How To Make It In The Music Business

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The hidden economy of producers buying and selling sonic snippets, texting each other beats, and angling for royalties. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.2	Three quick things.
0:07.2	One, there's profanity in this show.
0:09.4	Two, it first aired in 2017.
0:12.4	Three, there's a little update at the end.
0:15.8	Before ill-mind was ill-mind, he was Ramon Ibanga, a kid from New Jersey who loved to play
0:20.4	Super Nintendo.
0:21.9	One game in particular.
0:22.9	It's called Mario Paint, and in that game, there's a feature that allows for you to compose
0:29.2	music, which is insane.
0:31.2	The game lets you make cartoons with an Nintendo character.
0:34.0	And then as a side feature, you can create this kind of cheesy music.
0:37.8	You can create any beat, any tune to go with the cartoon.
0:42.8	Ill-mind got obsessed with making music in this game.
0:45.4	He didn't save any of the songs he wrote, but you can find tons of Mario Paint music
0:49.4	today on YouTube.
0:50.6	You'd grab the mushroom character, and that would be your bass drum, and then the Koopa
0:56.3	Troopa would be your snare drum.
0:58.3	Mario's face was a piano, a star was his isle of phone.
1:02.4	Ill-mind didn't know it yet, but this, sitting in a room alone using technology to make music,
1:11.1	was the start of his career.
1:15.5	Today, behind almost all of the popular music you hear, there is this hidden high-tech economy,
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