Comments on: Where do artists and managers stand? http://www.djorion.fi/2008/07/where-do-artists-and-managers-stand/ The electronic home of DJ Orion / Juska Wendland Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lauri http://www.djorion.fi/2008/07/where-do-artists-and-managers-stand/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Lauri Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:50:33 +0000 http://orion.reaktio.net/blog/?p=3221#comment-665 There's a huge difference between manager and an agent. Many of the electronic music artist' representives, called as agencys, are playing the manager role, but are actually a bunch of crap (not talking about Misc. in any way, as Misc's philosophy is totally different than ordinary agency or management). Easy money if you have some hot names, if not, too bad - then you try to recruit some upcoming honcho and hope he'll brake through and you get the booking fees. The relation is thin and easy to break up. There is no way you could be a manager of all the artists, when you have a roster of 15 dj's. This is the difficulty many of the good dj's confront. They get promised more than the agent can provide. A manager keeps YOU up, he doesn't suggest the next artist when the budget doesn't meet the fee or for some other reason why the performance seems to be a no go. If you compare the situation to some basic rock or pop bands (not the "big stars"), they have almost always the booking agent AND a manager, already because of the record labels and all the legal issues, etc. But they work their ass off for the band to get it up. To be a good manager, it requires alot. And you truly need to love your job to be a good one. There’s a huge difference between manager and an agent. Many of the electronic music artist’ representives, called as agencys, are playing the manager role, but are actually a bunch of crap (not talking about Misc. in any way, as Misc’s philosophy is totally different than ordinary agency or management). Easy money if you have some hot names, if not, too bad – then you try to recruit some upcoming honcho and hope he’ll brake through and you get the booking fees. The relation is thin and easy to break up.

There is no way you could be a manager of all the artists, when you have a roster of 15 dj’s. This is the difficulty many of the good dj’s confront.
They get promised more than the agent can provide. A manager keeps YOU up, he doesn’t suggest the next artist when the budget doesn’t meet the fee or for some other reason why the performance seems to be a no go.

If you compare the situation to some basic rock or pop bands (not the “big stars”), they have almost always the booking agent AND a manager, already because of the record labels and all the legal issues, etc. But they work their ass off for the band to get it up.

To be a good manager, it requires alot. And you truly need to love your job to be a good one.

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