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    Name: Khoa Le
    Nickname: Khoa Le
    Member since: 2009-03-15 17:55:49
    Website URL: http://www.kvibe.com
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    Contact Me

    June 15th, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Hi Ivy, you can email me at khoa.le@gmail.com for future purposes. But yea, the tracks itself goes for $500 to license out. I work on speculations if a major picks it up and etc.

    Send me an email and we can talk more. Thanks

    Music Industry is a dying business why? Read my conversation with another industry professional

    December 19th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Major labels shot themselves in the foot. They created the standards for this industry. In the past, radio was the only way for people to hear about new artist. They put out great singles, but had terrible albums. They took advantage of people and never really got theirs in return.

    I think right now Major Labels are experiencing Karma from what they’ve committed in the past. In my opinion, what they did in the past and even now is what I call a crime. The music industry is probably the only industry that isn’t even supported by a UNION. If there is, that needs to start working lol.

    In the film industry, if you worked on a major film with a gigantic budget, workers were paid a certain rate and had to be paid that rate because of the union. In the music industry, there’s no standard rate. It use to be a respect thing for Majors to give producers like $5k to $10k a track. But there was no line. Some said if you want to get on this album, you give it to us for free. And that’s what an unknown producer does! Gives it to them for free to get major credits so they can get on bigger work.

    Now, it’s even worst. I’ve heard of major labels giving producers under 1k for a song! How do these people expect to get quality work if they can’t even pay producers. We are the ones that gets the songs done from the beginning to end.

    I just feel that the quality of work from the Majors are not being produced. Thus their future collapse. They got uneducated JO’s working as A&R’s, directors, and etc. And most probably have their own side gigs. If they worked in the software building world, and if they were caught using what they developed for the company for their own company, I’m pretty sure they’d get caught and sued. But no in the music industry. A&R’s have their own management companies, production companies, and etc….and they split the work between majors and their own self interest. Until they can gain enough contacts and success off their own interest to quit the major label.

    But you see my point? There are no standards, no rules, no regulations…..nothing is being done! Which is why in my opinion, the industry is falling apart.

    About Me

    November 9th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    You too Tuan! It’s always nice to meet Viet musicians that have great musicianship. I need to figure out the Viet Music Industry and as soon as I do, I’m diving in =)

    About Me

    November 8th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    Thanks Holly =) I’m glad I met you too. The film group has helped me a lot on film making =) Glad you started that group!

    Photo Gallery

    October 13th, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Hi Alan,

    Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it. Shopping music in this industry is extremely difficult. Even the ones that have publishing deals have a hard time getting their music placed. And they are actively shopping 8 – 10 hrs a day. I’ve tried shopping, but it’s just too much of a hustle where I need someone dedicated to just doing that for me while I’m on other projects.

    If you like to purchase the record, please do email me at khoa.le@gmail.com and we can talk more about it. Thanks!

    Contact Me

    October 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Hi Jamie,

    Yes, my services cover what you are looking for. Let me know the details and we can work things out.

    Khoa

    Photo Gallery

    August 26th, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Thanks Yen for the comment and compliments! I hope to get more work from this soon =) Cya soon

    Khoa

    Films vs. Music Industry

    August 8th, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Not a problem at all. When I was looking for ideas and advice, it wasn’t there for me. Though I’m still trying to reach my own success, I still like to share my knowledge.

    As I said, you got to do what you “really” love doing man. Do you have passion in film or very inspired in doing film? Have you ever used a camera or shot in one? Have you been intrigued on how things are done? Or do you wake up and keep thinking about music. The business, the artistry, and etc. If you have a passion for one of those or both, then just do it.

    If you do love film, then change your degree into film making. See where it lands you. You never know what you might end up wanting to do. Maybe it’s directing, producing, script writing, actor, stunts, who knows. But you want to explore those things if you do have a passion for film making.

    Music is a different story. I attended Julliards and they teach great theory. But at the end of the day, it’s how you express your music that matters. If it’s the business, well, take a business course in the music business =) I hope that helps

    Films vs. Music Industry

    August 8th, 2009 at 5:03 am

    Hi Chris,

    Thank you for visiting and reading my blog. Well before you even think of those careers, you need to think of what you love doing the most. If you love music, nothing should stop you from doing music. If you love films, then you should pursue that path. If you love both, nothing wrong doing both. The great thing about this entertainment industry is that if you are highly motivated, you don’t need to go to school for these things, but do your best to find independent work from music and films so you can learn and apply. Once you establish what you have a passion for, then that would probably be the direction you want to head to. If you’re doing it for just money and love money so much, then it’s probably the wrong business as there are many other ways to make money. Entertainment is by far the hardest to make money.

    To answer your questions, yes the music business aspect relate to the film industry. Without music, many movies would be very boring. On the business side, publishers win that area. So you can get into the publishing side of the business where films license music from publishers for certain scenes.
    As a music producer/writer, you also win in that department as you get royalties and upfront fees for those placements.

    Again, just because you have a degree in something does not mean you can be successful at it. It’s not necessary to have a piece of paper saying you understand. At the end of the day, the directors or publishers or whoever just want to hear or see your work. If you do a great job, you got the job. If not, well you need to do a better job.

    I hope that helps! Let me know if you got any further questions.

    Khoa

    Films vs. Music Industry

    July 30th, 2009 at 5:30 am

    Thanks Rob for the comment and compliments.

    Recording and Referencing a New Record

    June 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am

    Thanks Nycole. Jean is very talented. Ya when you hit up NY, definitely hit me up. I know you can SANG too =)

    Why Radio in the US play the same songs?

    June 26th, 2009 at 6:43 am

    Again, this is why the industry is the way it is right now. They tried to control the public and now they can’t. Heh

    New pictures shot on the 5d Mark 2

    June 18th, 2009 at 7:07 am

    Hey peter! Thanks for checking it out =) Ya, just started on this photography stuff. Trust me, that nice weather was something I took advantage of because right now, it’s like seatle. All rain and cloudy.

    Ya, I was going for that dark shadow, hard light look, just to have an edgier feel to the pictures. But if I was to take shots with hard sun, how do I soften up the light? How will the reflector help as far as softening up the direct sun? Do I put a diffusor/stand where the sun is pointing?

    Equipment I use to Produce/Record

    June 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Hey Shane,

    Thanks for the comment. I will definitely work on a tutorial on the things you mentioned and more. If there’s any more you like to list, please do send the comments. =) I’m working on editing this video for this new song. I will do a video on how we recorded the song.

    Why Radio in the US play the same songs?

    June 11th, 2009 at 4:53 am

    Ya, I definitely see your point of view to this. It’s always been like this, but I think it’s just worst now. I mean we really don’t know how many listeners are really tired of this music. It could be just my circle of people that’s feeling the same way as I do, and from beyond maybe like the twilight zone, those people are really really enjoying what’s going on in radio.

    Imagine you have 50% of people writing emails, texting stations, and calling stations up asking why are they playing those same songs over and over again. You would think the program directors would question it no? The companies/people that pay for advertisement to be behind one of the “hit” songs really believe people are listening to a song like “Blame it”? Instead of thinking that people are turning the channel when hearing the record?

    I just believe that payola is in play and from what I know of radio(maybe not NY radio) that you can pay middlemen xx amount of dollars to gaurantee radio spins especially down south. And those are what Major’s utilize to get the same damn songs across the country to play. And actually keeping the majors relevant in this industry. I just don’t know…

    Setting up the Drum session

    April 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Yep, it’s a lot of work. But if you love it, it’s not work at all!

    Stefanna's Photoshoot Session

    April 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    If you’re asking about Stefanna, she’s from Bronx, NY =) If you’re talking about me, I’m from Manhattan, NY

    Matters to have a nice looking myspace?

    April 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    What you need is a domain, host, and download wordpress as it’s free. Only thing you have to do is pay for hosting and you can google wordpress hosting sites as it’s those sites will be optimized for wordpress.

    If you want something more simple, can always try out squarespace.com as I heard is getting very popular.

    About Me

    April 13th, 2009 at 6:12 am

    Thanks for the comment. To become a performer, you need to realize what kind of performer you want. Maybe this isn’t the right question for you? Or maybe it is? Do you want to be a broadway performer? Pop performer? Rock Band performer? Open mic performer? Tell us what you want and hopefully I can answer that for you =)