Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace
Some artists like crime are emracing it - after all, its here. Deal with it.
I wouldn't say I was embacing it as such, just more accepting that this is the reality of the industry these days... as I said before, if you can do a cracking live act, this is something that can never be stolen, as you had to be there to experience it...

I think a lot of people have blamed the download thing for a fall in vinyl sales when the fact is it's just changing times, there is a lot more choice in media these days, I mean in general, you think of what kids spend their money on now, DVDs, Computer games etc. The whole thing, not just music, has diversified so much that other things are attracting peoples money giving them less disposable income for music.. And there's not as much interest in techno music as there was 10 years ago when it was a really new fresh thing..

Techno is getting on for being 20 years old, and whilst I think it will always maintain a certain amount of popularity, it isn't going to have the buzz of the original early nineties explosion when we all thought it was going to take over the world and change everything... It has had a big influence on pop music production, and music on TV, Computergames etc, but the point is, it's very easy to scapegoat illegal downloads as the problem, when the problem actually is we have more choice than ever, and the demographic is no bigger. Obviously everone is going to feel the pinch when the market becomes bigger and bigger but there is in general only the same amount of disposable income, it's going to end up spread more thinly... And when illegal downloads are so easily available, people are less likely to spend their money on music, so that they can buy that new X-Box game..

It's just the way it's gone now, and why I think Live performance as an artist is even more important than ever... this is something you can never fully capture down the DL pipe..