Carpe That DM 😈 - DJ sends John Summit song in hilariously viral post, Rekordbox is now a humiliation ritual company, Miami Music Week SHIFTs, and much more...

Oh hey, how are ya - it’s Fourth Co.

Everyday, about 150,000 new songs are released to the world.

That means, there’s been excactly 0 tracks released since Rekordbox released a working update that doesn’t delete your life.

Only a handful of those deserve your attention, so let’s pitter patter…

Steal This - my most played song this week (probably👇):

Notable News - 4 things ✅:

1. DJ sends John Summit email in now viral post with hopes to be signed by his label ‘Experts Only’ - that DJ is me of course, and still crickets from the Summy squad. His manager did view my IG story (but that was about it). I’m fairly confident they wouldn’t sign an artist who cold sends their first song to them via Trackstack. The label submission portal did say they take 38 weeks to review a song… aka the length of a pregnancy. Either way, it was a fun little cheeky way to promote this new song that I will probably never release. Experts Only or bust, babyyyy!

2. Rekordbox publicly announce they hate you and everyone that uses their products - in another completely botched firmware update, DJs were left stranded last week when their entire USBs were wiped clean of all their songs and playlists after plugging into CDJ-3000s. AlphaTheta, the company behind this, has recommended that users downgrade to the preview Version 3.20 until they can get their shit together and ruin everyones night again in the near future. Bending over DJs and dance floors around the world, all sandpaper, no lube, only time will tell how long it’ll be before the industry standard DJ software can perform basic DJ functions again.
   

   

3. Miami Music Week is getting a major overhaul with 4-day event series called SHIFT - the organizers are looking to fix the networking problem of MMW by moving away from the traditional ‘sit and listen’ conference format and more toward ‘curated encounters.’ MMW is all about deep connections directly with industry people, so I agree this could be a great “shift” toward that. I’ve been the last 2 years and always leave Miami feeling reinvigorated with new connections and experiences I could never get living in Chicago. If you’re planning on going to Miami next March, hit me up to Carpe That DM.

4. Universal Music Group strikes historic AI deal that means nothing - now that the honeymoon stage is over with AI generated music and the dust begins to settle on all the complaining about AI model usage and training, big dog UMG has formed a landmark partnership with AI music startup Udio. Coined an “industry-first” licensing agreement, it authorizes Udio to train its generative AI models on UMG’s iconic catalog of music. Kinda redundant because hasn’t all gen AI been doing this already, whether you liked it or not. The genie is out of the bottle, the toothpaste can’t go back in the tube, so UMG looks like their making an optics move to appear “on top” of this AI revolution which is already well in motion without UMG’s copyright lawsuit concerns.

Quaint Quote of the Week ✍️:

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If you have any feedback or thoughts (or bangers you want to share with me), reply on Instagram @fourthco.music

P.S. Don’t forget to hit me up to Carpe That DM 💜

Fourth Co.