K-Murdock and negotiating deals.

Kyle Murdock, aka K-Murdock, has been known in the DC/MD/VA area for his production, mixing, and mastering skills for quite sometime. He has been able to work with artists such as Raheem DeVaughn (R&B) and Braille (Hip Hop) gaining attention for his musical ability. He is currently one half of the hip hop duo, Panacea, who has put out 5 solo albums and was received album of the year from The Hip Hop Connection (HHC) magazine in 2007 for their album, Scenic Route. He has own production company called Neosonic Productions a lot of his music can obtained at http://www.neosonicprod.com/. I had a minute or two catch up with K-Murdock for a few words about his career and about how he handles his business as an owner of his own LLC participating in the music business full-time.

The video gave a breakdown of what kinds of negotiations and deals K-Murdock has established with a lot of artists and production companies he has worked with over the years. As an artist, he goes into depth about how he just broke even on his records with his former label, Glow In The Dark. It turns out this past year, he broke even with records he put out years ago; which is a good thing. However, that same percentage he had to split 50/50 with the record label then he splits that 50 percent with the rapper (Raw Poetic) in his duo as a part of the deal that was made with the label. His insight on how he works with different labels contracting out is very in-depth. For example, one of the labels he works with, Mellow Music Group, has signed a great deal of artists from the DMV area. He is also currently part of a collaborative effort entitled Famicon Forever with Arizona emcee, Random, releasing their first album.

His experience with Sirius XM has helped him out in the long run to achieve his goals as independent audio engineer. It has helped his ear for creating music and also, expanding his boundaries as a musician. But he has learned his lesson, nowadays, by putting out his on records on his Neosonic Productions imprint. His instrumental albums and etc. have garnered him attention. The smart way he has approached his LLC is by making his profits and re-investing back into his company.

Another aspect of this interview that needs to be seen is that he gives good insight on how he treats his LLC when working with other clients behind just music. For example, his work with George Washington University for live events has given him stability for his clientele in this area with politically driven events. He was able to give some good reasoning behind not just being able to just solely depend on music and expand his expertise in the field of sound engineering for live events. The invoicing with different clients, K-Murdock does into detail about working as a contractor for different people. I think this interview shows that being able to have a diverse resume in your field for doing music and etc. will take you far with how you can work out negotiations with people you work with.