At worst, you’ll lose your work, have no backup of it, and it’ll be gone forever. At best, you’ll put a great mix up, share the link with your friends and DJs, promoters etc, and when they come to listen, it’ll be gone due to a dreaded copyright removal. That means copyright issues, and we’ve hopefully shown you that SoundCloud does not have your back on this. The problem is that you need a way to show the world what you bring to the table as a DJ, and DJs by definition play other people’s music. Instead, let’s look at the problem for DJs and how they can solve this. Plus, we’re not talking about DJs making moey from their mixes, after all we’re simply talking about being able to share our work. Now, let’s put aside arguments over copyright here for a second: After all, “mix tapes” have always been a grey area (are they exploitative or promotional for the artists featured?) and indeed, Warner (for example) actually uses SoundCloud itself, unlike Universal which conspicuously doesn’t. What this reinforces, alongside years of evidence that DJ mixes are taken down regularly and without warning (everything from radio shows to amateur mixes, although curiously big names seem to get away with it more), is that increasingly SoundCloud simply isn’t a safe place to upload your DJ mixes to. Here’s that part of the alleged email trail: From: Do Androids Dance This was revealed in an email trail involving a DJ called Greg Morris (“Mr Brainz” on SoundCloud) and the “SoundCloud Copyright Team”, in which they revealed to him that Universal is blocking content as it sees fit without SoundCloud’s involvement at all. This week it has emerged on Do Androids Dance that SoundCloud has apparently granted Universal Music Group (one of the “big three” record labels alongside Warner and Sony) the right to remove content that it believes infringes its copyrights, without any involvement from SoundCloud itself in the process at all. It seems things have just gone from bad to worse in this respect, with a shocking piece of evidence that further reinforces that the platform really is utterly unsuitable for sharing DJ mixes on. We’ve long warned DJs that they should not upload DJ mixes to SoundCloud – the popular audio sharing platform – because of the risk that their mixes will be removed for alleged copyright violation/s. SoundCloud is apparently now letting Universal remove material it believes infringes its copyrights directly from the service, marking – if true – yet another nail in the coffin of the service as a viable platform for DJs to show off their mixes on.
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