My name is Marius van Dyk, and I have created this website to share with you ideas, strategies, techniques and resources you can use to develop your music and business.

Now, we know the career path independent music producers and musicians choose to follow is a tough one to walk because it requires a ton of practice, patience, determination and persistence. You also won't, at least not when you start, have the luxury of others taking care of the business side of music while you focus only on your craft.

It's not a path for everyone! You have to take full responsibility for your situation and follow through with conscious actions to create your music and build the business and career you want.

There's no way to get around this, so music producers and musicians looking for quick solutions or shortcuts may as well look elsewhere.

Still, reading? You're one of the few who realize then that while top producers and musicians may make it look easy, there's no Voodoo you can do to make your tracks hits, no magic dust you can sprinkle to unlock your inner genius.

The only "secret" of great musicians and music producers have in common is always a professional work ethic and love of music and what music can do.

You'll discover practical ideas, articles and recommended resources to help you create your own music and build various music-related income sources to fund the music-business-life you want to create.

You won't find much information about how to land old-school record and publishing deals. Music producers and musicians need to move beyond old paradigms of the pre-Web music business game and start to use the ability we now have to advance our music and business with the Web.

Yes, the Web is still a baby! The nature of the music business has changed and keeps changing since the arrival of the Web. You can't predict the future even a few years from now at this rate of change.

You can however choose to learn what you need to know about this new technology and how you can use it, and then take definite actions to create the music-business-life you want.

So, where do you begin?

I suggest you first follow the 4-Fold Way of the Renegade Producer which you'll find in the first 4 pages in the navigation menus below and to the left.

You'll also find all further articles and resources on this web site via the navigation menus to the left and below.

You can and should also sign up for The Renegade Report newsletter which you'll find via the last button on the navigation menu.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Marius van Dyk
Editor and Fellow Renegade
RenegadeProducer.com

P.S. This site is primarily for music producers who play their own music and musicians who produce their own music.

P.P.S. Forget the Major Labels! It's time now for the creators of the music to take charge and benefit most from the work we create.