Quote Originally Posted by crime
Quote Originally Posted by webassassin

What about sets that are not previously available on CD and its just a promoter/punter who recorded it from a event? I've only downloaded sets for which there is no retail copy of and they're found mostly from this website.
well, this is just a result of the marketplace changing, before peer2peer it wasn't so easy to get hold of sets, you know, you had to know the promotor af a club or whatever, but I feel it's a bit of a shame that as a DJ or Live act it's much harder to sell something like that than it was, but there is nothing I can do to change it. I mean, there's the point that with CD duplication in small runs being relatively cheap it's still posssible to sell something like that if you have a nice package there with a nice printed cover, maybe some AVI video extras , but only on stuff you own the copyright on yourself i.e. a dj mix of your own productions, or a liveact, unless you have the backing of a bigger label with enough money and promo power to sell it in large quantities. this is why you see mix after mix by people like Väth or Leibing as proper cd releases and nothing like that by say Jerome Hill....
I hear ya. I think more djs/live pa's should do that. In fact, my big thing is radio shows on mp3 which I think people should pay close attention to. They play snippets of stuff and tell you what it is, all edited into one fun, but professional show and it gets you in the mood for heading to the store. Now, I'm not recommending that everyone and their grandmother should do a radio show. Moderation, can go a long way, folks. But the radio shows that are already around now, like Split and the Black Audio ones are very important. They filter out alot of bad stuff and I think electronic music needs that big time.

Cheers.