It seems like it used to be a pretty regular thing to have an acapella alongside the radio, explicit, and instrumental versions. Nowadays I hear these DIY acapellas which are ok, but not up to the quality I would want.

Soooo...what do you think changed that? self conscious artists who don't want you to hear how they sound with no beat to support them? self conscious producers afraid some kid with a laptop will make a remix hotter than the OG version? Jay-z and the "Black Album"/"American Gangster" remix saturation?

Oh and in the meantime, I did a mix where I flipped some R&B acapellas over some classic samples. That's what sparked my idea for this post. Hope you dig it!! -> https://soundcloud.com/loopdelah/spunday-crate-escape-appetizer


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Now that the dj game is 95% digital, releasing accapellas is just like getting your song abused by a ton of people who only want to make a remix or blend of your joint especially by people who aren't djs; everybody seems to be a producer these days.

It's the same reason why a lot of artists don't release instrumentals anymore; everybody is a rapper now.

The whole purpose of having accapellas and instrumentals was to promote the song/artist when a dj uses them in a mix, not for unsigned rapper to rhyme over or a bedroom producer to make his remix.

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
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>Now that the dj game is 95% digital, releasing accapellas is
>just like getting your song abused by a ton of people who only
>want to make a remix or blend of your joint especially by
>people who aren't djs; everybody seems to be a producer these
>days.
>
>It's the same reason why a lot of artists don't release
>instrumentals anymore; everybody is a rapper now.
>
>The whole purpose of having accapellas and instrumentals was
>to promote the song/artist when a dj uses them in a mix, not
>for unsigned rapper to rhyme over or a bedroom producer to
>make his remix.
>

Probably the case. That sucks for us DJs who still want to make mixes

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fuck you.

To people like US, a record is a piece of history. A moment in time.
Most people don't get it.

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whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me

yeah, napster didn't help.
but as a kid, you used to save up your allowance to buy a single.
when you had more money, you bought albums.

then the labels got greedy and charging 18 dollars for an album,
AND they discontinued those maxi-singles.

as a result, there are several generations of kids
that never got into the habit of buying music.
not even once.


you can't tell me ppl won't pay for singles.
iTunes disproves that theory by itself.


but anyway. yeah.
i think you're right.

Just because they aren't on 12" should that really stop it though? They still sell singles on i tunes. Why not make the acapella available in that same store??

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Remixes are a commodity...

If I have a record I only want certain people to get the acapella to flip it... everyone else??

who cares..

A remix could be just as important as the single these days (guess the same way hip hop records had radio versions e.g. big poppa). Cedric Gervais version of Summertime Sadness charted better than any record Lana Del Rey has released. Gigamesh version of Cooler Than Me went from "remix" to actual single version for Mike Posner..

A label treats them like real records.. not just promo anymore. Especially when trying to break into a new territory. Capitol is using Harry Fraud remixes and Rodney jerkins "redux" to help break Sam Smith in the US

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