Ah yes, you can now talk to us! We have set up a live feedback page where you can ask questions, share ideas and rate us...along with the rest of our artists.
We're going to test this for a while and see how it goes. If it gets killed by spam we'll pull the plug on it, if however it becomes a useful resource for constructive feedback and cool ideas it'll live forever.
So, let's hear it...head over to www.getsatisfaction.com/lacantinaproductions and get posting! Who knows, we may even reward the best ideas and suggestions with free beats...who knows...
We have also hunted down and hired some amazing writers who have already contributed their thoughts to these pages...of course, there is more to come from them in the following months
AND, mailing list subscribers will receive all new articles before they are published online. This is on top of special offers, new beats and other lovely freebies...(yes, we like being nice)
Even more new beats have been uploaded, have a listen....
And...another beatmaker joins our world famous production team, I-Cue. His beats are technically excellent and add yet another style to our melting pot of sounds (for real..)
Unlike Sockola, I-Cue wasn't hired while the founders of this site were intoxicated, but he applied himself online and simply knocked us out of our chairs. Way to go man!
New beats have been uploaded and the catalogue has been re-designed...ai!
We did love the pictures on our old one (really) and liked to believe that you did as well. Stunning visuals and rap beats, a winning duo.
But then one day while cooking pasta we realised we had too many beats. And because we want your beat tasting experience to be as seamless as possible, we cut the pics and put all our bangers on one plate. Yes. (send us feedback if you hate it...!!)
And last, make sure you check out the first new beatmaker to join our world famous production team, Sockola. A fan of Reason's NN-XT, the man is known to love digging the crates for underground euro latin pop gems and being whack at Xbox first person shooters. He was hired one dark night when Jerry Spina and Stone Tone where too intoxicated to understand the implications of their actions.
Life rolls by quickly. Life online rolls by even quicker, and LaCantinaProductions.com today celebrates four successfull years of happy beatmaking and online business.
We've learnt loads in four years, but if there is one thing that has really stood out, it's the fact (read carefully, fact) that it ain't easy. Creating one of the web's top audio production sites has taken a tremendous amount of work, passion, enthusiasm, time and money. It didn't just happen...
That's why it annoys us we've gone from having 5-6 quality sites selling beats online to what now are probably close to a hundred beatsomething.com's. Sure, competition is a positive force, it fuels innovation...but the problem is that we're not seeing innovation, just hopeless imitation.
Why? Because it looks like the new online rap beat biz opportunity is not about selling beats anymore, but telling others how to do it, and charging for the privilege. The craziest thing is that these "secrets of selling beats online" ebooks make it look like child's play...to the point that anyone who reads them feels they are perfectly capable of selling beats online and making six figure profits. Ha ha
Of course these ebooks are BS. Yes, they point you in the right direction, but it's not only about knowing how to do it, it's knowing how to do it better than everyone else. And if that wasn't enough, they fail to mention that without QUALITY beats, no one goes anywhere.
So what's our advice? Don't be foolish and throw your hard earned cash down the internet money making dreams drain just because some ebook tells you so. There's no more space for beat sites, the market is bursting (a search for "rap beats" on Google brings up 507,000 results, yes).
Instead, join an existing audio production site. Have a look around, pick the best ones (not the open to all buy and sell beat sites, you'll never get noticed there) and send them your beats along with a well written email. Trust us, if you're talented you'll eventually have your beats online, without having wasted thousands of dollars on building and promoting yet another buyrapbeat.com
So while we blow out the four candles on our birthday cake, we hope we've helped you with this simple, yet vital piece of advice...happy birthday LaCantinaProductions.com
