

A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas in a fixed format, such as cassette tape, compact disc, or digital audio files, and to thereby pass along those ideas to record labels, producers, or other artists.

Representative examples of unsolicited demo tapes received in the mail by Mutant Pop Records in the late 1990s the tape in the middle with the photocopied j-card was probably also sold at shows by the band.Ī demo (shortened from " demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release. For other uses, see Demo (disambiguation).
