Ultra short runs. Ultra short turn times
CDs & DVDs with complete packaging from Oasis Express..
You can get CDs and DVDs in quantities as small as 50 discs from Oasis Express! All of our popular packaging formats are now available, and it couldn’t be easier to get started. Simply: 1. Choose the packaging you want. 2. Upload your content and design – or use our fabulous online self-service design tools. 3. Choose your turn time – as fast as one day for some options – and you’re done! Check it out at oasisCD.com/express
–Micah
Micah Solomon
President and Founder
Oasis Disc Manufacturing
P.S. Please note that discs purchased through Oasis Express’ short run service do not include Micah’s Tools of Promotion: the more than $1,000 worth of distribution and promotional services that are included with Oasis’ replicated disc packages. If you’re looking to launch a national campaign, we will still do it for you – and 100% free – with a purchase of as few as 300 replicated discs. Ready to learn more or order discs with a real-live human being? Click here to chat with us live or call 1-888-296-2747 to speak with someone immediately.
Are you trying to finish a creative project – but your savings, credit cards, or cash flow are leaving you short? Creative financing might be worth considering.
Oasis Potato Tray™ Digipak Interior --Ian C. Anderson
Oasis client Ian C. Anderson posted a project on Kickstarter.com recently for a CD he was working on, called Perennials. The money came in more quickly than he expected – he actually exceeded his goal – so he used the extra funds to upgrade his packaging from CDs in jewel cases to the packaging he calls “the ultimate in eye-catching eco-hipness,” the Oasis Potato Tray Digipak.“The Potato Tray Digipak was the package I envisioned when I first startedthis process,” explains Ian, “but I couldn’t be sure just how efficient the Kickstarter crowd-funding would be. When I went over my target, I saw it as an opportunity to ‘think outside the jewel box’ and make my project more memorable with this unique package.”“I would recommend involving friends – friends you know in person and friends you haven’t yet met – in the funding of your project through a site like Kickstarter. It was a successful and encouraging process for me, and fulfilling for the people who chipped in and got involved in the project as well.”
Involving Your Family and Fans
Stumped for enough funds to complete your CD project? Maybe you need a few Executive Producers. The concept of a patron is time honored, going back to Mozart’s day and beyond. But you don’t need to rely on one single, seriously wealthy patron to fund your entire project. You can alternatively find a variety of friends and fans and offer different levels of sponsorship in return for “naming rights.”
Maybe $200 buys a patron 10 CDs (once complete) and Gold Patron status (listed in the liner notes, of course!); $100 brings a supporter 5 CDs and Silver Sponsor status, and so forth. It shouldn’t take you long to have your CD prepaid at that rate, and you’ll be surprised how happy your friends may be to involve themselves in your artistic endeavor.
The Power of Crowds
If you want to bring the power of the web to bear on financing your project, you can make use of sites like Pledge Music and Kickstarter, which bring together strangers who want to donate/invest in the projects of creative people (such as yourself). To see a phenomenal example of the “naming rights”/multiple patron concept, check out Oasis client Julie Geller and how she offered this in her newsletter.
And while you’re getting all the pieces together for your project, make sure you’ve got the latest Oasis catalog on hand! Click here to request your catalog and we’ll also send you our Radio Broadcast CD, along with other great stuff you won’t find anywhere else!
Sincerely, Micah Solomon President & Founder
Oasis Disc Manufacturing
I’m really pleased to announce the availability – online, 24 hours a day – of CDs and DVDs packaged in Oasis Disc Manufacturing’s famous line of Green Forestry packaging, in quantities as small as 100. Check it out on Oasis Express!
Micah Solomon President & Founder
Oasis Disc Manufacturing
P.S. Please note that Oasis short run orders do not include Micah’s Tools of Promotion. If you’re looking to launch a national campaign, we will still do it for you – and 100% free, with a purchase of as few as 300 replicated discs. Ready to learn more or order discs with a real-live human being? Click here to chat with us live or call 1-866-409-8170 to speak with someone immediately.
Multiple Grammy-award-winning musician and storyteller Bill Harley has teamed up with Oasis to help teach kids healthy habits this flu season. His latest effort is a singalong/public service announcement titled “Wash Your Hands (lávate las manos).” Bill first wrote the song for the Paul Cuffee School in Providence, R.I. The neighboring Massachusetts Department of Health then worked the (ahem) infectious tune into school programs around their state.
At that point Oasis got involved, donating 1,000 CDs in our Green Forestry Practices packaging to help get the music and story to media outlets and schools nationwide. Happily, NPR picked up the story and the coverage has been excellent (including a feature on “All Things Considered”) — and timely.
As the parenting site Common Sense Media writes: What parent isn’t sick and tired of hearing the phrase “H1N1” at every turn? Just imagine how your kids feel about constant reminders at home and school to “Wash your hands!” Well, now you can just push play on the CD player and let singer, songwriter, and storyteller extraordinaire Bill Harley do the reminding this time. In his latest single, “Wash Your Hands,” Harley works his usual stroke of story-singing genius to help kids fight the bug this flu season and all year-round.
Have something you want to get out to the world, in a beautiful eco-friendly package? Click here to get a sample pack of all of Oasis’ eco-packages in the mail. From the classic Digipak to our handsome wallets, from the simplicity of CDs in sleeves to the revolutionary Potato Tray (a natural farm product that is biodegradable and compostable) and BottleTray (each order of 1,000 saves 400 discarded water bottles from ending up in a landfill or incinerator) – Oasis continues to be a pioneer in our industry, particularly when it comes to environmental practices and packaging.
Remember, lávate las manos, and have a healthy holiday season!
Micah Solomon President and Founder
Oasis Disc Manufacturing
Best-selling author and entrepreneur Rajesh Setty has a knack for making complex business concepts seem simple. His pioneering book Beyond Code was graced by a foreword from none other than “the business guru who created the field,” Tom Peters. His eighth and most recent book, Upbeat!, argues that entrepreneurs can thrive in very down markets.
Rajesh is also a sought-after speaker. But this year, when he realized he was booked tightly with other consulting, start-up, and writing commitments, Rajesh decided that the time was right to release his first training DVD.
“I needed something that could travel in my stead,” he explains. “Something that could get my message out while I am working on other projects. With a DVD, the people who book speaking engagements and events can actually see a preview of my talk. That gives them a lot of comfort to hire me.”
Rajesh settled on an affordable Oasis DVD case for packaging. He enhanced it with full color printing on the disc – just in case the disc and packaging are ever viewed separately from each other. “I want each piece to provide a sense of the project,” he explains. “On the other hand, I wanted to keep the packaging affordable, to permit mass reorders as the need arises.”
He engaged our in-house authoring team to put the finishing touches on the production and bring it together as a cohesive whole.
“Oasis served as a real partner to my team, rather than just a vendor, making everything so simple! I couldn’t be more pleased with the process, or with the result.”
Looking forward now, Rajesh is quite excited about the “whole new set of possibilities” that DVD projects represent – for projecting his personal brand and for enhancing his bottom line as a speaker, author, and entrepreneur.
When Grammy winning singer and songwriter Janis Ian’s autobiography was due to come out on Penguin Books, she called me up because she wanted to release a companion greatest hits CD collection. And she wanted to go over her best packaging options.
The two of us zeroed in quickly on something other than the plastic jewel cases she had used earlier in her career. “This time around, I really wanted the packaging to be special — it’s not every year you get to release an autobiography and a CD that goes with it! I was also trying to keep it eco-friendly, but still affordable.”
Considering several options, we ended up with a double-CD Digipak. Because, really, what a Digipak says is “premium.” That you have invested in what it takes to give your audience a top-quality product. Janis’ other interest — environmental friendliness — is also addressed in Oasis Digipaks. We have 100% Green Forestry Practices certification for the board stock we use, and use 100% recycled plastic for the trays (up to 100% post-consumer, depending on the tray option you chose).
I hope you’ll let us send you an eco-packaging sample kit (click here or on the link below my signature) if you are planning a CD or DVD project. Sample kits do not include CDs and are only shippable within the U.S. presently, for which I apologize. Thanks so much for your interest!
Are you up on the Roadtrip Nation phenomenon? It grew out of some friends working through a dilemma together that had stumped each of them: “What do I want to do with my life?” Fresh out of college and unsure about the career paths in front of them, they were determined to expose themselves to more than just traditional life roads. Painting an old RV green, they hit the road to talk with inspired people from all walks of life to find out how they came to do what they love for a living.
Today, Roadtrip Nation has evolved into a PBS series, three books, an online community, and more. And when Roadtrip Nation wants to spread the good word about their show, they do it with discs packaged in the Green Forestry line of disc packaging from Oasis. To date, they’ve used Green Forestry Sleeves (pictured), and the new 100% post-consumer-trayed Oasis Bottletray Digipak. These formats are lighter and lower-impact than other options, giving them the youthful, eco-friendly feel that suits them. If you’re interested, I’ll be happy to send you a free Oasis Environmental Packaging Sample kit now which I believe you’ll find useful to help start planning out your new project.
I encourage you to catch Roadtrip Nation’s latest adventures on your local PBS affiliate, or check them out online at www.roadtripnation.com.
Micah Solomon President and Founder Oasis Disc Manufacturing
P.S. Like all complete Oasis packages, musical projects packaged in full-color Green Forestry Sleeves and Recycled Tray Digipaks include complete Oasis Tools of Promotion: We send your music (the track of your choice) to 400 or more radio stations in your chosen genre, provide you with distribution at iTunes, CD Baby, Brick & Mortar retailers (on demand), free web hosting and your own website, a full year of Sonicbids, and more.
If you want assistance with any Oasis packaging format, my team is happy to help you if you click here to chat live immediately with one of our client advisors, or call us at 1-866-409-8170.
I’m thankful that this has been the most productive year in our history – for Oasis and for our clients. We’re extremely lucky to have such a creative, productive, and loyal group of customers, and I wish you the very best heading into the new year.
I also want to send out a heartfelt thank you to the more than 600 Oasis clients who requested we make contributions in their name to the Jazz Foundation of America. This is an overwhelming outpouring, and will help the Foundation to continue its important work. The Jazz Foundation of America is a national organization dedicated to saving and enhancing the lives of jazz and blues musicians in need. Every day the Jazz Foundation prevents homelessness and eviction by paying rents and mortgages, offering free medical care and operations, and creating employment through its programs.
Since Katrina, the Jazz Foundation has increased its caseload five times over by serving all ages of musicians who suffered from the disaster, including many with young children still at home. The Jazz Foundation now cares for approximately 1,000 musicians with 1,600 emergency cases a year.
Thank you again for sharing 2008 with Oasis. We have made many new friends and enjoyed doing great projects with our old ones. Best wishes for the start of 2009.
I’m convinced each and every day that Oasis clients do the best work in our industry. Of course I’m tickled pink when Oasis clients get signed to major labels or have their music featured on network TV
Ingrid Michaelson • Keep Breathing • Grey’s Anatomy
but as often as not we’re working in what’s called “the long tail”–in genres, niches that the mainstream may not even have considered. That is often where you’ll find the Oasis family creating great stuff and thriving.
In that spirit, I want to briefly shine a spotlight on a unique Oasis client and the work it does, which just blows me away.
Screen Archives Entertainment (SAE) is one of the largest distributors of soundtracks and movie music in the world. Just as fascinating, SAE produces exhaustively restored film music recordings under its own label, working with major studios, composer estates, and universities to preserve music that would otherwise be lost to deteriorating celluloid.
The seed of the company sprouted when entrepreneur Craig Spaulding opened a retail store with a sideline in eclectic music LPs. Spaulding cultivated soundtrack contacts across the globe and soon became known throughout the U.S. as the place to go for obscure and rare scores.
He sold the store, but kept SAE as a conduit for preserving rare recordings, focusing on pre-1960 Golden Age films with cherished soundtracks. Universities and studios soon came calling for Spaulding expertise in creating restorations that captured the excitement of each project — from the inclusion of the composer’s own personal notes to the finest mastering of the music, to the effective marketing of the final product.
Today SAE has contracts with composers, their estates or heirs, and major record labels to for these lovingly produced soundtracks for collectors, released in limited quantities.
The lure of these recordings is intriguing. Even if you’re not formally a student or collector of this work, it is transformative to hear these soundtracks as you go about your formerly mundane daily life. Nothing, for example, makes a morning commute more triumphal than hearing one of these classic soundtracks surround you on your ride. Just don’t be tempted to jump the gap if you see a drawbridge is going up–no matter how the music swells, I still suspect that only works in the movies, folks.
and an Oasis CD client herself – hosts the XM Satellite Radio program Slipped Disc with producer Bill Kates. She was kind enough to send us a note recently saying that she’d be airing a generous chunk of the latest OasisAcoustic sampler CD on her show; the segment will air four times.
Tracks featured included “I Should Go” by Levi Kreis, “Ain’t So Green” by Carsie Blanton, and “The Starbucks of County Down” by long-time Oasis client Greg Trafidlo.
They also featured work by other long-time Oasis clients and friends such as Janis Ian and Grace Griffith.
Christine and Bill also discussed on the air Oasis as a manufacturer who “goes the extra mile” for independent music clients.
