Shaytan Productions, Toronto: Label for Metal from the Orient and the Middle East!

David Gold

Son of the Darkest Blues
Feb 20, 2004
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I think this will interest a few people here:

www.shaytanproductions.com

Philosophy:
We are interested in oriental music, that of the middle east. Our goal is to expose oriental music in to these genres, because we personally enjoy it, and at the same time find it lacking in these genres (metal, gothic, ambient).


Misconceptions
We are not releasing 'exclusively middle eastern bands", we are releasing 'exclusively oriental music' that is of the middle east. Thus these two things should not be confused.

The label does not promote any political, religious, or other views. We are strictly here about the "orient" music. The bands are free to have their own views as individuals in a free world, and these views should not be applied to the label.

What we release?
We will not release the everyday death metal, black metal, symphonic metal, ambient, goth etc. We require there to be oriental touches to the music.

Only we will re-release our material, we will not be releasing vinyls, and we are not going to re-release any material by another label.

Wholesale
We do wholesale to anyone that wants our CDs in quantities.

Trades
We will trade with most labels if we have an interest in your music, or your releases. We're always open to trade with various labels black metal/ambient/doom/death/experimental etc. We do not normally trade against cassettes/posters/shirts/magazines, we are interested in vinyls and cds.

Distribution
Items are always prepared professional with bar-codes, shrink-wrap and always professionally made. Hence they can be distributed. If you want to carry our product, or distribute we are open to the offers.

Currently you can find our items locally: Czech Republik, Canada, USA, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Ukraine, Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Japan, Russia, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Belarus, among others as we expand.

Vinyls/Tapes
If vinyls ever do become a wanted item, it will be released in limited edition with enough demand. We will not be releasing tapes.

Bands
We try to accommodate as best as we can in most areas, we will work with you only if we like your project. Unlike other labels, we do try to get back to all inquiries, time can vary from days/weeks/to months. We do offer suggestions, but that does not mean we will sign you or release your material.

Reviewers
We do take a stand on handing out promotional material. For reviewers, we will most likely send a release and wait for it to be reviewed before we send another this limits the possibily of scammers and our losses especially since we are not very keen on reviews because they are always 'subjective' to the person reviewing. If we contact you we are likely to send the material out as soon as possible seeing the reputation.

We are fairly critical, we do our research of your reviews. An example, we will not send our material if the review will be lacking in attention-span, and seriousness. We have seen numerous reviews where the track names are wrong, the band members are quoted wrongly for the instruments they play, etc. hence we will be checking your reviews for consistencies and errors just as you review our music for the same.

We are always accepting demos. We always reply, but we have the right to pick and choose what we release.

:kickass:
 
Meh

a) I don't like oriental stuff
b) I don't like the idea of a label pigeonholing itself to one style...