Quote Originally Posted by Martin Dust
I disagree with Henry here, I download mixes and spend a lot more money because of it, there are also white papers that back up the theory/prove that people who download buy more music.

Of course you are going to get people who never buy anything but at least they are still listening and are probably more likely to go to a club than someone who doesn't download.

See you on Friday Henry....
yeah you have a point
but my real point was ,that if i was to release a dj mix , which amazingly enough is about to happen ,
(in fact we are planning to do a series of dj mixes from the collective artists)
would downloads of my set on the net for free affect sales of my specially mixed cd release?

i would take a bet and say yes they would

and that's why i'm getting heated about it.

to be honest loads of people have recorded me over the years and i never make a fuss about it , it does serve as good promotion for me of course and i have even downloaded some of my own sets to listen back to.

but there's a lot of dishonest people out there and it's really making me question the whole idea of free sets on the internet.

there's no way to stop it ( or regulate it ) i know , and that's a wind up too
i don't know what more to say about it really , other than this is my job , i need the money for my family to eat and that's a really big deal in my life as i'm sure you can imagine.

i'm not trying to pull heart strings here , there are many other musicians in the same boat , and protecting our music ( and our rights) has become a regular hassle with all the new technology.

sure, promotion is always good , but only for gigging these days really
and i would rather make music in the studio and earn from that than endlessly tour around the worlds airports and cheap restaurants and hotels
, screw up my ears , drink too much , and talk to my growing son on the telephone every weekend.

sure it's fun when you start , and don't get me wrong i do enjoy the playing records bit , but the travelling to be honest ,it sucks a lot these days.

and this is what is happenning. people still want to go out and party and dj's are still very much in demand , but producing the music is much less taxing on the body and the mind and i miss being able to do that and feel justified spending the time in the studio doing it.
these days i write tracks knowing that i'm not going to see any money from them , and that means time and effort in the studio that's almost going to waste. ( almost )

so you see the position here.
as much as i like to give things for free in a kind of karmic gesture
( believing in a rather naive way that it' a "good" thing to do ) , i'm beginning to come round to the idea that by doing that i'm really undermining my own income. and that's pretty stupid really.

my ten cents