I don't have a problem giving tracks away, it's fine up to a point as long as the individual understands that's just what they're doing.

The main thing I have a problem with this free 'scene' is the sheer amount of SHITE coming out.

People say net labels are great for people not wanting to risk losing money etc on pressings, well - PRESS SOMETHING THAT SELLS. It don't have to be techno, ya know ?

What pisses me off is that there's some frankly amazing music out there for free (for example inigos' stuff) which is HEAVILY diluted by a veritable ocean of low/no quality dross. I just can't be arsed picking through a lot of this and tend to "stick to what I know" which is a terrible thing to say but at the end of the day, I feel, true. How can we expect new fans to come to the scene when it's just the same old shite as years back only worse ? If I hear one more "TODAY, MATTHEW, I'M GOING TO BE GLENN WILSON" style track....

Fair enough people having it as a hobby or whatever, but keep it as that. You don't see Nadal vs some rubbish kid from a junior tennis club at wimbledon now do ya ? The thing I see as the problem is that, as I've said so many times before, LOADS of people making techno/dance music are NOT MUSICIANS yet they're quite happy to pollute the scene with non-music and derivative crap.

It was the same when lots of people jumped on the 'techno' bandwagon a few years back.... Can't get a label to release your music ? Every door slamming in your face ? Why not release it YOURSELF ! The main reason there's so many techno labels over the years is not cause it's popular, it's cause they're labels mostly full of tracks that have been KB'd from elsewhere.

Now that there's no actual expense in the equation it just opens the floodgates even more imo. I'd be totally happy if everyone released their music for free

A) if they were happy to do so

and (more importantly)

B) If it was REALLY ****ING GOOD

then we could all just move on.

I do think certain people on here are being particularly ignorant with regards to this debate, though. Some people CANNOT do a 9 to 5 and have the headspace for music, if you can more props to ya but don't presume everyone is in the same boat. Surely we're all intelligent enough to realise that broad generalisations don't really 'cut it' on an individual level, no ? I guess it might work if you're coming home from work and painting by numbers, aye, but I do feel there's a certain headspace required for the truly artistic aspect of the brain to function.

Some people CAN work and make tunes, others have to devote all their time to it. Everyone's different, ya know ? (unless you're making techno nowadays, eh ?)

I'll get my coat.

Again.