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How to make money selling beats. By: Anno Domini.   There are a lot of different ways to turn a beat catalog into income. Yet most producers seem to know little about the business side of beat making beyond putting a PayPal button on a SoundClick page. After spending countless hours honing your craft, learning… Read More

Professional ghostwriting services. Anno Domini Nation have teamed up with The Coroner Ghost Writing Services and can now offer you ghostwriting from an industry level professional. All services are guaranteed 100% confidential If you’re looking to take your writing to the next level, are suffering from a bad case of writer’s block, are preparing for… Read More

Ill Drums Xtreme VSTi is here! The Anno Domini producers are proud to present our first official VSTi program: Ill Drums Xtreme, distributed by our new company Music Weapons. Hands down, Ill Drums will change the way you make drums for good. Check out the demo video above right now!   Change the way you… Read More

The multi-platinum production team of Anno Domini Beats have released the fifth instalment of their popular free mixtape series ‘Soundclick Invasion’. This time around, the likes of Shyheim (Wu-Tang), Ras Kass, Solomon Childs, Dom Pachino, Bad Azz (Tha Dogg Pound), Cryptic Wisdom, Choo Biggz, SwizZz (Funk Volume), Complex and Anno Domini Song Contest 2012 winner… Read More

To celebrate the start of the New Year our partners at ProducerLoops.com are giving you 50% Off all Anno Domini Drum kits until the end of January! Pick up all 3 award-winning Anno Domini collections and give your beats that raw Hip Hop sound:   Anno Domini Drum Collection 1: http://www.producerloops.com/Download-Anno-Domini-Beats-Anno-Domini-Drum-Collection.html Anno Domini Drum Collection… Read More

On behalf of the entire Anno Domini Team, we would like to take a moment to thank all our members and supporters who have helped this site grow so quickly within a few short months! There will be many fresh updates for you, including a server upgrade and site overhaul this January, and of course… Read More

Yes, it’s that time where the Anno Domini Team get all giving and generous and pull out our Best Beat Deals of the year: Christmas is here and with it our Buy 1 Get 1 FREE Offers on all beats!   All you have to do is: Head to our Beat Catalog and listen through… Read More

By: 2Deep.   Hey guys, for those that don’t know me, I go by “2Deep” of Anno Domini Beats. A lot of people have been asking me to put together a video of how I make my beats… So here you go. Nothing is planned out, everything is spontaneous. Usually I am not good at… Read More

Join our song contest. This year we’re upping the ante with our Song Contest giving out over $3000 of prizes and not to mention an Album Deal with Anno Domini Records that money can’t buy…   THE RULES: You MUST use one of the 10 “In Tha Cypher Vol. 2″ Instrumental Album beats which are… Read More

Get the punchiest kicks, snares and claps for your hip hop beats. ‘Anno Domini Drums: Scarebeatz Edition’ brings you the fattest and punchiest Kicks, Snares and Claps taken right out of the Instrumentals of Anno Domini Beats’ award-winning Producer, Scarebeatz. This awesome pack contains 150 high definition, industry-standard drums sounds, including six Drum Groups for… Read More

HTSB: So where are you from? Anno Domini Beats: London, UK though I was born and raised in Germany. HTSB: How long have you been making beats? Anno Domini Beats: I started in 2004, so 8 years now. HTSB: What/who inspired you to start making beats? Anno Domini Beats: I was always a huge Hip… Read More

By: 2Deep.   For all you artists out there interested in what equipment you need to get a nice clean sound in your recordings at an affordable price, check out this video! Cryptic Wisdom explains what he uses and why. Of course you’ll always get what you pay for but it is possible to sound… Read More

How to make money selling beats. By: Anno Domini.   A lot of people ask me whether selling beats online is worthwhile and whether it’s possible to earn a decent living as an “Internet Producer”. So today I decided to make a quick video showing you exactly what’s possible and how much money I earn… Read More

It’s all about the music (business). By: Anno Domini. “The times they are a-changin’” Bob Dylan once sung, and so too is the face of the modern music industry. When we refer to the ‘music industry’, we are in fact talking about a vast number of individuals and organisations selling compositions, recordings and performances of… Read More

The Anno Domini Beats team have been known for their highly popular rap contests, but now it’s time to let the producers show what they’re made of!!!   The rules of the contest are simple: 1) DOWNLOAD the following files of unfinished beats (some are just rough mp3 loops, others include separate wav track lines)… Read More

In an effort to increase the internationalisation of AnnoDominiNation.com we’ve put up 6 different language pages with Step by Step instructions on how to buy beats from our website. Buying beats online has never been this easy! You can find the language instructions in the left panel on all pages of the website, just click… Read More

Get beats for cheap. Our Big Half-Price Beat Sale to celebrate the launch of our new website is set to end at midnight, 31. August… that’s just a few days left to get Buy 1 Get 1 FREE Offers on all beats or 50% off when you add at least 2 beats to your shopping… Read More

By: Life & Death.   Watch Anno Domini Nation producer Life & Death put together a beat with Fruity Loops from scratch in just 27 minutes. The beat was made using various VSTs and plugins and the drums from the Anno Domini Drum Collection 2 which you can purchase by visiting our Drum Kits section…. Read More

The best-selling Anno Domini Drum Collection series returns. ‘Anno Domini Drum Collection 2′ is the sequel to the best-selling and critically lauded first Volume in the series. You’ll find even more big kicks, snares, hats, claps, cymbals and percussion for your beats, straight from the beats of the multi-Platinum selling Anno Domini Beats production team…. Read More

Buy fans? Get real fans. By: Anno Domini. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there is a growing trend for marketing practitioners to offer artists and businesses the opportunity to ‘buy’ Facebook fans, Twitter followers or YouTube views and thereby grow their online presence for a few bucks. The indicator of ‘hype’ has shifted towards social… Read More

If you’ve ever wondered about the history and development of Anno Domini Beats and the Anno Domini Soundclick page, originated from the Soundclick.com global music community, we’ve published two new pages of information for you to browse:   Anno Domini Beats http://www.annodominination.com/anno-domini-beats   Anno Domini Soundclick http://www.annodominination.com/anno-domini-soundclick For further information you may also like to… Read More

Music clearance made easy. Thanks to IndieHipHop.net for letting us post this article!   If you’re a hip hop artist or producer, odds are you either have or will be faced with the issue of using a sample in your music. The biggest problem with this is that most people wait until their music project… Read More

What do you do? What is your musical specialty? I’m a music producer and CEO of the Anno Domini Limited music production company. We specialise in Hip Hop, R&B and Pop music. Do you work alone or in a group? If in a group, who are the others you work with? Anno Domini Beats is… Read More

Indian Rap Forum (IRF) has been providing a platform for underground acts to showcase their talent, like the Open Mic emcee battle. Today they introduce us to the producer who contributed his beats to the Open Mic battle, Life and Death Productions, with an indepth interview. Find out more about Life and Death here.  … Read More

Let’s kick off with you producing the second single off the upcoming Vinnie Paz solo album, „Same Story (My Dedication)”. Explain the whole experience to work with him… Actually that was AD himself. Anno Domini is actually a collection of producers that specialize in hiphop. The founder being AD aka Adrian Boeckeler and I was… Read More

Time again for some exclusive content. The spotlight is on Vherbal (Of Anno Domini). His production credit list is long and i bet names like Chief Kamachi, Canibus, Copywrite, Diabolic, Louis Logic, Vinnie Paz, Ill Bill, Jus Allah, RA The Rugged Man, Pharoah Monch sound quite familiar to you. Check out Vherbal´s artist profile interview… Read More

1. We are positively surprised that we got an answer from a top-producer crew like AD. First of all, is it only the talent in producing or does it have more to do with the communication skills for someone to start growing toward success? My pleasure! I think to succeed you need a healthy mix… Read More

Hey. First of all thanks for your time. Tell me something about Anno Domini Productions for the people that don’t know you yet. Anno Domini Beats is a production and licensing business made up of a team of international, award-winning producers. We cater to amateur artists, signed artists, labels, brands and spaces. Who was or… Read More

By Andre Latallade.   1. Anno Domini beats, the most hard body shit in the world right now, I am sure many wonder, how did you get Vinnie Paz to do that drop for you? And how does it feel to have such a heavy weight in hip hop do that for you? I’ve worked… Read More

Originally from Munich, and meanwhile holding down Nottingham, UK, Anno Domini has been making beats with professional aspirations since 2004. His first producer album, “Secret Archives” was reviewed in our “Next Generation” section, and for the sequel he’s planned big things: AOTP, Shyheim, La Coka Nostra and Sabac Red are just some of the emcees… Read More

By: Anno Domini. Please bear with us as we work out the last kinks and get the beat player and forums set up in particular… We will be ready for an official launch soon, so feel free to sign up to the website with a free acount and start browsing around! It’s been a long-time… Read More

Is it worth buying beats? By: Life & Death.   A lot of people online and offline asks me “Why should I pay for beats? I can download free beats anywhere”. First of all, I could answer this question with another question: are you serious about your music?   Make a hit and lose it… Read More

Want to be a music success? By: Gian Fiero.   Over the years I have had many conversations with music artists about commercial music, which usually leads to them disclosing their disdain and hatred of it. Some refer to Pop music (Pop, as in what’s popular now) as commercial music. Others think of anything that… Read More

Harvest the power of the social net. By: Brenna Ehrlich.   They say that Internet killed the video star (or the Limousines did, but still). We would beg to differ. The web has opened up a tour bus-full of opportunities for bands hoping to get their music out there via the cinematic medium. And to… Read More

Make money with video games. By: Hisham Dehud.   The National Association of Recording Industry Professionals (NARIP) held a professional’s panel in downtown San Francisco last Wednesday where top minds in the video game industry discussed ways that independent musicians could increase their chances of getting their music placed into video games. The worldwide video… Read More

How to grow your fan base. By Michael Brandvold.   1. Reply to every tweet that mentions you. This is easy to accomplish and can go a long way to building a relationship with your fans. Using Twitter’s own tools you can review tweets that mention you and your tweets that have been retweeted. Every… Read More

Kick start your music career. By Simon Tam.   1. Treat it Like a Job Application I can’t stress this point enough. If you want to get the right sponsor, label, agent, etc., you have to treat the process like you would for a high-end job. You wouldn’t send a generic cover letter filled with… Read More

Live performance on the net. By John Oszajca.   Don’t get me wrong, jumping in a van with your bandmates to hit the road for a few weeks is an experience like no other. The people you meet, the fans you make, and the familiar smell of beer soaked bars, (and beer soaked bandmates for… Read More

Anyone can sell beats online. By: Anno Domini.   Having spent almost a decade in the beat game, it still surprises me how many new producers seem to hold the same misconceptions when it comes to selling beats online. Here’s a list of the 3 most common ones that come up again and again and… Read More

It’s all about promotion. By: Life & Death.   Internet forums are an essential place when working with and advertising with music. They don’t only contain news, tips and a lot of useful information, they are also a really good place to show off your tunes and gather a fan base. But there are also… Read More

Make them listen. By: Life & Death.   It’s about time for me to tell you a bit about marketing your music. Specifically what NOT to do and why.   Take your time and shine Is your music as good as it can be? Are you 100% happy with your songs? If not, you better… Read More