I`m not even sure it`s down to downloading.
the majority of record sales were to Bedroom DJ`s. All with a hope of someday being Jeff Mills or Pete Tong or whatever. Now the bubble burst with superclubs, as it was a pisstake, and superstar DJ`s just aren`t cool and dreams have been shattered and so there is less hope of success.
Most of the bedroom DJ`s are now buying up fruityloops and Ejay, and because they see that anyone can release a record, due to the amount of little labels in techno, they are looking at this as their dream.
Bedroom DJ`s have become Bedroom Producers.