develop their individual fanbase?  And why would you sign a bunch of new artists without having the individual artist's fanbases already established?  It's the same thing with Skat and Snug.  They weren't feeling the love on the marketing aspect of their music compared to Tech.

 

Not knocking Travis or Strange, I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

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Permalink Reply by Alex M on February 15, 2012 at 5:54pm

I was listening and it seemed like it was pretty honest. I do think that they should have not signed Young Bleed or Ces Cru. I think those were bad signs. Also I think they shouldn't have resigned prozak. I know Travis said he's one of the best selling artists on the label but he could have used the time and money to push the artists they already have.

SIN1STER said:

Travis is an intelligent businessman, but the Kutt explanation sounds like bullshit to me.  Strange Music should've been building the original group of artists up from the beginning.  Why would you wait until 10 years after the artist has been signed to start trying to develop their individual fanbase?  And why would you sign a bunch of new artists without having the individual artist's fanbases already established?  It's the same thing with Skat and Snug.  They weren't feeling the love on the marketing aspect of their music compared to Tech.

 

Not knocking Travis or Strange, I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

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Permalink Reply by SIN1STER on February 15, 2012 at 6:10pm

He is completely honest and I usually always trust what Travis says, but why would you wait so long to build up your main artists instead of right off the bat.  Kutt and Kaliko should've been established long before signing BLH, Jay Rock, Mayday, Prozak etc.  And I agree with you about Young Bleed, but Ces Cru will make money.

Alex M said:

I was listening and it seemed like it was pretty honest. I do think that they should have not signed Young Bleed or Ces Cru. I think those were bad signs. Also I think they shouldn't have resigned prozak. I know Travis said he's one of the best selling artists on the label but he could have used the time and money to push the artists they already have.

SIN1STER said:

Travis is an intelligent businessman, but the Kutt explanation sounds like bullshit to me.  Strange Music should've been building the original group of artists up from the beginning.  Why would you wait until 10 years after the artist has been signed to start trying to develop their individual fanbase?  And why would you sign a bunch of new artists without having the individual artist's fanbases already established?  It's the same thing with Skat and Snug.  They weren't feeling the love on the marketing aspect of their music compared to Tech.

 

Not knocking Travis or Strange, I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

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Permalink Reply by LoveBucketS on February 15, 2012 at 8:37pm

Travis is an intellegent buisness man that says no to multi platium artists politly so he can work on maybe getting one artist other then tech to do well on there own "sounds right to me" lol. I didn't listen to the interview and i don't own my own label but that sounds like either a bullshit line or he's an "intellegent buisnessman"
 
Alex M said:

Really he just talks about Cognito having a one record deal. And they dropped him cuz Automatic didn't reach expectations. So they both decided to let Cognito do Cognito. He talks about Kutt not being on tour. Saying the reason is because every artist on the tour has a project being released. He says he's spent 1.2 million dollars already on the Hostile Takeover Tour. And it costs money to put artists on tour, 75k for Kutt with all the expenses. Travis is a business man he needs money back from album sales and if Kutt doesn't have a project coming then there's no money coming in. He also says he wants to try and expand other fan bases other than Tech. That's why he's putting Kutt on his own tour. He says Kutt and him are still tight, Kutt is in Travis' office all the time. He also says that Strange is in a signing freeze. He wants to make it work with all the other artists before moving on. He's had multi-platinum artists want to sign with Strange but he politely said no cuz he wants to work on who's with Strange now. Then caller's starting asking stupid questions so I stopped listening. He's a real intelligent guy with a different business perspective than any other record label. 

Cole said:

Anyone who listened wanna share details? Not about to listen to that whole thing

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