MusicBiz Stuff: My Guide to the World of "Official Remixes" / I'm speaking at Beatport Connect LA

Plus ... New FSQ music featuring Parliament-Funkadelic bassist / guitarist Billy Bass Nelson

Hi Friends,

Some music business stuff I am working on that I would like to share with you. Please email me back with any feedback - I always appreciate hearing from you. Also some NEW FSQ MUSIC is out now .. thank you in advance for reading.

BEATPORT CONNECT LOS ANGELES

On September 25th I'll be speaking at Beatport Connect in Los Angeles. 4.55pm – 5:35pm panel on the Artist & Career Development track. We are talking about A&R - I'll be representing for Soul Clap Records, where I am the label manager these days, with practical, process-focused advice: how to get your demo heard, what makes a submission stand out, common mistakes to avoid, and how to build a genuine relationship with an independent dance music label. Please let me know if you'll be there and you can register here - tickets are $65 for the day's panels..

MY SERIES FOR MUSIC X - ELECTRONIC / DANCE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Meanwhile, I'm in the middle of publishing a series of posts for Music X about "Official Remixes in the world of music streaming". Electronic / Dance music is the 6th most streamed genre in the US according to Luminate’s 2025 Year End Music report with 51.3 billion streams of tracks that fall in the genre in 2025.

In this series, I reveal that official remixes that fall within the genre can account from anywhere to 30%-50% of the catalog of Electronic / Dance music artists. Therefore I think it’s important to detail for the Electronic / Dance industry how remixes are being defined, marketed, merchandised and consumed.

If YOU have a vested interest in how remixes are merchandised and marketed in the world of music retail and streaming, please feel free to take the following survey. This industry survey is designed for Artists / Producers, and those who work on releasing remixes e.g. Record Labels, delivering remixes to DSPs e.g. Distributors, and merchandising remixes at DSPs e.g. DSP Editorial Staff. I'll be presenting the results at the Association For Electronic Music general meeting at the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Here's the summary of the first part of the series, if you want to jump any of the specific sections on Music X.

1. ​Introduction​
2. ​What is an “Official Remix”?​
3. ​Unofficial remixes and SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp​
4. ​Enabling fans and casual listeners to create their own remixes​
5. ​How remixes transform pop and other genres into club music​
6. ​Why release “Official Remixes”?​
7. ​Conclusion and Part 2 preview: How music services struggle with remixes​

NEW FSQ MUSIC OUT NOW:

My group FSQ is an EP coming out October 1st with SIX different original mixes (e.g. these are arranged from the original session without remixers coming on board to produce) of a song we collaborated on with Parliament-Funkadelic bassist / guitarist Billy Bass Nelson and vocalist / multi-instrumentalist Eugene Tambourine - titled ON THE MAP.

It's very Balearic and chilled out - Billy's daughter Ebony remarked upon hearing it that "it has a 70's vibe, like Christopher Cross vibe, with funk..". I think that's a great way to describe it. Certainly a departure from our usual sound.

Morgan Wiley and I are on the track representing FSQ, and Andrew Marsh, who's joined us on the live band performances of FSQ & The SQs is on drums. You can pre-order the entire EP for October 1st now and receive two mixes right away - including the FSQ FUNKADELIC TOUCH VERSION and an instrumental of a deep rare P-Funk cult classic, the similarly titled THE MAP SONG, which Billy Bass, Gabe Gonzalez and I recorded in 1996 at Bill Laswell's Brooklyn recording studio.

There are two other mixes out this week - THE GREENPOINT AVENUE VERSION and CASERTA'S 2 THE STUDS DUB, in which producer pro CASERTA breaks down the original 15-minute long recording session into a dub version that highlights Billy Bass Nelson's iconic bass playing and beautiful acoustic guitar. Again, the beautiful artwork for the release is from Unknown Pleathers aka Noah Prebish.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you see soon at Beatport Connect, around San Francisco, or soon ... Amsterdam Dance Event! Please always be in touch - your friend Charlie aka Chuck Da Fonk Fishman!