DLS Beats 2014

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Contents

1. About DLS Beats .............................................................................................................. 3

1.1 Mission Statement ..................................................................................................... 3

1.2 Company Information ................................................................................................. 3

1.3 Clients.................................................................................................................... 4

1.4 Charities ................................................................................................................. 4

1.5 Discography ............................................................................................................. 5

1.6 Prizes ..................................................................................................................... 6

1.7 Music Genres ........................................................................................................... 7

1.8 Music Producer Skills ................................................................................................. 7

1.9 DLS Beats Music Studio ............................................................................................... 8

1.10 The Use Of Beats ...................................................................................................... 9

1.11 DLS Beats Benefits ..................................................................................................... 9

2. DLS Beats Catalogue Beats ................................................................................................. 10

2.1 Purchasing Process .................................................................................................... 10

3. DLS Beats Custom Beats .................................................................................................... 11

3.1 Purchasing Process .................................................................................................... 11

4. Contact ........................................................................................................................ 12

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1. About DLS Beats

1.1 Mission Statement

DLS Beats strives to become an internationally acknowledged leading music production company and market

leader by delivering unique and inspirational products of high quality and exceptional customer service, build

upon a foundation of giving artists the power to succeed and grow in the world’s rapidly evolving music industry.

1.2 Company Information

DLS Beats is an internationally renowned state-of-the-art music production company that supplies music

production services to artists, companies, brands and spaces.

After being founded in 2002, the main style and sound of DLS Beats is Hip Hop and Electronic music and since

the beginning more than 1,000,000 song plays, 100,000 fans and thousands of music and beat downloads have

been collected. The company is not limited to producing beats for client releases and until nowadays a variety of

remix, instrumental and song mixtapes and albums, totalling 30 have been released in their own name. The most

successful release is a remix of a song by Dub Fx called Time Will Tell, with whom a mixtape was published

early in 2013 and for the upcoming year many interesting projects will be launched such as studio session videos,

the release of a second relaxation music episode and of course many more music releases.

DLS Beats is offering beats from a catalogue which can be licensed to get the rights to use them for albums,

mixtapes, promotional videos, film, TV, websites and more. All beats are produced by the founder of the

company, DLS and it is highly valued and crucial that the artwork of other producers is being respected by not

copying their sound and music productions. A wide range of sounds, genres and bpm are available and both old

school and new school type of beats are being produced. At the present time it is significant to stand out and use

beats which other artists have not used before; therefore the premium exclusive licence is a special category of

beats because each in this category has never been used by anyone and the quality is much higher than the other

category of beats. Moreover, the need of tracked out versions increased in the past couple of years; hence it is

possible to acquire the track outs with each licence apart from the non exclusive licence. A special feature about

the non exclusive licence is that the beats can be downloaded as both an MP3 and a WAV version.

Besides the beats from the catalogue, custom beats can be produced on demand and an extensive range of music

genres can be created depending on the artists’ needs and the contemporary company is known for blending

music genres. The process of arranging a personalized beat is very simple. The artist gives instructions about how

the future beat should sound and DLS Beats will produce an instrumental accordingly. Once the beat has been

finalised, the artist will receive a tracked out version of the beat by email for mixing and mastering.

DLS Beats has been very active in remixing songs of independent and major artists including Snoop Dogg,

Pharrell, Public Enemy, Kid Cudi, Wale, Tinie Tempah, Labrinth, Tiesto, Uffie and Jason Derulo to name a few.

The newest remixes are of B.o.B, Ca$h Out, Cypress Hill and Rusko and on our website we provide a complete

list of DLS Remixes. Custom remixes can be booked by any artists and the process works similarly like booking

custom instrumentals.

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1.3 Clients

DLS Beats has produced singles, albums, remixes and background music for clients from all around the globe for

example but not limited to the USA, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Norway, South Africa, Saudi

Arabia, India, Philippines, Australia and Norway. Since they are focussed on Hip Hop and EDM music, mostly of

the clients are from these industries and each year, new countries are being added to the list. Globalisation helps

to increase the diversity of music culture and sounds and in 2014; DLS Beats is looking to reach out to more

countries in Europe and Latin Africa. On the following map you can see in which countries the beats were used in

blue.

1.4 Charities

In order to give back to the community, DLS Beats is supporting a couple of music oriented charities by donating

a percentage of the sale of certain songs. Unfortunately it is hard to find music studios in some remote areas in

this world, but the donations will enable a lot of people to get access to them because it is crucial for song

recording and below you can see the charities we are currently associated with. In the future, we are planning to

create our own charity and it will be based on music development as well. We started a few projects in countries

from Africa and depending on the outcome we will establish a charity within the next two years.

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1.5 Discography

A large range of mixtapes and album has been released from the years of 2008 until 2014. The majority of the

mixtapes are projects to present new beats or remixes and the remaining releases are mixtapes where DLS Beats

is showcasing new songs created by their artist roaster. Besides this, artists also released mixtapes and albums on

their own and the following table displays the discography credits of the company’s releases which were

published offline and/or online through their in-house record label. If you wish to know more about the DLS

Beats music production credits, please visit the official corporate website.

Year Mixtape/Album

2008 DLS Classics

2008 What Is Hip Hop?

2009 DLS Beats Vol. 1

2009 DLS Beats Vol. 2

2009 DLS Beats Vol. 3

2010 Most Wanted Vol. 1

2010 Welcome To My World

2010 Most Wanted Vol. 2

2011 DLS Remixes Vol. 1

2011 DLS Beats Vol. 4

2011 Made In Luxembourg Vol. 1

2011 Made In Luxembourg Vol. 2

2012 DLS Remixes Vol. 2

2012 Serious Trap Beats Vol. 1

2012 The Martian Cream

2012 One Step Closer

2012 Antidote Vol. 1

2012 Antidote Vol. 2

2012 Made In Luxembourg Vol. 3

2012 Beats, Kicks and Chicks

2012 Espresso

2012 Friday The 13th

2012 DLS Beats Vol. 5

2012 DLS Beats Vol. 6

2013 The Future

2013 Flying Pyramids

2013 DLS Beats Vol. 7

2013 DLS Beats Vol. 8

2013 DLS Beats Vol. 9

2013 DLS Beats Vol. 10

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1.6 Prizes

Over the course of the years established artists both signed to major and independent labels organised remix

contests where contestants had to remix an original song. Taking part in these opportunities were important steps

for the company because some of the opportunities turned into partnerships and in the end they have won several

remix contests which you can look up in the list below.

Year Contest Ranking

2010 Dub Fx Remix Contest 1st

2010 Ciara Corr Remix Contest 1st

2010 Madelaine Bloom Contest 1st

2010 Navsta Beat box Contest 1st

2010 Shad & Dallas Remix Contest 3rd

2011 Shakira & Pitbull Remix Contest 3rd

2012 Ca$h Out Remix Contest 2nd

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1.7 Music Genres

DLS Beats is focussed on producing Hip Hop and Electronic Music, but the core music genre is Hip Hop and is

often influence by electronic music containing elements of Jazz, Funk and Latin music. The following table

contains information about the music genres produced by DLS Beats:

Genre Subgenre

Hip Hop Miami Bass, Dirty South, Trap, Country Rap, Underground Hip Hop, Futuristic Hip Hop,

Conscious, Hip Hop, Grime, Chopped N’ Screwed, Reggaeton, West Coast, Reggae

Electronic Music Jumpstyle, Hardstyle, Minimal House, Hardcore, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Euro Dance,

Chicago House, Electro, Latin House, Schranz, Trance, Moombahton

Other Genres R&B, Pop, Neo-Soul, Soul, Rock

1.8 Music Producer Skills

As a music production company it is necessary to cover a range of music production and business skills. In the

following table you can see a list of the skills disposed by DLS Beats:

Music Production Skills Music Business Skills

Music composition and song arrangement

Laws, ethics and copyrighting

Music concepts and music genres

Publishing and distribution

Sound design; surround sound techniques and music with physical effects

Marketing, advertising and sales

Recording technologies (analogue and digital)

Artist management

Audio file management and documentation

Music booking

Studio recording, Mixing, Mastering

Tour organising

Song writing Consulting

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1.9 DLS Beats Music Studio

DLS Beats is carrying out business operations and music production in a music studio. A laptop with the FL

Studio music production software is being used as interface and beats are composed using a keyboard, MPC,

microphone, electric guitar, synthesizer, other instruments and VSTs. On the picture below you can see the

current studio setup and that is the place where mostly of the beats and other music projects are being created.

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1.10 The Use Of Beats

1.11 DLS Beats Benefits

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2. DLS Beats Catalogue Beats

The core service is music production whereas an individual buys the licence of a readymade beat from the

catalogue on the website. A beat also called instrumental is defined by a whole piece of composed music, at DLS

Beats under the form of a MP3 or WAV file. A beat is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or

singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input. The music is produced by using real and

virtual music instruments and there are 2 categories of beats available. The first one is available in3 different

licences: Non-Exclusive, Premium Leasing and Exclusive. The second category is available in the Premium

Exclusive licence only and is mainly used by professional artists who need beats which have never been used by

anyone else. Each beat category and its licences have various deliverables, features and bonuses which are

outlined below and serve for different purposes and musician needs.

Features Non-Exclusive

Premium Leasing

Exclusive Premium Exclusive

All prices and discounts are calculated automatically by the store

$10 $25 $100 $300

Instant Delivery √ √ √ √

Contract/Invoice included √ √ √ √

Untagged beat √ √ √ √

MP3/WAV √ √ √ √

Commercial use such as mixtape, albums, videos, demos and performances

√ √ √ √

Keep 100% of royalties √ √ √ √

Promotion on our platforms √ √ √ √

Unlimited distribution √ √ √ √

Tracked out version with stems (Not available for beats marked by * symbol)

√ √ √

Beat can no longer be sold √ √

Reserve beats √ √

Bonus √ √

Guarantee that the beat was never sold before

√

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2.1 Purchasing Process

Beats can be purchased directly from the catalogue on the website and DLS Beats is accepting payments in cash,

bank transfers, PayPal, Bit Coins, Google checkout and Amazon payments. Furthermore, PayPal supports credit

card, giro pay and bank transfer payments. The exact buying process is explained below:

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Click the +ADD

button next to the

beats you wish to

order

Click on any of the

licenses you would like

to purchase to proceed

to the next step.

Click the Buy Now button at the

bottom right hand side of the

myFlashStore player to make

payment.

After payment in PayPal, you

will instantly receive the

download links to your

PayPal email address.

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3. DLS Beats Custom Beats Besides DLS Beats Catalogue Beats custom and personalised beats can be booked. There are many reasons why

artists choose to get personalized music production such as not the finding the right sound. The following

table provides an overview about our service features:

Features Premium Exclusive

$300

2-4 weeks by email √

Contract/Invoice included √

MP3/WAV √

Commercial use such as mixtape, albums, videos, demos and performances √

Keep 100% of royalties √

Promotion on our platforms √

Unlimited distribution √

Tracked out version with stems √

Beat cannot be used by someone else √

Bonus √

Guarantee that the beat was never sold before √

Make your next hit with us.

3.1 Purchasing Process

If you decided to get a custom instrumental, get in contact directly by email for booking and to discuss details. In

general any type of music can be produced and everything will be tried to meet your expectation. DLS Beats is

accepting payments in cash, bank transfers, PayPal, Bit Coins, Google checkout and Amazon payments.

Furthermore, PayPal supports credit card, giro pay and bank transfer payments. The exact buying process is

explained below:

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Pay deposit and give

instructions for the

custom beat

Music

production

process

Pay the remaining

amount when

satisfied

After payment, you will instantly receive the

download links and other deliverables to your

PayPal email address and mail address

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4. Contact

DLS Beats can be contacted on the following communication channels:

Channel Online Address

Email info@dlsbeats.com

Website www.dlsbeats.com

Social Networks www.twitter.com/DLSbeats

www.facebook.com/DLSBeatsOfficial

Social Media Channel www.youtube.com/DLSBeats

www.soundcloud.com/DLSBeats