Quote Originally Posted by Ritzi Lee
Just when I think we had the worst,
the hurting keeps going on.
Now i'm hearing bad news from the German sellers that it's a matter of time before some distributions are going down again.

Some say the market is just overkilled with a lot of crap.
Some say there are too many small labels with music from unknown artists. And so you can think of a lot of reasons....

But i think it has totally nothing to do with the music.
I think it's a matter of doing marketing. How the system works now.
And ofcourse the state of our economy.

I mean; in the last 14 / 16 years there was a lot of techno.
And also from the little unknown people. And the music and / or quality was good. I think this isn't changed at all. People are still making quality stuff. But the people who deal with the system of selling records doesn't care for music. They just look at the sale sheets, and catagorise music in genres, and famous artists. And without listening they decide if they want to sell it or not...

We're still dealing with a system of 4 years ago from where it all went wrong!

My suggestion: Start all over again!
Just look back at how the people did it 12 / 14 years ago.

Objective or not?
IMO i think the biggest thing that is killing the scene in this way is downloading, simple as

there arent enough people (in my mind) that care nough about the scene that they r willing to buy tunes instead of gettin them off soulseek etc.

End of day i donload shit loads but i see it as a way of listening to a tune and trying it out before i buy it, if i do like a tune or if there is gonna be a chance i may play it in future etc i will buy it simple as, supposrting the scene, supporting the artist, supoorting the label keeping food on table for everyone and a nice 12" in my box :lol:

but not everyone is willing to do that, for some people it is easy come easy go and so it will just be easy go and then who will be to blame then!!!!


Rules of fair trade!!! You have to pay! (And no that doesnt mean giving a small donation to ppl that run soulseek because **** all of that goes to any artists!!!!)
just my thoughts