Understanding Radio Promotion | With Oscar Furtado of Tandemtracks

Rewinding many, many years, back to my fledgling years as a gigging musician, I found myself at a little invite only showcase concert for an artist named KO during Rifflandia Music Festival in Victoria, in 2010. I can't remember if my drummer and I had won tickets, or if we just showed up in hopes of getting let in - but in any case, we did get in - and, as fate would have it, were sat down next to this episodes guest: Oscar Furtado, owner of Tandemtracks, one of Canadas premier Radio Promotion agencies.

We covered a huge variety of topics, ranging from: 

How your current relationships will affect your career later in lifeWhy Oscar is still trying to build new networking connections, even after all his successThe importance of having passion for what you put your energy intoThe stakes of playing Foosball in Spain.What a radio promoter actually does!and much more!

This was one of our favourite conversations to date and Oscar has been a guest that I have been wanting to get onto the Your Band Sucks (At Business) podcast since we started up - and it was a complete blast finally connecting for this. We thank him for his time, his knowledge, his infectious good attitude, and for taking the time.


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Stuff We Mention In This Episode:

Tandemtracks (Oscar Furtados Radio Promotion Company)

Nettwerk Record Label

Canadian Music Week (CMW)

Indieweek

Billy Decker (Music Mixer)

Machine (Music Mixer)

KO (artist playing when Malcom and Oscar met. Oscar was promoting KO's radio campaign)

Dave Sawchuk

Jason Mraz

Sound and Science (Malcoms old band)

R3hab

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