Music Talk : Music Industry Interviews, Advice and tips for DJs & Producers · Grahame Farmer

Music Talk 074 - How to Get Signed to Darude's 'Vibing Out' Record Label

·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Darude turns a demo critique into a live on-air label decision game with chat calling out hits and passes.

1. Music Talk : Music Industry Interviews, Advice and tips for DJs & Producers focuses on Darude’s new label Vibing Out and how he chooses demos. 2. Graham Farmer hosts, and Darude is the guest because he runs Vibing Out and discusses his Twitch-led community. 3. The episode asks what Darude wants from a label now: ownership, control, and releases he would actually play. 4. Darude says the first Vibing Out release was ‘Outlaws’ with Housebody and Oscar, released about two months earlier. 5. He says he launched the label after a long career on other people’s labels and wants more control over every part of the process. 6. He says the label is also for other artists’ music, not only his own tracks. 7. Darude says he wants to spend more time listening to demos and checking whether they fit his taste. 8. He says the main criterion is simple: he needs to be excited enough to play the track himself. 9. He names house, trance, tech house, prog house, uplifting trance, and some main-stage EDM as the broad range he works with. 10. He says he is not really looking for 138 trance or typical deep house playlist records. 11. Darude explains that Vibing Out is named after his Twitch stream and that the stream became more regular during the pandemic. 12. He says Friday DJ sets, Monday studio streams, and Wednesday chat sessions built a community around the name. 13. He says the community helped him through the pandemic and gave him an outlet for DJing and music. 14. Darude says he has around 10 to 15 moderators and often sees roughly 500 peak viewers on Friday streams. 15. He says the label name is also a tribute to that community and a way to extend demo listening into a shared setting. 16. He says he often tests new tracks on stream under an “id” label so viewers know it is unreleased music. 17. The conversation sounds informal and practical, with Graham Farmer reacting to demos in real time and Darude giving direct production notes. 18. The format is interactive, with chat comments shaping the discussion and Darude responding to labels, names, and stream jokes. 19. Listeners who make dance records, run labels, or stream on Twitch will get the most from it. 20. People wanting a polished artist biography or a short promotional interview may skip it.

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