hahaha..

hey you know i'm sure i've said in some interviews when ppl ask me 'how did you make it to where you are' and i've said well, i just believed in myself and followed what i wanted to do. i dunno if this is the same condecending thing you talk about, but it's never meant to be like that. in the grand sceme of things, i'm not mills, but i can pay my bills through music and i do class music as my job. so how did i do that? well sure, i did to some extent believe in myself. everyone other cunt did tell me i would never make it and i needed to get a proper job. ppl laughed at me. now i'm the one laughing at them. i stuck to what i believed in and di dmy own thing. but the other thing they NEVER say is that you have to have business sense. i reckon you have to understand the workings of business or you're screwed. i studied business to a-level so i know to a certain extent how it all works.

it's like anything really. if you have a product and place in a market, you're ****ed without promotion and marketing.

alot of ppl see a romatic view of music as a really piss easy way to make a living but there's much more to it that you think. either you're lucky and you get a good agent (well that's none exsistant in techno), some good labels to take care of you, or you learn the business yourself. and come on - if your brain works well enough to understand techno then it's defintely gonna work well enough to pick up a book and learn marketing.

i remember once interviewing mills annd i met him in a hotel foyet and he was reading the share index. don't tell me that man's not a business man.i thiink that explains alot. clarke was similar.

it really depends how far you want to go in this. i'm not there yet, i have along way to go, but i'm learning. and so everyone else can do too. ...

anyway that's my little bit to the topic ;)