You Can Be an A&R Rep for BETA Records – Online Record Company Pays People to Find and Sign New Artists : Thu, 15 Feb 2007 : Music Industry Newswire™

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You Can Be an A&R Rep for BETA Records – Online Record Company Pays People to Find and Sign New Artists

by Jesse JJ Jame
published Thu, 15 Feb 2007 – 00:24:39 +0000 UTCNo Comment

One online record company, BETA Records is inviting music fans to accept a paying job with their company. According to BETA founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel, you can become an A&R (artist & repertoire) representative and turn your love of music into cash.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — BETA Records (www.betarecords.com) launched a module within its website that allows anyone to apply as a street team A&R member. Once registered, you can discover unsigned artists, have them join BETA, and earn money for each new indie artist signed.

Beta Records “We are taking the lost art of A&R and putting it back into the hands of music lovers,” Honetschlaeger states. “Major labels seem to have no budget and no interest in searching out new up-and-coming acts at local city venues. Our Street Teams have a passion for this,” Honetschlaeger adds.

Approved BETA Street Team members are assigned a 5-digit code that can be given to an artist to join and upload music and pictures to the BETA Records site. This automatically triggers a cash transfer to the Street Team member’s PayPal account.

BETA will award a bonus of $5,000 to the Street Team member with the highest number of sign-ups by Dec 31, 2007.

To try the system, go to: www.betarecords.com/street-team-info.php and register with the default username of preview@betarecords.com and the password of “betarecords” which has been assigned the test promo code of 12345.

“We’ve made a real effort to keep the technology as simple as possible and the user experience positive. Street Team members need only focus on finding new acts and bringing them to our music community,” van Handel said.

“At the end of the day, we are paying people to do something they think is great: talk about and listen to music,” said Honetschlaeger.

BETA Records, a 21st century blend of virtual and brick-and-mortar organizations, is a Web site, record label, mobile recording facility, and a haven for DIY (do it yourself) musicians seeking distribution channels for their work.

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About The Author / Editor:

JJ Jame is a percussionist and home-brew theremin player, formerly a member of the Redondo Beach based BoyRacer.com electronica band, and a long-time electronic music fan, as well as formerly an editor for the defunct EMcult website that Christopher Simmons launched in 1997 but soon abandoned (in many ways this site, MIN, is the stepchild of that project). JJ wants high-speed rail to criss-cross California sooner than later, and is madly in love with local Fox 11 TV personality Lauren Sanchez.