Quote Originally Posted by V..
I`m very sorry to hear that Just have gone down, this is really bad, and another blow to the scene in the UK.
Eukatech in london has also gone.

Meanwhile the latest Dave the Drummer wannabe releases another pointless record on another pointless label that they have started because no one would release their stuff.
When will this end?
There will be one label per "producer" one day, and all of them releasing virtually the same tune.

I think both the business and the music needs to change and develope to keep itself alive.
Distributers shoulder some of the blame, when saying "yes" to another piece of cloned tat, they could retain some kind of quality control and say "no".

There is no easy solution to the current problems, but I think part of the solution is to wake up and smell the coffee.
the middle paragraph is hitting the nail on the head there imo ... i was having this conversation with someone the other day, i hate the way people feel the need to start 2, 3 labels for the same bunch of their mates to release on, it just leads to the same tracks being regurgitated over and over and spread across 2, 3, 4 labels that could EASILY be condensed down to 1 when you release that the labels may have different ethos, at least in the blog that comes with them, but really they are putting out exactly the same stuff on each label, thus saturating the market with more clones and moaning when all their labels end up going down because they didnt have the hindsight to just concentrate on 1 and see where it goes instead of trying to run before they can walk!

it really is not that hard at all to get your music onto other peoples label's these days, the whole point here being there is too many anyway hence half the problems that are occuring.

re the having to release to get gigs thing, yeah it works for some, but its bull for others, i know plenty of Djs who are top class but dont have a clue about production nor are they that interested and are doing very well for themselves regardless

this is one of the only topics thats interested me on here in a long time, and although it was born out of bad circumstances definately need more topics like this