What's the best way to get a label's or artist's attention with a remix?

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In all seriousness...
I've done a remix of a popular artist's new single that is not out yet and I think it is better than the original.
I would like to get the attention of the label or artist and get my name out there. I thought maybe of pressing it up on vinyl. I'd also like to post it here to get people's reactions to it. I'm having it properly mixed and mastered within a week-I'll set a link up then.

What should I do?
Mp3's
Send to label
Send to radio stations

Any help would be greatly appreciated

― p, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I would like to get the attention of the label or artist and get my name out there. I thought maybe of pressing it up on vinyl.
if the kind of attention you want is a lawsuit...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

post it! I'm curious now.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

If you really want their attention, you should take a radio station hostage using realistic looking squirt guns full of hot sauce, force them to play your record on the air, and just sit back and watch the hilarity ensue.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If the artist is on a major label, it's unlikely that they'll be interested unless you're already a "famous" remixer person. What they usually do is commision a bunch of well-respected people from the "underground" to do remixes in the hopes that the "underground" connection and the appropriation of an already successful "sound" will result in more spins at clubs and on the radio, more sales overall.

Sorry I can't be more encouraging.

― Kevin Erickson, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Send copies everywhere - to them, to their manager and lawyer, to every DJ you think might play it, to radio, to your aunt Matilda, to everyone. The scattershot approach.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hack into their website and post it there

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Be Norman Cook.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll post it next week-I'm having it properly mastered.
Radio station taken hostage next week too!

thanks

― p, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

If you do vinyl, whitelabel and VERY ltd numbers. Like ... 5. Given to DJs only. Otherwise, well ... there's a pretty big mashup / bastard pop scene out there on the web that loves stuff like that. And it gets some pretty high profile attention. Luke, aka Dsico, gets mentions in a lot of press, as do Freelance Hellraiser and a few others.

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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